The Spark Hire Recruit integration, from application to interview

When video interviews aren't enough anymore

• Videos to watch one by one. A one-way interview saves the candidate time, but someone still has to watch them all.
• Answers with no follow-up. Faced with a recorded question, the candidate answers once. Nobody asks them to elaborate.
• Conditions checked too late. You find out at the end of the process that the hours or the pay don't work.

How the Spark Hire Recruit integration works

1. Connection. A Spark Hire Recruit administrator grants access from Delectus.
2. Applications read. Jobs, applications and resumes arrive in Delectus. Spark Hire Recruit is not changed.
3. Prescreening, then interview. The agents check the conditions, then the interview takes place with its kit and transcript.

Spark Hire Recruit integration: how do they fit together?

Spark Hire is known for video interviewing, and Spark Hire Recruit is its applicant tracking software.

The Spark Hire Recruit integration connects that software to Delectus, read-only. Your jobs and applications are read automatically. Delectus adds what happens before and during the interview: resume ranking, prescreening by message or phone, then an interview where the candidate can be asked follow-up questions.

Checking conditions before the interview

Before asking a candidate to interview, it's better to know whether they accept the hours, the location and the pay range. The SMS prescreening agent asks them these questions in a short conversation, after introducing itself as an AI and getting their consent. It follows up if an answer stays vague. If there's no reply after two reminders, the voice prescreening agent calls.

Example: a first round for a sales role

A company is hiring three inside sales reps. Applications from Spark Hire Recruit arrive in Delectus, which ranks them. The SMS prescreening agent checks expected pay, acceptable commission share and start date with the shortlisted profiles.

Those who are a fit take a first interview with Alicia. She asks them to describe a tough sale, then follows up on what they actually did. The sales manager reads the reports, compares the answers and invites the best candidates to an in-person interview.

When to choose the AI interview, when to run it yourself?

The AI interview suits the first round, when many candidates need to be seen quickly and at varied times. The assisted interview suits later rounds, when the human relationship plays a bigger role. Either way, the transcript and the report are filed in the candidate profile, and you decide what happens next.

An interview that follows up, instead of a recorded question

Alicia, the Delectus AI interviewer, runs a first video interview at the time the candidate chooses. She follows the role's question kit, and above all, she follows up: when an answer lacks an example, she asks for one. At the end, you get the transcript and a report organized by topic, covering technical skills, soft skills and motivation, with the passages that back up each assessment.

If you'd rather run the interview yourself, the assisted interview gives you a live transcript and suggests questions on topics not yet covered.

Comparing candidates on the same criteria

Because every candidate answered the same kit and was assessed on the same criteria, the comparison is based on answers rather than impressions. The candidate then moves forward on the job's kanban board, and the next interview is booked in your real open slots, thanks to the calendar synced with Outlook or Teams. The decision stays yours.

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