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Everything you need to run one-way video interviews well
Short, plain-language guides to running one-way video interviews: what candidates see, how your team reviews, and how AI is used along the way.
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How one-way video interviews work
A one-way video interview lets a candidate answer your questions on their own time, by recording a short video for each question. There is no live call and…
For your candidatesWhat candidates experience
Candidates never create an account. They click their secure link and are guided step by step, on a laptop or a phone. They see a device check with a live…
AI transparencyHow InterviewClip uses AI
Several features use AI, and each is switched on by your plan: interview summaries, CV data extraction, bulk CV fill, and candidate matching. AI is always…
Jobs
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- The job lifecycle A job is the role you are hiring for. It owns its questions, its candidates, and its rules. Every job moves through four states. A new job starts as a…
- Adding questions to a job When you attach a question to a job, InterviewClip takes a snapshot of the question text and its time limit. Editing or deleting the original question in…
- Expiry and edit locking Every job has an expiry measured in days. When you send an invitation, InterviewClip stamps an absolute deadline onto that specific link, along with the…
- Intro videos You can record an optional welcome video for a job. Candidates see it before they begin, which is a warm way to introduce the role, your team, or what to…
- Rating cards A rating card is a named list of criteria that you can attach to a job. When a card is attached, reviewers score each criterion from 1 to 5, and the…
- Auto reminders Each job has an auto-reminder toggle. When it is on, InterviewClip nudges candidates who have not finished, around a few days after their invitation and…
Question bank
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Candidates
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- Adding candidates You can add a candidate manually with their name and email, and an optional phone number or company reference. The same person can be invited to more than…
- Importing candidates from Excel Excel import lets you add many candidates at once. Upload a spreadsheet, map its columns to name, email, phone, and company reference, and review the…
- CV upload and AI extraction If your plan includes CV parsing, you can upload a candidate's CV as a PDF or DOCX file. The upload is free and runs a quick automatic read of the name…
- Bulk PDF CV upload If your plan includes bulk import, you can upload several PDF CVs at once. Every file goes through a strict security check and is sanitized before it is…
- AI candidate matching If your plan includes AI matching, you can rank your candidate bank against a job's description. InterviewClip first narrows the bank with a fast, exact…
- Duplicate detection InterviewClip keeps your candidate list clean by blocking exact duplicates. Adding or editing a candidate is refused if it would collide with an existing…
Invitations and reminders
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- Sending invitations Sending an invitation requires the job to be active. Each candidate gets a secure, private link with no account required. The link stays valid across…
- The candidate funnel InterviewClip tracks each invitation through a simple funnel built from timestamps: sent, opened, started, and completed. This shows you at a glance how a…
- Reminders and resends You can remind a single candidate, or remind everyone who has not finished a job in one action. You can also resend an invitation. Before an email goes…
- Sharing a link by hand Sometimes email is not the right channel: the invitation went to spam, the candidate says it never arrived, or you want to paste the link into a chat. Copy…
Reviewing
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- Scoring candidates Each reviewer leaves one overall score from 1 to 5 and a comment for a candidate. HR sees an aggregate of all reviewers' scores. If the job has a rating…
- Recording signals On the review page, a Recording signals panel gives you advisory signals about how a candidate's session went, which is useful for one-shot technical…
- Blind review Blind review reduces bias by hiding other people's scores until a reviewer has submitted their own. When an organization turns it on, a reviewer cannot see…
- Stages versus reviews A review is an individual reviewer's score and comment. A stage is the hiring decision on a candidate: shortlisted, rejected, or hired. These are kept…
Roles and access
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- Roles overview InterviewClip has four roles, and access is always enforced on the server, never just hidden in the interface. Admins manage the whole organization and see…
- Org access policy Admins can widen the default access with three organization settings, each off by default and each recorded in the activity log: Let hiring managers create…
Plans and usage
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- How metering works InterviewClip meters two things independently, and they never pool together. Video recordings: one completed, uploaded answer uses one video credit…
- What your plan unlocks Your plan sets how many active jobs you can run, how many video recordings and AI credits you get each month, and how many team seats you have. A seat is…
- How long are interview videos kept Every plan includes a video retention window: how long a candidate's recorded answers stay available after they were recorded. Higher plans keep videos…
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