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How to - Candidate Questions

A how to guide on using the "candidate questions" feature. The perfect tool for asking candidates questions if you are unable to Hinterview.

Josh Bolger avatar
Written by Josh Bolger
Updated over 6 months ago

Perhaps you've already recorded a Hinterview and the manager has come back asking for a little bit more detail; perhaps your candidate is in an entirely different time zone and therefore arranging a time for a Hinterview isn't practical. Well... CANDIDATE QUESTIONS is the feature for you!

The Questions feature allows you to send questions to the candidate. The candidate then has the ability to answer with a video. Imagine a Hintro but for the candidates.

1 - To start creating and sending questions, it is first necessary to have the candidate added to the Candidates tab. Once the candidate has been created, it is possible to locate the Questions feature inside, by scrolling down the candidate page.

As seen below, the Questions feature shows the button to "Create New Question" and a link icon button. To add a question simply start typing the desired question and then click "Create New Questions".

Please Note: If you are looking to learn how to create a Candidate Profile, please follow the link

2 - For the purpose of this tutorial, I have named this question "Example 1". Once it has been created, you will be able to see a new added entry below and a green icon at top of the screen.

The button "Notify Candidate" is to allow the platform to send an email notification with the question to the candidate's email added to this page. Next to this button there is also a link chain icon, clicking it will copy a direct link to the question.

To delete a question, click on the Bin icon on the right bottom side.

3 - After creating a question the "Notify Candidate" button will appear. Clicking on this button allows to send the question to the candidate either via the platform or as an email.

Note that, to use the "Notify via Email" option is necessary to have the Outlook Integration turned on.

4 - Once the question has been sent, the candidate will then receive a link they can follow. The page below shows what they see on their side when clicking the link to answer the question.

The first step is to agree to our T&C's, in order to proceed using Hinterview.

5 - Once inside, the candidate will be able to choose which question to answer by clicking on them.

6 - A recording menu, similar to the Hintro recording menu will pop-up on the side. Note they can also use the Blur feature.

7 - Once finished recording, the candidate can press the play button to review their video answer or, Submit and Record again, if they wish to. The submit button allows the candidate to send their answer to the recruiter.

8 - When a question has been answered it will show highlighted has green.

9 - Going back to the Recruiter side: the video answer the candidate has finished recording and submitted can be found inside their page, in the Questions area. From there, the recruiter can play the video or delete it.

10 - Clicking on the title will open the video editing page. From there, a sharing profile can be created and video can be further edited and downloaded.

If you are looking to learn how to create a Candidate Sharing Profile, please click the button below.

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