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The Interview Intelligence Blog

Honeit helps companies capture, search and share interview intelligence for instant collaboration.

Interview Collaboration

It's Tough to Assess Talent We all know assessing job candidates is difficult and highly subjective - especially when interviewers are not technical or domain experts. In many companies, there may only be one person who knows a great interview answer when...

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Honeit Featured in SourceCon Innovation Lab

Honeit was invited to showcase our interview technology at the SourceCon Innovation Lab this past week at SourceCon Atlanta. 9 years ago, Honeit CEO Nick Livingston attended one of the first SourceCon events held in New York City. While the event has grown 10x, the...

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VoIP Interview Best Practices for Honeit Users

Digital Phone Interviews Phone interview conversations play an important part in recruiting and hiring. That's why we are excited to bring interview conversations into the cloud with innovative VoIP (voice over IP) and digital phone interview technology. While you can...

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Honeit at StaffingTec in Seattle

James Craft and Nick Livingston from the Honeit team had a blast at StaffingTec in Seattle. The event consisted of two full days of one-on-one meetings with staffing firms interested in finding their next recruiting advantage.

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Honeit Software at HR Transform

The Honeit team had a blast in Las Vegas meeting HR practitioners and HRTech innovators. As a former Recruiting Director, Honeit co-founder Nick Livingston attended numerous HR technology conferences as "a buyer", but this was Honeit's first conference behind the...

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Video Job Applications, Really?

Thanks for applying! Now please interview yourself... 🙁 Instead of speaking with a recruiter or hiring manager, some companies are asking candidates to interview themselves, a take-home test if you will. After completing a lengthy (often painful) job...

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Honeit Talks with Chad & Cheese

Honeit Talks with Chad & Cheese

Honeit was recently featured on the Chad and Cheese HR Podcast. Listen to Honeit CEO Nick Livingston face Joel Cheeseman and Chad Sowash on the Firing Squad.

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When Recruiters Become Hiring Managers

In a previous post, I wrote about the transition from agency headhunting to corporate recruiting. But it was only when I first became a hiring manager (newly-minted recruiting manager), that I finally experienced a complete view of the hiring process. Only then did I...

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How does your company articulate great talent?

Honeit co-founder Nick Livingston had the opportunity to write a guest blog post on RecruitingTools.com about the challenge of articulating what makes a candidate great to another recruiter, a hiring manager or a staffing customer. Here's a quick teaser... How does...

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UC Berkeley Skydeck Accelerator

UC Berkeley Skydeck Accelerator

The Honeit team was fortunate to be a part of the UC Berkeley Skydeck accelerator. With help from Skydeck staff, mentors, fellow teams and alumni, we were able to navigate (survive) two major company pivots. It was fun to see a tweet...

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Phone Interview Calibration

Great Job, Jan Day one of the Greenhouse Open event in San Francisco was chock-full of great recruiting tips and takeaways. But what made me jump out of bed at 3:30 am this morning, was something during an awesome presentation by Jan Fiegel, Head of Recruiting...

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The Recruiter Huddle

Introducing.. The Recruiter Huddle. After a day of back-to-back phone screens, have a quick stand-up (or sit down) with your immediate recruiting squad, to review the day's candidate conversations. For the first time ever... recruiters can quickly share a few audio...

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Simple ATS Integration

Just copy and paste your unique interview invite in your favorite ATS or CRM template and you're set. We're excited to make it even easier for busy recruiters and interview teams to schedule phone interviews. This week's release includes a simple way to schedule phone...

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The Phone Interview Experience

The Phone Interview Experience

  How many phone interviews does it take to hire someone? Today's phone interview experience has become a nightmare for candidates, hiring managers and recruiters alike. Why so many redundant phone conversations to get to the root of a candidate's qualifications?  How...

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iCIMS + HONEiT Integration

We're excited to announce our latest HONEiT integration with iCIMS! Now 3000+ companies using iCIMS can bring real-time phone interview data into their ATS candidate records. With a couple of clicks, recruiters can easily schedule, phone screen and share live...

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Anyone Can Interview!

Similar to describing taste or flavors, the ability for a recruiter to articulate what stood out on a phone screen, will never compare with a hiring manager hearing a candidate’s answer for themselves.

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Real-time Phone Interview Data

Phone Interview Data. Now we're talking..   All of the interview data & insights below came from a regular phone interview between a recruiter and a job seeker. For this interview, we asked a few questions from a default QA Automation Engineer interview...

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Candidates are Complex

Last year, the image below was making its rounds on social media. It's an excellent visualization of how even a simple solid object can be seen from unique perspectives. Getting two parties to agree on whether this was a cube or a cylinder, would be nearly impossible....

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The Staffing Agency / Corporate Recruiter Relationship

Staffing agency recruiters and internal corporate recruiters have a lot in common. While the incentive structures are different, at the end of the day, both professionals are motivated to source, screen and submit the best candidates to their clients. It's really a...

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The Recruiting Skills Gap

We often talk about the skills gap in America. The idea that the qualified talent 'supply' of the US population does not meet the qualified talent 'demanded' by U.S. companies. There are plenty of recent, interesting and complicated articles that debate this claim....

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What’s the Deal with Video Interviews?

As an HR Technology enthusiast and recruiting practitioner, the idea of requiring candidates to record themselves answer one-way interview questions has always troubled me. I've always considered one-way video interviews to be a terrible candidate experience that...

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Easy ATS Integration via Chrome Extension

The Honeit Chrome Extension is now live in the chrome app marketplace and allows for easy ATS integration. With the click of a button you can quickly send interview invites or interview confirmations without leaving your existing Applicant Tracking System (ATS) or...

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Ho Ho Honeit. Happy Holidays!

We want to thank all of our customers and partners for making 2015 such a great year for Honeit. In 2016, we're thrilled to continue our mission to re-engineer today's interview experience, by creating new tools to help hiring teams and recruiters improve the...

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Phone Interview Optimization

After conducting thousands of phone interviews to date... it becomes a challenge to remember what's unique, and what distinguishes one candidate from the next. In many cases, a recruiter's day is filled with back to back interviews, which leaves no time to consolidate...

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How to Share Phone Interview Highlights with Hiring Teams

After your phone interview, it's easy to submit candidates to multiple clients or hiring managers through Honeit.com. Just select the candidate(s) you'd like to share. Choose which interview highlights (audio excerpts from your phone screen) you'd like to include,...

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Modern Phone Interviews – Now We’re Talking!

Lean back and make the most of your daily phone interviews. No scribbled notes. Never miss a detail. No stress. Now you can finally capture 100% of a candidate's LIVE answers during phone calls, then share the highlights with clients or hiring managers. There's no...

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Introducing Phone Interview Innovation

With innovation all around us, it's staggering to think that phone interviews have never evolved. There's a lot of talk about data-driven hiring, but the most valuable information we can get is from the candidates themselves. We're not talking about padded resumes or...

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How the Honeit.com Founders Met via AngelList

The fourth time's a charm. After three attempts to find the right technical co-founder to build a software business, it was AngelList that introduced me to James Craft & Kim Duong - TWO technical co-founders and Honeit, Inc. was born. James and Kim are...

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The Transition From Staffing to Corporate Recruiting

The Transition From Staffing to Corporate Recruiting

The term "Recruiter" sure gets thrown around a lot. In most cases it's a catch-all for anyone involved in the process of sourcing, attracting, screening and selling working professionals on new job opportunities. Recruiting is Sales. Recruiting is Marketing....

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Berkeley Skydeck Meets Dilbert

Scott Adams, Berkeley Haas alumni & Berkeley Skydeck advisor, created Dilbert. Dilbert captures the frustration of today’s job interview and hiring process.

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