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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.
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...
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....
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...
Improving the Hiring Manager Experience
We often forget about the hiring manager experience. Ironically though, neglecting the hiring manager experience only worsens the candidate experience.
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....
Honeit’s Awesome General Assembly Experience
The Honeit team has been fortunate to work with General Assembly San Francisco user experience design students on two unique projects.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Engineers & The Job Interview Experience
After a 30 minute phone screen, why does the interview experience require phone interviews with an Account Manager, the Internal Recruiter & Hiring Manager?
Hey Recruiters – It’s Not Your Fault
How can recruiters be expected to screen talent against a variety of increasingly specialized roles across an organization?
Hiring Managers: Get Hours of Your Day Back
Hiring Managers – are you tired of re-screening every candidate a recruiter sends you? We have a solution that’s great for you and great for candidates.
Oh, Glorious Headset (i.e. Phone Interview Innovation)
For Recruiters, telephones are a must have. Headsets are nice to have. Real-time phone interview software is new to have.
Are Your Hiring Teams Playing “The Telephone Game”?
“The Telephone Game” from our childhood is remarkably similar to phone interviews and the interview process of today, full of misinterpretation and miscommunication each step of the way.
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...
To Submit, or Not to Submit (a Candidate)?
After thousands of candidate phone interviews, it’s still tough to determine who makes a great fit for a particular role, team and company.
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....
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.
Job Interview Hacking by Eazl & Honeit
Eazl teamed up with the interview technology company Honeit to provide a course on business communication, interview preparation and job search hacking.