The Honeit Blog
Honeit turns human conversations into actionable interview data and talent intelligence.
COVID-19 Research Interviews
Please contact us if your research team would like to utilize our phone and video interview software to schedule calls, ask structured questions, search interview data and share interview insights from COVID-19 research conversations. Market research teams use Honeit...
Remote Recruiting
The Honeit team is fully remote and understand the challenges of long-distance communication and collaboration. The current COVID19 crisis has brought uncertainty to the world of recruitment and hiring. But on a positive note, Honeit has seen consistent activity from...
Honeit Talks with Mike Cohen
Honeit Talks – Watch Recruitment Guru Mike “Batman” Cohen and Honeit CEO Nick Livingston discuss the state of recruiting in 2020!
Amplify Recruiter Phone Screens
Honeit was recently featured on the Jeff Weidner Video Podcast. Jeff has held leadership roles at IBM, Monster.com and HTC.
Talking with Jim Stroud
In this episode of “Its All Recruiting,” Jim Stroud chats with Nick Livingston of Honeit to discuss how companies should be using the data gathered during interviews to train recruiters, monitor industry buzz, increase efficiencies in the recruitment process and more.
What is Interview Collaboration?
Interview collaboration enables your best, brightest (and busiest) employees to stay involved with the recruiting and hiring process.
Honeit Wins 2nd Place in London
250 HR Leaders in London voted on the most innovative recruitment technology.
Humans vs Interview Robots (Video)
Honeit believes interviews are two-way conversations, and that interview data reduces individual bias from group hiring decisions.
Hiring Managers Want Data
As a math major, I've always been a fan of numbers, data and patterns. As an HR and talent acquisition practitioner, it's been frustrating to hear the terms 'big data' and 'artificial intelligence (ai)' thrown around so loosely. Experienced recruiters and hiring...
Micro Employment Branding
Honeit job previews make it easy for candidates to quickly hear about a job opportunity in the hiring manager’s own voice.
Getting Started
Audible job descriptions make it easy for candidates to quickly hear about a job opportunity in the hiring manager’s own words.
Audible Job Descriptions
Make the most of intake calls with hiring managers. After a call, create audible job descriptions in 10 seconds to increase response rates and showcase A-Players to attract A-Players.
Hiring Managers Love Honeit
Hiring Managers love Honeit because it helps recruiters present evidence and unbiased talent insights, instead of opinions.
Easy Candidate Experience
We often get questions about the Honeit candidate experience. Candidates receive a branded confirmation email with a calendar attachment. Candidates dial a local phone number and enter their interview pin number. Candidates easily talk using any telephone and there's...
Designed By Recruiters
Honeit interview technology was designed by recruiters, for recruiters, to schedule, screen and submit talent faster than ever before.
The Future of Staffing Technology is NOW
Everything old is new again with phone interview technology. Honeit enables recruiters up do what they do best, build relationships and sell great candidates.
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...
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...
StaffingTec Labels Honeit Breakthrough Technology
Maurice Fuller from StaffingTec and Honeit CEO Nick Livingston discuss breakthrough phone interview technology on Staffing Tec TV.
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...
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.
Honeit Talks with Hire Power Radio
Listen to Honeit CEO Nick Livingston discuss data-driven interview communication on the Hire Power Radio Show with Rick Girard.
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...
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...
Honeit Software Featured on TalentTalk
Adam and Nick discuss how Honeit customers record and share highlights from hiring manager kick-off calls for better candidate engagement. TalentTalk
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.