Integration with Spark Hire

Have candidates self-record video answers to your interview questions

Updated over a week ago

With the integrated Spark Hire solution, your Comeet experience just got even better. This powerful alliance brings you a seamless and efficient way to supercharge your hiring process. Here's how:

  • Uncover more about your candidates in a fraction of the time by having them self-record video answers to your interview questions.

  • Allow candidates to respond to your interview questions on their own time, helping you keep the hiring process moving smoothly.

  • Manage the complete hiring process in Comeet—including selecting and initiating Spark Hire interviews directly in your Comeet workflows.

  • Share recorded video interviews with your hiring managers and make informed choices together.

Configure integration

  1. In Comeet, from your avatar at the top right, select Settings > Process > Integrations.

  2. Find Spark Hire at the top of the list.

  3. Choose the relevant option for you to integrate the app:

    1. Unlimited: Exclusively available for companies who have a Spark Hire account. This plan offers unlimited One-way interviews.

      1. Copy the API key.

      2. Navigate to Spark Hire and sign up with your Administrator account.

      3. Paste the API key and complete set up on Spark Hire.

      4. Return to Comeet to complete activation.

    2. Limited: Tailored for companies who don’t have a Spark Hire account, integrated into the Comeet subscription. It offers up to 25 free One-way interviews per month.

  4. Click Activate.

Subscription options

With your Limited subscription you’ll be able to:

  • Streamline the entire hiring process within Comeet

  • Seamlessly integrate Spark Hire interviews into Comeet workflows

  • Effectively manage positions, from opening to editing and closing

Upgrade to the Unlimited subscription for limitless One-way interviews monthly, plus a suite of customizable features, including:

  • Tailored question sets, Intro and Outro videos, and email templates in Spark Hire

  • Access to skipped interviews and canceled interviews on Spark Hire

  • Availability to set restrictions on maximum answer length

🚀 Explore the enhanced capabilities of the Unlimited subscription and upgrade options here.

Add Spark Hire to your workflow

  1. In Comeet, click on a position and navigate to the position workflow.

  2. Add a new step or select an existing one.

  3. Select Spark Hire from the list of available step names.

  4. Select the relevant test from the dropdown menu. These options represent the different Question sets available to you. Next to each question set name, you can click Description… to see the list of questions included.

  5. Configure the expiration setting for the candidate to complete the One-way video interview.

  6. You can set the step to auto-start, so Comeet will automatically send the interview requests to the candidate when they get to that step.

☝️ Tests cannot be started for jobs that aren't Active on Spark Hire.

Send interview requests to your candidates

  1. After selecting the relevant Question set, click Start to initiate the Spark Hire One-way interview. This will trigger an email message from Spark Hire to the candidate with a request to take the interview.

    • ⚠️Important: If your Spark Hire plan includes SMS notifications but the candidate's phone number lacks a country code, SMS notifications won't be sent. Learn about adding a country code to phone numbers.

  2. To skip the Spark Hire step in the candidate workflow, after it has started - click Mark as completed.

    • If a candidate completes a Spark Hire One-way video interview, but the step in the flow was skipped (marked complete), the evaluation won’t appear in Comeet. Go to your Spark Hire account to view the evaluation.

⏰ Spark Hire will automatically send reminder emails to the candidate after 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours.

View interview

In Comeet, when the candidate completes and submits the One-way video interview:

  1. The step will be marked as complete with a recommendation to Review.

  2. A “Proceed with candidate?” step will be created and assigned to the person with a role on the hiring team according to your settings.

  3. The details of the interview will be added to the Evaluation tab, including:

    • The time of completion

    • The list of questions, with an indication of whether they were submitted or not

    • Three links:

      1. The scorecard

      2. A link for viewing the video

      3. A link for viewing the video for Spark Hire users, which require logging in to Spark Hire

☝️ Spark Hire users’ comments (decision, ranking, comments) on the Spark Hire video page are not synced into Comeet.

Non-submitted One-way video interviews

Expired interviews

Spark Hire One-way video interviews will expire according to your settings for the step at midnight PST. When an interview expires, the step will be completed in Comeet and the summary of the step will indicate that the step has expired.

A “Proceed with candidate?” step will be automatically created and assigned to the person with a role on the hiring team according to your settings and they will be able to choose whether to go/no-go with the candidate or resend the interview invitation.

Canceled interviews

If a One-way video interview is canceled on Spark Hire, the step will be completed in Comeet and the summary of the step will indicate that the step was canceled.

A “Proceed with candidate?” step will be automatically created and assigned to the person with a role on the hiring team according to your settings and they will be able to choose whether to go/no-go with the candidate or resend the interview invitation.

Disable integration

You can disable the Spark Hire integration with Comeet at any time. To do this:

  1. In Comeet, from your avatar at the top right, select Settings > Process > Integrations.

  2. Find Spark Hire at the top of the list.

  3. Click Edit and then Disable.

💡 Not a Spark Hire customer? Get started here!

Have more questions? Contact us at support@comeet.co

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