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Integration with Spark Hire Meet

Have candidates self-record video answers to your interview questions

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With the integrated Spark Hire Meet solution, your Recruit 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 Recruit—including selecting and initiating Spark Hire Meet interviews directly in your Recruit workflows.

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

Configure integration

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

  2. Find Spark Hire Meet 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 Meet account. This plan offers unlimited One-way interviews.

      1. Copy the API key.

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

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

      4. Return to Recruit to complete activation.

    2. Limited: Tailored for companies who don’t have a Spark Hire Meet account, integrated into the Recruit 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 Recruit

  • Seamlessly integrate Spark Hire Meet interviews into Recruit 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 Meet

  • Access to skipped interviews and canceled interviews on Spark Hire Meet

  • Availability to set restrictions on maximum answer length

Limited

Unlimited

Number of interviews

25 interviews per month

Unlimited

Question sets

4 built-in question sets

Unlimited custom question sets

Time limit, Takes, Think time, Record a question

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Emails to candidates

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Questionnaires

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Intro & Outro videos

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Access to Spark Hire Meet analytics

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

Add Spark Hire Meet to your workflow

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

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

  3. Select Spark Hire Meet 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 Recruit 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 Meet.

Send interview requests to your candidates

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

    • ⚠️Important: If your Spark Hire Meet 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 Meet step in the candidate workflow, after it has started - click Mark as completed.

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

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

View interview

In Recruit, 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 Meet users, which requires logging in to Spark Hire Meet

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

Non-submitted One-way video interviews

Expired interviews

Spark Hire Meet 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 Recruit, 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 Meet, the step will be completed in Recruit 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 Meet integration with Recruit at any time. To do this:

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

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

  3. Click Edit and then Disable.

💡 Not a Spark Hire Meet customer? Get started here!

Have more questions? Contact us at support-ats@sparkhire.com

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