HarQen, a web telephony company, has announced the private beta launch of VoiceScreener, a human resources solution that claims to eliminate or cut down on the need to conduct live phone interviews. HR professionals can use their phone and a web-based dashboard to create and distribute custom recorded phone interviews.
Here’s how it works: the manager simply records a greeting and a series of interview questions. VoiceScreener then allows the hiring manager to invite candidates to interview either through a link in a personalized email message or via an “Interview Now” button, which can be inserted into any online job posting. The candidates follow the link to a customized web page that has details about the company and job being offered. After answering an optional series of knock-out questions on the website, candidates enter their phone number and respond to the pre-recorded interview questions over their telephones.
Once a candidate has completed an interview on VoiceScreener, the hiring manager receives an alert and can then listen to the response at a convenient time. In addition, hiring managers can invite team members to review candidate responses and rank them. VoiceScreener then automatically generates a report that lists the candidates who have completed the interview in order of team preference.
Kelly Fitzsimmons, CEO of HarQen, said, “VoiceScreener eliminates the most time consuming elements of phone screening, like upfront scheduling, prep before the call, reviewing the individual questions, getting non-fit candidates off the phone. In our early tests, we were able to reduce the traditional phone screen time by up to 70 percent. Recruiters can identify and then concentrate on the better fit candidates earlier in the process, which results in quicker start time.”
Fitzsimmons is offering 50 Cheezhead readers access to private beta trials. Enter in the code CHEEZHEAD on the site to receive 6 weeks of free platform usage and 50 call credits.
“Recruiters have spent decades phone screening, so switching this behavior will be an initial barrier,” Fitzsimmons said. “However, once they try VoiceScreening, they will have a hard time going back. Never having to get a non-fit candidate off the phone again? Priceless.”
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