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February 1, 2021
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.

July 31, 2019
Custom Interview Guides

Custom interview guides empower recruiters to perform technical phone screens, by asking the same questions that hiring managers usually ask.

July 30, 2019
Enhanced Scheduling Links

Automate phone interview scheduling with Honeit scheduling links. Request resume attachments, custom fields, buffers, team scheduling links, one-click google our outlook integration.

July 30, 2019
Search Phone Interviews

Honeit makes it easy to search phone interviews for skills, keywords, tags notes and call transcripts.

July 28, 2019
Hiring Managers Love Honeit

Hiring Managers love Honeit because it helps recruiters present evidence and unbiased talent insights, instead of opinions.

June 26, 2019
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 nothing to download or install. Candidates also receive an email reminder 60 minutes prior to a […]

June 14, 2019
Designed By Recruiters

Honeit interview technology was designed by recruiters, for recruiters, to schedule, screen and submit talent faster than ever before.

February 21, 2019
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.

October 31, 2018
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 they hear it. In many cases, these are busy hiring managers. Phone Interview Collaboration Recruiters already […]

October 1, 2018
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 event was a hit and still chock full of actionable […]

StaffingTec
January 25, 2024
StaffingTec Calls Honeit Breakthrough Recruiting Technology

Maurice Fuller from StaffingTec and Nick Livingston from Honeit discuss breakthrough phone interview technology on StaffingTec TV.

August 1, 2018
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 use any desk or mobile phone to utilize the Honeit platform, we encourage interviewers to […]

May 21, 2018
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 on Hire Power Radio
January 25, 2024
Honeit on Hire Power Radio

Honeit CEO Nick Livingston joins Hire Power Radio to discuss proper interview communication and ways to incorporate them effectively for the Hiring Process.

April 14, 2018
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 booth as “a vendor”. It was exciting to see the faces of recruiting and staffing leaders who discovered phone interview intelligence […]

February 27, 2018
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 application, candidates are now required to record videos of themselves answering screening questions as an additional step of the application […]

January 25, 2024
Honeit on TalentTalk with Adam Gordon

Adam Gordon and Nick Livingston discuss how to share highlights from recruiting intake calls for better candidate engagement and attraction.

August 30, 2021
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.

April 7, 2017
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 understand the opportunity for better interview communication among candidates, recruiters and […]

November 8, 2016
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 your company describe “great” talent? I’d say you know talent when you hear it, but articulating why someone […]

November 2, 2020
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 today from the San Francisco Business Times, about the University of California’s continued commitment towards innovation. The embedded group photo was previously featured […]

May 27, 2016
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 at Oscar Insurance. Jan was presenting the importance of structured job interviews. […]

May 25, 2016
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 excerpts from the day’s phone screens for feedback and to review the highs and lows (good […]

May 13, 2016
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 interviews. Just include the interview invite link in your ATS or CRM email template, to find a convenient […]

December 3, 2020
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 did we get to this?  Roles and job requirements are becoming increasingly specialized. It’s […]

March 31, 2016
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 candidate data and phone interview insights from their daily candidate conversations. Unlike existing one-way interview […]

March 10, 2016
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.

February 5, 2016
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 script in the system. The candidate spoke over their cell phone, and the recruiter spoke through […]

January 28, 2016
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. Candidates are complex. When I think about today’s interview process to […]

January 22, 2016
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 symbiotic relationship. Internal recruiters need to prove their worth, by demonstrating they can […]

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