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interview strategy

Deciding what each interview is for, and what you'll do with the answer.

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Hiring funnel showing 300 applicants narrowing through pre-qualification, an AI pre-screener, and recruiter interviews to a top 10 candidate shortlist.
June 4, 2026
300 Applicants to 10 Top Candidates

Every open role starts with a flood of applicants, often hundreds, many applying in one click with AI-written resumes. So how do you get from 300 applicants to the 10 best candidates worth the hiring team’s time? Delivering the candidate shortlist is the job of the recruiting and talent acquisition team. Here’s how pre-qualification, AI pre-screeners, and recruiter interviews each fit, and where the human still wins.

Candidate Authentication and Verification
June 25, 2025
Candidate Identity Verification and Authentication

Honeit helps verify candidate identity, location, and skills in the age of AI, through real-time candidate identity verification and interview authentication.

Honeit Interview Scorecards and Comptency Frameworks
July 8, 2025
Interview Scorecards for Recruiters & RPO

Honeit now offers fully customizable interview scorecards, enabling recruiters and hiring teams to standardize candidate evaluation across technical, behavioral, industry, and cultural competencies.

March 12, 2025
Note-Taking Tools vs Interview Intelligence Platforms

While note-taking tools are helpful, interview intelligence platforms fundamentally transform how your organization recruits, evaluates, and hires.

February 7, 2025
Empower Your Recruiters with Interview Intelligence

Traditional, back-to-back interviews slow down hiring and create redundancy, but with interview collaboration and real-time intelligence, recruiters can empower hiring teams to make faster, data-driven decisions.

November 5, 2024
Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Interview Intelligence

Honeit offers a unique blend of Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) and AI-powered interview intelligence for companies looking to streamline their recruitment and hiring process.

December 27, 2024
Interview Intelligence Software for Market Research

Learn how the Honeit interview intelligence platform streamlines the process and unlocks valuable human insights for market research teams.

May 2, 2024
Soft Skills Are The New Hard Skills

The rise of Artificial Intelligence and the emergence of AI-powered job seekers are changing how companies can screen, filter, and asses talent. In many cases, keyword matching is no longer helpful when ai-generated resumes match ai-generated job descriptions. While AI can streamline the recruitment process by handling data-heavy tasks like resume screening and initial assessments, […]

September 18, 2023
Bias-Free Candidate Screening: Four Simple Steps

To create a compliant, structured, fair, and bias-free candidate screening experience, follow these four steps from Honeit on LinkedIn Live.

Internal Mobility Interviews
August 15, 2023
Redefine Growth with Internal Mobility Interviews

Internal mobility interviews are a company’s secret weapon for strategic talent management and reallocating great employees (instead of layoffs).

May 19, 2023
Honeit Wins Recruitment Startup of the Year

Honeit takes home the prestigious title of Recruitment Startup of the Year at HR.com’s EmpowerHR and EmpowerDEIB event in Phoenix.

September 29, 2022
Search Phone Interviews and Submit Candidates in Seconds

Now it’s easy to search phone interviews and submit candidates in seconds. Honeit creates a new data set from phone, voip and video calls.

September 12, 2024
Restoring Trust in Recruiting

Trust is a very obvious human-to-human condition. It’s built by conversations and time and relationships and showing up for the other side. How can SaaS help with that?

February 19, 2021
Soundbites are the Future of Hiring

Soundbites, or quick highlights from a phone or video conversation with a candidate, could be the future of recruiting. When done right, they will save hiring managers both time and money. So, what does “doing it right” look like?

February 22, 2022
What questions should recruiters ask hiring managers during intake calls?

Asking better questions during recruiting intake calls will result in a better understanding of what makes a good versus great candidate.

February 22, 2022
How to Improve Diversity and Inclusion Hiring

To improve at diversity and inclusion in hiring, you need to start with the right mix of process, tech, and knowing what you’re looking for.

December 13, 2021
Honeit Wins 2nd Place in London

250 HR Leaders in London voted on the most innovative recruitment technology.

October 28, 2020
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 managers recognize that matching keywords on resumes or social profiles, with that of […]

July 28, 2019
Hiring Managers Love Honeit

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

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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