phone interviews

The telephone game in recruiting has been breaking hiring decisions for years. Back in 2015, we wrote about how candidate answers get reduced, summarized, and misinterpreted as they move through the hiring process. In 2026, the problem still exists, but the best teams are shifting from notes to signal, and delivering interview intelligence that hiring managers can trust.

If you’re a recruiting manager or RPO leader looking for better recruiter productivity and hiring outcomes, the Honeit communication and interview intelligence platform is purpose-built for human-centric recruitment and talent delivery.

Discover how Honeit AI empowers recruiters to focus on meaningful conversations by automating tedious tasks before, during, and after a call.

Honeit calls transcend the boundaries of traditional recruitment communication platforms by providing recruiters with a purpose-built tool that automates tasks, enhances collaboration, and elevates the recruiter experience.

The phone screen is the most important step of the hiring process. A candidate’s first conversation with your company sets the tone, sets expectations, and sets the talent bar for your organization.

Now your recruiters can ask technical questions and share technical answers. The best part? You can automate note-taking and tedious recruiter write-ups. 

How can your organization easily create a fair and inclusive candidate screening and interview process? DEI Compliance is an important step to creating a fair, equitable and inclusive interview experience. It starts with structured recruiter phone screens and blind recruiter write-ups. Now your recruiters can ask structured technical interview questions at the very first step of […]

Honeit Talks with Andres Traslavina, Head of Executive Recruiting at Whole Foods Market about the modern role of Executive Search, the complex business of Whole Foods Market, the importance of recruiter phone screens, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and the future of talent acquisition.

With modern candidate screening, human conversations at scale are now possible and create a better candidate and recruiter experience!

Honeit was designed for recruiters by recruiters to schedule, phone screen and submit candidates in seconds!

Recording job interviews, and giving hiring teams a way to “check the tape,” is a core way to bring transparency to recruiting and hiring.

Recruiter soundbites are quick hits from a recruiter phone screen — 2 to 4 minutes — that the hiring manager and other stakeholders can hear between meetings, on the treadmill, whatever.

Watch Mike Cohen demonstrate how to impress candidates and delight hiring managers through better phone screens and candidate presentations.

Video interviewing scaled rapidly. Video was already a focus of some platforms, and then coronavirus escalated it. But what about bias in video interviews?

Podcasts. Audiobooks. Zoom Fatigue. We’re in a more audio-driven world right now. How can phone interview technology help recruiters destress?

Honeit was recently featured on the Jeff Weidner Video Podcast. Jeff has held leadership roles at IBM, Monster.com and HTC.

Everything old is new again with phone interview technology. Honeit enables recruiters up do what they do best, build relationships and sell great candidates.

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 […]

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

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]