Think time is a great feature for getting the most candid answers to your interview questions, but it's important to keep in mind how this impacts your candidate experience. Candidates who are unsatisfied with their response might submit a blank answer or become discouraged and abandon the interview process completely. Therefore, only use this feature if it's critical to your evaluation process.

Set the think time

1. Go to Library > Question sets and open the question set you want to edit, or create a new one.
2. For each question, click the panel of icons next to it.
3. Under Think time, select a time limit between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, or leave it as Unlimited.

Note that when you limit the amount of time a candidate has to think about their answer, you'll also be limiting them to 1 take, meaning they'll need to get it right on their first attempt.



The think time will not only get saved for the interview you are currently creating, but if you save the questions as a question set, the think time will get saved there as well.