A One-Way Interview consists of you creating a series of interview questions that a candidate will answer on video at their convenience.

There are two ways to invite candidates to a One-Way Interview on Spark Hire:

• Option 1: Invite through Spark Hire (described in this article) – This sends a branded email (and optional SMS) to the candidate via Spark Hire.
• Option 2: Using an Interview link – Instead of sending an email (and SMS) from Spark Hire to invite your candidates, the interview link feature gives you a link that you can insert anywhere you want. For example, you can put the interview link in a personal email to a candidate.

Invite candidates to a One-Way Video Interview through Spark Hire

1. From the Assessment list, click Invite at the top of the page and select One-Way Interview. Alternatively, when viewing a specific job, click Invite on the right and select One-Way Interview.

   

2. You’ll be redirected to the Invite page, where the assessment type will be pre-populated.

3. Select the job you want the interview to be for and a question set.

   

4. Enter the candidate’s name, email, and phone number if relevant.

   • Add up to 1000 candidates in bulk by uploading a CSV file. To do this, click CSV upload, download the template, fill the columns with the relevant candidates, and re-upload the file.
   • You also have the option to send candidates updates via SMS text messages.

   ⚠️ The CSV and SMS features are not available to some legacy plans.

5. Optionally, customize your email invitation.
   • Default: If you have set up default email templates for one-way interview invites in your email template library, they will automatically be used as the default content for your invitations.

   • Customize: If you want to edit the email invitation content or choose another template, select this option. Customize the content or choose a new email template by clicking Select template and selecting one from the list.

     

6. Set a completion deadline by selecting a due date or a number of days. Regardless of how it's displayed (as a date or duration), the deadline is based on when the invite is sent.

   

   📝 Note: Deadline behavior is different when using Interview links, where you can choose to expire the link after a specific number of days from when the candidate starts the interview, or on a specific date.

7. When you're ready to finish, click Send invites.