Summarize responses
A Willo Intelligence Feature - Currently in Beta for selected users
How to Use Candidate Summaries to Enhance Your Hiring Process
Willo offers automatic candidate summaries, providing a concise overview of each candidate's strengths, skills, and experiences based on their interview responses. This feature, available on selected plans, uses advanced Willo AI Intelligence to analyze the content of all interview questions and answers in over 18 languages, helping you quickly assess candidates.
What Are Candidate Summaries?
Our AI Intelligence summaries give you a clear and structured overview of a candidate’s key competencies, experiences, and communication style. These summaries highlight relevant skills, knowledge areas, and unique traits that emerge from the interview, allowing you to make more informed decisions.
Example Summary
Overview
The candidate expressed clear interest in the employer and framed motivation around workplace culture and work-life balance. Responses were generally positive and direct, with one concrete example of taking initiative in a previous role. Some claims (e.g., having all the required skills or completing extensive research) were stated without specific supporting detail or clear linkage to the role’s requirements.
Experience, skills & claims
The candidate stated enthusiasm for the organization, describing it as a strong employer with a positive reputation and good work-life balance. They referenced hearing favorable feedback from acquaintances working there and mentioned completing research into the company’s growth, practices, and leadership vision, though no specific sources or takeaways were provided.
When asked about going “above and beyond,” the candidate described identifying a process or operational issue in a previous workplace. Rather than only reporting the problem, they prepared a structured report outlining potential solutions and shared it with the relevant manager or department. They noted completing this work outside normal hours to accelerate resolution and reduce the need for others to conduct additional fact-finding.
Key Observations
- Skill Proficiency: Initiative and problem-solving demonstrated through producing a solutions-focused report; commercial or analytical capability not supported with metrics or outcomes.
- Knowledge Areas: General awareness of company background and growth; limited role-specific insight shared.
- Examples & Evidence: One workplace example provided; missing details on scope, stakeholders, and measurable impact.
- Communication Style: Conversational delivery with some hesitations; overall understandable and positive.
- Areas for Follow-up: Clarify motivation beyond culture/work-life balance, confirm research specifics, and quantify the impact of the improvement work.
Quick Bio
A UK-based candidate expressing strong interest in the employer, motivated by perceived culture and work-life balance, and describing a recent example of independently producing a solutions-focused report outside working hours to help resolve an internal issue quickly.
Follow-Up Questions
- What aspects of the programme or role are most appealing, and why?
- Which specific company principles, practices, or initiatives stood out during research, and how do they relate to this role?
- In the “above and beyond” example, what was the issue and what solutions were proposed?
- What measurable outcome resulted (time saved, cost reduced, process improvement, feedback received)?
- What skills would the candidate most like to develop in this role, and what steps have been taken so far?
How Does It Work?
Once a candidate completes their interview, our system automatically generates a detailed summary based on the content of all their questions and answers. This summary is then available in your dashboard alongside the individual responses.
Key Features:
- Instant Summaries: Save time by getting a quick, comprehensive overview of each candidate.
- Skill and Experience Highlighting: Easily identify the candidate's key strengths, experiences, and areas that may need further follow-up.
- AI-Driven Insights: Our system analyzes responses to provide a balanced view of each candidate’s performance and potential fit for the role.
- Quick Bio: Perfect for sharing with busy hiring managers.
- Follow-up questions: You or your hiring managers will know exactly what to ask each candidate. Areas lacking in detail or just worth exploring more are highlighted..
How to Access Summaries
- After a candidate completes their interview, go to the Assessments tab in your Willo dashboard.
- Select the candidate’s response you wish to review.
- Scroll down to view the Summary section, which provides an AI-generated overview of the candidate’s interview.
- You can use the summary to inform your evaluation or as a starting point for further discussion with your team.
Summaries are available within the API - please create a webhook to receive the summary response. View documentation >
Frequently Asked Questions:
- Can I edit the summary?
- The summaries are automatically generated and cannot be edited directly. However, you can copy and paste them, or use them as a reference and make any manual notes or adjustments in your candidate evaluation process.
- What if the summary misses important details?
- Our AI system works to capture the key points from the candidate’s responses. If any specific detail is missed, you can always review the full interview responses to gather more insights.
- Can I generate summaries for past interviews?
- Summaries are available for new interviews conducted after the feature was enabled. Past interviews will not have summaries.
- How is this better than ChatGPT?
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Off the shelf AI tools are great for everyday tasks. Willo AI Intelligence is purpose-built for recruiting and accounts for the nuances of recruiting which requires an extensive knowledge and understanding of bias for example.
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