What is Interview Evaluation?  

Benefits  

1. Efficient Candidate Management:
   Enables quick viewing of each interview's status and reasons for not moving a candidate forward, preventing unnecessary backtracking and ensuring a seamless hiring experience.
2. Flexibility in Recruitment:
   Allows easy revisiting and reconsidering of candidates based on their evaluations, especially useful when roles need to be filled quickly or parameters change during the recruitment process.
3. Enhanced Interview Efficiency:
   Provides default evaluation reasons and interview statuses visible to authorized users, facilitating faster and more efficient interviews.
   
4. Customizable Options:
   Offers the ability to add tailored reasons and statuses to better align with your hiring process.
   

Interview Evaluation Types

1. General Evaluation  

2. Assessment based Evaluation

Note: If no interview assessments is selected during the creation of the interview, then the general evaluation form will automatically open when the Submit evaluation button is clicked.

Who can Evaluate Candidates?  

      Method 2: Select any specific interview record for which you want to submit an evaluation and Click the Submit Evaluation button.

1. When creating interviewer's assessments in the Assessment module, it provides you with two rating options, Thumb Rating and Star rating. The rating type you choose will be applied to all reviews made using the assessment.
   
2. Thumb Rating uses Thumbs-up and Thumbs-down and Star Rating ranges from 1-star to 5-stars.
   
3. A numerical weight is assigned to each response (5 for thumbs up, 1 for thumbs down). The below images shows the examples of Star and Thumbs Rating

Note: If a questions are not rated/rating is not provided to the average rating field, then, the overall evaluation will be determined by the chosen interview status (next component).  In addition to this, Interviewer can also manually provide a rating in the average rating.

6. Choose Status: This is the status of the Interview, which allows interviewers to indicate their overall decision regarding the candidate based on the interview performance. The default statuses and their associated ratings are:

1. Strongly Hired: 5
   
2. Hired: 4
   
3. On-Hold: 3
   
4. Rejected: 2
   
5. Strongly Rejected: 1
   
6. Custom Statuses: 4 (default)
   

Note: When submitting an interview review in Zoho Recruit, the platform offers default reasons to be selected when rejecting or cancelling a candidate. If the provided default options are not suitable, you can add custom reasons for rejections and cancellations, as well as custom statuses. Check out this document to customise status

7. Provide  Overall Comments: This optional field allows you to provide any additional feedback or comments for the candidate.

Note: The Submit Evaluation button will be enabled based on the time of the interview.

Viewing Submitted Feedback 

1. Navigate to the Interview Module.
   
2. Select the specific interview record for which you want to view the evaluation.
   
3. Click on Details. This will display the submitted evaluation.
   
   

1. Submitting Assessment during Interview Logging:
   Allows interviewers to submit assessments and feedback directly within the interview logging process. Check out: Submission module
2. Live Interview Evaluation Page:
   Enables interviewers to provide immediate feedback and ratings on candidates. For more details refer Scheduling Live Interviews
3. Video Interview Evaluation Page:
   Similar to the live interview evaluation page, this feature focuses on assessing candidates' performance in pre-recorded video interviews. For more details refer this Scheduling Video Interviews
4. Home Page My Actions Component:
   
1. Interviews Sub-tab: Within the My Actions component, this sub-tab view allows Interviewers and Hiring Managers to access and Interviews tab.