The best online interview tool — The Bridge AI

Evi Tsokanaki
4 min readNov 6, 2021

Sourcing candidates is one thing. Interviewing every potential good match is another.

Every recruitment process needs an extensive amount of time invested into reviewing every CV and interviewing every candidate in the early stages of the process. But if you are a corporate or a big organization, you will need a more automated process to accelerate the selection of the best potential matches in the early stages of recruitment when there is a vast amount of CVs that need to be reviewed.

For this reason, many companies have started to use online interview assessment tools to help their recruitment teams present candidates that match the job description better. How do these tests work, and what are their benefits are some of the questions that will be answered throughout this article.

Let’s start by identifying some key characteristics of such online interview tests:

1. They save time

Recruiters could save a great deal of time by integrating an online assessment tool in the early stages of the recruitment process. They won’t have to plan meetings to get to know the candidates but rather will be able to receive a report with some key personality traits from early on.

Face-to-face interviews need a lot of preparation. You will need to arrange for an employee to dedicate time and resources to gathering questions that speak to the candidate’s personality, conduct a 45-min interview and then create a report at the end to assemble all the necessary information. Interview tools are able to automate this process without having to invest the time and resources of your recruitment team.

2. They have no bias

Technology has enabled many outdated processes to evolve into a more automated version. AI has the potential to amplify activities that were previously done by humans and generate better and faster results.

When reviewing a candidate recruiters have certain tools to identify whether this candidate would be a good match with the position at hand. However, recruiters are humans and, similarly to every human being, they are creatures of bias.

An AI interview tool can eliminate any possible bias humans might have and generate objective reports. Although many are still reluctant to give AI tools a chance, they are being used more and more in many industries.

3. They are cost-effective

Online AI interviewing tools can also save an organization costs. Normally, the recruitment team would have to plan the interviews and dedicate a person each time to be responsible for the interview conducting and reporting.

If there would be a tool that could do all these in place of the employee, then this person could associate themselves with other work-related activities that need their attention. In this way, the backlog is decreased immensely and the team is performing faster and better, thus, saving costs for the entire department.

Online interview tool — The Bridge AI

The way interview tools work is very simple and every team member can be trained to administer it easily and effectively. Having mentioned all the benefits of utilizing AI technology in the recruitment sphere it’s time to show you how teams can rip those benefits.

The Bridge AI is an online interview tool that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP), a process that enables a computer to understand human language in spoken or written form. In recruitment and selection, The Bridge AI can be used to make the recruitment process more efficient, save time, select without bias, improve the candidate’s experience, and much more.

In the interview, candidates are invited to answer 3 open-ended questions. The software uses the answers to these questions to create a candidate report that provides scores on the Big Five personality traits and six competencies (Six Drives).

The Big Five

The Big Five theory is widely accepted among psychologists as the most valid personality model. Years of psychological research worldwide shows that you can describe someone’s personality by means of five dimensions (the Big Five), which are Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (emotional stability). The scores on these five characteristics provide a good picture of the candidate as a person and together, the five scores generate a unique personality profile.

The Six Drives

The scores on the Six Drives (Analytical, Collaborative, Achievement-oriented, Status-oriented, Reward-driven and Risk-oriented) make it possible to understand what drives someone’s behavior. In this way, it becomes clear whether the candidate is motivated by the need for achievement and self-actualization, dominance, reward, avoidance of risk or by displaying risk-seeking behavior.

While the online interview Bridge AI provides global scores on the Big Five, it cannot replace a personality test such as The Bridge Personality. Personality tools are more ideal to review the personality of your candidate as a whole and also in conjunction with their potential team members. Therefore, the online interview Bridge AI can be used to get a global overview of your candidates’ personality in the early stages (before the actual interview) of the recruitment process, whereas a personality test can then be used for the candidates you have selected with the Bridge AI.

The Bridge AI is only available for businesses and organizations. You can fill in the contact form to use The Bridge AI for your candidate or employee and the team will set up The Bridge AI within 30 minutes. After completion, the report is instantly available. Rates are starting from € 25 per candidate.

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Evi Tsokanaki

Content Marketing and Blogger with an inherent interest in social media, and personal branding! https://www.linkedin.com/in/evi-tsokanaki/