Real Time Interviewing: Turn Your Live Interviews into Confident Hiring Decisions
Updated
by
Amy Thomas
Real Time Interviewing helps you run structured live interviews in one modern, all-in-one experience so your team spends less time on admin and more time hiring with confidence.
What is Real Time Interviewing?
Real Time Interviewing (RTI) is Criteria’s built-in live video interviewing experience, fully integrated into our structured interviewing product. It brings your live video call, interview guide, and evaluation tools into one streamlined interview room, then delivers an automated post-interview summary with AI-powered insights.
In other words: RTI helps you run sharper interviews, capture better evidence, and align your team faster, without juggling Zoom/Teams links, scorecards, and scattered notes.
Why your team will love RTI
- A seamless experience for candidates and interviewers: RTI combines video conferencing and structured interview guides in one place, so interviewers can stay present with the candidate instead of flipping between screens and documents. The result is a smoother, more professional interview experience.
- More consistency, less guesswork: With the interview guide and rating features inside the interview room, every interviewer stays aligned on what to ask and what “great” looks like. This makes it easier to compare candidates fairly and focus on job-relevant evidence.
- Never lose the details: RTI can record and transcribe interviews (with candidate consent), so your team can revisit key moments, confirm what was said, and reduce recency bias or note-taking gaps.
- AI that accelerates alignment, without adding noise: When candidates consent to AI-assisted processing, RTI generates a clear summary of the conversation and highlights of important topics. The Ask Anything feature provides fast, strictly factual answers pulled from the transcript, avoiding evaluative commentary that could bias decisions.
This means fewer debrief meetings spent arguing about what happened, and more time making decisions. - Built for real-world hiring (and busy calendars): Interviewers can rate and comment during the interview or return afterward, so they can focus on the candidate in the moment and finish polished evaluations later. And stakeholders can review recordings and insights through secure links to speed up alignment.
Real Time Interviews are perfect for:
✔️ Phone screens and early-stage interviews
✔️ Panel interviews with multiple evaluators
✔️ Teams that want fewer tools, faster feedback, and more consistent interviews
