Why use Interview Manager?

Arranging phone screens, interviews, assessment centres and other recruitment events can be a frustrating exercise involving repeated phone messages, emails and plenty of wasted time for your organisation and your candidates.  From a candidate's perspective, some automated interview scheduling systems can appear impersonal, with candidates getting little or no chance to select days/times that suit their own schedules.  

SnapHire's Interview Manager is different.  It’s a fully automated, candidate self-service tool designed with them in mind – when configured for your organisation it gives the candidate an online, easy-to-use facility where they can choose from available time slots that work for them, and you. The emphasis in Interview Manager is to minimise the amount of work that you need to do, and at the same time give the candidate the best experience possible.


If your organisation is not currently utilising Interview Manager, please contact us at [email protected] for more information about the feature and its configuration options.


Overview of the interview manager process

The complete process of using Interview Manager is described in detail in other articles in this folder, but the key steps are:

  1. Create time slots for the available days/times for the interview type (e.g. 1st interview).
  2. Invite candidates, individually or in bulk, to your interview via SnapHire.  This process sends an email invitation to the candidate(s) and Interview Manager looks after the process from here.
  3. Following a link in the email they have received, the candidate views the time slots that are available to them.  If multiple candidates have been invited to the interview, the selection of available time slots grows smaller as others book in.  Interview Manager will ensure that even the last candidate to book will always have at least two appointment slots to choose from (unless your organisation has determined that it’s OK for the last person to book to have only one choice).  When the candidate selects a time slot, SnapHire automatically sends an email confirmation of their interview.


If required, you can also: 

  • book an interview on behalf of a candidate using the Interview Manager calendar
  • cancel a booked interview
  • print a list of interviews

Microsoft Calendar Integration

While using Interview Manager, you can sign in to your corporate Microsoft account, which will allow you to:

  • Check the availability of interview participants and rooms.
  • Automatically create Microsoft interview events from within SnapHire and send invites to participants.
  • Optionally automatically generate and include a MS Teams link in the event.
  • Automatically include an iCal event with the candidate confirmation email.