The SealHire Blog
AI interviews, explained from both sides of the table.
How to prepare for one, how an answer gets scored, what a recruiter actually sees, and how hiring teams run structured AI interviews without losing fairness — written by the people who built the interviewer.
Which AI tool is best for recruiters? A map by bottleneck
There is no single best AI tool for recruiters, only the best one for your bottleneck. Sourcing, screening, interviewing, notes and writing, mapped honestly.For candidates
Take the interview you want to be judged on.
For candidates
How to prepare for an AI interview — a checklist from the people who built one
What actually happens in an AI interview, what the interviewer is listening for, and a seven-step preparation checklist you can finish in an evening.For candidatesEleven mistakes candidates make in AI interviews — and what to do instead
The patterns we see in interview transcripts that cost candidates the most, from reading off a script to answering the question they wish they had been asked.For candidatesHow an AI interviewer actually scores your answer
Inside a SealHire assessment — the role brief, the skill-by-skill verdicts, the evidence behind every score, and why "I improved things" earns nothing.For candidatesSTAR still works — how to structure answers for a spoken AI interview
The STAR method was built for human interviewers, but it fits an AI interview even better, with one extra beat. How to use it out loud, with worked examples.For candidatesSend interviews, not résumés — why the résumé stopped working and what to send instead
A perfect résumé is now one prompt away, so it no longer sets you apart. What a sealed, recorded interview gives a hiring manager that a document cannot.For candidatesHow to share a mock interview with a recruiter — and exactly what they see
The public Seal, the private link, the work-email gate, the viewer log and the block list — a walkthrough of what happens when you share a SealHire interview.For candidatesSoftware engineer mock interview questions — and what a strong answer sounds like
The themes an AI interviewer opens with for engineering roles, sample questions, and worked examples of answers that produce evidence rather than claims.For hiring teams
Evidence instead of impressions.
For hiring teams