How to share a mock interview with a recruiter — and exactly what they see

You have taken a mock interview, read the report, maybe taken it again, and now you have one you are proud of. The next step is the one that makes the whole exercise worth something: putting it in front of a hiring manager. This is a plain walkthrough of how sharing works on SealHire, what the other person sees at each step, and the controls you keep the whole time.

The two things you can share

Every completed mock interview can be shared in two ways, and they are built for different situations.

A private link is for one specific person. You create it with a label — "Priya, Northwind Talent" — and send it in your application, your email, or your LinkedIn message. One link, one recipient, and the viewer log tells you what that recipient did with it.

The Seal is public. It is the link you put on a profile, in a signature, or on a résumé if you are still sending one. Anyone can open it, but the Seal shows only what you would want a stranger to see: that the interview is verified, which role it was for, and which skills were assessed. It never shows the video, the transcript or the report to someone who has not verified.

Most candidates use both: the Seal as the standing proof that the interview exists, and private links for the people they actually want to watch it.

What a hiring manager sees, step by step

Step one: the Seal. They open the link and see a page saying that this is a verified SealHire interview for, say, a Programme Manager role at senior level, taken on a given date, with the skills it assessed listed. They cannot play anything yet. If you have retaken the interview, only the attempt you chose to share is here — earlier attempts do not exist as far as they are concerned.

Step two: the gate. To watch the interview they enter a work email address. SealHire sends a one-time code to that address; they enter it; they are in. Personal addresses are not accepted, so a recruiter has to identify the organisation they are watching on behalf of. The gate exists so that you always know who is watching, and so that "an employer watched my interview" means an employer, not anyone with the URL.

Step three: the interview. Now they see the recording, the timestamped transcript, and the assessment: a verdict per skill with the quotes behind it, each quote linked to the moment in the recording. They can click a claim and hear you make it. They also see the integrity notes — whether anything looked read or coached during the interview — which is part of why the report is worth trusting.

Nothing on that page can be edited, by them or by you. The interview was sealed the moment it ended.

The video is never public. Watching takes a verified work email, and you see every person who did.

What you see: the viewer log

Every share has a log, and it is yours. It shows, for each link:

• when the link was opened, and from which email domain;
• when someone requested a code;
• when someone verified and unlocked the video, and who — by work email — that was.

So you are never guessing whether an application was read. If a link you sent on Monday was opened on Tuesday and unlocked on Wednesday by someone at the company's domain, you know your interview was watched, and by whom. If it was never opened, you know that too, which is its own kind of useful.

The controls you keep

Revoke a link. Any private link can be revoked. The recipient's next visit gets a polite dead end; anything they already watched stays watched, because that is how time works, but nothing more.

Block an employer. You can block a company by email domain. Nobody from that domain can verify against any of your interviews — useful if you do not want your current employer to know you are looking.

Retake and re-share. A new attempt is a new sealed record. Your existing links keep pointing at the attempt they were created for; if you want a recipient to see the better one, send them a new link.

Reach. How many hiring managers can unlock your interviews depends on your plan — a fixed number ever on the free plan, more each month on the paid ones. The current numbers are on the candidate pricing page; the interview itself is never what you pay for.

How to send it well

A few things we have seen work:

1. Send the private link with one sentence of context. "I took a recorded interview for a role like this one — the link shows my answers and an independent assessment; you'll need a work email to watch." Hiring managers who have never seen one need to know it is not a video of you reading a pitch.
2. Put the Seal where your résumé goes. In your LinkedIn profile, in your email signature, at the top of a résumé if the application demands one. It is the standing proof; the private link is the invitation.
3. Share the interview for the role you are applying for. A full-stack interview sent for a full-stack job lands harder than a general one. If you are chasing two kinds of role, take two interviews — the catalog has about a thousand roles to pick from.
4. Watch the log, then follow up. If the link was unlocked, you have a natural reason to write: "I saw you had a chance to look at my interview — happy to talk through anything in it."

A week in the life of one link

Monday: you apply for a senior product role and paste a private link labelled "Dana, Acme" under your cover note. Tuesday: the log shows the link opened from an @acme.com address — read, at least. Wednesday: a code was requested and the video unlocked by dana@acme.com. You now know your interview was watched by the person you sent it to, and roughly how long she spent — the log records the unlock, and the report she saw is the one you chose. Thursday: you write a two-line follow-up that mentions the stakeholder-management section, because that is the skill the role's posting led with. Friday: an interview slot.

Nothing in that week required guessing. That is the point of the log.

A note on privacy, plainly

Until you share it, nobody sees your interview — not employers, not other candidates. When you share it, only the people who verify can watch it, and you see every one of them. The video is never public. If any of that changes, it changes because you changed it.

If you have not taken one yet, the fastest way to understand all of this is to take a free mock interview, open the sharing panel afterwards, and create a private link to yourself. Then verify with your own work address and watch what a hiring manager watches.