The AI hiring assessment
Replace brittle resume screening with multi-modal AI assessments that measure how candidates actually think, sell, and decide. Built for high-volume hiring across sales, customer success, retail, and frontline operations.
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What makes Kaairo's AI hiring assessment different
Realistic, role-anchored case studies
Candidates work through scenarios that mirror the actual job — a stalled enterprise deal, a churning customer, a regional sales target slipping. We score how they frame the problem, structure trade-offs, and convert ideas into a plan, not whether they recall a textbook framework.
Competency-based scoring with transparent rubrics
Every response is scored against a 9-parameter competency rubric tied to the role. Hiring managers see exactly which competencies a candidate is strong on and which need development — no black-box scores, no vibes-based shortlisting.
Multi-modal: voice + SJT + case in one battery
Combine an AI voice interview with Kaaira, situational judgement scenarios, and a written case study into a single 45-minute battery. Triangulating across modalities catches candidates who interview well but can't execute, and surfaces hidden talent who don't present polished resumes.
Candidate intake & screening for high volume
Before the AI assessment runs, an optional intake form filters applicants on declared eligibility — minimum experience, work authorisation, notice period, location, document uploads. Hard requirements auto-reject ineligible applicants; soft preferences flag them for review — so your AI battery only runs on candidates who actually qualify.
AI candidate summary, calibrated to your org
Every completed assessment gets a short, plain-language read of the candidate — not a generic score paraphrase. It judges each section against your own organisation's typical range for that test type (not an industry benchmark), measures competencies against the role's targets, surfaces any integrity signal worth verifying, and ends with one concrete thing to probe in the interview. No hire/no-hire verdict — the decision stays with you.
Benefits across volume and quality of hire
Built for the realities of hiring frontline and customer-facing roles at scale — not just senior engineering interviews.
Predicts on-job performance
Competency scores correlate with quota attainment, CSAT, and retention because we test the behaviours that drive those outcomes — discovery, objection handling, decision-making under ambiguity — not trivia.
Scales across volume hiring
Whether you're hiring 5 enterprise AEs or 500 field-sales reps, every candidate gets the same consistent, adaptive AI interview and rubric-based scoring. No interviewer fatigue, no scheduling bottleneck.
Removes interview bias
Structured rubrics, identical scenarios, and AI-driven scoring strip out the inconsistency of unstructured panels. Candidates are compared on what they did in the assessment, not how they came across in small talk.
Integrates with your ATS
Two-way sync with your ATS — Zoho Recruit, BambooHR, Freshteam, Keka HR, CEIPAL, or Manatal — means scores, transcripts, and competency profiles flow into your existing pipeline. No double data entry, no separate tabs.
Fast time-to-decision
Candidates complete the full battery in 45 minutes. Scores and competency breakdowns are available the moment they finish, so hiring managers can shortlist same-day instead of waiting for panel debriefs.
Multilingual for Indian hiring
AI voice interviews run in Hindi and English today, and written assessments support five Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam), so you can assess frontline candidates in the language they actually sell, support, and operate in — without filtering on English fluency.
From job description to shortlist in three steps
A repeatable assessment design process that works for any customer-facing or frontline role.
Define competencies
Pick from Kaairo's competency library or generate a custom framework from your job description. For a field-sales rep that might be consultative selling, resilience, business acumen, and territory management. The framework anchors everything downstream.
Design the assessment
Mix and match an AI voice interview, situational judgement scenarios, a case study, and an MCQ knowledge check. Kaairo recommends a battery based on the role, or you can fully customise the questions, time limits, and weights.
Score and compare
Candidates complete the assessment at their convenience. Hiring managers get a competency profile, full transcript, and recommended-shortlist for every applicant — ready to discuss in the next pipeline review.
Beyond the resume and the gut-feel interview
Resumes and unstructured panels predict almost nothing about on-job performance. AI hiring assessment changes the math.
Resumes don't predict performance
A polished resume tells you what someone has done, not what they can do in your context. Kaairo's case studies and AI interviews put candidates into your scenarios so you see the behaviour, not the brand of their last employer.
Consistent across every candidate
Unstructured interviews mean every candidate gets a different question set from a different interviewer in a different mood. AI assessment gives every candidate the same scenarios scored against the same rubric — the foundation of any defensible hiring decision.
Auditable and explainable
Every score links back to a specific candidate response and a specific rubric line. When a hiring manager asks why a candidate scored 3/5 on objection handling, you can show them the exact transcript moment — not 'the panel felt' something.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can we use this to assess sales representatives and field-sales candidates?
Yes — sales roles are one of Kaairo's strongest fit. The AI voice interview probes discovery and objection handling, situational judgement tests cover deal prioritisation and stakeholder politics, and case studies simulate complex multi-stakeholder deals. We have dedicated guides for SDRs, AEs, customer success managers, and retail managers.
How does AI voice interview work for hiring?
Candidates speak with Kaaira, an AI voice interviewer that conducts a real-time conversation in English or Hindi (more Indian-language voice support is on the roadmap). Kaaira adapts questions based on candidate responses, probes deeper on weak signals, and scores against a transparent 9-parameter competency rubric. The full transcript and scoring rationale are available to hiring managers immediately after the interview ends.
Does it work for high-volume hiring?
Volume hiring is the primary use case. Because the assessment is async and AI-scored, you can put 500 applicants through the same 45-minute battery and have a ranked shortlist the same day. Companies using Kaairo for field-sales hiring routinely process thousands of applicants per role without adding recruiter headcount.
Will candidates accept an AI-driven assessment?
In our deployments, candidate completion rates are higher than for traditional case-study takehomes because the assessment is voice-first, mobile-friendly, and respects their time. Where passwordless invites are enabled, candidates open their invite link, confirm their name and consent, and start straight away — no account to create and no password to set — which removes a common drop-off point at the very first step. Candidates also get faster decisions — most hear back within 48 hours instead of waiting weeks for panel scheduling, which materially improves employer brand.
How is this different from automated video interviews?
Most one-way video interview tools record a candidate answering a fixed list of questions, then ask a human to watch and score. Kaairo runs a real conversation — Kaaira adapts in real time, probes on weak answers, and produces a competency-scored output. You also get SJT and case study modalities in the same battery, which one-way video tools don't cover.
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