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title: "Use Interview Guides & One-Way Interviews"
url: "https://knowledge-base.discovered.ai/en/article/interview-guides-and-one-way-interviews"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-09-24T20:48:37.276Z"
---

# Use Interview Guides & One-Way Interviews

Standardize interviews and scale candidate evaluations with structured guides and asynchronous video responses.

### **Overview**

Interview Guides and One-Way Interviews are tools in Discovered that help you create consistent, repeatable candidate experiences. **Interview Guides** let you design structured sets of questions for live interviews—whether in person, over Zoom, or by phone. **One-Way Interviews** extend that structure by letting candidates record video responses to your chosen questions on their own time. Both features can pull from Discovered templates, Kingsley AI-generated questions, or your own custom guides. This ensures interviewers focus on the right qualities and speeds up early-stage screening.

## **How to Use Interview Guides:**

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### **1\. Open the Interview Guides Card**

-   Go to your job posting and click the **Find and Evaluate Talent** tab.

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-   Scroll to **Evaluate Candidates** and click **Interview Guides**.

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### **2\. Select or Create a Guide**

-   A default guide may be generated based on the job type.

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-   Click **Create a New Interview Guide** to start fresh.

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-   Name your guide and add questions manually, from templates, or from your quality-based scorecard.

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### **3\. Use Kingsley to Generate Questions**

-   Expand Kingsley and request a guide for your role (e.g., *“Generate an interview guide for an accounting position”*).
-   Review, edit, or adjust the tone and difficulty level as needed.

### **4\. Save and Apply**

-   Once submitted, the guide is automatically available in every candidate profile for that job.
-   During interviews, open the candidate profile → **Interview** tab → select your guide → rate and add notes for each question.

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## **How to Use One-Way Interviews:**

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### **1\. Open the One-Way Interviews Card**

-   Go to your job posting and click the **Find and Evaluate Talent** tab.
-   Scroll to **Evaluate Candidates** and click **One-Way Interviews**.

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### **2\. Build Your Question Set**

-   You can select default one-way interview.

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-   Or, create a new interview guide.
-   Start from scratch or import an existing Interview Guide.
-   Add questions manually, pull from templates, or generate them with Kingsley.
-   Click **Continue**.

### **3\. Add Intro & Outro Videos (Optional)**

-   Upload a short intro video to welcome candidates and explain expectations.
-   Upload an outro video to thank them and outline next steps.

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### **4\. Set a Deadline**

-   Choose how long candidates have to complete the interview (default = 14 days).

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-   Deadlines create urgency and keep your pipeline moving.

### **5\. Send the Interview**

-   The one-way interview appears in each candidate profile (marked with a camera icon in **Interview** tab).
-   Select a candidate → **Interview** tab → click **Send via email** → send.

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## **Why This Matters**

-   **Interview Guides**: Improve consistency across interviewers, reduce bias, and focus evaluations on role-relevant qualities.
-   **One-Way Interviews**: Scale early-stage screening by letting dozens of candidates complete structured video responses asynchronously.
-   Both features integrate with Kingsley AI, templates, and scorecards to streamline setup and improve quality.

## **Use Cases**

-   Standardizing questions across multiple interviewers for fairness.
-   Screening a large applicant pool quickly with one-way interviews.
-   Tailoring guides for technical roles by pulling from Kingsley or templates.
-   Adding intro/outro videos to enhance candidate experience and employer branding.

## **Best Practices**

-   Always review AI- or template-generated questions to ensure they match your role.
-   Use notes and ratings in candidate profiles for collaboration and transparency.
-   Keep one-way interviews short (5–7 questions) to maximize completion rates.
-   Set deadlines thoughtfully—tight enough to keep momentum, but flexible for candidates.

## **What Happens Next**

-   For Interview Guides: Saved guides appear in every candidate profile for that job. Interviewers can open them during live interviews, take notes, and rate responses.
-   For One-Way Interviews: Assigned candidates receive the email invitation, record responses before the deadline, and their videos appear in the candidate’s profile for review.