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Live video experience

Henrique Bittencourt
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Live video experience

Hirevue live video interviews offer several benefits to both employers and job seekers. They can help to streamline the hiring process, improve engagement and candidate experience, and attract top talent from a wider candidate pool.

Note: The below details the Hirevue live video experience. Other live video integrations will look and perform differently.

The live video experience begins with the live video interview page, which contains the candidate information and interview questions for review. On this page you will select Join Interview to join the interview room. For more information on the review experience, see Review page (live interviews).

Below is an example of the HireVue Live video interview room experience. Areas of the page where you can perform actions are highlighted and described below.

1 - Participants

Each interview participant will be displayed in this section of the page. If the participant does not have their camera on, their initials and display name will be displayed.

2 - Available actions

Mute/Unmute

Selecting this icon will either mute or unmute your microphone.

Start Video/Stop Video

Selecting this icon will either stop or start your video.

Share Screen

Selecting this icon will open a share pop-up window where you can choose which tab, window, or screen to share with the participants of the interview.

Chat

Selecting this icon will open a chat window where you can chat with other participants in the interview. Any text you enter will be viewable by all participants.

3 - Settings

The Settings icon allows you to adjust your audio and video settings.

  • Microphone - Change the audio input device. You can test the audio by viewing the Audio Input Level graphic.
  • Speaker - Change the audio output device. You can test the speaker by using the Play Sound function.
  • Camera - Change the video device. You can test the video by looking at the video preview.
  • Background
    • Blur Background - Blurs the video background.
    • Toggle Background - Change the background of the video. For more information on video backgrounds, see Live video virtual backgrounds.

4 - Exit interview

Selecting this icon will remove you from the interview. You can re-enter the interview at any time as long as the interview is still active.

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