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A Conversational AI Interview is a live, spoken interview where Equip’s AI interviewer asks questions in real time and adapts its follow-ups to each candidate’s answers. Paste a job description, and Equip drafts the interview topics for you.

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Creating from a Job Description

Create AI Interview page with the Quick Interview card selected, a Job description filled in for a Product Manager at Northwind Labs, the existing job opening number 8 Product Manager chosen, Years of experience 3 to 9, an empty Additional context field, and the Generate interview topics button

The Create AI Interview page with a job description pasted in and a job opening linked

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Open the creation page

Go to AI Interviews, click Add AI Interview, then choose Conversational Interview.
2

Pick the interview type

Select Quick Interview or Comprehensive Interview (see the comparison below).
3

Paste the job description and link a job opening

Paste the Job description, then pick an existing job opening or enter a title for a new one. Enter the Years of experience; if you picked an existing job opening, the range comes from it and is locked. Additional context is optional.
4

Generate the interview

Click Generate interview topics. You can edit, reorder, or delete the generated topics before inviting candidates; see Questions, Topics, and Scenarios.

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Quick vs Comprehensive

You can change the type later on the interview’s settings page. Switching from Comprehensive to Quick is blocked if the interview has more than 10 questions; remove some first.
Credits are deducted when a candidate is invited to the interview. If a candidate never starts, you can reclaim the credits; see How Credits Work.

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Instructions for the AI Interviewer

On the interview’s settings page, the Instructions for AI Interviewer field lets you steer the tone, pacing, and evaluation style of the interview. For example:
  • “Start with easier questions, and then make them harder.”
  • “Score higher if they use simpler words.”
Instructions for AI Interviewer field, limited to 4000 characters, holding guidance to start with foundational concepts, probe for hands-on experience, ask one focused follow-up on vague answers, and keep a friendly tone

Instructions for AI Interviewer on the interview's settings page

These instructions apply to the whole interview. For per-question control, edit the individual items instead.
See Interview Settings for every other option.