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# Creating a Conversational AI Interview

> Generate an adaptive AI interview from a job description.

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. You do not write the questions yourself. Paste a job description, and Equip drafts the interview topics for you.

## Creating from a Job Description

Start from the AI Interviews dashboard and let Equip's AI do the heavy lifting.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the creation page">
    Go to **AI Interviews** in your dashboard and click **Add AI Interview**, then choose **Conversational Interview**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick the interview type">
    Select either the **Quick Interview** or **Comprehensive Interview** card. This choice sets the interview's length, question limits, and credit cost (see the comparison below).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Paste the job description">
    Fill in the **Job description** field (up to 7,500 characters). Keep it focused on the role and the key skills; the AI drafts interview topics directly from this text.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Link a job opening">
    Under **Job opening**, either pick an existing job opening from the dropdown or create a new one by entering a **Job opening title** (for example, "Senior Frontend Developer").
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set years of experience">
    Enter the minimum **Years of experience**, and optionally a maximum. If you selected an existing job opening, this range is pre-populated from it and locked.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add extra context (optional)">
    Use **Additional context** (up to 1,000 characters) to call out specific focus areas, skills to emphasize, or special requirements.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Generate the interview">
    Click **Generate interview topics**. Equip's AI drafts the topics, each with evaluation criteria, a follow-up count, and a difficulty level, and takes you straight to the interview's Settings page.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  Generated topics arrive with a difficulty of **Medium**, **Hard**, or **Expert**. You can review, edit, reorder, or delete every generated item before inviting candidates; see [Questions, Topics, and Scenarios](/interview-content-types).
</Note>

## Quick vs Comprehensive

The interview type you pick in the first step controls how deep the interview goes and how many credits each candidate submission costs.

|                       | **Quick Interview**   | **Comprehensive Interview** |
| --------------------- | --------------------- | --------------------------- |
| Approximate duration  | 15 minutes            | 30 minutes                  |
| Topics                | 3 to 5                | 5 to 10                     |
| Total questions       | 5 to 10               | 10 to 25                    |
| Credits per candidate | 2                     | 3                           |
| Best for              | Fast screening rounds | Deeper evaluation rounds    |

You can change the type later on the interview's settings page. Switching from Comprehensive to Quick is blocked if the interview already has more questions than Quick allows (maximum 10); remove some questions first, then switch.

<Tip>
  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](/how-credits-work).
</Tip>

## Instructions for the AI Interviewer

Beyond the topics themselves, you can steer how the AI conducts the interview. On the interview's settings page, the **Instructions for AI Interviewer** field accepts free-text guidance of up to 4,000 characters.

Use it to shape tone, pacing, and evaluation style. For example:

* "Start with easier questions, and then make them harder."
* "Score higher if they use simpler words."

<Note>
  These instructions guide the AI's behavior across the whole interview. For per-question control, edit the individual items and their difficulty and follow-up settings instead.
</Note>

After generation, finish configuring the interview on its Settings page: review the topics, set the interview language, add candidate instructions, and choose proctoring options. See [Interview Settings](/interview-settings) for every option.

## Related Resources

* [One-Way vs Conversational Interviews](/one-way-vs-conversational) - Decide which interview format fits your hiring round
* [Questions, Topics, and Scenarios](/interview-content-types) - Edit the generated items and their follow-ups
* [Interview Settings](/interview-settings) - Configure language, availability, Workspace, and proctoring
* [How Credits Work](/how-credits-work) - Credit costs and how to reclaim unused credits