Spot the Right Hire Every Time: Introducing Our Combined Interview Intelligence and Assessment Platform

The outlook for 2025 and beyond is daunting. With more than three in four businesses facing a widening skills crisis, combined with AI flooding inboxes with automated candidate applications, the talent acquisition landscape has fundamentally changed. There are fewer people with the right skills for roles, while recruiters spend more time than ever sifting through overwhelming volumes of applications.

In our conversations with talent leaders across global enterprises, we consistently hear the same frustrations:

"We're drowning in applications but can't find the right people."

"Our hiring managers don't have time to conduct thorough interviews."

"We want to be more skills-focused, but we lack the tools to operationalise this at scale."

Today, we're thrilled to announce the evolution of our platform to address these challenges head-on.

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The Combined Power of Interview Intelligence and Assessment

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After years of working closely with forward-thinking enterprises using our Assessments product, we're proud to unveil our new and enhanced Spotted Zebra platform - uniquely integrating Interview Intelligence and comprehensive Assessment to help global organisations set a new bar for recruitment efficiency and quality at scale. 

Our integrated approach reflects what we've learned from our clients: that truly great talent acquisition requires both robust skills assessment and intelligent interview capabilities working in concert. By bringing these powerful elements together in one platform, we create a continuous thread of skills intelligence and evidence throughout the entire hiring process. With Spotted Zebra, identifying the right talent can be both more efficient AND more effective.

Our mission remains the same: helping you spot the right hire, every time. But now, we're delivering on this promise with even greater precision and with a focus on driving efficiencies at scale. 

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Introducing Our Interview Intelligence Module

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From today onwards, the Spotted Zebra platform combines several key innovations:

Spot, Our AI Notetaker and Meeting Assistant: An intelligent AI tool that becomes your team’s go-to companion across the entire hiring journey. Spot can join Intake meetings to automatically capture, summarise and structure role requirements between recruiters and hiring managers - driving stronger alignment and more productive meetings. In Interviews, Spot handles transcription and summarisation of conversations, surfacing rich skills insights in an instant to guide more precise, evidence-backed hiring decisions. No more frantically taking notes, or chasing interviewers for feedback. 

AI-Powered Interview Guides: AI-powered skills-based interview frameworks that help hiring teams conduct more effective, structured conversations that are tailored to specific role requirements and candidate profiles. An even bigger game-changer? Our foundational AI intelligently combines multiple skills into one question while understanding the context of their application in the role, reducing the number of questions that need to be asked by at least 50% while maintaining comprehensive skills coverage. This means you can assess the same breadth of capabilities in half the time, transforming both interview efficiency and effectiveness.

Instant Skills Evaluation: Transforming unstructured interview and assessment data into clear, actionable insights in an instant, validating and aligning with the skills required for success in the role. Interviewers save significant time with automated, AI-generated evaluations that precisely summarise a candidate's key competencies based on interview transcripts, ensuring higher quality insights with greater accuracy. This also enables seamless collaboration as recruiters receive structured feedback, helping them communicate with candidates and plan next steps more effectively. 

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These capabilities are built on two powerful foundations:

Skills Science: Industry-leading skills science and methodology that's validated across almost one million assessments and proven to identify top performers in role. 

Responsible AI: Technology designed to enhance human decision-making, not replace it – making the recruitment process more efficient while ensuring humans remain firmly in control of every hiring decision.

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Making AI an Ally, Not a Replacement

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There's been much discussion about AI's role in recruitment, with valid concerns about bias, ethics, and the potential dehumanisation of hiring. We've approached this challenge with a clear philosophy: AI should enhance human abilities, but never replace human judgment.

Our platform uses AI to automate administrative tasks, surface meaningful insights, and guide more impactful conversations – helping your team make more precise, data-informed hiring decisions with greater ease and confidence.

Crucially, we're already 3-years ahead of the EU AI Act and have designed our AI in alignment with our STRIPE framework to be:

Transparent: We clearly communicate when and how AI is being used, ensuring that users understand the provenance of all insights thanks to citations that take you straight to interview evidence when you need it. 

Skills-focused: Our AI is grounded in robust occupational psychology and a unique methodology that goes beyond basic measures, deeply understanding the context of different skills and their real-life application in a role.

Assistive: The platform provides recommendations and insights, but final decisions always remain with human users who can override or adjust AI-generated suggestions should they wish.

This approach ensures that AI serves as a powerful ally in the hiring process – eliminating busy work so your talent teams can focus on what they do best: building authentic connections with candidates and making better, more fair evaluations of talent. 

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The Impact for Enterprise Organisations

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For enterprises facing the dual challenge of the skills crisis and AI-powered application inflation, our platform delivers three core benefits:

1. Make quality, data-informed hiring decisions with confidence

Start with the skills that define success for every role. Our platform maps critical role requirements from initial intake through each stage of the hiring process, surfacing relevant skills insights to guide more precise, objective decision-making. From automatically customised interview guides to enriched skills evaluation summaries, our blend of skills science and AI empowers teams to evaluate candidate capabilities consistently and confidently.

2. Turn AI into an ally and supercharge recruitment efficiency

Think of us as your productivity multiplier. Optimise every stage of your recruitment process by automating manual tasks and eliminating the burden of busy work. Transcribe and summarise interviews instantly, match talent to multiple opportunities, and share constructive feedback in a couple of clicks. AI-powered tools built for tangible business outcomes, and loved by your team.

3. Make skills-based hiring scalable and deliver lasting talent success

Transform how you interview and assess talent globally with our modular, intuitive platform. We give you unparalleled configurability, integrating seamlessly with wider tech stacks while keeping your data secure and workflows smooth. Operationalise skills-based hiring with ease, drive meaningful adoption and change, and maximise ROI with our expert implementation and support.

The results speak for themselves. Our clients are cutting time to hire by 25%, eliminating up to 40% of administrative tasks, and achieving an 8x return on investment. But what truly excites us is the impact beyond these metrics – seeing organisations build stronger, more inclusive teams that drive sustainable business growth.

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A Personal Note on Our Journey

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This launch represents a significant milestone in our journey, but it's built on the foundation we've established over the years. We've always believed that individuals have a unique set of skills that become superpowers when matched to the right role, in the right organisation, at the right time.

What's changed is the landscape around us and the technology available to deliver on this vision at enterprise scale. The skills crisis isn't going away – in fact, it's intensifying. AI is transforming how candidates apply for jobs, creating both opportunities and challenges. And talent teams are being asked to do more with less, making efficiency and precision more important than ever.

We're immensely proud of what our team has built, and even more excited about the future we're creating together with our clients. Companies like Paramount, Merlin, AWE, and Virgin Media O2 are already using our platform to redefine how great teams are built, with AI-powered skills science becoming a multiplier for recruitment efficiency and quality at scale.

As we look ahead, our commitment remains unwavering: to help organisations spot the right hire, every time, and build the high-performing, future-ready workforces needed to thrive in an increasingly challenging market.

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Take the Next Step

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We'd love to show you how our combined Interview Intelligence and Assessment platform can transform your approach to talent acquisition. Whether you're struggling with high volumes of AI-driven applications, seeking to implement skills-based hiring at scale, or simply looking to make your hiring more efficient and effective, we're here to help.

Get in touch to book a demo today or learn more about how we're redefining the future of enterprise recruitment with skills science and AI.

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