Replace first-round phone screens with async video interviews
Swap screening calls for one link. Candidates record answers on their own time, and every video and voice answer arrives transcribed and summarized for your team.
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What is an async video interview?
An async video interview is a first-round interview that candidates record on their own time. You set the questions once and share one link; each candidate answers on camera, by voice or in text from a browser. Every recorded answer is transcribed and summarized, so the hiring team reads first and watches only the answers that matter.
Hiring managers lose hours every month to first-round phone calls that could be async.
- Video + voice + screen recording responses
- Summary and keywords for every video and voice answer
- Your team scores answers against a shared rubric
- Searchable transcripts in 110+ languages
- Zapier or signed webhooks send data to your ATS
- Room for async follow-up, no account needed
How it works, step by step
Send one link. Candidates record on their own time. AI transcribes every video and voice answer and adds a summary and keywords, so your team can review faster and decide who to talk to next.
No credit card required. 28-day free trial.
Build
Step 1: Design your interview form
Use the drag-and-drop builder to create a multi-step video interview. Start with a welcome page featuring your intro video explaining the role, company culture, and what you're looking for.
- Add video-record elements for each interview question: candidates record themselves answering on camera
- Set max recording duration per question (e.g., 3 minutes) to keep answers focused
Team review
Step 2: Agree how your team will review
Before sharing, decide who reviews the answers and what they listen for. RecRam's AI only transcribes and summarizes; it never scores, ranks or screens candidates. The judgement stays with your team.
- Write a shared rubric so every reviewer scores each response on the same criteria
- Reviewers comment with @mentions, so the hiring committee sees each other's notes
Share
Step 3: Distribute to candidates
Share your interview form via direct link, embed it on your careers page, or print a QR code for job fairs. Candidates open it on any device (phone, tablet, or laptop). No app download or account creation needed.
- Email notifications: the form owner gets an email the moment a candidate submits
- Partial submissions enabled: if a candidate records 3 of 5 questions and leaves, their progress is saved, so you still see what they recorded
Review
Step 4: Read first, then watch
Each video response is transcribed and summarized automatically. Your team reads the transcript and summary first, then watches the answers it needs and makes the call.
- Speech-to-text transcription in 110+ languages with automatic language detection: search inside transcripts, translate them into 100 languages, or download SRT captions
- AI-generated summary, subject line and keywords for every video and voice answer, ready to share with your hiring committee
Follow-up
Step 5: Continue the conversation with Room
Candidates your team wants to hear more from receive a personal Room link, a private async video channel just between you and them. No scheduling, no Zoom links, no calendar coordination.
- You record a video: "Hi Sarah, loved your answer about system design. Can you walk me through a specific project where you applied this?"
- Sarah clicks the Room link, watches your video, and records her reply, all from browser, no account needed
Automate
Step 6: Send results to your ATS & team
Connect RecRam to your hiring stack. Every submission triggers your automation. No manual data entry, no copy-pasting between tools.
- A webhook sends the full response once the transcript and summary are ready: video URL, transcript, AI summary, keywords and contact details
- Zapier trigger: "New Form Response" → create candidate in Greenhouse / Lever / Workable with all data attached
What to ask
The questions below come from "Customer Success Manager application", a ready-made demo form every new account gets. Answer it yourself to see the respondent side, then make it yours.
In the demo: Customer Success Manager application
- 1
1 · Video, voice or text answer
So, first things first, tell us a little about yourself and what you're doing right now.
2 · Multiple choice
Have you worked directly with customers before?
Yes · Not yet
- If “Yes” Great! Tell us about a time you turned a difficult customer situation around.
- If “Not yet” No problem at all. What excites you about working with customers?
- 3
3 · Video, voice or text answer
Great! Tell us about a time you turned a difficult customer situation around.
- 4
4 · Video, voice or text answer
No problem at all. What excites you about working with customers?
5 · Multiple choice
And when could you start?
Immediately · Within a month · In 2–3 months
Questions for this use case
ExampleTell us about a project you are proud of and what your part in it was.
Why this role, and why now?
Describe a time you disagreed with a teammate. What happened?
What would you want to learn in your first 90 days?
What you get back
Every video and voice answer arrives transcribed, with a one-line summary and 3 to 5 keywords. This is one real response from the demo, as your team sees it.
Transcript · No problem at all. What excites you about working with customers?
“I love solving problems for people. Seeing a customer relieved is the best part.”
Omar Farouk · video answer
- AI summary
- Recent business graduate who ran a student consulting club.
- Keywords
- recent grad, enthusiastic, consulting
- Also answered
- Have you worked directly with customers before? Not yet
- And when could you start? Immediately
- Team comments
Daniel Kim A bit green, but very enthusiastic. Could be good for the junior associate role.
Fictional sample respondent and team from the "Customer Success Manager application" demo form. Every new RecRam account starts with these sample answers.
AI reads the words. Your team makes the calls.
Every spoken answer is transcribed, summarized and given keywords, and transcripts can be translated or turned into captions. The AI never scores, ranks, screens or decides anything about candidates: your team reviews the answers and, if you like, scores them against a shared rubric.
The RecRam pieces behind it
Everything here is in the same subscription. Integrations send each response on to the tools your team already uses.
Products
- Video FormsThe form itself: a host asks each question on video, people answer by video, voice, screen or text.
- AI InsightsA transcript, summary and keywords on every spoken answer, with translation.
- RoomOne-to-one async video threads. Replies need no account, and views are tracked.
Integrations
- ZapierUse the RecRam app on Zapier to send responses to thousands of other apps, no code.
- WebhooksPOST each response to your own URL as signed JSON, on submit, or once transcription and the AI summary are done.
- SlackPost a message to a Slack channel whenever a new response arrives.
More use cases for hiring and HR
- Employee onboarding feedbackCheck in at day 7, 30 and 90 and hear what new hires actually think.
- Exit interview collectionLet people explain why they are leaving, on their own time.
- Bulk video interview invitationsHundreds of applicants, one link, no calls to book.
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