Creating a Posting

Set up a job posting with competencies, interview configuration, and assessment criteria.

To create a new posting, click New Posting from your dashboard. A posting defines everything about how candidates will be evaluated for a role.

Posting creation form with job title, description, competencies, and interview configuration

Quick Setup

Enter the job title

Paste your job description — or click Generate with AI to draft one from the title

Select competencies from the library — or click Generate Competencies with AI to suggest a set from your JD

Choose your assessment type, interview mode, style, and depth

Click Create Posting to publish — or Save Draft to finish later

Assessment Types

AI-conducted voice or text interview. Questions are scored against your competency framework.

Best for behavioral, situational, and general role assessments
Voice mode requires desktop with camera; text works on any device
Billed per minute (voice) or per message (text)

Hands-on assessment only. Candidates write code, documents, or solve problems in-browser. No interview.

Best for technical roles where work product matters more than verbal answers
Scored by AI against your practical rubric
No Retell voice cost

Interview first, then practical. Candidates complete the conversational portion, see a transition screen, then begin the hands-on assessment.

Best for senior or technical roles that require both communication and execution
Billed for both components

Competencies and Weights

Competencies are the skills and behaviors you're evaluating. Each competency has a weight slider that controls how much it contributes to the overall score.

You can build your competency set in any combination:

Select from the platform library (behavioral, technical, situational)
Apply a competency profile to auto-fill a standard set (e.g., "General Behavioral")
Create custom competencies specific to your organization
Generate with AI based on the job description and optional context

Weights are relative. If you have three competencies weighted 1, 2, and 3, the third contributes 50% of the overall score.

When you pick a competency from the in-house library, click View anchors on that selected competency to see its 1–5 behavioral anchor descriptions — exactly what a score of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 means for that competency. This is the same rubric the AI scorer uses, so it's worth a quick read before you commit to a competency: if the level descriptions don't match what you actually want to measure, pick a different competency or create a custom one.

Interview Configuration

For Conversational or Both assessment types, configure how the interview runs:

Setting	Options	Guide
Style	Structured, Semi-Structured, Adaptive	Interview Styles
Mode	Voice, Text	Interview Modes
Depth	Light (4), Standard (6), Deep (8), Custom	Interview Depth
Question Spine	For Structured and Semi-Structured	Drag to reorder

Practical Assessment Setup

For Practical or Both assessment types:

Click Add / Remove to open the Problem Browser

Filter by discipline and difficulty, then search by keyword

Select problems — each has its own time limit set by your platform administrator

Optionally add AI-generated problems that create a unique assessment per candidate

Application Form

Attach a custom application form to your posting so candidates can apply at a public URL before being interviewed.

In the Application Form section of the posting form, select a form from the dropdown

Optionally enable the EEOC Demographics toggle to add a two-question demographics section (race/ethnicity and gender) to the application

Save the posting — a public application URL at /apply/[posting-id] becomes active

Only forms with visibility set to "public" appear in the application form dropdown. Resume upload is always included on the application page regardless of the form's fields. See your administrator to create or configure forms.

When a candidate submits the application form, they are added to your candidate list automatically and receive a confirmation email.

The public application page shows your company logo at the top if your account Owner has uploaded one in Settings > Organization. See Organization & Branding.

Hiring Manager Notes & Document Upload (AI drafting)

When you first create a posting, the setup modal accepts extra context the AI uses to draft your job description and suggest competencies:

Hiring Manager Notes — free-text insights about the team, role expectations, or what matters most for this role
Document Upload — PDFs, DOCs, or TXT files with additional context (a role description, team charter, or existing competency framework)

These inputs appear during the first creation of a posting only and are used once to draft the JD and skills. They are parsed in your browser and are never stored on our servers.

The job description editor itself is a plain text area — paste or edit your JD directly, or generate a draft with AI and refine it.

Snapshotting: Editing a Skill Later Won't Change This Posting

When you save a posting, each selected competency's anchors, category, and description are frozen onto the posting at that moment. If you later edit that competency in Settings > Competencies, the change applies to new postings — it does not alter a posting that already used the competency.

This is why "existing postings will not be affected" is true: a saved posting carries its own snapshot of every skill, so library edits and re-scoring stay consistent with what each candidate was actually assessed against.

Publishing vs. Drafts

Changes to a posting apply to future candidates only. Candidates who have already started or completed their interview are not affected.

Action	When to Use	Requirements
Create Posting	Ready to go live	All required fields must be complete
Save Draft	Still configuring	Title only required