Feature — AI voice interviews
Screening calls that place themselves
Placewise runs phone screening as a campaign: you build it once in a five-step wizard, and the AI calls every candidate on the list, asks your questions, follows up on the vague answers, retries the people who miss the call, and scores what it hears. Here is what each of those five steps actually asks you for.
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Building a campaign, step by step
- 01
Basic info
Name the campaign and attach it to the role it screens for. Everything the campaign produces — transcripts, scores, completion figures — reports against that one opening rather than against a general pool, so two roles running at once never share a shortlist.
- 02
Candidate selection
Choose who gets called. Pull in everyone who applied through your career portal, a list you imported, or a subset you pick by hand — a campaign can be the whole intake for a role or just the twelve people you want to hear from first.
- 03
Script configuration
Write what the AI says. The opening message is how it introduces itself and the role; the interview questions are asked in the order you set them; the closing message is how the call ends and what the candidate is told happens next. Nothing is asked that you did not write.
- Opening message — the greeting and framing every candidate hears first
- Interview questions — your screening set, asked in your order
- Closing message — the sign-off and what happens after the call
- 04
Schedule settings
Decide when the phone is allowed to ring. Set the call window for the hours a candidate can be reached, the days of the week the campaign runs on, and how long a call may last. Retry settings cover the ones who do not pick up: how many further attempts a no-show gets before the campaign leaves them alone.
- Call window — the hours of the day calls may be placed in
- Days — the days of the week the campaign dials on
- Call duration — how long a single interview is allowed to run
- Retry settings — how a no-show is followed up, and when to stop
- 05
Review & launch
The last screen puts the job, the candidate list, the full script, and the schedule in front of you together. Read it once, launch, and the campaign starts dialling inside the window you set — with nothing left for you to do until the first scores land.
A written script, but not a read-aloud one
Your questions are asked in your order, in the same words, to everybody. Where an answer is thin the AI follows up on it before moving on, the way a recruiter would — which is what separates a screening call from a form with a microphone attached.
No-shows are the retry policy's problem, not yours
Most of the work in phone screening is not the calls that connect, it is chasing the ones that do not. The campaign's retry settings decide how many more attempts a candidate who misses the call gets and when to stop trying, so the follow-up happens without anyone remembering to do it.
Calls land at hours you would be happy to be called at
Call windows and days are per campaign, so an engineering role screened on weekday evenings and a shift role screened on Saturday mornings can run side by side. Outside the window the campaign waits rather than dialling.
Every candidate gets the same round
One script, one rubric, one set of conditions. Answers are graded against that rubric as they come in and each candidate arrives with a hire/no-hire recommendation attached, which is both what makes the shortlist quick to read and what makes an early rejection something you can explain.
The volume does not change the effort
The campaign places its calls in parallel rather than one after another, so screening forty applicants costs the same amount of your time as screening four: the time it took to write the script.