Schedule an Interview

Schedule an Interview

This article intends to help users setup and schedule multi-panel interviews between their candidate and interviewer(s). 
To get started with the setting up of an interview, follow the below-mentioned steps: 

  1. Login to your Mercer | Mettl account and select the option “Interviews” from the More Apps dropdown as shown below. 
       

  2. On clicking upon Interviews, you will be redirected to the Interviews dashboard. 
     
  3. To setup an interview, click on the button “Setup Interview” on the right-end corner of the screen. 

     

  4. You will be presented with two options, Quick Interview and Advanced Setup. 
     
    In case you wish to quickly get started and schedule your interview, select the Quick Interview option, while if you wish to schedule and configure extra details w.r.t your interview, click on the Advanced Setup option. 
       

Scheduling Interviews via Quick Interview
  1. Clicking upon the Quick Interview button, you will be presented with a pop-up that will contain the following details:

    1. Candidate Link 
    2. Interviewer Link 
    3. Interviewer Passcode
You can copy and share these link(s) with the respective participants on your own via text or any other communication channel.
  1. If you further wish to schedule this interview, you can toggle on the Schedule Interview option. 
     
  2. Fill in the schedule details such as date, start time, and duration, and select the required timezone. 


  3. Now, fill in the details of the candidate whose interview you wish to schedule.  
  4.  Next, select and add the interviewer(s) who will be a part of the interview panel. In case the interviewer already exists within the system you can search for the same by entering the name or email id of the interviewer and in case you wish to add a new interviewer, click on the Add New Interviewer button.

     On clicking upon the Add New Interviewer button, a popup will come up where you can fill in the details of a new interviewer.     
     
Note: You can add up to a maximum of 5 interviewers for a single interview session. 
  1. After you are done adding the interviewers, you can choose to customise the invitation email sent to the candidate as well as the interviewer(s) by clicking on the Configure Email Template button.  
     
  2. Once you are done configuring the emails, click on the Schedule and Send Emails button if you wish to send invitations to your participants right away, else you can click on Schedule Without Sending Emails. 
     
  3. Once you’re done, you’ll now be able to see your interview listed in the scheduled state on the Interviews dashboard.

    In case you wish to configure more details or edit existing details in your interview any further, you can click on the edit option under the 3-dot action button in the Action(s) column, and you will be redirected to the Edit Interview Page.      
     


Apart from this, you can perform various other actions such as Re-schedule, Cancel, Clone etc listed in the Actions column for your interview. 

Scheduling Interviews via Advanced Setup
  1. Clicking upon the Advanced Setup option, you will be redirected to a Configure Interview Page.

    You can start by filling in the interview schedule details such as the date, start time, duration, timezone.      
  2. Next, you need to add the interviewers that will be a part of the interview panel. In case the interviewer already exists within the system you can search for the same by entering the name or email id of the interviewer and in case you wish to add a new interviewer, click on the Add New Interviewer button.

    On clicking upon the Add New Interviewer button, a popup will come up where you can fill in the details of a new interviewer.     

    Note: You can add up to a maximum of 5 interviewers for a single interview session. 


  1. Once you are done adding the interviewer(s), you need to fill in the details of the candidate for whom you wish to schedule the interview.

    Fill in the name and email and in case you have the resume of the candidate available, you can upload that too under the resume field.



  1. You can further associate your interview with any one of the pre-defined job profiles from the drop-down or can create a custom job profile of your own and associate pre-defined or custom competencies with it.



  1. Once you select any one of the existing job profiles, the competencies associated with it will be displayed below along with their weightages. 
     
  2. On the top-right-hand side of the page, you will be able to view the open links of the interview which can be shared with the candidate and the interviewer(s).  
     
  3. Next, you can also customise the invitation email that will be sent to the candidate as well as the interviewer(s) by clicking on the “Default Email Template” option.

    On clicking upon “Default Email Template”, a side panel will open where you can easily customise the emails basis your requirement and save your changes.     
     
  4. There are certain other settings that you can also configure w.r.t the kind of tools that would be required during the interviewing session as well as some interview-related settings.  

    You may enable/disable these settings basis your requirement.     
     
  5. Once you are done setting up and configuring the interview, you can either click on the Schedule and Send Emails button if you wish to notify and send invitations to your participants, or else you can click on Schedule Without Sending Emails.



Thats it! You’ve successfully setup your interview between your participants and will be able to see the status of your interview on the dashboard.