Hire for Skills, Not Vibes—Textio Launches Interview Feedback

The company’s latest platform upgrade helps hiring teams assess candidates more effectively with clear, structured, and compliant feedback at every stage of the interview process

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Textio, the Talent Optimization Platform that empowers HR leaders to build and retain high-performing teams, today unveiled at Transform the latest addition to its AI platform: Interview Feedback—which quickly creates clear, compliant, and skills-based assessments of candidates, so organizations stop losing money on poor-fit hires that don’t work out.

Hiring and developing high-performing people is essential to running a thriving business. Unfortunately, many hiring decisions rely heavily on a candidate’s personality and likability, rather than prioritizing their relevant skills and qualifications for the role. Because hiring teams don’t know how to assess candidates effectively, they go off gut feelings to make hiring decisions. This is a massive problem for businesses. Poor assessments lead to bad hires, creating legal risk for talent acquisition leaders and costing companies a fortune to continuously re-hire when employees lack skills and fail.

Organizations that provide effective interview feedback see enormous benefits. When evaluate candidates effectively, they see strong employee performance and retention gains. Research shows that when interviewers assess candidates based on job-related skills, the employees hired are more likely to perform and succeed in their roles and stay at the company longer.

“Hiring for the right skills and experience can make or break business performance—the stakes couldn’t be higher. Yet hiring teams often struggle to objectively evaluate candidates during interviews, forcing them to rely on gut instincts and simply hope for the best,” said Jensen Harris, co-founder and CEO of Textio. “With Interview Feedback, HR leaders finally have a clear, structured, and compliant way to assess candidates, ensuring hires are based on critical skills, reducing risk, and significantly driving performance.”

Interview Feedback helps you hire for the right skills and protect your organization from risk by:

• Structuring your hiring process with clear, skills-based candidate evaluations so you can avoid bad hires and high turnover.
• Giving teams AI tools built for HR by HR, so you can trust the output will replace subjective notes with more complete and objective documentation of a candidate’s skills and qualifications.
• Making sure new hires have the right skills for the job, so they perform better and stick around longer.
• Centralizing candidate assessments and interview feedback in one place to ensure fair hiring and reduce legal risk.
• Filling more open roles faster by connecting top candidates to other roles they might be a good fit for.
• Creating a better candidate experience and employer brand with a structured hiring process people trust.

Textio’s Talent Optimization Platform helps HR leaders optimize for their most important people outcomes. Recruiting helps you attract top talent by reaching the broadest qualified candidate pool, while ensuring the best candidates get hired with clear and compliant skills-based evaluations. Feedback gives every employee actionable performance feedback that helps them grow and perform in their role. With Textio, HR leaders finally have control over ensuring the best people are hired and coached for their skills, so they perform better and stay longer.

Interview Feedback is available now on Textio’s Talent Optimization Platform, with extensions available in Workday and Greenhouse.

For attendees at Transform this week—visit booth 652 for a demo of Textio’s platform, and be sure to catch What Every Manager Needs: Hot Takes and Pro Tips for Developing Your Workforce with Hebba Youssef, Chief People Officer at Workweek; Erin L. Thomas, PhD, VP, Culture, Inclusion and Leader Engagement at Upwork; Rocki Howard, Founder and Chief Diversiologist at Diversiology.IO; and Jensen Harris, co-founder and CEO at Textio, for a session on how the role of the manager is evolving and what you can do to help your managers develop your workforce.

To learn more about how Interview Feedback can help you hire for the right skills, increase employee performance and retention, and protect your organization, visit textio.com

About Textio

Textio is the leading Talent Optimization Platform that helps HR drive better people outcomes. Trusted by more than a third of the Fortune 1,000, HR teams at American Express, Bloomberg, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, and T-Mobile, use Textio’s AI-powered platform to ensure every employee gets actionable performance feedback to grow, while attracting top talent with great job posts and hiring the best candidates with skills-based evaluations. Founded in 2014, Textio has been recognized as a trailblazer in AI for HR, earning spots on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list, HR Executive’s Top HR Products, the Forbes AI 50, Fortune’s Impact 20, and the CNBC Disruptor 50. To get more control over hiring and coaching for skills, so people perform better and stay longer, visit textio.com