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Replace Hours of Screening Calls with TESSA AI Interviews
TESSA AI Interview is SkillSauce's AI interviewer: two-way voice and video interviews in 100+ languages that candidates take when it suits them. Each interview is structured and role-specific, and checks skills, communication and job readiness. You get a recording, a transcript and a scored report. 4 credits per candidate.
No credit card required for free trialWorks for every type of role
Why Traditional Interviews Don't Scale Anymore
Coordinating interviews across multiple schedules slows hiring and creates delays that prevent teams from scaling. Every interview takes time, and most candidates go through several interview rounds before a hiring decision. For hiring teams, this quickly adds up. Engineers and hiring managers often spend hours interviewing for a single role, repeating similar questions across candidates instead of focusing on their core work. As hiring volume increases, these manual processes extend hiring timelines, increase interviewer fatigue, and create operational bottlenecks for recruiting teams.
SkillSauce speeds up interview workflows with standardized, time-efficient processes that reduce scheduling friction and help organizations move candidates through the pipeline faster as hiring demands increase.
Traditional Interviews
- Hours spent manually interviewing instead of doing core work
- Inconsistent interviewer judgment
- High recruiter time cost
- Bias creeping into decisions. Right talent slips.
- Poor candidate experience
New Feature
TESSA AI Interviews Now in Your Language
Break language barriers in hiring. SkillSauce TESSA AI Interviews support 100+ languages across every major region-so every candidate can interview in the language they know best.
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How TESSA AI Interviews Work in Real Hiring
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Step 1 - Create the Interview
Define the role. TESSA handles the structure. Set skills, seniority, and job context. TESSA automatically matches interview questions based on the role. You can also add additional instructions such as:
- Focus more on hands-on project experience
- Prioritize candidates with 3+ years of field experience
- Include questions on specific tools or technologies
- Evaluate problem-solving and real-world decision making
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Step 2 - Candidates Attend Anytime
No scheduling. No coordinator. Candidates complete interviews at their convenience while TESSA delivers a structured, role-specific flow.
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Step 3 - AI Evaluation & Analysis
Every response is evaluated using the same criteria. TESSA assesses communication, subject clarity, behavioral indicators, and job-readiness using consistent scoring logic.
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Step 4 - Review Clear Reports
Move faster with confidence. Get structured reports with scores, strengths, red flags, and recommendations, along with full interview recordings and complete conversation transcripts so there's no need for manual note-taking with SkillSauce.
Key Features
Facial and Behavioral Signal Analysis
Non-verbal cues such as facial expressions and engagement levels provide additional insight beyond spoken answers. This also helps teams detect cheating and suspicious behavior in remote interviews.
Advanced TESSA AI Evaluation
AI analyzes candidate responses using speech, sentiment, and language processing to assess communication quality, understanding, and confidence. During the interview, TESSA understands each candidate’s response in real time and dynamically adjusts the conversation. It asks follow-up questions, probes deeper when answers are vague, and moves forward when responses demonstrate clarity or expertise - creating a structured yet natural interview flow. This includes soft-skill signals often missed in resumes or traditional interviews.
Major Cost and Efficiency Advantages
SkillSauce’s TESSA AI Interview reduces hiring costs by cutting recruiter screening time, lowering coordination effort, and allowing interviews to scale without increasing headcount. This enables faster decisions, better hires, and predictable hiring outcomes.
Built Into Your Hiring Pipeline
TESSA AI interviews run inside SkillSauce, next to its own ATS, assessments and scheduling, so every result lands on the same candidate record.
Automated Scheduling
Candidates complete interviews at their convenience without calendar coordination.
Detailed Candidate Reports
Each interview generates a structured report with scores, highlights, and recommendations.
Built for Responsible and Efficient Hiring
TESSA AI Interviews give every candidate the same structured interview, scored on the same criteria.
Your team gets fair, comparable results without hours of first-round calls.
- Role-specific questions and the same scoring for every candidate
- A full recording and transcript behind every score
- Your team reviews the report and makes the final call
TESSA AI Interviews trust & efficiency
Structured interviews and clear reports help teams screen faster and decide with confidence.
Interview Consistency
92%
Screening Speed
89%
Report Clarity
86%
Does AI Interview replace human interviews?+
TESSA does skill evaluation well, cutting the time spent on basic skill evaluation in human-led interviews so those interviews can focus on deeper topics. Generally, no-it replaces early screening rounds. Final decisions remain human-led.
How long is the free trial?+
The free trial is not time-limited; it is credit-based. When you sign up, the free Starter plan gives you 40 credits, enough for 10 TESSA AI interviews at 4 credits each. No card needed.
Can candidates retake interviews?+
Candidates cannot retake an interview on their own. If a reattempt is needed, they must contact the HR team, who can enable a reattempt or schedule another interview. That keeps retries fully under the hiring team’s control.
How are candidates evaluated and scored?+
TESSA AI Interview reports evaluate core skills for the role. TESSA asks questions aligned with the job, experience, and industry. Reports also include soft-skill signals such as confidence, technical depth, and problem solving, plus strengths and weaknesses.
Can I filter and shortlist candidates easily?+
Yes. The SkillSauce dashboard includes filters and solid reporting so you can screen candidates efficiently.
Can I download or export candidate interview data?+
Yes. Reports and video recordings from AI interviews can be downloaded in standard formats and shared with your team. Alternatively, colleagues can join SkillSauce and access interviews, reports, and evaluation data in the platform for collaboration and decision-making.
How does AI Interview reduce hiring cost and time?+
By automating first-round screening, SkillSauce takes scheduling and repeated first interviews off your team. Instead of coordinating calendars, candidates interview with TESSA whenever suits them, in parallel, so teams can skip the "filtering" phase and spend their interview time only on the strongest candidates. That reclaims recruiter and hiring manager hours on every role and shortens the time from application to shortlist.
How does SkillSauce support sustainable hiring?+
Social equity (S-factor): AI-driven, unbiased evaluation tools reduce human bias and support fairer hiring and greater diversity and inclusion. Future-ready workforce: skills-based validation helps companies build resilient teams. Efficiency: streamlining hiring with technology cuts administrative overhead and saves HR time and capacity.
Can interviews be customized?+
Yes. Interviews can be tailored by role, skills, and seniority. You can add custom questions and instructions so TESSA adapts to your organization.
Is candidate data secure?+
Yes. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, SkillSauce is aligned with GDPR, and customer and candidate data is never used to train TESSA AI.
How accurate are evaluations?+
Evaluations use structured criteria and consistent scoring.
Do AI Interviews have proctoring?+
Yes. AI interviews include proctoring signals such as face detection, eye movement, gaze detection, noise/voice detection, and tab switching. During interviews, TESSA monitors this and can warn the candidate when needed.
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