What are the Benefits of Using AI Summaries and Highlights?
Our platform uses AI-powered summaries and highlights to streamline the review process, offering several key advantages:
- Time Savings: Reading the summary and highlights takes approximately 25 seconds, compared to 120 seconds for the full transcript. This substantial time-saving makes it easier for reviewers to process responses quickly.
- Removal of Filler Content: In the transcript, filler words such as "uh," "um," and "so" are present throughout, along with multiple hesitations. The AI summary removes this clutter, presenting a clean, coherent response focused on the core experience and motivation.
- Highlighting Impactful Points: The highlights emphasise the most significant elements of the response—the challenge’s requirements, the participant’s motivation, and their pride in completing it. This organisation ensures that the reviewer’s attention is drawn immediately to the most relevant aspects, regardless of how and when they were mentioned.
- Efficient Overview: With the detailed summary and highlights, reviewers can gauge a participant’s relevant skills and traits quickly, enabling a more efficient review process. This is especially beneficial when comparing multiple participants across similar roles.
How Do AI Summaries and Highlights Improve the Review Process?
Our platform offers assessors and reviewers a clear, concise overview of each interviewee’s response through AI-powered summaries and highlights. By eliminating the need to view every detail of a full-length interview, this feature enables reviewers to make quicker, more informed decisions while ensuring that no crucial information is overlooked. The summarisation technology allows teams to focus on the best-suited participants efficiently, maximising productivity in the interview workflow.
How Does the AI Generate Summaries and Highlights?
The platform’s AI technology transcribes each video response, condensing it into a short, informative summary (100 words or less) and identifying up to five highlights to pinpoint the most impactful parts of a participant's response. Each transcript provides an exact record of the conversation, while the summary and highlights capture essential insights in a compact form. This layered approach supports teams by presenting essential information in multiple formats, helping to expedite the screening process without sacrificing thoroughness.
What’s the Step-by-Step Process for Creating AI Summaries?
When a participant submits a video response, the process begins:
- Submission and Transcription: Once the interview is submitted, our AI instantly starts transcribing the interviewee's spoken responses into a full, accurate text version.
- Automated Analysis: Within just a few minutes, the AI analyses the transcription to generate a distilled summary and identify key highlights. These highlights emphasise the most relevant and impactful points from the participant’s response, helping reviewers capture core insights efficiently.
- Access to Reviewers: Shortly after, the full transcription, summary, and highlights become available to reviewers. This enables them to choose their preferred level of detail, from reading the brief highlights to diving into the complete transcript if more context is needed.
Example of Interview Transcript, Summary, and Highlights
Transcript (120 seconds):
| "Uh, so a time when I had to push myself beyond my comfort zone was during, when I did the Three Peaks challenge. So my friends, they, uh, said that, oh, should we do this challenge? And I'd never done anything like it, not a big hiker. And so I said that I would, I said, I signed up to it. Didn't really expect it to happen, to be honest. And then, uh, it is a very, it's a, I don’t know if you know the Three Peaks challenge, you have to climb the three highest mountains in England, Scotland, and Wales within 24 hours. And so it was very challenging for me as, although I was quite, I, I, I run, I, I’m not a hiker. So, and it’s a much more endurance-related thing. So something that motivated me to, uh, push myself beyond my comfort zone was a, the satisfaction that I knew I would gain from finishing it if I were to complete it and then also be my friends. Um, we had to collaborate together to each take turns when it comes to driving or sleeping in turn when, when, when travelling to and from the different, uh, mountains. And so I was very, I was very pleased that I did end up finishing it, partly because of my friend’s encouragement. And then I also, um, feel like this is quite applicable to my role because they value endurance, and although it’s a bit corny, I think that the people have had to endure challenging times.” |
AI-Generated Summary (Reading Time: ~15 seconds):
| "The participant described their experience with the Three Peaks challenge, which involved climbing the three highest mountains in the UK within 24 hours. They noted that they were not an experienced hiker but decided to participate due to encouragement from friends. The motivation to complete the challenge stemmed from the anticipated satisfaction of finishing and the support of their friends. The participant expressed pride in completing the challenge and connected the experience to the values of endurance." |
AI-Generated Highlights (Reading Time: ~10 seconds):
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Does Using AI Summaries and Highlights Comply with UK GDPR?
Our use of AI summaries and highlights is designed to support, not replace, human decision-making in the interview process. The AI-generated insights are strictly factual, omitting any personal or sensitive data, and are intended solely to streamline the review process for assessors. Here’s how this aligns with the UK GDPR’s provisions:
- Automated Individual Decision-Making: According to UK GDPR, automated individual decision-making refers to decisions made solely by automated means, without human involvement. Our AI analysis provides summaries and highlights, but decision-making remains entirely in the hands of human reviewers. Therefore, this does not constitute “automated decision-making” under UK GDPR.
- Profiling: The AI analysis does not evaluate or infer characteristics, preferences, or any personal qualities about the participant. It is strictly a summarisation and factual highlight tool, avoiding any profiling or subjective judgement. The AI process remains free of evaluative profiling that would influence decision outcomes.
Because we omit personal information from the AI analysis and do not play any role in making final decisions, there is no requirement to disclose the use of AI summaries and highlights to interviewees. This approach supports compliance with UK GDPR by ensuring transparency, neutrality, and human involvement at every decision-making stage.
How Can a Reviewer Make the Most of AI Summaries and Highlights?
AI summaries and highlights serve as a powerful tool for reviewers, enabling them to rapidly assess whether a participant meets the role requirements. By reviewing the distilled bullet-point highlights or summary first, they can decide if additional review is needed, saving valuable time. This flexibility lets reviewers focus on participants with the most relevant skills and experience, helping streamline the review process without overlooking key information.
Who Can Access AI Summaries and Highlights?
AI Summaries and Highlights are enabled for Account Holders and Account Managers and, by default, are disabled for Reviewers. This tiered access ensures that Account Holders and Managers benefit from streamlined insights, while Reviewers retain the option to evaluate participants based on the original responses alone. This approach keeps the process flexible, enabling decision-makers to tailor their approach based on their role and responsibilities.
Why It’s Worth Watching the Full Interview
While AI summaries and highlights offer fantastic time savings and insight, we encourage you to watch the full interview videos to form a complete, three-dimensional view of the interviewee. Using Adjustable Playback Speed allows you to do this efficiently, helping you capture the participant’s nuances and communication style, and ultimately supporting a more rounded assessment.