Every applicant, vetted and ranked.

Career1 interviews every applicant by voice, checks what they say against the role, and hands you a ranked shortlist with the evidence behind each score.

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Ended Senior Backend Engineer · Jordan C. 05:10
Scorecard 3 of 3 signals
  • System design 86
  • Depth under follow-up 92
  • Ownership 84
Overall
87
Scoring as it listens
Hire recommended

For your interview: ask how they handled replica lag for reads straight after writes.

Example Career1 interview with a fictional candidate for a Senior Backend Engineer role. Career1 at 02:06: Your resume says you scaled the order service at Brightcart. What broke first when traffic doubled? Jordan at 02:30: The Postgres connection pool. Every request opened its own connection, so at peak we hit the limit and requests queued. We put PgBouncer in front and moved reads to a replica. Career1 at 03:09: Why PgBouncer, rather than just raising max_connections? Jordan at 03:27: Each Postgres connection is a separate process with its own memory. Raising the limit would have swapped queueing for memory pressure on the primary. Pooling kept it to about forty real connections. Career1 at 04:10: Who owned the incident when the pool saturated? Jordan at 04:25: I did. I was on call, I wrote the postmortem, and I added the pool-saturation alert the team still uses. Scorecard: System design 86, Named the bottleneck and two fixes, in order. Depth under follow-up 92, Defended the choice with the actual trade-off. Ownership 84, On call, wrote the postmortem, shipped the alert. Overall 87, hire recommended.

An example interview with a fictional candidate. Each score links to the answer it came from.

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from any score to the answer behind it
Two a month
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Answer written by ChatGPT?
The follow-up finds out.

Career1 does not watch screens or claim to detect a second device. It does what a good interviewer does: asks how and why, digs into the project they named, and pushes when an answer sounds polished but thin.

A rehearsed answer rarely survives the second question, and the recording is there for your team to watch if the score surprises you.

Why polished applications are now the norm
Platform Engineer · Sam R. Example
Sam

I led our move to microservices, which improved scalability, reliability and developer velocity across the platform.

Career1 follows up

Which service did you split out first, and what broke when you did?

Sam

We followed best practices throughout, so the transition was smooth.

Depth under follow-up 38

Could not name a service, a failure or a decision. Compare Jordan's 92 above.

From posted role
to shortlist.

Everything between an application arriving and a ranked shortlist happens without anyone on your team in the middle.

  1. You post the role

    A title and a few notes. Career1 drafts the description, requirements and skills, and your careers page lists it straight away.

  2. Every applicant is interviewed

    By voice, whenever suits them, with no scheduling. Questions come from their resume and your role, and Career1 follows up when an answer is thin.

    Watch one, above

  3. You read a ranked shortlist

    Score, verified strengths, risks and a recommendation for each applicant, with the transcript and video one click away.

What your applicants see.
One link, any hour.

  • No scheduling Their own link, valid for seven days, taken at whatever hour suits them.
  • Nothing to install, nothing to pay A phone browser is enough. Candidates never pay Career1 for anything.
  • Told before they start The room says it is an AI interview and that it is recorded.
  • About eight minutes Hard capped at ten. Nobody from your team has to be on the call.
  • Their application stays yours People who apply to your role are never added to Career1's talent pool.

What it judges.
What it never measures.

Judged

  • What they said, against the role you posted
  • Whether their resume holds up under questioning
  • Every score cites the words it came from

Never measured

  • Faces, expressions or eye movement
  • Tone of voice or accent
  • Their room, background or camera
Nothing is rejected automatically
It scores, ranks and recommends. Every stage change is made by somebody on your team.
One structure for every applicant
Everyone who applies to a role gets the same interview shape and the same criteria.
Checkable in ninety seconds
The transcript and the recording sit next to every score, so a conclusion is never taken on trust.

We do not claim it is bias-free, and we will not tell you it makes your hiring compliant: that depends on where you hire and duties that fall on you as the employer. Read how scoring works and what the law asks, and how we protect candidate data.

Start free.
Pay for how many you vet.

Scored reports, transcripts and recordings come with every plan, including the free one. Results are never behind a paywall.

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$0
no card, forever
2 candidates a month
Starter
$49
a month
25 candidates a month
Pro
$99
a month
60 candidates a month
Max
$199
a month
150 candidates a month

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Job descriptions from your notes
A title and two notes become a full post, with requirements, skills and salary range.
A careers page
Your own hiring page at a shareable link, with your logo, colour and open roles.
Transcripts with audio
Every interview turn saved. Read it, or hear it as the candidate said it.
Resume screening
Resumes parsed on upload and checked against the role before the interview starts.
Seats and roles
Owners, admins, recruiters and hiring managers, each seeing what their role needs.
A pipeline that moves itself
Applications go from applied to interviewed to ranked without anyone chasing.

Straight answers

All questions
How long is the interview, and is anyone from my team on it?

About eight minutes, hard capped at ten, and nobody from your team is on the call. The AI interviewer asks the questions, adapts to the answers and closes the conversation itself. You read the result afterwards, which is the whole point: screening two hundred applications properly is about thirteen hours that no team actually spends.

Does Career1 integrate with my ATS?

Not at the time of writing. Career1 does not sync with any ATS. Teams running both send applicants for a role to their Career1 job page, where applying starts the interview, then move the shortlisted people into the ATS by hand. If your volume would make that copying painful, that is a real cost to weigh before you start.

Can I take the interview in a language other than English?

Not yet. The interviewer speaks English, and will switch to simpler English if you ask, but there is no other language today and that is a real limit rather than a preference. If English is not your first language, practise first: the rehearsal is free, private, and asks the same kind of questions.

How new is Career1?

New. The product runs end to end, the free tools and interview guides are live, and the AI interview works, but no company is hiring through Career1 yet and the job board is empty. We would rather say that plainly than imply a busy marketplace. It is also why vetting is free for candidates and the free plan needs no card.

Can I see how it works without signing up?

Yes, three ways. Read a complete sample report for a fictional applicant. Use the free tools with no account, such as the ATS resume checker. Or read the interview questions hub, which sets out what gets asked and what a strong answer shows.

Stop screening.
Start deciding.

Hiring Get your first shortlist free Create a workspace, post a role, and two applicants a month are vetted on us. Start hiring Looking for work Get vetted once, be found Practise free, take one vetting interview, keep your report, and join the pool companies search. Get vetted, free

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