Your resume mentions scaling the order service. What broke first when traffic doubled, and what did you change?
The Postgres connection pool saturated first. We added PgBouncer, then split reads onto a replica and moved sessions to Redis…
Every score opens onto the transcript and video it came from.
What makes sales reps hard to screen
Everyone was at 120% of quota
Self-reported attainment is unverifiable and universally excellent. It sorts nobody.
Territory does the work
The same rep is a star in an inbound-rich patch and average in a cold one. The number doesn't say which.
Talking well is table stakes
The first two minutes of a sales screen are the part every candidate has rehearsed.
How Career1 does it
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Post the role
Type a job title and Career1 drafts the description, or dictate it, or upload the JD you already have. You choose what the application form asks for — phone, city, and any screening questions of your own.
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Everyone gets interviewed
Every applicant, not a filtered subset, gets a link to a spoken interview they can take at 2am on a phone. It asks about their actual experience, follows up when an answer is thin, and runs about eight minutes.
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Read a ranked shortlist
You get a match score, the verified strengths, the risks, a hire recommendation, and the full transcript and video behind every claim. The evidence ships with the score, so you can check the reasoning instead of trusting it.
What the interview probes for in sales reps
- A deal they lost
- How specifically they can describe why, which reveals whether they ran the deal or attended it.
- Their actual process
- How they qualify, and what they do when a champion goes quiet.
- Handling a hard question
- The interview follows up on vague numbers — the response is the sample.
- Segment fit
- Whether their experience matches the cycle length and deal size you're hiring for.
Questions people ask
How do you screen sales candidates at scale?
Career1 interviews every applicant by voice about their pipeline, a deal they lost, and how they qualify — then scores and ranks them. For a sales role the recording itself is a work sample, and it's attached to every report.
Does it verify quota attainment?
It can't verify a number, but it probes around it: deal sizes, cycle length, how the pipeline was built. Inconsistencies between the claim and the detail show up quickly in a follow-up.
Can I screen for a specific market?
Yes — the interview is grounded in your job description, so a role selling six-figure deals into enterprise ops produces questions about exactly that.
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