Read a candidate's interview report

Each candidate who completes an interview gets a report. It brings together a recommendation, their scores, the recording, the transcript and any custom criteria you set up.

This page describes the report for candidates scored from 20 October 2026. Candidates scored earlier keep their original report, described in Candidates scored before 20 October 2026.

Open a report

1. In the left menu, click Interviews and open the interview.
2. On the Completed tab, click the candidate’s name.

To go back to the candidate list, click Back to Summary.

The header

The header shows the candidate’s name and email address, and the date and length of the interview. It can also show these badges:

• Tab Switching Detected: the candidate left the interview tab at least once.
• Keyboard Activity Detected: the candidate triggered more than 5 keyboard events, such as copy, paste, other shortcuts, function keys or the right-click menu.

Candidates see a warning on screen when this activity is picked up. These badges are there to help you judge the interview. They don’t change the candidate’s scores.

The header also has the status selector, a download icon for the PDF report, and a ⋮ menu.

Recommendation and scores

Recommendation

The first card shows the recommendation (Strong advance, Advance, Hold or Not advance), the overall percentage, how many questions the candidate answered, and a short written assessment. To learn what goes into it, see How interview scoring works.

At the bottom of the card, use Provide feedback to tell us whether the report was useful. A thumbs down asks you to pick what went wrong and add a short comment.

Communication

This card shows a score out of 10, the average of three sub-scores: Clarity & structure, Relevance and Language accuracy.

Job criteria match

This card lists the three criteria Talvin picked from the job description, each marked Match, Partial or No match with a short reason.

Custom Assessment Criteria

If you added your own scoring criteria to the interview, this section lists each one with its result. Results show as Yes, No or Not discussed, or as a score out of 10, each with a short explanation.

If the interview has no custom criteria, this section doesn’t appear. To add criteria, see Add your own scoring criteria.

Listen to the recording

The player below the scores has the audio of the whole interview.

• Click the play button to start or pause.
• Click anywhere on the progress bar to jump to that point.
• Use the speed menu to play at 0.5x to 2x.
• Click the download icon to save the audio file.

If the interview has Required video for this interview turned on, a video thumbnail appears to the left of the play button. Click it to watch the candidate’s video. Some videos only include the candidate’s side of the conversation, so use the audio player to hear both sides.

Performance Analysis

This section lists the candidate’s Strengths and Areas for Improvement. Under Ask in the next round, it suggests questions for your human interviewer, aimed at what this interview couldn’t settle.

Question Summary and Interview Transcript

At the bottom of the report there are two tabs.

Question Summary opens first. It lists each main question with a summary of the candidate’s answer, including any follow-up questions the AI interviewer asked.

Each question has a score out of 10 with a label: Exceptional, Strong, Acceptable, Limited or Poor. Under each answer, Why this score explains the score in plain language.

Some questions show a status as well:

• Not asked: the candidate didn’t get to this question, for example because the call ended early. It isn’t scored.
• The question was asked, but the candidate didn’t answer it.
• Answer was cut off: the candidate started answering but didn’t finish.

Interview Transcript shows the full conversation, line by line. Lines from the AI interviewer are labelled AI Interviewer, and the candidate’s lines show their name.

Change the candidate’s status

1. In the header, click the status selector. New candidates show No Status.
2. Choose Selected, Potential, Not Selected or No Status.

The new status saves straight away and shows in the candidate list, where you can filter by it.

Reject a candidate and send an email

When you choose Not Selected, the Reject Candidate window opens.

1. Type a short reason for the rejection, at least 30 characters. Talvin uses it to draft the email.
2. Click Generate Email.
3. In Review Rejection Email, check and edit the subject and the message. The subject starts as “Thank you for applying to” followed by your organization’s name.
4. Click Send Email.

Talvin sends the email to the candidate’s email address and sets their status to Not Selected. Read the draft before you send it, because it’s written from the reason you gave.

You have a few other options in these windows:

• Skip Email & Reject sets the status to Not Selected without sending an email.
• Copy Email copies the message so you can send it yourself.
• Back returns you to the reason.
• Cancel closes the window and keeps the current status.

Download a PDF report

Click the download icon in the header. Talvin creates a PDF named after the candidate, the interview and your organization.

The PDF includes the recommendation and overall percentage, the written assessment, communication, the job criteria match, your custom criteria results, the strengths and areas for improvement, the question summary, and the questions to ask in the next round. It doesn’t include the transcript.

Share or delete the report

Click the ⋮ menu in the header:

• Copy Link copies the address of this report. Teammates need to be signed in to your Talvin organization to open it.
• Delete Interview deletes this candidate’s response, including the recording, transcript and report. The interview itself and other candidates aren’t affected. You can’t undo this.