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Interviewer Guide for Virtual Interviews - Zoom

Step by Step Instructions for participating in interviews

Written by Kaylee Welling

The Basics

Step 1: Receive Your Scheduling Email.

Before the event, you will receive an email and/or Outook calendar invitation from @floevents.email containing your unique link to the virtual interview room. This link provides access to your interview schedule and candidate information. For school-hosted events, if you can no longer attend, you may alert the event organizer and share your link with your replacement.

Don't worry - opening the link before your interview will not place you into a meeting. It will simply allow you to view your schedule and prepare for the event. For the best experience, we recommend using Google Chrome. Internet Explorer is not supported.

Step 2: Enter Your Virtual Lobby

You will now be in the Virtual Lobby, where you will be prompted to acknowledge Zoom’s Terms of Service:

You can view your interview schedule for the current day and look ahead to any upcoming interviews you have scheduled.

By clicking on the timeslot, you can review the candidate’s information, documents, and schedule ahead of time.

Five minutes before your scheduled interview, the Join Call button will become enabled.

Before joining, you can preview and test your camera and microphone by clicking Test Audio and Video at the bottom of the screen.

Step 3: Join Your First Meeting

Click Join Call to enter your meeting. You will see a preview of your video and can also select a virtual background.

Note: Noise cancellation defaults to your browser’s built-in setting. For the best audio quality, we typically recommend switching to Zoom's noise removal.

To enable Background Noise Removal:

  1. Click the caret (^) next to the Microphone icon.

  2. Select Audio Settings

  3. Select Zoom background noise removal

The candidate will automatically join the virtual interview room - you do not need to admit them. If you are working remotely and experience connection issues while connected to your VPN, we recommend disconnecting from the VPN or joining the interview from a personal device. If you need technical assistance at any point, all participants can contact the Flo Support team using the chat button in the bottom left corner of the screen.

If you're experiencing issues using the meeting in your browser, you can seamlessly move the meeting to the Zoom desktop app. To do so, click the caret (^) next to the Participants icon, then select Copy invite link. Paste this into your browser’s url bar to redirect to the desktop app.

Step 4: Move Through Meetings

Five minutes before your next scheduled interview, a Join button will appear beneath the next candidate's name. If you have back-to-back interviews, simply click Join to move directly into your next interview. Continue this process for each scheduled interview until your interview schedule is complete.

Viewing the Candidate Profile

While in the meeting room, you can access the candidate's profile and submit your interview feedback directly. You can access this before, during, and after the call. Simply go to the meeting room lobby through the same link as before. From this profile, you can view the candidate's contact info, their documents, and their schedule for the day. Note: the visibility of these items may vary depending on how the event organizer set up the particular event.

Viewing the candidate's schedule allows you to see who else they will be interviewing with:

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