Start with science: Validate skills without AI using Hirevue’s Virtual Job Tryout®

Your organization may still be deciding how AI fits.You want better evidence of candidate skills. Your organization is still evaluating AI. Both can be true—and you can move hiring forward today.

Hirevue’s Virtual Job Tryout® gives candidates an opportunity to demonstrate job-relevant skills and gives hiring teams data to support their decisions. It does not use AI.

For organizations taking a measured approach to AI adoption, that makes Virtual Job Tryout® a practical starting point. You can introduce validated assessments, measure the results, and build a business case for expanding your approach over time.

Validate skills through the work itself

Resumes and interviews provide useful information. Seeing how someone approaches a job-related task adds another layer of evidence.

The Hirevue Virtual Job Tryout® immerses candidates in exercises connected to the role. Depending on the assessment, candidates might navigate workplace scenarios, respond to customer situations, or demonstrate how they approach competing priorities.

The experience works both ways. Candidates learn more about what the job involves, while hiring teams gain insight into the capabilities that matter for success.

The Virtual Job Tryout® uses established scoring methods without AI. Its scientific foundation helps teams move toward consistent, evidence-based evaluation at a pace that fits their organization.

Get meaningful hiring data without AI

Choosing an assessment without AI still gives your team access to valuable insights.

Hirevue’s Virtual Job Tryout® provides a candidate profile covering competencies relevant to the role, strengths, development areas, and recommended follow-up questions. Those results help recruiters and hiring managers explore a candidate’s capabilities in greater depth.

Instead of asking only, “Does this person have the right experience?” your team can ask more specific questions:

• How did this candidate approach the job-related exercises?
• Which capabilities stood out?
• Where should we probe further during the interview?
• How does the evidence align with what the role requires?

That gives hiring teams a shared foundation for discussion and helps candidates demonstrate abilities that may be difficult to convey on a resume.

Build the business case with your own results

Introducing the Virtual Job Tryout® also creates an opportunity to measure what a more structured assessment approach contributes to your hiring process.

Start with a defined role or hiring population. Agree on the problem you want to address, establish a baseline, and select the outcomes you’ll track.

Depending on your goals, those measures could include:

• Hiring efficiency: Recruiter screening time and time to move qualified candidates forward.
• Candidate experience: Assessment completion, candidate feedback, and understanding of the role.
• Hiring manager experience: Confidence in the candidates reaching interviews and usefulness of assessment insights.
• Post-hire outcomes: Performance, retention, or other relevant measures once enough data is available.

Review assessment results alongside those outcomes with appropriate analytical support. The goal is to understand what’s working, where improvements are needed, and how the assessment contributes to your broader process.

That gives stakeholders a concrete basis for evaluating the investment: evidence from your roles, your candidates, and your business.

What this looks like in practice: VISA Europe + Hirevue

VISA Europe needed to evaluate more than 80,000 applications for 450 early careers positions while giving candidates a personal, job-relevant experience.

The team combined Hirevue’s Virtual Job Tryout® with Realistic Job Previews and OnDemand Video Interviewing. Across that hiring process, the team achieved:

• £418,000 in savings and more than 4X ROI
• 12,300 hours of recruiter time saved
• 86% candidate satisfaction

VISA also reported that candidates hired through the new process were performing better and staying longer.

These results show how Virtual Job Tryouts® can contribute to a broader hiring approach with measurable business value. Tracking efficiency, candidate experience, and post-hire outcomes gives your team evidence to guide future investment—including where complementary AI-powered assessments could add useful insight.

Learn more about VISA Europe’s story.

Build the habits that support stronger hiring

The value of starting with a Virtual Job Tryout® extends beyond the assessment itself.

Your team learns to define the capabilities a role requires, interpret assessment results, and connect candidate evidence with hiring decisions. Hiring managers develop a shared language for discussing skills. Recruiting teams establish a process for measuring outcomes.

Those capabilities are useful wherever your technology strategy goes next.

They also help you ask better questions when evaluating AI-powered solutions. What additional evidence would a new assessment provide? Which hiring challenge would it address? How would you evaluate its contribution?

With that foundation, future decisions can be more focused and easier to explain internally.

Add AI-powered assessments when there’s a clear opportunity

As your organization’s readiness evolves, you can explore additional Hirevue assessments that use AI to measure capabilities through different formats.

For example, AI-scored interview assessments can add evidence from responses to competency-based questions. Game-based assessments can provide additional insight into cognitive abilities, while language assessments can help evaluate proficiency when it matters for the role.

The right combination depends on the job and the information your team needs. Additional assessments should contribute relevant evidence and earn their place in the candidate experience.

More assessments do not automatically mean stronger hiring. A well-designed combination of complementary measures can give your team a more complete picture of candidates’ skills and abilities.

Virtual Job Tryout® results can help you identify where that additional evidence would be useful. From there, you can evaluate AI-powered options against a specific need, with clear expectations and measures of success.

Make progress today. Build on the evidence.

You can begin validating skills before your organization is ready to adopt AI.

With Virtual Job Tryout®, candidates can demonstrate their capabilities, hiring teams can gain actionable insights, and your organization can measure the value of a science-backed approach.

That evidence becomes a foundation for what comes next—whether you expand Virtual Job Tryouts® to more roles or introduce complementary AI-powered assessments to strengthen your understanding of candidates.

Talk to Hirevue about starting with the Virtual Job Tryout® and building a hiring approach that grows with your organization.