# AI Interview Notes: A Short Summary for the Hiring Manager Give your hiring manager a short summary of each interview, with strengths, concerns and next steps. note1 takes AI interview notes while you listen. Canonical: https://note1.ai/use-cases/recruiting-interviews Interview notes ## AI interview notes with a short summary for the hiring manager note1 records the interview and takes AI interview notes while you listen. After the call you get a summary of the candidate's answers and a transcript you can search. Add Prep Notes first with the resume, your questions and the role's must-haves. [Start free](https://note1.ai/dashboard) [See an interview summary](https://note1.ai/use-cases/recruiting-interviews#post-interview-review) Interview transcripts Prep Notes Speaker names Interview transcript Product manager interview - Google Meet Recording Search transcript I Interviewer - 02:18 Can you walk me through a recent project where you owned the rollout from planning to delivery? C Candidate - 02:31 I led the launch of our onboarding redesign, coordinated the handoff across design and engineering, and owned the release checklist through QA. I Interviewer - 08:46 What tradeoffs did you have to make when deadlines and quality expectations started to conflict? How note1 transcribes interviews [Learn more](https://note1.ai/features/transcription) During the interview ## Listen to the candidate while note1 takes the notes Recruiters and hiring managers can look at the candidate, ask follow-up questions and keep the talk moving. note1 records every answer. If an extra guest in the call would make the candidate uneasy, use note1 for Mac to [record interviews without adding a bot](https://note1.ai/features/bot-free-ai-note-taker). Tell the candidate you're recording and get consent where required. ### Full recording The whole interview is saved when the call ends, so you can play any part again. ### Written transcript Every answer in writing, ready to search. ### Who's talking Your questions and the candidate's answers are labeled, so they're easy to tell apart. ### Search later Find an example the candidate gave when the hiring team asks about it. Prep Notes ## Bring candidate prep into the interview summary Some of what matters never gets said in the call. Add the resume, the scorecard and your planned questions before the interview, and note1 uses them when it writes the summary. ### Prep before the call Write down resume notes, must-haves and questions before the candidate joins. ### Guide the summary note1 reads your Prep Notes, so the summary can cover the criteria your team set. ### Compare with your prep Your prep and the candidate's answers sit on the same meeting page. Prep Notes Candidate screen - shared workspace Saved ### Interview prep: Product manager screen Candidate has shipped onboarding and activation work. Resume: [candidate\-resume\.pdf](https://example.com/candidate-resume.pdf). Hiring scorecard prioritizes rollout ownership, cross-functional communication, and post-launch learning. ### What to verify Owned rollout planning directly, not just delivery coordination. Can explain tradeoffs between launch speed, QA quality, and stakeholder expectations. ### Questions Walk me through the last rollout where you owned planning through release. Ask how they handled quality concerns when the deadline was already committed. Partial match: strong execution examples, but unclear whether they set the strategy or inherited it. This prep goes into the AI interview summary. Prep Notes work for any meeting. [Learn more](https://note1.ai/features/context-notes) Interview summary Candidate review page ### Overview Candidate shared a strong example of leading a rollout across design and engineering, with specific ownership over planning, QA handoff, and release timing. ### Highlights - Gave a clear example of owning a release from plan to launch. - Useful detail on tradeoffs between speed and quality. - Follow-up needed on prioritization framework and stakeholder communication. See how note1 writes meeting summaries. [Learn more](https://note1.ai/features/ai-meeting-summaries) After the interview ## Your AI interview summary, ready before the debrief After the call, note1 writes a summary page with the main takeaways. Choose the Job Interview summary style and it's sorted into sections like experience, role fit, strengths, concerns, the candidate's questions and next steps. ### Quick recap Read the interview in summary form before the debrief. ### Takeaways with timestamps Each key point and example has a time you can click to hear it. ### Search first Type a word and jump to the answer, without scrubbing through the whole recording. Transcript and speakers ## Find candidate answers by question, phrase, or speaker Search the transcript to reread an answer or check how something was worded, weeks after the call. ### Exact words Check what the candidate said before you repeat it in the hiring review. ### Speaker labels Lines are labeled by person, even in a panel interview. ### Hear the answer Play the recording from where an answer started. ### Transcript search Look up rollout, tradeoff or leadership examples by keyword. ### Back\-and\-forth view Read the interview as a conversation, one turn at a time. ### Recap and transcript Switch between the short recap and the full transcript on the same page. ### Debrief\-ready Go into the hiring review with the candidate's answers already sorted. ### Interview follow\-ups Next steps from this interview Recruiter - Schedule final panel interview and share availability. 21:04 Hiring Manager - Review candidate rollout example before debrief. 22:31 Team - Prepare follow-up questions on launch tradeoffs and QA ownership. 24:18 Track interview next steps with action items. [Learn more](https://note1.ai/features/action-items) Debrief prep ## Share the interview with the rest of the hiring team With Team visibility, everyone in your note1 workspace can open the interview. With Private, only participants and the people you add, like the hiring manager and the panel, can see it. The follow-up questions for the next round stay with the interview. ### Action items from interviews Follow-up questions and next steps stay on the list after the call. ### Ready for the debrief Bring the summary and the recording to the hiring review. ### For people who weren't there A hiring manager who missed the interview can read the summary and play the recording. ## Record your next candidate screen with note1 Record once, and recruiters and hiring managers work from the same summary, recording and follow-ups. Interview recording Searchable interview transcript AI interview summary Next steps with owners [Start free](https://note1.ai/dashboard) ## Meeting notes for the video platforms your team already uses Focused pages for each meeting platform, without making every page compete for every platform keyword. ### Meeting platforms [Google Meet](https://note1.ai/features/google-meet-ai-note-taker) AI notes for Meet calls [Google Meet transcription](https://note1.ai/features/google-meet-transcription) [Microsoft Teams](https://note1.ai/features/microsoft-teams-ai-note-taker) Transcripts and summaries for Teams [Teams transcription](https://note1.ai/features/microsoft-teams-transcription) [Zoom](https://note1.ai/features/ai-note-taker-for-zoom) AI notes for Zoom calls [Zoom transcription](https://note1.ai/features/zoom-transcription) ## Frequently Asked Questions [Support](mailto:support@note1.ai) ### Can note1 take AI interview notes on Google Meet, Teams and Zoom? Yes. Invite note1 to the interview on any of the three, and you can read along as the transcript appears. Afterwards, search it for any answer the candidate gave. ### Can I add candidate prep before the interview? Yes. Put resume links, planned questions, must-haves and partial-match notes in Prep Notes. The interview summary draws on them. ### Can note1 turn interview notes into a short summary for the hiring manager? Yes. Choose the Job Interview summary style. The summary starts with a few lines on the candidate, then sections such as role fit, strengths, concerns and next steps. The hiring manager can read it even if they weren't in the call. ### How can hiring managers share interview recordings with the team? Set the meeting's visibility to Team, and anyone in your note1 workspace can play the recording and read the summary. To limit it to a few people, choose Private and add them as viewers. You can also post the recap to a Slack channel. ### Can the whole recruiting team use the same interview notes template? Anyone on your team can pick the built-in Interview or Job Interview summary style for a meeting. For a recurring interview slot, save the style for this and future meetings. note1 doesn't let you write your own custom template. ## More AI meeting tools from note1 Recruiters also use these note1 features. [Get started](https://note1.ai/dashboard) ### Prep Notes [Prep Notes](https://note1.ai/features/context-notes) Prepare interviews with resume links, questions, requirements, and fit notes. ### Live meeting transcription [Live meeting transcription](https://note1.ai/features/live-transcription) Follow candidate answers while the interview is still happening. ### Meeting transcription [Meeting transcription](https://note1.ai/features/transcription) Turn interviews into transcripts you can search, with speaker names. ## Related pages - [Prep Notes](https://note1.ai/features/context-notes) - [Live meeting transcription](https://note1.ai/features/live-transcription) - [Meeting transcription](https://note1.ai/features/transcription)