Interview prep

Updated at August 19th, 2026

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Use cases Add interview prep to an interview Interview prep communication Add interview prep to an event Interview prep token list Permissions

Interview prep can be created and included on interviews for the candidate, employee, or both to reference in preparation for an interview.

Use cases

Users who want to build more sophisticated documentation to send to employees and candidates during the Interview Scheduling process.
Users who want to send different sets of preparation instructions and documents to employees and/or candidates as part of the scheduling process.

Add interview prep to an interview

Uploaded explicit images within Interview Prep will be blurred for candidates and employees.

Interview prep can be established for a role when manually scheduling, configuring an interview in Jobs/Group Management, Conversations, or Journey Targeting.

When configuring interview prep, you must establish which candidate and/or interviewer prep you want to send. You will only be presented with the interview prep that is associated with that audience.

Selecting the action menu, or ellipses, will grant you access to editing the interview prep if editing is not locked.

Interview prep communication

Uploaded explicit images within interview prep will be blurred for candidates and employees.

Interview prep will be communicated through the candidate's preferred channel and also included in the calendar invite that has been sent.

All interview prep is communicated to the candidate and employee through a link directing them to it.

Add interview prep to an event

As of January 2026, users can add interview prep documents to an event for both candidates and employees. Click here to learn more.

Interview prep token list

A token is a placeholder where information is dynamically populated based on the type used (event, conversation, candidate, job, location, etc.) and where that information is stored. Tokens are beneficial to use in mass communications where the details can be dynamically updated on a per candidate or user basis.

The following are available tokens that can be used within Interview Prep.

Any token that is written in an upper-case letter will be automatically converted to a lower-case letter so that the token works as expected in messaging for all selected languages.

Token	Description	Available for
#candidate-name	This returns the candidate's full name.	All clients
#candidate-firstname	This returns the candidate's first name.	All clients
#candidate-lastname	This returns the candidate's last name.	All clients
#candidate-long-id	This returns the candidate's long ID.	All clients
#ai-name	This returns the AI Assistant's name who communicates with the candidate.	All clients
#company-name	This returns the company's name.	All clients
#brand-name	This returns the company's brand.	All clients
#group-selection	This returns the value from the candidate's answer to the Area of Interest/Group question.	All clients
#user-name	This returns the user's full name.	All clients
#user-firstname	This returns the user's first name.	All clients
#interview-prep-url	This returns the Interview Prep URL.	All clients
#interview-type	This returns the interview type.	All clients
#interview-details	This returns the interview's details.	All clients
#interview-location	This returns the interview's location.	All clients
#interview-duration	This returns the interview's duration.	All clients
#interview-instruction	This returns the interview's instruction.	All clients
#interview-time-slots	This returns the available interview time slots.	All clients
#interview-time	This returns the scheduled interview time.	All clients
#interview-time-short	This returns the scheduled interview time (short).	All clients
#interviewer-name	This returns the interviewer attendee's names.	All clients
#interviewer-name-and-job-title	This returns the interviewer attendee’s names and the job that the candidate applied to.	All clients
#interviewer-firstname	This returns the interviewer's first name.	All clients
#interview-owner	This returns the person's name who created the interview.	All clients
#interview-owner-firstname	This returns the first name of user who create the interview.	All clients
#interviewer-email	This returns the interviewer's email address.	All clients
#interview-owner-email	This returns the interview owner's email email address.	All clients
#interview-audience	This returns the interview audience.	All clients
#number-of-rescheduled-interviews	This returns the number of rescheduled interviews.	All clients
#number-of-total-interviews	This returns the number of total interviews.	All clients
#timezone	This returns the candidate's time zone.	All clients
#view-more-time-url	This returns the View more times URL.	All clients
#job-req-id	This returns the candidate's job requision ID.	All clients
#job-title	This returns the candidate's job title.	All clients
#current-date	This returns the current date.	All clients
#location-name	This returns the interview location's name.	All clients
#location-id	This returns the interview location's ID.	All clients
#location-phone-number	This returns the interview location's phone number.	All clients
#location-email-address	This returns the interview location's email address.	All clients
#candidate-location	This returns the candidate's assigned location.	All clients
#candidate-location-name	This returns the candidate's assigned location name.	All clients
#candidate-location-address	This returns the candidate's location address.	All clients
#candidate-video-url	This returns the candidate's video URL.	All clients
#ca-	Typing #ca- will open a dropdown list of all Candidate Attributes that can be used in Workflows.	All clients
#la-	Typing #la- will open a dropdown list of all Location Attributes that can be used in Workflows.	All clients

Permissions

By default, the following users will have default access to creating and managing interview prep. Users who have access to manually scheduling interviews will be able to view and select their audience's interview prep (either candidate or user) from the scheduling drawer.

Users will need the Interview Prep permission to create and manage interview prep for the account.

User Role	Full Access	View Access	No Access
Paradox Admins
Company/Account Admin
Full User - Edit Everything, Power User
Full User - Edit Nothing
Basic/Limited User
Supervisor
Hiring Manager
Recruiter
Reporting User
Franchise Owner
Franchise Staff

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