1. Get your invite address
Sign up at monitor.interviewwatch.com with your company name and your work email. We mail you a link; opening it confirms the domain and gives you your invite address, something like [email protected].
Confirming the domain is what makes everything else work. Anyone on that domain who is on a meeting counts as your side of the interview and gets the reports; everyone else on the invite is treated as the candidate. That is also why a shared mailbox domain (gmail, outlook and the like) cannot be used.
2. Put it on an interview
- Schedule the interview however you already do.
Outlook, Google Calendar, your ATS, a scheduling tool. It does not matter, because every one of them sends a standard calendar invite.
- Add your invite address as an optional attendee.
Optional, so it never looks like a person who is supposed to speak, and so declining or missing it changes nothing about your meeting.
- Send the invite.
We reply to the meeting within a few seconds with your session link, threaded under the invite itself. If no reply arrives, see troubleshooting.
3. What the candidate gets
A separate email, never the one you are on: the download, an interview code, and a plain description of what will and will not be observed. They run the agent, paste the code, and consent. Nothing is recorded at that point; the agent is armed and waiting.
The full walkthrough is in what the candidate does, written so you can paste it into your own email if you want to warn them in advance. Mentioning it up front lands far better than letting them discover it.
4. Watch the session
Open the link from our reply. Before the interview it tells you whether the candidate is set up. During it, monitoring begins by itself and the page shows the live signal feed. You do not have to watch: everything reaches the report either way. See live monitoring.
5. Read the report
When the interview is over the session ends, and the report is mailed to your side of the invite on the meeting’s own thread: a score out of 100, a risk band, the findings in plain language, and the evidence behind each one. The same link you have been watching becomes the report.
You can download the signed summary or detailed JSON, and anyone can re-upload a downloaded file to confirm it was not altered. See integrity reports.
6. Add colleagues on other domains
Interviewers on your own domain need no setup at all. If someone on your panel is on another domain, a contractor or a fractional recruiter, add their address on your settings link. Anyone on that list counts as your side of the interview, so only add people who should see candidates’ reports.