Candidate Signals
When completed interviews start coming in, you want to know where to focus first. Candidate Signals analyzes what each candidate said across five interpersonal areas and surfaces the strongest responses to the top of your list automatically. You see what stood out, and exactly where in the conversation it happened.
Candidate Signals helps your team decide where to start. Hiring decisions stay with your team.
Plan availability: Candidate Signals is available on Pro and Enterprise plans for companies with AI features enabled. Contact your WedgeHR account team to get started.
Where Candidate Signals shows up
Candidate Signals appears in two places in WedgeHR.
On the Interview Detail page
Open any interview and look at the Completed tab. You'll see a Signal column next to each candidate. The signal indicator shows the overall signal strength at a glance, so you can scan your list and see which candidates had the strongest interviews before clicking into anyone.
Candidates with the strongest overall signal rise to the top of your list automatically.
On the Wedge Viewer
Click into any completed candidate interview and select the Signals tab on the right side of the viewer. You'll see the overall signal strength at the top, followed by a breakdown across all five areas.
Each observation includes a written summary tied directly to the candidate's own words. Hover over a linked phrase to read it. Click to jump to that exact moment in the video.
The five signals
Candidate Signals analyzes every Wedge interview the same way, every time, across five interpersonal qualities that matter in people-facing roles.
Self-Awareness - Can they talk honestly about themselves, with real examples to back it up? We look for specific, grounded self-assessment, not vague claims about being a hard worker.
Collaboration - Do they actually work well with others, or just say they do? We listen for shared credit, acknowledgment of teammates, and language that reflects how they really show up on a team.
Adaptability - When things didn't go to plan, what did they actually do? We look for real moments and real outcomes, not rehearsed answers about being flexible.
Accountability - Do they own their results, even when things went wrong? We look for honest ownership, not deflection.
Motivation - Is their interest in this role genuine? We look for a real connection between where they've been and why they're here.
Tip: The five areas Candidate Signals evaluates are rooted in organizational psychology and competency-based interviewing research. Every observation is anchored to the candidate's own words rather than generated as an inference.
What signal strength looks like
Each of the five areas shows signal strength, an indicator of how strongly that quality came through in what the candidate said. The overall signal strength at the top reflects the combined picture across all five areas.
A strong signal means the candidate gave clear, specific, grounded examples. A weaker signal means the candidate spoke in general terms or did not address that area directly. Neither is a pass or fail. The signal tells your team where a candidate was strongest so you know what to explore further.
What Candidate Signals does not do
Candidate Signals is an assistive feature. A few things it will not do:
- Make hiring decisions or eliminate candidates from your list.
- Use video data. It analyzes only the words a candidate spoke.
- Compare candidates against each other.
- Predict whether someone will succeed or stay.
- Replace your team's judgment.
Every candidate stays visible in your list. No one gets removed, ranked out, or skipped.
Enable Candidate Signals
Account owners and admins can turn Candidate Signals on or off from the Wedge AI settings page.
- Go to Settings > Wedge AI.
- Find the Candidate Signals section.
- Toggle Show Candidate Signals on.
- Click Save.
When you enable Candidate Signals, WedgeHR processes up to 90 days of completed interview history. Your team has context from day one, even for interviews that were completed before you turned the feature on.
From there, Candidate Signals runs in the background on every completed interview. Open any interview with completed candidates and start reviewing.
To turn Candidate Signals off, return to Settings > Wedge AI and toggle Show Candidate Signals off. You can also disable all AI features from this page using the Disable Wedge AI button at the bottom.
Choose how signal strength is displayed
Below the main toggle, you'll see a Signal Strength Display dropdown with two options:
- Show Indicator displays the signal strength bars on the interview detail page and in the candidate viewer. This is the default.
- Hidden removes the signal strength bars from both views. Your team still sees the Signals tab and all written observations on the candidate viewer. Only the bars are hidden.
This is useful if your team prefers to read the written observations without the visual indicators influencing their review.
When set to Hidden, the Signal column disappears from the interview detail page and the signal strength bars are removed from the candidate viewer. The Signals tab, written observations, and linked references to the candidate's transcript all remain visible.
Common questions
Who can enable or disable Candidate Signals?
Account owners and admins. The setting is at Settings > Wedge AI.
Does Candidate Signals analyze the video itself?
No. Candidate Signals only analyzes the transcript of what a candidate said. It does not evaluate facial expressions, tone of voice, or any visual data.
What if a candidate's signal strength is low?
A lower signal means that quality did not come through strongly in their responses. It does not mean they are a poor candidate. They may not have had a question that prompted that area, or they may show those strengths in other ways. Use the signal as a starting point, not a final answer.
Does this work with interviews that were completed before we enabled Candidate Signals?
Yes. When Candidate Signals is enabled, it processes up to 90 days of completed interview history.