HireVue's platform helps their clients, such as WTW, customize their assessments through the use of HireVue's interview builder, where they can choose from categorized interview questions that best apply to their culture and the position, further narrowing them down from several sub-categories. These behavioral interview questions were developed by their IO Psychologists. They claim this approach enables their algorithms to better assess candidates, identify top performers, and recruit those most suited to the company's goals and culture.

The assessment model analyzes the data points from the video interviews to assess a candidate's expertise, skills, personality, and integrity by studying their verbal and nonverbal cues, such as tone, body language, the consistency of their answers, their surroundings, and grooming and clothing details. It will compile this information into "candidate's insights reports," classifying each candidate's responses into one of five categories of experience level: novice, developing, intermediate, advanced, and expert. Other assessments may go into these reports, such as HireVue's game challenge assessments, where the algorithm will evaluate how a candidate interacts with and processes information.

Pertaining to weakness and strengths, HireVue defines someone with an intermediate skill level or above in any particular category as someone who holds themself accountable for their setbacks while identifying and admitting to their weaknesses, limitations, needed adjustments, and mistakes. Someone more experienced considers areas where there is room for improvement as a growth opportunity rather than a weakness or debilitation.

So when answering questions regarding your strengths and your weaknesses, try to align the two. Frame your self-identified weakness as a strength in its own right. Remember, an experienced professional identifies weaknesses as growth opportunities. They take ownership of them and are unafraid to share them, which in itself is a sign of strength.

"I would say my strength is my drive and ambition to develop and grow as a professional. I look at every contingency as an opportunity to succeed. This challenges me to think outside of the box with consistency. Also, part of my drive for growth allows me to take responsibility for every setback or misstep without hesitation. I hold myself responsible first, and move on second. However, I would say my weakness is how hard I am on myself when I don't meet my own expectations, and the standard I set for myself is sometimes unrealistically high. I can be unrelenting sometimes and have difficulty cutting myself a break. But I am working on not working myself too hard."