AI notice for candidates

You are talking to an AI

The interviewer is an AI system, not a human. It is built on Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, and it works for the employer. It may sound natural, but it is software. It can make mistakes.

Under the EU AI Act, AI used to assess job candidates is classed as high-risk. That is why we explain how it works here, and why a person must review every application.

What happens, step by step

1. You apply. You upload your CV and agree to the process. The AI reads your CV and compares it with what the employer said the role needs. It picks a few things from your CV to ask about, and notes topics your CV does not cover.
2. The interview. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes and usually has 10 to 14 questions. The AI asks about your real experience and follows up on your answers, like a good first-round interviewer would. You choose English or Romanian when you apply, and the whole interview runs in that language.
3. The evaluation. When the interview ends, the AI drafts an assessment for the employer.
4. A person decides. A recruiter at the employer reads the assessment, can read your full transcript and CV, and decides whether you move forward.

What the AI does, and does not do

It does

• Ask questions and follow-ups about your experience, your choices and what motivates you.
• Score your answers against the employer's criteria, quoting your own words as evidence.
• Write a short summary, strengths, concerns and suggested questions for a human interviewer.

It does not

• Make the hiring decision, or reject you automatically.
• See you. There is no camera and no video.
• Analyse your voice, accent, tone or emotions. In a voice interview the AI only ever receives the text of what you said.
• Consider protected characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, health or family status, or how fluent you are in a language that is not your first. The AI is instructed to ignore these. No system is perfect, which is one more reason a person reviews every application.

What is recorded

• Your CV, name, email, and phone number and LinkedIn link if you gave them.
• The full text transcript of the interview: the AI's questions and your answers.
• The integrity signals described below.
• The AI's evaluation and the employer's decision.

Voice interviews

Your speech is turned into text by your browser's speech recognition, and the interviewer's questions are read aloud by your browser too. Verso receives only the text and does not record or store audio. Depending on your browser, its provider may process the audio on its own servers. For example, Chrome sends audio to Google for recognition. If you would rather avoid that, choose the text interview.

Speech recognition makes mistakes, especially with names and technical terms. The AI that scores your interview is told that odd or garbled words are likely recognition errors, not yours.

Integrity signals, explained honestly

To give the recruiter some context about how the interview was taken, the interview page notes a few things for each answer:

• How many times you left the interview tab or window, and for how long in total.
• In text interviews: how many times you pasted text into the answer box.
• In voice interviews: how long it took you to start speaking after the microphone opened.

That is all. There is no camera, no screen recording, no keystroke logging, and we cannot see what you do in other tabs or apps.

The recruiter sees these signals next to your answers. The AI evaluator sees them too, with a firm instruction never to lower a score because of them. It may mention them in a note, for example when a long pause is followed by an unusually polished, generic answer. We know pauses and interruptions have ordinary causes: thinking, nerves, a doorbell, a weak connection, speaking in a second language, or a disability. If something interrupted you, you can say so in the interview or tell the employer.

How scores are made

1. The employer sets the criteria. Before the job opens, the employer defines what the role needs, with help from an AI assistant. The result is a list of criteria (must-haves, nice-to-haves, and motivation and fit), each with a weight. The employer reviews and can edit them.
2. The AI scores each criterion from 0 to 5, based only on evidence in your interview (and CV facts you confirmed). Any score above 2 must be backed by quotes from your answers. No evidence means a score of 0, not a guess. Each score also shows how confident the AI is.
3. The overall score (0 to 100) is a fixed weighted average of those criterion scores, calculated by a simple formula, not by the AI. If there is little or no evidence for a must-have criterion, the overall score is capped at 40.
4. The recruiter reviews. Applications are listed by overall score. Every criterion score comes with the AI's reasoning and quotes from your answers, so the recruiter can check it and disagree with it.

Your choices and rights

• Text instead of voice. Before the interview starts you can choose a text chat instead of a voice call.
• Accessibility and alternatives. If you need an adjustment, or prefer to be interviewed without AI, contact the employer. Only the employer can offer a different process.
• Human review. You can ask the employer for a person to review your application and the AI assessment, explain the outcome, and hear your point of view.
• Your data. You can ask to see, correct or delete your data, or object to how it is used. The employer is responsible for your data, so ask them first. You can also email us at [privacy@your-domain] and we will pass your request on and help.
• Stopping. You can stop the interview at any time by closing the page. To withdraw your application, contact the employer.
• Complaints. You can complain to a data protection authority, such as the Romanian authority (ANSPDCP, www.dataprotection.ro) or the one where you live or work.

More detail is in our privacy policy. Verso is provided by [Legal entity name].