✨ Candidates have a better initial call experience when your pitch includes info that can't be found in your job description and on the company website!
🏢 How to Access Your Company Pitch:
Go to the Dover App
Click Company Settings
Select Pitch from the sidebar on the left, make changes to the content, and click Submit
⚾ Make a Great Company Pitch
⚾ Make a Great Company Pitch
Company Mission - Include a few sentences describing the company’s mission.
Company's Product - Include 2-4 very clear sentences that detail what the product does and how it helps customers. This should give insight as to how customers interact with the product, and avoid indirect language like "the product seeks to..." or "the product solves the problem of...". Go beyond the mission statement to explain the product.
💡 Pro tip: Read these sentences aloud and see how they sound.
Answer the following questions that candidates need to know:
What was your most recent financing round?
How much money has your company raised to date? (USD $M)
How many people currently work at your company?
Total team size, not the specific team the candidate will be working with
These questions are not necessary, but nice to know
Who are your most notable customers?
How much did your company grow last year?
Please share links to any recent awards or press.
Example Company Pitch
Example Company Pitch
What is {{client}}'s mission?
Our mission is to empower brands to speak with their customers during the moments that matter most in the customer journey
What does {{client}}'s primary product do?
We believe businesses should talk with their customers at important moments instead of just emailing them. So we're building the #1 conversational customer engagement platform to power timely, personalized calls and text message conversations as part of B2C outreach and sales strategies.
Who are your most notable customers?
SoFi, The Farmer's Dog, Forward, MakeSpace, Better.com, Angie's List, Policygenius
How much did your company grow last year? (e.g. growth multiple in terms of revenue, users, etc.)
Over $1M in ARR in 6 months
What was your most recent financing round?
Seed
How much money has your company raised to date? (USD $M)
4M
Who are your primary investors?
HomeBrew & Founder Collective
How many people currently work at your company?
15
💻 How to Access Your Job Pitch:
Go to the Dover App
On the homepage, click your job
Under Dover Interviewer, select Job Pitch from the dropdown
Make changes to the content, and click Save
⚾ Create a Memorable Job Pitch
⚾ Create a Memorable Job Pitch
What will this person be working on? - 2-4 sentences about general expectations in this role
What makes this role unique? - If this is a founding role, please include that here.
Include specifics about the cross-functional nature of the work or specific technical challenges are helpful (rather than just "cross-functional" or "technical challenges")
Answer the following questions that candidates need to know:
What is the size/structure of the team that this person will be working with?*
Specific department or team size and its composition
These questions are not necessary, but nice to know
Are there growth/leadership/management opportunities?
Geographical distribution for remote teams
The name & role of the person leading a team with no official manager who is hiring their first manager
Example Job Pitch
Example Job Pitch
What will this person be working on?
You'll be working across the full-stack of product design (user research, UX, UI) + a bit of branding/webflow work on redesigning our regal voice site. You'll be speaking with customers and conducting research on other apps/comps to inform design options, mapping out user flows, and creating low-fi and hi-fi mocks, as well as clickable prototypes.
What makes this role unique?
You'll be working directly with the co-founder and will have total ownership of the design of the app.
Are there growth/leadership/management opportunities?
Yes, in the future
What is the size/structure of the team that this person will be working with?
You'll be working closely with co-founder & COO Rebecca, as well as a team of 1 product manager and 10 engineers.
💻 How to Access Your Dover Interviewer Screener Questions
Go to the Dover App
Select your job
Select Screener Questions
You can make changes to the Screener Questions
To Remove a question, click the 🗑️ icon
To Add a question, select an option from the Add Question dropdown
You can Add a Customized Question if you do not see an option from the dropdown
Click Save and Approve
❓ How to Create Great Interview Questions
Dover is here to make interviewing easy! Dover Interviewers ask interview questions that you can customize in the Dover App. Here’s how you can phrase questions to get actionable answers from candidates:
👍 Do
Ask questions that target actionable information from candidates.
Include the key information you want the candidate to provide within the question.
Consider the signal that you will need in order to make an appropriate decision when it comes to moving them forward or rejecting them.
👎 Don’t
Ask only broad questions that can go in any number of directions.
Ask yes or no questions that won't give you the context you need to make an informed decision.
Examples
❓ Experience & Behavioral Questions
Common Question | Desired information | Focused question |
Please tell me about yourself | What’s the candidate’s professional experience? | Can you walk me through your resume? |
| What does the candidate do now? | Can you tell me about your most recent role? What are you most and least proud of? |
| What are the candidate’s day-to-day responsibilities? | What are your day-to-day responsibilities? What % of your time is spent on each? |
| Why is the candidate interested in the position or company? | What entices you about our mission? |
Tell me about a time you got critical feedback | Does the candidate take feedback well? | How do you feel when you receive critical or challenging feedback about your work? |
| Has the candidate learned from the feedback they’ve received? | Can you talk me through an example of a time when you received critical feedback and what you learned from it? |
| What skills does the candidate need to develop? | Can you tell me a consistent piece of feedback you’ve received from your manager or peers? |
❓ Technical Questions ❓
Common Question | Desired information | Focused question |
What programming languages do you know? | What languages does the candidate know and how long have they used each? | What backend programming languages do you know best? How many years of experience do you have with each of them? |
| What tools does the candidate use regularly? | What tools/technologies do you use for your role? |
| Is the candidate familiar with my tech stack? | How proficient are you (if at all) with the technologies of our data stack (x, y and z)? And if you’re not, what technologies are you proficient in that you believe would transfer well? |
Can you talk about your experience using X? | What does the candidate typically use X for? | Do you have experience with X? What do you typically use it for? |
| How comfortable is the candidate with X? | How would you rate your fluency with X? What are your typical use cases? |
| What has the candidate used X for? | Could you give me a quick overview of your most relevant project using X? |
While you can never guarantee that a candidate will answer your interview questions with the information you want, these tweaks will produce more useful responses!