Smarter admissions interviews.
Transform admissions with automated assessments — from video and portfolio interviews to written tasks — all with built-in fraud, identity and authenticity checks. Accelerate time to offer, increase fairness, and remove the cost and complexity of in-person interviews.
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Eliminate time, complexity & cost from your admissions interviews
Whether you’re interviewing at programme, faculty or institution level, we support it. From MMI and Pre-CAS to Nursing, Allied Health, Education, Social Care and general admissions – even urgent clearing – our platform flexes to meet your needs.
How automated interviews work:
Set your questions once — video-based, written, or portfolio prompts — and share a link with applicants to complete in their own time.
Applicants record their responses using their phone, tablet, or laptop. No scheduling, no live calls.
You and your colleagues can review interviews securely at any time, with built-in identity and authenticity checks and AI-powered analysis to support decisions.
Healthcare
Supporting regulated healthcare admissions
Many healthcare programmes – such as Nursing, Physiotherapy, Dentistry, Occupational Therapy and Radiography – require mandatory interviews aligned with professional values and clinical competency standards.
Shortlister supports institutions in meeting these regulatory benchmarks through structured, recorded video interviews with built‑in identity, fraud and authenticity checks – providing fairness, consistency and transparency at scale.
Social Care
Admissions interviews for social work and care
University courses including Social Work, Applied Community & Social Care Studies and Early Intervention must satisfy standards around professional values, communication and decision-making.
Shortlister enables institutions to meet these expectations with scalable, structured interviews, standardised evaluation, multiple reviewers and verifiable records – all while reducing cost and logistical complexity.
Education
Admissions interviews for teaching courses
Teaching programmes – from Primary and Secondary PGCEs to specialist areas such as SEN, Early Years and Educational Leadership – often require interviews aligned with national education standards and professional teaching frameworks.
Shortlister supports institutions in meeting these benchmarks through structured, recorded video interviews with identity and authenticity checks, consistent scoring rubrics, and clear audit trails. This enables you to assess candidates at scale – fairly, efficiently, and with full compliance.
Built for complexity
Powering structured interviews across medical, international, and creative programmes
Widely used across medical and healthcare programmes, MMIs assess specific competencies such as communication, ethics and decision-making through a series of short, structured stations.
With Shortlister, institutions can deliver asynchronous MMIs by setting timed video questions for each station, enabling multiple reviewers to assess responses independently and consistently. This reduces scheduling pressure, enhances objectivity, and ensures a robust, auditable process at scale.
Pre-CAS interviews help institutions assess an applicant’s genuine intent to study before issuing a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) — protecting sponsor status and meeting visa compliance requirements.
With Shortlister, universities can deliver structured, recorded interviews that verify identity, evaluate motivation, and provide a clear, auditable record for compliance teams. Responses can be reviewed at scale, with consistent criteria and flexible workflows tailored to institutional policies.
Clearing interviews are high-pressure, time-sensitive moments where admissions teams need to assess and progress applicants on the spot.
Shortlister enables instant interview access — links can be sent in real time, even during calls — allowing applicants to complete structured video responses immediately. Review teams gain rapid insight into motivation and fit, helping institutions make confident, fair decisions quickly and without the need for live scheduling.
For creative courses where applicants must present a body of work, portfolio interviews remain a key part of the admissions process.
With Shortlister, students can record presentations and showcase their work in a comfortable, flexible setting — reducing anxiety and levelling access. Reviewers can assess submissions asynchronously using consistent criteria, saving time while ensuring a fair, transparent evaluation of both creative output and communication skills.
Smarter admissions interviews start here.
Scale custom-built interviews for different applicant cohorts with your dedicated Shortlister team.
- Admissions interviews
Build your own or use our templated admissions interviews and gather 100s of applicant recorded video responses within days. Whether it’s for all applicants, for credibility interviews or one faculty, we’ve got you covered.
- Identify verification
Assess and record identity documents and check every question is answered live by the verified applicant.
- Authenticity checks
Check for scripted and rehearsed answers with our AI powered authenticity checker – no more chatgpt cheats!
- AI assisted reviews
View the full applicant videos or utilise the AI summaries, AI highlights and AI scoring to ensure a bias-free consistent process for all.
- Integrated in your process
Ensure a seamless journey for your applicants and admissions team with our easy-to-integrate technology.
- Unlimited expert support
The Shortlister team has been designing automated screening interviews for 10 years, for many of the world’s leading universities and employers. Tap into our on-tap screening and technology know-how to build your world-class applicant screening experience.
Unlike some systems, we don’t rely on opaque AI-driven scoring based on facial expressions or tone. Instead, Shortlister structures scoring around clear, behavioural rubrics, aligned to what truly matters for performance.
We automate the admin, surface key candidate insights, ensuring you make informed, inclusive decisions—faster.
Why Shortlister for admissions interviews?
100%
reduction in interviewing time
75%
reduction in review time
5x
savings on cost of process
Academic admissions teams
Interviewing is critical for admissions — it reveals motivation, verifies identity, and confirms authenticity. But at scale, it’s slow, inconsistent, and resource-heavy, with scheduling delays, no-shows, and widening equity gaps.
Shortlister changes that. It gives admissions teams a fast, structured way to assess applicants through recorded video interviews — delivering consistent, authentic insights with clear, verifiable records.
Bring your admissions process into the AI-age with smarter, scalable applicant interviewing.
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