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What should you actually compare?

Four things decide whether an AI interviewing platform is safe to deploy: what the AI is allowed to conclude about a person, whether any automated output can reject a candidate, what evidence you keep afterwards, and whether the vendor will show you the reasoning behind a score. Feature lists rarely differ enough to matter; these four do.

Everything else — question libraries, integrations, branding on the candidate portal — is real but negotiable. The four below are architectural. A platform that lets a model decide outcomes cannot be configured into one that does not.

1. What is the AI permitted to infer? Language and content, or also inferences about the person from how they look and sound?
2. Can an automated output reject a candidate? If yes, you have adopted automated decision-making, with everything that follows from that.
3. What evidence survives? Can you reconstruct, months later, why a specific candidate was not progressed?
4. Is the score explainable? Can a recruiter see which requirements produced a ranking, and change the weighting?

Where does HireVue stand on facial analysis?

HireVue announced in January 2021 that it had removed facial analysis from its assessments, having discontinued the feature in March 2020. Its stated reason was that improvements in natural-language processing meant visual analysis no longer added significant predictive value. The change followed a 2019 Federal Trade Commission complaint by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and a third-party audit of its algorithms.

That is the publicly documented record, reported at the time by SHRM and Fortune, and it is worth stating accurately because it is frequently misrepresented in both directions.

OpusHire's position is the same on the substance: we do not infer candidate traits, personality or suitability from facial expressions, and we do not score anyone on how they look. The research base for doing so is weak, the disparate-impact risk is high, and it is the practice regulators have moved against most decisively. If a vendor offers to tell you who is trustworthy or coachable based on a face, that is a reason to walk away, not a feature.

So this is not a point of difference — it is a point of agreement, and any vendor claiming otherwise as a selling point deserves scrutiny.

So what is different about OpusHire?

Three architectural constraints: no automated output can reject a candidate, every score is computed in code from defined rules rather than produced by a model, and integrity signals are timestamped moments for a human to check rather than a score. These are constraints in how the product is built, not settings an administrator can switch off.

• Nothing auto-rejects. Screening minimums raise advisory flags for human review. There is no configuration that turns OpusHire into an automatic filter, and no timer that ages an untouched candidate into a rejected state.
• Scores are computed, not generated. A language model may word a question or draft a narrative summary. It never picks an outcome and never produces the number that decides one.
• Integrity signals are review aids. An anomaly during a proctored interview surfaces as a timestamped moment a reviewer can jump to in the recording — never a trust score, never a gate.
• Rankings decompose. Every ranking shows which requirements a candidate met and how much each counted, and recruiters can change the weighting and re-rank the pool.
• The record survives. Recordings, transcripts, scorecards and assessment results stay attached to the candidate, and privileged actions are written to a hash-chained audit trail that cannot be edited afterwards.

Whether that matters to you depends on where you hire. For teams operating under rules that restrict decisions made about individuals by automated means alone, it is usually the deciding factor.

How do you migrate without losing candidate history?

Ask any incoming vendor two questions before you commit: what they can import, and what you can export if you leave. Candidate history — applications, assessment results, interview records and notes — is the asset that makes a hiring system worth having, and it is the thing most likely to be stranded in a migration.

The export answer matters more than the import answer, because it is the one that determines whether you are ever able to make this decision again. A platform that imports readily and exports poorly has simply moved your lock-in.

Plan for a period of running both systems in parallel on new requisitions while in-flight roles finish where they started. Cutting over mid-search is how candidates get lost, and a candidate lost during a migration is one who has simply stopped hearing from you.

What is OpusHire not the right choice for?

OpusHire is built for employers hiring directly in the UAE and India. If you need a platform with an established North American or European enterprise footprint, a large pre-built integration catalogue with legacy HRIS suites, or fully automated candidate filtering, another vendor will fit you better — the last one by design, since we will not build it.

We would rather say that here than during a procurement cycle. A few other honest boundaries:

• No Nafis or MOHRE integration. If automated Emiratisation quota reporting is a hard requirement, OpusHire does not meet it today. See Emiratisation recruitment software.
• Asynchronous interviewing is a first-round tool. We would not recommend it for final rounds, where a candidate needs to be able to ask questions.

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