One-way video interviews built for salons and spas hiring without a recruiter

It's software that lets candidates record video answers on their own time, so you see how they talk and present before you ever meet them. Truffle combines one-way video interviews with resume screening and talent assessments in one workflow, built for a salon or spa owner hiring without a recruiter.

You set the criteria for the role once, license status, years behind the chair, specific techniques, and Truffle scores every candidate against it. You get a ranked shortlist with the reasoning attached instead of a stack of applications to read between clients.

Partly. Qualification Questions ask upfront whether a candidate holds the license your state requires, and Resume review reads their claimed experience against your role. Truffle doesn't verify licenses the way a state board does, so you'll still confirm the license itself before you hire.

Most do when the interview is short. A well-configured Truffle interview runs about 10 minutes, and Candidate Reminders at 24 and 72 hours lift completion. For a thin-pool role like a specific modality massage therapist, you can skip video and screen on resumes and an assessment instead.

You define what matters for the role at intake: license, technique, client manner, whatever you'd ask a recruiter to look for. AI analyzes each resume and response against that and produces a match score with the reasoning shown. AI surfaces the evidence. You decide who moves forward.

Stylists, colorists, estheticians and aestheticians, massage therapists, and front-desk or client-coordinator roles. Any role you hire for more than once is a good fit, since that's where a ranked, repeatable process saves the most time.

An assessment can't guarantee that, and Truffle won't claim it does. A Personality or Situational Judgment assessment shows how a candidate describes their own style and how they'd handle a real client scenario, which gives you something concrete to probe in the interview instead of guessing from a resume.

No. Most salons still want a trial service or working interview before an offer, and that's a good instinct for a client-facing team. Truffle gets you to the few candidates worth booking a trial with, with a resume read, a recorded response, and an assessment already in hand.

Indeed collects applications. It doesn't screen them. Truffle reads every resume against your role, flags who meets your must-haves, and ranks the pool, so you open a shortlist instead of forty unsorted resumes after close.

No. Most salons this size don't have one and don't need one for this. Share your Position Link on your job boards or booking site, and Truffle handles the screening layer on its own. If you add an ATS later, Truffle connects through Zapier or the API.

Usually under 15 minutes from a job description. Paste it in, accept or edit the AI-suggested questions, add your salon's branding, and share the link.

Yes. Each method stands alone and you choose what applies per role. Many salons lead with a one-way interview for client-facing roles, since how someone talks and presents matters this much in a small, client-facing business, and add resume screening or an assessment on top.

Plans start at $49/month (Starter), credit-based: a resume screened is 1 credit, an assessed candidate is 2, a completed one-way interview is 5, all from one shared monthly pool. Every feature is on every plan and credits roll over. See <a href="/pricing">pricing</a> for exact plans and roughly how many roles each covers. 7-day free trial, 30 credits, no card.