For hiring teams
Interview law and compliance candidates with one link
Create an interview link for a law and compliance role and send it to your candidates. They talk with an AI interviewer about their real work, on their own time. You read the transcript and scores that quote their own words, and your team makes the decision.
Free to start while Aethel is in early access. No card needed.
How it works
How to interview law and compliance candidates with a link
- Step 1
Create a link for the role
Add the role title, choose Law and compliance as the field, and set the level. If you want, add a specialty, focus areas, and up to three questions the interviewer must ask word for word.
- Step 2
Send it to your candidates
Share the link however you already reach candidates. Aethel does not message them for you.
- Step 3
Candidates interview on their own time
The interview takes about 15 minutes. Candidates are told up front that the interviewer is an AI, and they agree to share the result with your company before they start.
- Step 4
Review and decide
Read each transcript and the scores, with the quotes behind them. Mark each candidate Advance, Not a fit, or Undecided, and keep private notes.
The interview
What the interviewer covers
It asks about real law and compliance work and follows up on each candidate's answers. It draws on these topics and picks what fits the role.
- A negotiation and the terms that mattered most
- Spotting a risk in a deal or policy that others missed
- Advising a business team that wanted a different answer
- Putting a new regulation into practice
- A dispute or investigation and how they approached it
- Explaining legal risk in plain language
- Balancing speed against legal certainty
Focus areas on your link steer it further, for example toward a tool, a regulation or a type of client.
Your questions
Sample must-ask questions
Each link can carry up to three must-ask questions. The interviewer asks each one as written. Here are examples for this field.
- Tell me about a contract term you negotiated hard on. Why did it matter, and what did you give up?
- Describe a time a business team wanted a yes and your answer was not yes. How did you handle it?
- How do you decide which legal risks to raise with a client and which are not worth their time?
Results
What you see for each candidate
A result you can check for yourself. Every score points to what the candidate actually said.
The full transcript
Every question and every answer, in order.
“Not enough evidence” instead of a guess
If the interview did not cover an area, the result says so. It is never shown as a low score. The overall score uses only the areas with evidence.
Your decision and private notes
Track where each candidate stands. Candidates never see your notes.
Four scored areas for law and compliance
Each is scored from 1 to 100, with the exact quotes behind it.
- Legal reasoning
- Counts as evidence when the candidate works through a specific legal question: the rule or authority, how it applies to the facts, the counterarguments, and the conclusion they reached.
- Issue spotting
- Counts as evidence when the candidate identifies the legal, regulatory or contractual issues in a specific situation, including risks others missed, and how they prioritized them.
- Communication
- Counts as evidence when the candidate describes explaining legal analysis to other people: drafting a memo or contract, advising a client in plain language, or presenting to a board or court. Answering clearly is not, by itself, communication evidence.
- Client and stakeholder judgment
- Counts as evidence when the candidate describes working with clients, business teams, opposing counsel or regulators: managing expectations, handling disagreement, or weighing legal risk against business goals. Saying "we" is not, by itself, collaboration evidence.
What Aethel does not do
- Recommend who to hire or guess at seniority.
- Score faces, voices, accents, backgrounds or video.
- Screen anyone out. Everyone who finishes your interview appears in your list.
- Verify degrees, licenses or work history.
Details are on how Aethel uses AI.
FAQ
Questions about interviewing for law and compliance
Can we interview for a specific role in this field?
Yes. Choose Law and compliance as the field for the link and add the specialty, such as corporate lawyer or litigation associate. Focus areas and must-ask questions steer the interview further.
Can the interviewer ask our own questions?
Yes. You can add up to three must-ask questions to each link, and the interviewer asks each one as written. It picks the other questions from the role, the field and the candidate's answers.
How are candidates in this field scored?
An AI review reads the transcript and scores four areas for this field: Legal reasoning, Issue spotting, Communication, and Client and stakeholder judgment. Each area gets a score from 1 to 100 only when the review can quote the candidate's own words, and every quote is checked against the transcript. Otherwise the area shows "Not enough evidence". The overall score is the average of the areas that have evidence.
Does Aethel check licenses, degrees or work history?
No. Aethel does not verify degrees, licenses, certifications or employment history. Check those the way you do today.
Does Aethel decide who to hire?
No. Aethel does not recommend who to hire, guess at seniority, or screen anyone out. Every candidate who completes your interview appears in your list, and your team makes every decision.
Will Aethel contact our candidates?
No. You send the link and follow up with candidates yourself. Aethel does not message candidates on your behalf.
What do candidates need?
Your link, a free Aethel account, and about 15 minutes. They can type or speak their answers. A camera is not required.
What does it cost?
While Aethel is in early access, you can create an employer account and keep one interview link open at a time for free. Monthly plans are listed on the pricing page. Experts never pay.
Plans are on the pricing page.
Send your first law and compliance interview link
Create an employer account, describe the role, and copy your link. It takes a few minutes.
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