Panna

Panna is a powerful, innovative application designed to redefine the manual recruitment process. In an era where recruiters are often inundated with candidates who overinflate their credentials, Panna provides a robust solution to filter authentic, experienced candidates from the crowd. It is a seamless, web-based video platform that empowers hiring managers and recruiters to interview, assess, and hire top talent faster and more efficiently, with no downloads required.

The platform tackles the core challenges of modern hiring, such as the time-consuming nature of screening and the difficulty in assessing true capabilities from a resume alone. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Panna automates key aspects of the evaluation process, providing data-driven insights to support hiring decisions. This results in significant improvements, with clients reporting a 30-45% reduction in cost per hire and a 25-40% reduction in time to hire.

How to use Panna

Using Panna is a straightforward process designed for maximum efficiency:

1. Create an Interview: Start by choosing the interview format. You can set up a live, face-to-face video interview for real-time interaction or schedule a candidate-only, on-demand interview that applicants can complete at their convenience.
2. Select or Create Questions: Access Panna's extensive library of pre-built questions covering numerous industry topics. Alternatively, create your own custom questions to assess specific technical skills, behavioral traits, or cultural fit.
3. Invite Candidates: Send a simple link to candidates. They can join the interview directly from their web browser without needing to install any software. You can upload their resume in advance or have them upload it during the process.
4. Conduct and Monitor: During live interviews, use the integrated IM chat and note-taking features. For all interviews, Panna's AI works in the background. It can see candidates typing answers in real-time and its 'Spot check' feature reports if the applicant navigates to other websites, ensuring authenticity.
5. Review and Analyze: All interviews are digitally recorded and stored on your Panna dashboard. Review the AI-generated scores, which include speech-to-text analysis. Use sliding percentage filters to easily compare and rank candidates.
6. Collaborate and Hire: Share interview recordings, notes, and scores with your colleagues to facilitate collaborative and informed hiring decisions, ensuring you select the best possible candidate for the role.

Core Features of Panna

• Live & On-Demand Video Interviews: Offers both real-time, face-to-face interviews and asynchronous, candidate-led interviews for ultimate flexibility.
• AI-Powered Candidate Scoring: Utilizes artificial intelligence to evaluate the accuracy of answers, including speech-to-text analysis, and provides a final score ranking.
• Pre-built & Custom Question Banks: A comprehensive library of questions for various industries, with the ability to create your own tailored questions.
• Authenticity Verification: A 'Spot check' feature detects if a candidate switches to other programs or websites to copy answers, ensuring genuine responses.
• Real-time Answer Assessment: Instantly see if a candidate's answers to written questions are correct or incorrect and observe their typing process in real-time.
• Collaborative Hiring Tools: Easily share interview screens with colleagues to join a call or review recorded sessions and notes together.
• Resume Integration: Upload a candidate's resume before the interview or allow them to upload it during the call for easy reference.
• Integrated Communication: Features include an IM chat for text-based interaction during live interviews and a note-taking function for interviewers.

Use Cases for Panna

Panna is versatile and can be applied in various hiring scenarios:

• High-Volume Technical Screening: Efficiently screen hundreds of engineering or IT candidates using automated tests and video questions to assess both technical skills and problem-solving approaches.
• Global Talent Acquisition: Interview candidates across different time zones using on-demand interviews, eliminating scheduling conflicts and expanding the talent pool.
• Behavioral and Cultural Fit Assessment: Use custom video questions to evaluate a candidate's communication skills, personality, and alignment with company values, beyond what a resume can show.
• Reducing Recruiter Bias: Standardize the initial screening process with consistent questions and AI-based scoring to ensure every candidate is evaluated on the same objective criteria.

Advantages of Panna

Panna offers a competitive edge in the race for top talent. It significantly reduces time-to-interview by up to 40% and improves the interview-to-hire ratio by 50%. The platform saves thousands of dollars in time and resources by automating the initial screening process. It provides a holistic view of each candidate by combining hard and soft skills data in a single, easy-to-use console. By filtering out fabricated credentials, it ensures that hiring managers spend their time with authentic, qualified individuals, leading to better hires and lower turnover rates.

Pricing and Plans

Panna's pricing information is provided upon request. This allows them to create tailored plans that fit the specific needs and scale of different organizations, from startups to large enterprises like Intuit and mobiTV. To get a custom quote, interested users are encouraged to contact the Panna sales team or sign up for a demo through their official website.