Understanding Basic Screening Assessment in InterWiz

September 22, 2025 | 3 min read

OVERVIEW

The Basic Screening Assessment helps recruiters evaluate candidates at an early stage by collecting essential background details, verifying basic qualifications, and assessing availability.

Parts of the Basic Screening Assessment

The assessment is divided into three sections:

  1. Background Check Questions – Gather details about the candidate’s past experience, work history, and general background to validate suitability.

  2. Skill Qualification – Simple skill-based questions that confirm whether the candidate meets minimum job requirements.

  3. Logistics Questions – Focus on availability, notice period, and expected joining date.

👉 Note: All questions are AI-generated. Recruiters can review, edit, or remove them as needed.

Adding Basic Screening to an Assessment

You can include a Basic Screening Assessment while creating, editing, or cloning a template.

Steps:

  1. Create, edit, or clone a template.

  2. The Create Template Wizard will open.

  3. Navigate to the Assessment step.

    A template creation interface for "Clone Sales Manager" showing the assessments configuration step with progress indicators at the top. The screen displays assessment options including "Analytical Assessment" and "Role-Specific Screening Assessment" with toggle switches, plus an estimated completion time of 39 minutes shown in a yellow notification panel.

  4. Hover between two assessments and click Add Assessment (+).

    Toggle switch enabled for Professional Assessment in the Assessments section, showing Creative Problem-Solving as a selected skill.

  5. A drawer will open with available assessment types.

  6. Select Basic Screening → click Next.

  7. The system will automatically generate questions.

    A Basic Screening Assessment interface showing an enabled toggle switch and a loading state with "Generating Questions" text. The screen displays a circular progress indicator while the system creates screening questions tailored for a specific role and its requirements.

Managing AI-Generated Questions

Once generated, you can refine the questions:

A Basic Screening Assessment configuration panel showing an expanded "Background Check" section with multiple sales-related interview questions. The interface displays collapsible sections for different assessment categories including "Skill Qualification" and "Logistics" with their respective time durations, allowing users to organize and review screening questions by topic.

  • Remove a question → Click the cross (×).

  • Edit a question → Click the pencil icon to open the editor.

    A Background Check dialog window displaying a list of pre-selected interview questions with checkboxes for a screening assessment. The interface shows multiple sales-related questions that can be toggled on or off, with "Cancel" and "Add Questions" buttons at the bottom for finalizing the question selection.

  • Select questions to keep → Use checkboxes, then click Add Question to confirm.

⚡Pro Tip: If you remove all questions, a “+” icon will appear. Use it to reopen the question drawer and add new ones.

Skill Qualification State

When Basic Screening is added:

  • Default state = Question Pending

  • AI begins generating Skill Qualification questions after the assessment is saved.

  • Recruiters can review and adjust them once generation is complete.

A Skill Qualification section with a Questions Pending status indicator. The interface displays a message stating that questions for this section will be generated and shown after the template is saved.

✅ The Basic Screening Assessment ensures only qualified, available candidates move forward in the hiring pipeline, saving time and improving decision-making early in the process.

Frequently Asked Questions