Yogen

The tools behind
a thoughtful hire.

Assess your process, align on the role, and prepare your team and candidates. Yogen connects the planning and preparation that make interviews more useful.

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  1. 01
    Audit the process

    Find friction, hidden costs, and improvement priorities.

  2. 02
    Define the role

    Agree on requirements, interview stages, and decision rights.

  3. 03
    Generate your Hiring Kit

    Prepare sourcing materials, interview questions, and candidate information.

One connected hiring workflow.

Each step builds on the last, from understanding the problem to improving the next hire.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    See where time, cost, and hiring risk build up.

  2. 02

    Design

    Agree on role requirements and a shared interview plan.

  3. 03

    Prepare

    Give interviewers focused questions and candidates clear expectations.

  4. 04

    Interview

    Use structured guidance, capture useful notes, and practice difficult conversations.

  5. 05

    Improve

    Revisit audit findings and strengthen the next hiring process.

Where Yogen fits in your toolkit.

Keep what works. Get guidance where you need it—even if hiring is new to you.

What you already rely onWhat Yogen adds

Your ATS

Manage applicants and hiring activity.

A shared role definition, interview plan, and materials to bring into your workflow.

Your AI tools

Draft individual documents and explore ideas.

Connected preparation grounded in the same intake, with guidance your team reviews.

Your people

Bring experience, context, and hiring judgment.

Guided questions, best-practice resources, and suggested next steps help experienced teams and first-time hiring managers make informed choices.

A better process has a practical payoff.

Give each stage a purpose, protect your team’s time, and help candidates know what comes next.

Make every interview earn its place.

See how each additional stage changes candidate time, interviewer workload, and estimated cost. Use stage planning to weigh that effort against the evidence your team needs.

Make the tradeoffs visible before you commit your team—and your candidates—to the process.

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Illustrative impact per candidate

Planned effort3 stages5 stages
Candidate time3 hours5 hours
Interviewer time6 hours10 hours
Estimated team cost$600$1,000
Two more stages add
2 hours for the candidate4 hours for your team$400 in team time

Example assumes one hour per stage, two interviewers, and $100 per interviewer-hour. Your plan’s impact depends on its stage lengths, participants, and cost assumptions.

See the time behind the process.

Review stage duration and interviewer assignments before committing everyone’s calendars. Generate hiring materials from intake to reduce repeated drafting and preparation.

Fewer unnecessary panel hours and less manual work can lower the cost of running your process.

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Illustrative panel-time calculation

60 minutes × 3 interviewers3 team-hours
60 minutes × 2 interviewers2 team-hours

One fewer interviewer saves one team-hour in this example. Staffing should follow assessment needs; this is not a customer savings result.

Give candidates fewer reasons to disengage.

A generated Candidate Packet explains the role and interview stages before the first conversation. A focused plan helps avoid repeated questions and unexpected rounds.

Clear expectations and less friction can help reduce candidate drop-off and support a more considerate experience.

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What a candidate should know

The opportunityWhat the role involves and what success looks like.

The processWhich interview stages to expect.

How to prepareA clear starting point and resources to review.

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The role context you establish in intake carries through into the materials and preparation your team uses. Expand each section to explore its features and the guidance built into the process.

Start with a free account. Process Audits stay free. Try role intake, Hiring Kit generation, PDFs, and AI-assisted tools for 30 days; continue those features with a paid plan afterward.

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Find the friction before your next hire.

Use the Hiring Process Audit to identify time sinks, hidden costs, and priorities worth acting on.

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Guided process assessment

Review how your team hires and identify inconsistent practices, friction, and avoidable process risks.

Time & cost analysis

Examine estimated candidate time, interviewer effort, and process costs to understand where work accumulates.

Actionable audit report

Review findings and recommended improvement priorities with your team.

Audit history

Return to previous assessments as your hiring process evolves. Process Audits remain free with an account after the trial ends.

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Process review
Find the friction
Time
Cost
Risk

Set improvement priorities

Conceptual illustration

A shared plan, before the first interview.

Not sure how to structure the interviews? The Interview Stage Builder helps you plan responsibilities and consider candidate effort and estimated costs before you begin.

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Guided role intake

Capture role expectations, skills, success criteria, and the context behind the hire. Bring recruiters and hiring managers into the same conversation.

AI intake guidance

Get prompts, explanations, and suggestions as you define the role, including risks you might not know to look for. Your team reviews the advice and chooses how to proceed.

Interview Stage Builder

Plan stages, assign interviewers, and examine estimated team time, candidate time, and process costs.

Salary-market context

Look up salary-market context using the role and location to inform your discussion of compensation.

Candidate experience estimates

Consider the likely burden of your planned interview process. These are planning estimates, not measured candidate feedback.

Technical Interview Architect

Explore technical assessment formats and their tradeoffs in realism, collaboration, and risk.

Hiring Decision Matrix

Define Vote, Veto, and Voice responsibilities so the team knows who contributes and who makes the final call.

Interview design
One shared plan
  1. 01Define the role
  2. 02Assign each stage a focus
  3. 03Agree who decides

From expectations to evidence

Prepare everyone from the same role details.

An automatically generated Candidate Packet gives people a clear view of the role and interview stages, without another document to draft.

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Job description

Generate an editable draft from your role details. Review it before publishing to your job board or ATS.

Boolean sourcing strings

Generate search strings based on role requirements for use in LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing workflows.

Interview questions by stage

Generate questions using the role context and interview plan, ready for your team to review and share with interviewers.

Candidate Packet · PDF

An automatically prepared overview of the role and interview stages. Share the PDF with candidates without requiring them to use Yogen.

Internal Intake Summary · PDF

A confidential reference for stakeholders covering the role, hiring strategy, and process.

Interview stages · PDF

Export a readable view of the planned stages to share or transfer into your existing workflow.

Risk & Warning Summary

Revisit the intake risks, warnings, and suggestions your hiring team approved.

Materials draw on your intake. AI-generated content still needs your team’s review; generation does not publish it to an ATS.

Hiring Kit
One role. Everyone ready.
Your role details
Hiring teamInterviewersCandidates

Generate materials from shared context

Make every question earn its place.

Question Checker connects your questions to the intake and flags potential issues for your team to review.

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Question Checker

Review your own or your team’s interview questions for relevance to the intake and potential bias. Use the feedback to improve the questions.

Mock Interview Practice

Practice with a simulated candidate, work on question delivery and timing, and receive feedback before a real interview.

Difficult Conversations Practice

Rehearse salary discussions, candidate rejections, and other challenging conversations through AI roleplay.

Practice and question review support interviewer judgment; they do not guarantee unbiased questions or make candidate decisions.

Question review
Better questions, by design.
Role requirementsYour questionsReview the alignment

Relevant evidence. Thoughtful interviews.

Go into the difficult conversation prepared.

Practice salary discussions, negotiation, and sensitive feedback before the real conversation.

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Conversation rehearsal

Use difficult-conversation practice to prepare for negotiation and sensitive feedback.

Decision responsibilities

Bring the Vote, Veto, and Voice matrix back into the closing discussion to keep ownership clear.

Templates & decision guides

Access offer, keep-alive, rejection, and hiring-decision resources. These reference materials are also available through the public Hiring Playbook.

Conversation practice
A rehearsal, not a first attempt.
PracticeReflectRefine

Prepare for the real conversation

Make the next hiring process better.

Revisit audit history, keep responsibilities clear, and manage access as more people join the work.

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Organization & member management

Manage organization members, roles, and access to shared hiring work.

Seats & billing

Manage licenses and subscriptions, with billing handled through Paddle.

Audit history & kit comparison

Revisit assessments and connect audit findings with relevant Hiring Kit improvements.

Account security

Optional authenticator-based multi-factor authentication and configurable session controls help protect account access.

Continuous improvement
Build on what you learn.
Review findingsAgree on changesRevisit the process

Keep context from one hire to the next

Free for your whole hiring team.

No account needed. Practical tools for your team and your candidates, free to use and share.

Free · No account needed

Interview Co-Pilot

Keep interview guidance and notes close at hand, so you can focus on the person.

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What’s included

During the interview

Keep prompts and notes close at hand while staying focused on the conversation.

Notes stay in your browser

Co-Pilot does not record or transcribe interviews. Notes clear on reload, navigation, or closing the tab unless you copy them elsewhere.

Free · No account needed

Candidate Library

Share practical interview, compensation, and offer guidance with candidates.

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What’s included

Interview preparation

Role-based practice questions, interview formats, storytelling frameworks, and preparation guidance.

Compensation & equity

Equity, vesting, cost-of-living, compensation, and benefits resources to support informed decisions.

Career & offer decisions

Guidance on offers, negotiation, company environments, and career transitions.

Inclusive preparation

Resources covering accommodations, career gaps, and questions candidates may encounter in the process.

Free · No account needed

Hiring Playbook

Practical guides, templates, and decision frameworks for your hiring team.

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What’s included

Interviewing & resume review

Guides on technical resumes, interview questions, bias awareness, and assessment approaches.

Templates & decision models

Offer, keep-alive, and rejection templates alongside frameworks for hiring decisions and panel management.

Tools, management & onboarding

Resources on selecting hiring tools, supporting managers, and preparing for a new hire.

Free · No account needed

Savings calculator

Explore potential time and cost savings using your own hiring assumptions.

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What’s included

Use your own assumptions

Explore estimated savings from changes to hiring volume, interviewer time, and process effort. Results are illustrative, not guaranteed outcomes.

Before you get started.

Who uses Yogen, and what do candidates receive?

Recruiters and hiring managers define the role and plan the process together. Interviewers use the prepared questions, guidance, and practice tools. Talent leaders use audits and shared hiring work to support consistency.

Candidates can receive a role-specific Candidate Packet and use the public preparation library. They do not need a Yogen account to read a shared PDF or access public resources.

What is generated, and what does our team decide?

Intake supplies the context for job descriptions, sourcing strings, interview questions, and role documents. Your team defines requirements and stages, reviews AI suggestions, checks generated content, and decides what to use.

Co-Pilot is a browser-based aid for notes and guidance, not an AI recording or transcription service. Yogen’s AI is advisory and is not intended to make final employment decisions.

How do access, privacy, and administration work?

Yogen runs in your browser. Organizations manage membership, roles, seats, and billing. Optional authenticator-based multi-factor authentication and session controls are available.

AI-assisted features send feature-specific context to managed AI services for processing. Co-Pilot notes stay in browser memory and disappear on reload, navigation, or tab closure unless copied elsewhere.

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What happens after the free trial?

The trial lasts 30 days and requires no credit card. After it ends, your account remains active with view-only access to previous intakes, continued Process Audits, and public resources.

Creating new intakes, generating PDFs, and using AI-assisted features require an active license. Candidates can continue using the free public tools and guides.

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Yogen solves the hardest part of hiring - getting teams aligned fast and learning from every hire. It turns recruiting into a continuous improvement system where alignment drives quality, and quality drives growth.
Dru Kirk

Global Talent Acquisition Leader & Advisor

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