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Requesting a Spark Hire Meet video interview from a Crew record in NextCrew

The Video Interview Happens On Their Time. You Watch On Yours.

Request a Spark Hire Meet video interview from a Crew Member's record, and the finished interview links straight back to that record — with nobody booking a single call.

Completed interview link shown on a Crew Member record in NextCrew

No calendar

Nothing to book, nothing to rebook

One-way video

They answer on their own time

Link comes back

To the record you sent it from

Sent from the record

Where the Crew Member already is

ABOUT THE INTEGRATION

What Is Spark Hire Meet — And Why Does It Matter?

Spark Hire Meet is a video interviewing platform. Rather than finding a slot that works for both of you, you send a set of questions and the candidate records their answers whenever they can — evenings, between shifts, on a phone. You watch them back when it suits you, and you can pass them to a colleague without arranging anything. Spark Hire describes their customer base as hundreds of staffing and recruiting firms.

Forty people apply for twelve roles on Saturday. Getting through them means a coordinator working down a call list, leaving voicemails, rebooking the ones who miss and starting again the next morning. A third of those calls never happen. The client wants names by Thursday, and the shortlist is still four phone calls from being finished.

Sending the interview from the Crew Member's record takes out the part that costs the time: the scheduling.

KEY BENEFITS

Why Agencies Connect NextCrew And Spark Hire

No Calendar to Negotiate

The request goes out from the record with a deadline attached, and the Crew Member answers whenever they can. Your coordinator stops spending the week trading voicemails to find a slot that suits two people.

The Result Finds the Record

When the interview is finished, the link lands on the same record you sent it from. There is no second system to keep checking and nothing to look up by name before you can tell whether somebody has answered.

HOW IT WORKS

From Request to Shortlist

Connect Spark Hire once

Install Spark Hire from the NextCrew Marketplace and enter your Spark Hire API key. NextCrew checks it as you enter it, so a wrong key is caught straight away.

Send it from the record

Open the Crew Member, choose one of your Spark Hire interviews, set a deadline and send.

They record their answers

On their own time, from a phone or a laptop, any time up to the deadline you set.

The interview links back

The record updates when it is finished, with a link through to Spark Hire to watch it and score it.

FAQs

Spark Hire Integration FAQ

Yes. Spark Hire Meet is a separate product with its own subscription, billed by Spark Hire, and the integration connects your NextCrew site to it. Once the two are connected, your recruiters work from NextCrew.
Install Spark Hire from the NextCrew Marketplace and enter your Spark Hire API key. NextCrew checks that the key is valid as you enter it, so you know immediately whether you are connected rather than finding out when the first request fails.
The Crew Member's name and email, the interview you chose and the deadline you set — enough for Spark Hire to invite them. Their recorded answers stay in Spark Hire; NextCrew holds the status and the link.
The link does, on the Crew Member's record. You click through to Spark Hire to watch the interview and score it, which keeps the recording under Spark Hire's controls rather than copied into a second system.
This integration requests one-way video interviews, where the Crew Member records answers on their own time. Spark Hire also offers live interviews and assessments, and those are run from Spark Hire directly.
Staffing agencies screening more applicants than they can phone — event, hospitality and industrial staffing in particular, where a single weekend can bring in more applications than a coordinator can call back before the client needs names.

Stop Chasing People For a Time That Suits.

See how an interview goes out from a Crew Member's record and comes back to it.