Twenty minutes, usually booked at short notice, and it decides whether you ever meet the hiring manager. AceRound listens to the call and keeps your talking points on the laptop in front of you.
Nothing installed on your phone. Nothing joins the call.
Recruiters work from a checklist. Here it is, with how to answer each — useful whether or not you ever install anything.
Forward-looking, never bitter. One sentence on what you want next, one on why this role has it. Complaints about a current manager end screens.
Ninety seconds, not five minutes. Recruiters are checking your story matches the document in front of them, not learning your life history.
A range, anchored on researched market data, with a reason attached. Answering with a single number early is how people cost themselves the raise.
A specific date beats "flexible". Vagueness here reads as not seriously looking.
The hiring manager wrote this one. Answer with a project, a scale figure, and what you personally did.
Ask about the team’s current problem and the interview process ahead. Both make you sound like a candidate who is choosing too.
It arrives about twelve minutes in, casually, and most people answer it in four seconds with a number they regret for two years. An offer is usually built on whatever you say here.
What appears on your screen when it comes up
Take the call on speaker as normal. AceRound runs on your laptop and listens through its microphone — it never dials in, never appears as a participant, and needs no access to the line.
Recruiters jump around and interrupt. Questions are recognised as they are asked, in whatever order they come, including the ones bolted on at the end.
Speech recognition is tuned for compressed speaker audio, so a normal room and a phone on speaker are enough.
A transcript and summary of what was asked stays in your account — which is what makes preparing for the hiring manager round much easier. Delete any session whenever you want.
