# Scenario-based guides for candidates and employers

Each guide here starts from a real situation, not a feature list: negotiating a new offer versus asking for an internal raise, prepping for a first technical loop after a career change, or an employer trying to screen a stack of applicants without a recruiter reading every resume by hand. The guide walks through the actual decision and points to the specific tools that address it.

A feature page tells you what a tool does. A use case tells you what to do when you're staring at a real situation, an offer letter with a number that feels low, a job posting that got 400 applicants in a week, and don't know where to start. These guides are organized around that moment rather than around the product's own menu structure.

## What's covered on the candidate and employer side

Candidate guides cover situations like negotiating a new job offer versus asking for a raise in a role you already hold, two conversations that call for different framing even though both use the same salary negotiation interview type underneath. Others cover prepping for a technical loop after switching fields, where real code execution across multiple languages matters more than general interview advice, and staying on top of a multi-employer search without missing an interview invite buried in an inbox.

Employer guides cover situations like a single job posting pulling in more applicants than a team can manually review, where a screening rules engine that tags and routes candidates the moment their interview finishes does the first pass instead of a person; a pipeline that's gone quiet with candidates sitting untouched past a week, where stale-candidate nudges and a weekly digest catch what a busy recruiter would otherwise miss; and building a shortlist for a hard-to-fill role by searching a talent pool in plain language instead of scanning resumes one at a time.

Each guide names the 3 to 5 features that actually matter for that specific situation, not a full product tour, and links straight to them.

## Explore this section

- [Better hiring signal than resumes](/use-cases/hiring-signal-quality)
- [Campus and early-career recruiting](/use-cases/campus-recruiting)
- [Consistent, fair interviews for every candidate](/use-cases/interview-consistency)
- [High-volume candidate screening](/use-cases/high-volume-screening)
- [Hiring at startups without a recruiting team](/use-cases/startup-hiring)
- [Hiring remote candidates](/use-cases/remote-hiring)
- [Hourly and frontline hiring](/use-cases/hourly-hiring)
- [Improving candidate experience](/use-cases/candidate-experience)
- [Interview prep after a coding bootcamp](/use-cases/bootcamp-grads)
- [Interview prep for a career change](/use-cases/career-switching)
- [Interview prep for a new grad job search](/use-cases/new-grad-job-search)
- [Interview prep for a remote job search](/use-cases/remote-job-search)
- [Interview prep for international students](/use-cases/international-students)
- [Interview prep for internship hunting](/use-cases/internship-hunting)
- [Interview prep for large tech company interviews](/use-cases/faang-interview-prep)
- [Interview prep for returning to work after a break](/use-cases/returning-to-work)
- [Interview prep for veterans entering civilian careers](/use-cases/veterans-transitioning)
- [Interviewing again after a layoff](/use-cases/job-search-after-layoff)
- [MBA job search interview prep](/use-cases/mba-job-search)
- [Phone screen interview prep](/use-cases/phone-screen-prep)
- [Practicing a new job offer negotiation](/use-cases/negotiating-a-job-offer)
- [Practicing an internal raise conversation](/use-cases/negotiating-a-raise)
- [Practicing away interview anxiety](/use-cases/overcoming-interview-anxiety)
- [Recruiting agencies and staffing](/use-cases/agency-recruiting)
- [Reducing time-to-hire](/use-cases/reducing-time-to-hire)
- [Replacing recruiter phone screens](/use-cases/replacing-phone-screens)
- [Seasonal hiring surges](/use-cases/seasonal-hiring)
- [Small-business hiring](/use-cases/small-business-hiring)
- [Structured interviews at scale](/use-cases/structured-interviews-at-scale)
- [Technical hiring without engineer hours](/use-cases/technical-hiring)

## Frequently asked questions

### Are these guides for candidates, employers, or both?

Both, but each individual guide is written for one side or the other, since a candidate negotiating a raise and an employer clearing a stale pipeline are solving completely different problems even though they're both using Intervieux.

### Is the negotiation guidance different for a new offer versus an existing job?

Yes. The salary negotiation interview type has a new-offer mode and a separate internal-raise mode, since asking a new employer to move on a number and asking a current manager for more money call for different framing and a different starting position.

### How does an employer guide help with a flood of applicants?

It points to the screening rules engine, which runs automatically the moment each interview finishes and can tag, route, flag, or notify based on scores, experience, and skills, so a recruiter isn't reading through every application by hand before narrowing the list.

### Do these guides cover switching careers into a technical role?

Yes, one guide walks through prepping for a first technical interview loop after changing fields, where practicing with real code execution across multiple languages matters more than general interview tips aimed at someone already in the field.

## Related pages

- [Interview prep by college major](/interview-prep)
- [AI interview practice by role](/interviews)
- [What Intervieux's feature set covers](/features)
- [Browse open roles](/jobs)
- [Frequently asked questions](/faq)

## Find your situation

Browse the guides below for the scenario closest to yours, whether that's an offer you're about to negotiate or a pipeline that needs a faster first pass.

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