Who it’s for: ATS administrators and vacancy managers
Platform: Sense ATS
Available on: Elite and Enterprise plans, or Professional with the ATS add-on
Before you begin
Make sure you have:
☑️ Access to a vacancy you can manage in Sense ATS
☑️ AMI interviews enabled for your organisation
To enable AMI interviews, go to ATS > Settings > AMI Interview and turn on Enable AMI interviews. You’ll need permission to manage this setting.
💡 New to AMI? If you haven’t used AMI before, these articles will help you get started:
What is AMI in Sense Workplace? — learn what AMI is and how it can help you
Access and use the AMI workspace — learn how to open AMI, navigate the workspace and start using its features
Overview
AMI-assisted application screening helps you assess applicants against the requirements of a vacancy. You work with AMI to create screening questions, prioritise the skills that matter most and define what makes a suitable answer.
In Sense ATS, this feature is called Interview, although it’s used for application screening rather than a traditional interview.
The Quizzy agent guides you through setting up the questions. Once applicants complete them, AMI assesses their responses to help you review and compare candidates.
For practical advice on creating effective questions and interpreting results, see:
👉 ATS: Get the best out of AMI-assisted screening.
Set up AMI-assisted screening
Step 1: Open the Interview setup
Go to
ATS > Vacancies.Open the vacancy you want to configure.
Select the Interview tab.
Click Setup interview.
AMI opens in a separate browser tab with the Quizzy agent selected.
💡 Tip: If AMI doesn’t open, check whether your browser is blocking pop-up windows.
Step 2: Choose how many questions to ask
AMI asks how many screening questions you want to create.
Enter the number of questions you’d like applicants to answer. A short screening might use 3 questions, while a more detailed assessment may need more.
Step 3: Set your assessment priorities
AMI presents 10 assessment categories and asks you to rate their importance for the vacancy.
Give each category a rating from 1 to 10, where higher numbers indicate greater importance.
The available categories are:
Experience
Critical thinking
Problem solving
Communication skills
Team skills
Leadership
Organisational or time management
Customer Service Skills
Learning Agility
Flexibility
AMI uses your ratings to help prioritise the areas to assess and calculate each category’s percentage weighting.
💡 Tip: If you’ve requested only a few questions, AMI may focus on the highest-rated categories. You can ask it to include other categories or increase the number of questions to cover more areas.
Step 4: Review and refine the questions
AMI uses the vacancy details and your assessment priorities to suggest screening questions.
For each question, AMI provides the following settings:
Setting | Description |
Question | What the applicant will be asked |
Category | The main skill or competency being assessed |
Acceptance criteria | The information or evidence the applicant’s answer should include. |
Accepted answer | The qualification, experience or requirement the applicant must demonstrate. |
Is termination | The applicant must answer the question. If their answer doesn’t meet the essential requirement, screening ends early |
Is optional | Whether the applicant can skip the question |
Acceptance criteria and accepted answers
These settings help AMI understand what to look for when assessing an applicant’s response.
Acceptance criteria describe the information or evidence the applicant should include in their answer for it to be considered complete and suitable for assessment.
Accepted answer describes the actual qualification, experience or requirement the applicant needs to demonstrate.
For example:
Setting | Example |
Question | Are you currently able to work in or commute to Doncaster, UK? |
Acceptance criteria | The applicant clearly confirms whether they can work in or commute to Doncaster |
Accepted answer | Yes |
The acceptance criteria establish what the applicant needs to communicate, while the accepted answer establishes what would satisfy the vacancy’s requirement.
Review both settings when configuring each question to make sure they reflect what you’re looking for.
👉 For practical advice on refining questions and assessment criteria, see ATS: Get the best out of AMI-assisted screening.
Configure required, optional and termination questions
Each screening question can be required or optional. You can also configure a question to end screening early if an applicant doesn’t meet an essential requirement.
Required questions
Applicants must answer required questions to complete screening. An answer that doesn’t meet the acceptance criteria does not automatically end screening unless the question is also configured as a termination question.
Optional questions
Applicants can skip optional questions without preventing them from completing screening.
Termination questions
Termination questions check whether applicants meet essential requirements for the vacancy, such as being able to work at a particular location.
If an applicant’s answer doesn’t meet the requirement, AMI ends screening without asking the remaining questions.
For example, you might ask whether an applicant can work at a required location.
If their answer doesn’t meet the requirement, AMI ends the screening without asking the remaining questions.
⚠️ Important: Termination questions cannot be optional. When screening ends because of a termination question, the applicant’s details, CV and answers provided up to that point are still saved in ATS. The applicant is not automatically rejected or moved to a Rejected pipeline stage.
Use termination questions for essential requirements rather than preferred skills or experience.
Step 5: Confirm and save your questions
When you’re happy with the questions and their settings:
Review the final question set with AMI, including the acceptance criteria and other settings.
Confirm that you’re happy with the configuration.
Wait for AMI to confirm that the questions have been saved.
Return to the vacancy in ATS.
✅ Your AMI screening configuration is saved against the vacancy.
Preview your screening configuration
Use Preview to review the saved questions and assessment settings.
Go to ATS > Vacancies and open the vacancy.
Select the Interview tab.
Click Preview.
The Interview preview shows:
each screening question and its assessment category
whether questions are required or optional
the acceptance criteria and accepted answers
the importance ratings and calculated percentage weightings
Preview of an AMI screening configuration showing questions and assessment settings
Edit an existing screening configuration
You can return to AMI to change existing questions or add new ones.
Go to ATS > Vacancies and open the vacancy.
Select the Interview tab.
Click Edit.
AMI opens the original setup conversation with the Quizzy agent selected.Tell AMI what you’d like to change.
Review the updated questions and settings.
Confirm the final changes with AMI.
Wait for AMI to confirm that the changes have been saved.
Return to ATS and click Preview to check the updated configuration.
✅ Your updated screening configuration is saved for future applications.
How editing affects existing applicants
Changes to screening questions and acceptance criteria apply to future applications only.
Existing applicants keep the questions they originally answered, along with their answers and scores.
This means applicants may have been assessed against different versions of the screening configuration if you make changes during recruitment.
When reviewing applicants, bear this in mind rather than assuming everyone answered the questions currently shown in Preview.
Reuse screening questions from another vacancy
If you’ve already created suitable screening questions for a similar role, you can copy the configuration instead of starting again.
Go to ATS > Vacancies and open the vacancy you want to configure.
Select the Interview tab.
Click Select from existing vacancy.
Open the Source vacancy dropdown in the Copy interview from another vacancy window.
Select the vacancy containing the questions you want to reuse. You can use the search box to find it.
Click Copy.
✅ The screening configuration is copied to your vacancy.
You can click Preview to review the copied questions and category weightings, or Edit to tailor them to the new role.
How applicants complete screening
The application experience depends on where applicants apply.
Applying directly through Sense ATS
Applicants using the Sense ATS vacancy board can click Start application with AMI.
AMI guides them through the application, helping them provide their details, upload a CV if they have one and answer the screening questions.
Applicants can review their answers before completing the application.
Applying through Indeed
Applicants applying through Indeed complete the configured screening questions as part of the Indeed Apply form, rather than through an interactive AMI conversation.
Their answers are returned to ATS for assessment by AMI.
Because Indeed applicants see the questions as written, without additional conversational guidance, make sure each question clearly explains what information applicants should include.
👉 See ATS: Publish vacancies to Indeed for more information about screening through Indeed Apply.
Review applicant screening results
Once applicants have completed screening, you can review their responses and AMI assessments.
Go to ATS > Vacancies and open the vacancy.
Select the Interview tab.
Select an applicant from the list.
🖊️ Note: You can also review screening results through ATS > Applicants. Click the applicant’s row for the relevant vacancy, then select the Interview tab. This shows the same screening results for that applicant only.
An applicant may appear more than once in the Applicants list if they’ve applied for multiple vacancies, so make sure you open the correct application.
The available results include:
Result | What it shows |
Applicant match | AMI’s overall assessment of how closely the applicant matches the vacancy requirements |
Answer quality score | AMI’s assessment of the applicant’s screening answers |
Category scores | Assessments for the skills and competencies covered by the questions |
Ranking | The applicant’s position relative to other assessed applicants |
Screening responses | The questions the applicant answered and their responses |
You can also open an applicant’s profile and select the Interview tab to review their individual screening results.
AMI-generated scores are guidance, not definitive measures of suitability. Scores can vary between AI assessments, even when the same information is provided.
Review applicants’ responses, experience and qualifications alongside their scores when making recruitment decisions.
👉 For more guidance, see ATS: Get the best out of AMI-assisted screening.
FAQs
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Q: Why can’t I set up or edit an AMI interview?
A: If you can’t set up or edit an AMI interview, check that Enable AMI interviews is turned on under ATS > Settings > AMI Interview. You’ll also need the appropriate ATS permissions.
Q: What happens to existing screening questions if AMI interviews are disabled?
A: When AMI interviews are disabled in Sense ATS, applicants use the standard application form, even for vacancies with existing screening questions.
You cannot create or edit AMI screening configurations while the feature is disabled. Existing questions and applicant results are retained and become available again when AMI interviews are enabled.
Q: Can I change screening questions after applicants have started applying in ATS?
A: Yes. To change screening questions, open the vacancy’s Interview tab and click Edit.
The updated questions apply to future applications only. Existing applicants retain their original questions, answers and scores.
Q: What happens if an applicant fails a termination question in ATS?
A: If an applicant doesn’t meet the requirement of a termination question, AMI ends the screening without asking the remaining questions.
Their details, CV and responses provided up to that point are still saved in ATS. The applicant is not automatically rejected.
Q: Can I reuse an AMI interview from another vacancy?
A: Yes, you can reuse an AMI interview from another vacancy. Open the vacancy’s Interview tab, click Select from existing vacancy, choose the source vacancy and click Copy.
You can then preview or edit the copied screening configuration.
Q: Can applicants complete AMI screening questions through Indeed?
A: Yes. When a vacancy with AMI-assisted screening is published to Indeed, applicants complete the screening questions through the Indeed Apply form.
Their answers are returned to ATS for assessment by AMI.