AI-Powered Interview-Automation Bot Powered by OpenAI | Zoho Developer Hangout (ZDH) – Episode 28

Zoho Developer Hangout (ZDH) is a space where our developer community members discuss all things tech and how to overcome real-time business challenges. Recruiting teams often spend up to 75% of their interview time on routine first-round screening. That's just too much! For his ZDC Hackathon 2025 project, Kotaro Izumida decided to tackle that problem. In this session, he will walk us through how he built an end-to-end AI Interview System using Zoho SalesIQ, CRM, Creator, and Bookings integrated with OpenAI. You will learn how a chatbot can conduct structured interviews round the clock, save data directly to custom CRM modules, and allow recruiters to manage the process via a Zoho Creator dashboard. KEY TAKEAWAYS * Integrating OpenAI with Zoho SalesIQ Zobot via Connections * Designing custom CRM modules for structured data capture * Building recruiter dashboards in Zoho Creator * Practical patterns for connecting multiple Zoho apps * Lessons from pivoting from Zoho Cliq to SalesIQ and handling Deluge messaging CHAPTERS: 00:43 – Presenter Introduction 01:32 – Agenda 02:19 – The Problem and its Impact 04:24 – The Solution 06:01 – System Architecture 07:03 – Zoho SalesIQ: Interview Bot 08:39 – Zoho CRM: Custom Modules 10:06 – AI-Generated Evaluation 11:01 – Creator + Bookings + Analytics Integration 12:17 – Demo 1: Candidate Experience 15:09 – Demo 2: Automatic CRM Storage 16:53 – Demo 3: Workbench + Analytics 18:52 – Challenge 1: The Platform Pivot 19:27 – Challenge 2: SalesIQ Message Handling 20:13 – Business Impact: Before vs. After 21:15 – ROI Summary 22:00 – Feature Roadmap 22:36 – Key Takeaways For all those who missed the previous episodes, please visit the ZDH playlist link below: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlC7sQNISSUTspKlOAhG5A6AhJSkAe87c For more such developer-centric events, visit: https://community.zoho.com/developer/events/ If you're not part of the Zoho Community, and would like to network with others and benefit from all that the community has to offer, visit our platform mentioned below. Sign in using your existing Zoho credentials or create a new account through the Sign Up form. https://www.zohocommunity.com/ Drop an email to zdc(at)zohocorp(dot)com for further information. 👇 SUBSCRIBE👇 ️ ♦️ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/zoho ️ ♦️ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/zoho-community/ ️ ♦️ Twitter - https://x.com/ZohoCommunity ️ ♦️ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ZohoCommunity