Campus hiring software

Campus hiring software that skips the first-round phone-screen scramble

Truffle is candidate screening software that combines one-way video interviews, talent assessments, and resume screening. Send one link to every Handshake applicant, career-fair lead, or info-session signup. Your campus team reviews Candidate Shorts, AI match scores, and one-paragraph summaries between career fairs. Decide who flies out for the superday. No 200-phone-screen weeks in October.
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The campus hiring problem

Campus hiring's bottleneck isn't volume. It's evidence before the superday.

A single new-grad software engineer posting on Handshake can pull 2,000 to 3,000 applications in a season. An analyst posting at a recognizable brand can hit 5,000. Most look alike on paper: same target schools, same 3.7 GPAs, same internship brand names, same club leadership lines. The traditional first round is a phone call, and your campus team can't take 200 phone screens while also flying to 15 career fairs in six weeks. Strong-match candidates accept the first credible offer. Campus applicants in demand majors have multiple offers by Thanksgiving. A three-week gap between application and first interview is a lost candidate.
80-150
Applications per average job posting
48 hours
Before candidates accept elsewhere
30 seconds
Per Candidate Short review

Best campus hiring software compared

Five tools campus teams shortlist in 2026, ranked by fit for analyst, intern, new-grad, and rotational cohorts.
Tool Best for What sets it apart
Truffle Candidate screening Campus teams who want evidence before the superday without handing the call to AI Combines resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments. AI surfaces 30-second Candidate Shorts and match scores; your team decides. Live in 10 minutes. $149/month Self-Serve.
HireVue Video + assessments Fortune 500 campus programs with enterprise budgets Enterprise video interviewing with game-based assessments. Strong F500 references, role-type tabs across professional, technical, intern, and hourly. Custom pricing, enterprise rollout.
Gem Recruiting CRM Teams already on an enterprise TA CRM where events are the lead source Campus events module inside Gem's recruiting CRM. Deep event attribution, agentic AI sourcing, enterprise logos. Quote-based pricing.
Yello Event management University relations teams running 30+ career fairs a season Campus-only platform built around event management, booth scheduling, and 1:1 meeting flows. Strongest when events are the primary source of hire.
RippleMatch Matching network Teams whose campus problem is finding candidates, not evaluating them Candidate-side matching network. Students apply to you via AI recommendation. Complements a screening tool rather than replacing one.
How it works for campus

Campus-ready screening, live in 10 minutes per position

One screening workflow per position. Same link for Handshake applicants, career-fair leads, and info-session signups. Your campus team reviews on their phone between flights.
Truffle interview setup for Retail Sales Associate with four AI-suggested questions tagged customer-instinct, de-escalation, and composure
/ step 1 · distribution

Post the link to Handshake, QR it at the career fair, text it to an info-session lead

Truffle creates one Position Link per role. Post it on Handshake, Symplicity, or 12twenty, QR-code it on a career-fair flyer, or text it from the booth to a student who stopped by. Campus captains at target schools can bulk-invite from a career-services applicant CSV. Every applicant lands in the same screening workflow, Handshake-sourced or referral.
Post to Handshake, Symplicity, 12twenty, or your careers page
QR code on career-fair or info-session collateral
Text the link from the booth or after a coffee chat
FAIR DAY TO SHORTLIST

From the career-fair booth to the superday shortlist

One QR code on your flyer. One link in your careers-page email. One shortlist your campus team reviews in the cab to the next fair.

Step 1

Booth QR

Students scan the flyer, land on your Position Link.

Step 2

Five-minute interview

Same night, from the dorm. Four behavioral questions, mobile-first.

Step 3

AI surfaces signal

30-second Candidate Shorts, match scores, one-paragraph summaries.

Step 4

You decide the superday

Review between flights. Fly out the candidates who earned it.

Step 2 · One-way video interview

Three to five behavioral questions. Five minutes. See who can pass a superday round before the flight gets booked.

Configure three to five behavioral or motivational questions per role. AI suggests them from your job description, and you accept, edit, or write your own. Short enough for a senior to film between classes, long enough to surface structured thinking, motivation fit, communication, and coachability. Qualification Questions capture work authorization, graduation date, target start date, and geography before anyone records, without auto-rejecting anyone. Your campus team decides.
AI-suggested behavioral questions for analyst, SWE intern, SDR new-grad, and rotational roles
5 to 7 minutes of candidate time, mobile-first
Work-authorization and graduation-date capture before video
Maya Torres recording a one-way video interview on her phone, answering a retail customer-instinct question
Magic Review showing Devon Campbell's Candidate Shorts for a Retail Sales Associate position with customer-instinct and composure clips
Step 3 · Review

Replace the first-round phone-screen scramble with 30-second Candidate Shorts

For each completed candidate, AI compiles a 30-second Candidate Short, writes a one-paragraph AI Summary, and ranks against your rubric with a match score. Your campus recruiter or hiring manager reviews between info sessions or in the cab to the next career fair. The superday, the coffee chat, and the info session still happen. Truffle just gets the right candidate flown in, with match-score reasoning a compliance review or a program lead can follow.
30-second Candidate Shorts with reasoning for every clip
AI Summaries of every answer, before you press play
Match scores against your rubric, transparent by criterion
Step 4 · Multi-school

Every school, every program track, one review queue, same rubric

A campus program lead assigns campus captains, school leads, or hiring-manager reviewers as Reviewers on a single new-grad or intern position. Share shortlists via secure link with school leads who don't have Truffle accounts. Every school's candidates are evaluated against the same operator-defined rubric, and the campus lead sees every rating in one scorecard. Rotational programs run the same rails across finance, operations, strategy, and marketing tracks.
Per-school Reviewer roles for campus captains and school leads
Share shortlists without requiring Truffle logins
Collaborative ratings visible in one team scorecard
Team scorecard for Alma Vasquez reviewed by Store #4 Manager, Store #12 Manager, and District Manager with retail-specific criteria
Scope

One job, done well

Truffle is the screening layer before the superday. Sourcing, events, and work-authorization checks stay in the tools you already run.
Checkmark indicating what Truffle does
Truffle is
The screening layer before the superday. AI surfaces Candidate Shorts, match scores, and one-paragraph summaries. Your campus team decides who flies out for the superday.
Checkmark indicating what Truffle is not
Truffle isn't
A Handshake, Symplicity, or 12twenty replacement (we post to them). Work-authorization verification or OPT / CPT tracking (Tracker I-9, Checkr, WorkBright). Background checks or education verification (Checkr, Accurate, Sterling). Coding tests at technical depth (HackerRank, CodeSignal, Karat). Campus event management or booth scheduling (Yello, Gem, Rakuna). An ATS of record (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby). Truffle sits before those. Your stack takes over from there.
Roles we help you hire for

Campus roles Truffle screens for

One workflow, tuned per role. Truffle surfaces the signal that matters for each job, from SWE interns to rotational analyst classes.
Role What you're screening for
Analyst Rotational Program (LDP)How they structure a messy problem when you haven't handed them the answer
Software Engineer InternHow they talk through code they've never seen before
Software Engineer New GradHow they debug out loud when the system fights them
Business / Consulting AnalystCase-frame instinct when the prompt is deliberately vague
Sales Development New GradComposure the third time a prospect says "not interested"
Product / Data Analyst InternWhat they notice first when handed an unfamiliar dataset
Operations AssociateHow they prioritize when three things break at once
Marketing / Brand AssociateHow they pitch an idea when the brief is one sentence
Go deeper on campus screening

Campus hiring software is one workflow. Here's where to go next.

Most campus teams start with one-way video interviews and add structure from there.
High-volume hiring
Screening 2,000-plus applicants a season across campus and new-grad postings? See how Truffle handles high-volume screening without adding campus recruiters.
→ Learn more about high-volume hiring
Seasonal and cohort hiring
Campus hiring runs on a calendar. See how Truffle handles cohort-based cycles, from September OCI to December offers to July starts.
→ Learn more about seasonal hiring

Integrates with your ATS and other tools

Connect Truffle to the applicant tracking system and workflow management tools your team already uses. Candidate data flows between platforms so you never duplicate work or lose information.
Zapier
Connect Truffle to 7,000+ apps through Zapier. No code required—just pick your tools and automate.
Ashby
Deeper candidate insights when you connect Ashby and Truffle.
Breezy
Improve your recruiting process by integrating Truffle with Breezy HR.
Indeed
Send Truffle interview links to people who apply to your Indeed job posts.
Zapier
Connect Truffle to 7,000+ apps through Zapier. No code required—just pick your tools and automate.
Ashby
Deeper candidate insights when you connect Ashby and Truffle.
Breezy
Improve your recruiting process by integrating Truffle with Breezy HR.
Indeed
Send Truffle interview links to people who apply to your Indeed job posts.
Zapier
Connect Truffle to 7,000+ apps through Zapier. No code required—just pick your tools and automate.
Ashby
Deeper candidate insights when you connect Ashby and Truffle.
Breezy
Improve your recruiting process by integrating Truffle with Breezy HR.
Indeed
Send Truffle interview links to people who apply to your Indeed job posts.
Zapier
Connect Truffle to 7,000+ apps through Zapier. No code required—just pick your tools and automate.
Ashby
Deeper candidate insights when you connect Ashby and Truffle.
Breezy
Improve your recruiting process by integrating Truffle with Breezy HR.
Indeed
Send Truffle interview links to people who apply to your Indeed job posts.
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Native ATS integrations
Connect with Ashby, Breezy HR, Indeed, and other ATS to sync candidate data, scores, and screening decisions directly into your ATS.
Zapier for everything else
Route candidate data to 7,000+ apps — your HRIS, follow-up tools, or custom workflows. No code required.
No ATS? No problem
Share a unique link for each position via email, job boards, or your careers page. Truffle works standalone or alongside your existing stack.

FAQs about hiring for campus

Will campus candidates actually complete a one-way video interview?

Yes, and at higher rates than any other segment. Most campus positions on Truffle run three to five questions and take five to seven minutes on a phone, and candidates see the question count and time limits before they record. Gen Z applicants are the most video-native cohort Truffle serves. Completion is itself signal. A new-grad who films five minutes is more motivated than one who mass-applied through Handshake.

How fast can I set up an analyst or intern position?

About 10 minutes. Paste the job description, accept the AI-suggested behavioral questions, add your branding, and share the Position Link. No implementation project, no vendor onboarding, no IT involvement. You can have an open analyst or SWE intern position live before your next career-fair flight.

Does Truffle work across multiple schools or program tracks?

Yes. A campus program lead sets up one position and assigns campus captains, school leads, or hiring managers as Reviewers, each reviewing their own candidates independently. Share shortlists via secure link with school leads who don't have Truffle accounts. Every school's candidates are evaluated against the same operator-defined rubric, and you see every rating in one team scorecard.

Can I still run info sessions, coffee chats, and the superday?

That's the point. Truffle replaces the first-round phone screen, not the superday, the coffee chat, or the info session. The in-person conversations still happen. The difference is your campus team walks into them with a Candidate Short, an AI Summary, and a match score, so they know what to ask.

Does Truffle integrate with Handshake, Workday, or Greenhouse?

Zapier connects Truffle to Handshake, Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, HackerRank, CodeSignal, and 7,000 other apps. Native integrations with Ashby, Breezy HR, and Indeed sync candidate data directly. You can also use Truffle as a standalone screening layer if your campus stack is a careers page and a Handshake posting.

How does Truffle handle international students on OPT or CPT?

Truffle captures work-authorization status via Qualification Questions before anyone records, without auto-rejecting anyone. The campus team sees the flag alongside the Candidate Short and match score. Truffle does not verify OPT, CPT, or STEM OPT status. Tracker I-9, Checkr, and WorkBright handle verification downstream, after your campus team has decided who to advance.

What's the price for a campus program?

Self-Serve is $149 per month, or $99 per month on the annual plan. Unlimited team seats, unlimited positions, 7-day free trial, no credit card. Custom plans are available for larger programs and enterprise campus teams.

Does Truffle replace coding tests like HackerRank or CodeSignal?

No. Truffle is the screening layer before the technical round. HackerRank, CodeSignal, and Karat handle coding depth. Truffle surfaces communication, structured thinking, and coachability in video responses, then hands the strongest candidates to your technical pipeline.