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Truffle is candidate screening software that combines resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments under one reusable setup. Clone last season's interview, criteria, and scoring rubric in one click. AI scores every candidate against the same rubric you defined last year.
Seasonal hiring software loved by hundreds of great companies
The seasonal problem
Retail teams rebuild the screening process every November. Every year. For fifteen years now. Last October's interview questions, qualification gates, match rubric, and scoring criteria are lost in an inbox or a deleted Slack thread. The team that ran Q4 2024 is not the team running Q4 2026, and the playbook walked out the door.
Hospitality hits the same wall in May. Tax and accounting hits it in January. Campus and tutoring hit it in August. The window is four to six weeks and the setup work eats the first two. By the time you post the position, candidates are already taking offers somewhere else.
Most seasonal hiring software answers with a chatbot or a talent pool. Chatbots automate the conversation. Talent pools re-engage last year's applicants. Neither one preserves the screening process itself, which is the actual thing that breaks between seasons.
The playbook is the product. Last year's interview questions, qualification gates, and scoring rubric are institutional IP. A seasonal recruiting tool should let you save them, clone them, and run them again without starting over.
How it works
Four steps, one Position Link, the same rubric you defined a year ago. You keep the decision.
Duplicate Interview copies your title, description, questions, qualifications, AI personalization, and branding from any past position. Candidates are fresh, the link is new, the rubric is the one you tuned last year. Open the clone, change the season and any dated details, publish.
Position Link is one URL per position. Drop it on Indeed, the careers page, a QR code on an in-store flyer, a recruiter referral text, or a staffing-agency roster. CSV Bulk Invite uploads an ATS export or last year's applicant list and sends branded invitations in one action. Qualification Questions filter must-haves before anyone records.
A one-way interview respects candidate time and keeps volume moving. They tap the link, meet your branded welcome, record short answers on their own schedule, and move on. Seasonal applicants are overwhelmingly on phones. Mobile-first is not a bonus.
AI Match surfaces a match percentage per candidate with reasoning tied to your criteria. AI Summaries give you the gist before you press play. Candidate Shorts compress each interview into a 30-second highlight reel. Magic Review opens the candidate profile beside the ranked list with keyboard shortcuts to advance, hold, or reject.
Why seasonal teams switch to Truffle
Most seasonal tools ship a chatbot or a talent pool. Truffle saves the screening process itself and lets you run it again every peak cycle.
Duplicate Interview copies your title, description, questions, qualifications, AI personalization, and branding. The work you did last year lives on. No seasonal recruiting tool in the category names this mechanic.
Rolling talent pools re-engage last year's candidates. That is candidate reuse. Truffle does screening-process reuse, which is the part that actually breaks between seasons.
Resume screening with AI Match against your role criteria. One-way video interviews for communication and presence under pressure. Talent Assessments for judgment, personality, and work-style fit. Every layer is scored against criteria you set at intake.
Reasoning is attached to each score. No "the algorithm said so." A recruiter can defend every advance to a hiring manager or a candidate who asks.
Every seasonal vendor in the category gates pricing behind sales calls and quotes you based on headcount tiers. Seasonal roles are temporary. Enterprise contracts do not fit.
Truffle is flat at $149/mo, or $99/mo on annual billing. Start the trial this morning and run your first cohort this afternoon.
How Truffle compares
A factual look at where each tool fits. Feature data reflects vendor pages fetched April 2026.
| Dimension | MokaHR | KitaHQ | HireNext | Whippy | Truffle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Contact sales | Contact sales | Contact sales | Contact sales | $149/mo self-serve, $99/mo annual |
| Screen reuse across seasons (clone full setup) | Not shown on live product page | Not shown on live product page | Not shown on live product page | Talent-pool reuse (candidates, not process) | Duplicate Interview copies questions, rubric, qualifications, branding |
| Per-criterion scoring with visible reasoning | "87% accuracy" claim, no per-candidate reasoning | Structured scoring, reasoning not shown | AI evaluates tone and professionalism, reasoning not shown | Chatbot-style scoring | Yes, reasoning attached to each score |
| Setup time | Not shown | Demo required | Demo required | Demo required | Under 15 minutes from a job description |
| Three evidence layers in one tool | Partial (ATS + screening) | Partial (CV + interview + assessment, retail only) | Partial (resume + AI scoring) | Chatbot-centric | Yes |
| AI language framing | "AI filters high volumes" | "AI scores responses against criteria" | "AI evaluates tone, clarity, professionalism" | "AI recruiters handle surges" | "AI surfaces evidence, you make the call" |
MokaHR, KitaHQ, and HireNext are retail-heavy with enterprise sales gating. Whippy leads the rolling-talent-pool space with a chatbot layer. Truffle is the screen-reuse pick for in-house teams on four-to-six-week seasonal windows, and the only tool above with public pricing and a no-credit-card trial.
Auditable by design
When a hiring manager or a candidate asks why someone advanced, you have the answer. Criteria are set by you at intake. AI Match shows the evidence behind each score. Every evaluation follows the same structure for every applicant, which is what structured screening is supposed to mean.
Everything included
Clone a past position's questions, rubric, qualifications, and branding with one click.
One URL per position. Works on job boards, careers pages, QR codes, and SMS.
Upload an ATS export or last-season's applicant list to invite hundreds at once.
Filter work authorization, availability, and certifications before anyone records.
Automated 24 and 72 hour nudges to hold completion rates through peak.
Match percentage per candidate against the criteria you set at intake, with reasoning.
Concise overview of each candidate's responses with key insights per criterion.
30-second highlight reels so you see the candidate without watching full recordings.
Side-by-side rapid review with keyboard shortcuts. Advance, hold, reject, next.
Filter by match percentage, status, or date once you cross 10 completes.
Flags patterns of AI-assisted responses as a context signal, never an automatic rejection.
Star ratings and notes from multiple reviewers on every candidate.
Use Truffle the rest of the year too
Most teams run Truffle through Q4 or tax season and keep it running for year-round reqs. Each peer solution stands on its own. You pick the mix per position.
When volume is year-round and not seasonal, the same three-layer screen scales the same way. Transparent evidence, same rubric, every applicant.
→ Learn more about high volume recruiting softwareCut the obvious mismatches before anyone records a video. AI scores resumes against your rubric and ranks the pool.
→ Learn more about resume screening softwareSee communication and presence when there is no chatbot helping the candidate. AI transcribes, scores, and surfaces 30-second highlights.
→ Learn more about one-way video interview softwareTeams hit seasonal windows hardest in retail, campus, staffing agencies, restaurants, and healthcare frontline. Each has its own wrinkles.
Works with your stack
Use Truffle standalone or wire it into your existing stack. See all integrations.
Native integrations sync candidate data and screening results directly into your ATS.
Connect Truffle to 7,000+ apps. Push candidates from other sources, trigger Slack alerts, sync status to your HRIS.
Read, write, and admin permissions for custom workflows. Webhooks fire on candidate events in real time.
What teams are saying
4.9/5 on 71+ reviews across product directories. 4.8/5 on 610+ candidate reviews.
"Very useful tool for working through a high volume of applicants quickly to get an overview."
Amanda Harrison · Head of People, Ohla US
"Truffle helps us move through high-volume intern hiring, with clear visibility into each student's fit."
Shannon Rechter · HR Generalist, Waldron Private Wealth
"As a marketing agency owner, I don't have time to screen every applicant. Truffle has saved hundreds of hours."
Laura Williams · Founder & CEO, InSync Media
Questions
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Any hiring cycle that concentrates in a four-to-six-week window and repeats every year. Retail Q4, hospitality summer, campus and tutoring back-to-school, tax and accounting January to April, warehouse logistics peak, and event and conference rolling. If one req pulls more applicants in a week than your team can phone-screen in a month, and you will hire for it again next year, you are in seasonal recruiting territory.
Open the past position you want to reuse, click Duplicate Interview, and Truffle creates a new draft with your title, description, questions, response config, qualifications, AI personalization, and branding carried over. Candidates do not copy over, the URL is new, and integrations are not re-linked. Change the dated details, publish, and you are live with the same screening process you tuned last season.
Usually under 15 minutes from a job description if it is a new position. If you are cloning last year's, a minute or two to edit the dated details and publish. No implementation project. No vendor onboarding. No IT ticket.
A well-configured interview sits around 10 minutes for the candidate. Teams running Truffle at seasonal volume see typical completion rates in the 60 to 80 percent range when Candidate Reminders are on at 24 and 72 hours. Completion is also a signal. A candidate who takes time to record thoughtful answers at 11pm is self-selecting for intent, which is the filter most seasonal tools miss.
Qualification Questions collect work authorization, age, availability for specific shifts or dates, and any certifications you need before a video is recorded. Truffle structures the data. A recruiter still verifies. We do not make a legal determination on work authorization, age, or certification validity. That stays with your team and your ATS or HRIS.
An ATS stores applications and moves them through stages. Truffle screens them. AI Match, AI Summaries, Candidate Shorts, and Magic Review give you evidence to act on inside the ATS workflow. Truffle pairs with Ashby, Breezy HR, and Indeed natively, and any other ATS via Zapier or the REST API. Most teams keep their ATS and add Truffle as the screening layer for the four-to-six-week seasonal window.
$149 a month on the Self-Serve plan, or $99 a month on annual billing. Unlimited positions, unlimited team members, every AI feature included. A Custom plan is available for higher volume and priority support. 7-day free trial, no credit card required. See pricing for the full breakdown.
Yes. Retail Q4 is the most visible seasonal pattern, but hospitality summer, camps, tax and accounting, back-to-school tutoring, warehouse and logistics peak, and events and conferences all follow the same four-to-six-week surge shape. The three-layer screening stack and Duplicate Interview work the same way across all of them.
Yes. Many teams start with one-way video interviews or resume screening and layer on talent assessments later. Each layer stands on its own. You configure which layers apply per position.
Paste a job description or duplicate last year's, share the Position Link, and move through this season's applicants with the same rubric that worked last year.
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