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Alva Hiring System

The four step Hiring System helps you bring structure, clarity, and fairness to every hire — so you can spend less time managing chaos, and more time focusing on people. Because when you systemize what matters, you make room for what matters most: people, teams and potential.

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Structured Hiring → Stronger Teams

Bring structure, consistency, and clarity to every decision. Alva's AI-powered 4 part system is built to eliminate guesswork, reduce bias, and drive real results every step of the way.


2–3x higher accuracy. 60% faster hires.

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Instantly turn messy notes into a structured hiring process built for each role. Finally, a bespoke hiring blueprint that makes structured hiring achievable.
Define the role

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Structured assessments and interview templates for every role. Let TA teams become the strategic advisers they were always meant to be.
Assess with structure

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Weigh, score, compare, and present candidates to remove bias and avoid subjective debates — leading to faster, more accurate decisions.
Decide with confidence

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Close the feedback loop, learn from real outcomes to continuously fine-tune your hiring process. So your next hire is always better than the last. 
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Securing future proof teams begins long before day one.

That’s why systematic hiring begins with the end in mind.

Great teams aren’t built on intuition — they’re built on structure, science, and consistency. When data is scattered across tools and teams, nothing scales.

Alva makes systematic hiring possible. It's  connecting every step from defining success and assessing with science-backed methods to deciding with confidence, enabling mobility, and learning from every hire.

Define

From scattered notes to a structured hiring process in minutes.

Align on what success looks like before you start hiring. Before you can hire the right person, you need to know what you’re looking for. Architect helps you shape a clear, role-specific profile — from must-have skills to nice-to-have traits.

Start by aligning on what great looks like.
Everything you need, in one place.

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How it works

Paste your meeting notes or job ad

→ Alva Architect instantly analyses your input using our ISO-certified AI model.

Get a complete hiring blueprint

→ Receive a generated job description, structured hiring process, AI-generated interview templates, and a role-specific assessment profile — all evidence-based and tailored to the role.

See how each method should be weighted

→ Architect recommends the ideal weighting of assessments and interviews based on proven, science-backed hiring practices.

Apply or customise with one click

→ Adopt the full process as-is or adjust it to match your organisation. Your hiring workflow updates instantly.

Assess

Transparent, structured, evidence-based assessments for every role.

♡ Hiring managers get AI-powered guidance to conduct structured interviews, score answers fairly, and receive smart question suggestions based on each candidate’s personality results.

♡ Candidates own their assessment data and can reshare results across applications.

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Assessment methods in the Alva Hiring System

Structured interviews

Structured interviews

Alva’s structured interviews help you run fair, consistent conversations that actually predict performance.You get science-backed questions tailored to the role, clear scoring guides, and a simple way to align your team. It’s interviewing made easier – and more effective.

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Personality Test

Personality Test

Alva’s personality test is designed to reveal the traits that matter most for job performance—without introducing bias. Based on the Five-Factor Model, it’s scientifically validated and built for fairness. Simply put, you gain deep insights into how the candidates work, communicate, and solve problems.

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Leadership report

Leadership report

Covering a wide range of languages and tailored to role requirements, our coding tests let developers show how they think, solve problems, and build solutions. For hiring teams, that means clearer signals and stronger technical matches; for candidates, it’s a fair chance to demonstrate their expertise.

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Team fit

Team fit

Covering a wide range of languages and tailored to role requirements, our coding tests let developers show how they think, solve problems, and build solutions. For hiring teams, that means clearer signals and stronger technical matches; for candidates, it’s a fair chance to demonstrate their expertise.

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Logic Test

Logic Test

Alva’s logic test measures general mental ability (GMA), a proven predictor of job success. It’s adaptive, fast, and globally certified, giving every candidate a fair shot, no matter their background. You get a clear signal of how candidates think, solve problems, and pick up new skills – all in under 15 minutes.

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Coding tests

Coding tests

Covering a wide range of languages and tailored to role requirements, our coding tests let developers show how they think, solve problems, and build solutions. For hiring teams, that means clearer signals and stronger technical matches; for candidates, it’s a fair chance to demonstrate their expertise.

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Decide

Clarity and confidence in every decision.

Base your decision on candidate insights that predict performance and team fit. With weighted scoring, clear comparisons, and science-backed recommendations, your hiring teams can move from gut-feeling to grounded decisions, faster and more fairly.

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How it works

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Role Fit Score; a curated top list

When it’s time to choose the right candidate, Alva helps you make decisions you can stand behind.

Bringing together all assessment results, structured interview feedback, and case presentations, matched with role criteria in one singular place.

Role Fit helps you see who’s truly the best fit — not just who felt right in the moment, interviewed well or looked best on paper.

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A single, clear percentage score combining all
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Flexible weighting. Prioritise what truly matters for each role.

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Fair comparisons,
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A structured, bias-reducing evaluation approach from start to finish.

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Each profile AI summarised 

Alva’s AI Summary turns every hiring signal you collect into one clear, personalised narrative. No jumping between pages. No decoding psychometrics. No guessing what matters.

You get a unified view of who the candidate is, how they work, and which strengths or risks deserve your attention, all in plain language and tailored to the role.

One summary. One story. One shared understanding across the entire hiring team.

This is the clarity the Decide stage has always needed: a deeper, more human picture behind the Role Fit Score, so you can move forward with confidence.

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Improve

Learn from every hire and get better each time.

Hiring doesn’t stop at the offer. Alva Improve tracks outcomes, spots patterns, and fine-tunes the process with every role filled.

When a hire thrives or struggles, the system learns, generating insights that strengthen role definitions, assessments, and decisions moving forward.

This is how hiring becomes a strategic edge rather than a one-off bet.

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Built to work with the tools you already use

Alva is known for one of the best integrations with major Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) on the market, removing admin work from the equation. Automate candidate invitations and screenings, view candidate scores directly in your ATS, and streamline your hiring.

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FAQ

What are the key stages of the Alva Labs Hiring System?

The system follows four core stages:

  1. Define – Create role-specific success profiles.

  2. Assess – Evaluate candidates using research-grade tools like personality tests, logic assessments, coding tests, and structured interviews.

  3. Decide – Combine all data into one Role Fit score to support confident, data-driven decisions.

  4. Improve – Track outcomes and optimize the process over time based on real performance.

How is Alva Hiring System different from traditional hiring tools?

Alva Labs combines structured methodology with AI-powered insights to deliver a complete system — not just point solutions. It replaces gut feeling with data, and scattered tools with one integrated platform.

How does Alva Labs work with my ATS?

Alva Hiring System fully integrates with your ATS starting from the Assess stage — but the full value comes when you run the hiring journey in Alva from the beginning. By defining roles, assessing candidates, and making decisions inside the Alva Hiring System, you drive better alignment, less bias, and higher-quality hires. Your ATS handles the workflow — Alva ensures every hire is the right one.

Who is Alva Hiring System built for?

Alva is designed for mid-size and enterprise companies looking to scale hiring with clarity and fairness. It supports talent acquisition teams, hiring managers, and HR leaders who want to move from manual effort to systematic, data-driven hiring.

What assessments does Alva Labs offer?

Alva offers adaptive personality and logic tests, coding tests, structured interview tools, and work sample integrations — all validated by I/O psychologists and built for fairness and predictive power.

How does Alva Labs ensure its AI is safe and trustworthy?

Alva Labs embeds safe, transparent AI at the heart of its platform — built from recognized standards like ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and the EU AI Act. This AI Management System (AIMS) shapes how we design, develop, and operate AI features to prioritize fairness, reliability, and human control.

How do you protect user data?

We protect your data with top-class technology and procedures. All information is encrypted — using AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit. Access is managed with multi-factor authentication, role-based permissions, and the principle of least privilege. We are ISO 27001 certified and conduct annual penetration tests to ensure security remains at the highest level.

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