Frequently asked questions

Choose a quiet, well-lit space and make sure your camera, microphone, and internet connection are working before you begin. You do not need any special materials — just give yourself enough time to answer thoughtfully.

The interview is a single attempt, so there is no way to redo it or add to it. If something genuinely went wrong, reply to the email containing your interview link and your recruiter can help.

Your interview is conducted by an AI interviewer, using the same structured questions every candidate for the role receives. Your responses are then reviewed by the hiring team as part of your full application — no automated decision is made about you.

Questions are tailored to the role and focus on your relevant experience, skills, and approach to the work. There's nothing special to prepare beyond reviewing the job description.

No. Length is not what is being assessed — the interviewer wraps up once it has covered the ground it needs to, and that often happens well before the time limit.

If something stops you from completing your interview — a dropped connection, audio or video issue — reply to the email containing your interview link and your recruiter can help you resolve it.

Once you've completed the interview, our team will review your responses alongside your application. If you're shortlisted, we'll contact you with the next steps as soon as possible.

If you're not selected this time, your profile stays part of our talent network, and you may be considered for future roles that are a better fit.

Yes. Your information may be kept on file, in line with our Privacy Policy, so our team can consider you for other opportunities that match your background.

The recruiters and hiring team considering you for this role. It is not published anywhere and is not shared with other clients without your permission.

No score or result is shown to you here. Your interview goes to the hiring team alongside the rest of your application, and they consider it as a whole.

Keystone AI is an AI-powered talent delivery platform created by Cornerstone Global Partners (CGP Group) to help recruitment teams source, identify, and engage relevant talent more efficiently. By combining AI-powered technology with CGP Group's recruitment expertise, Keystone AI helps deliver a faster, smarter hiring process.

Keystone AI is built for recruitment teams, hiring managers, HR leaders, and organizations looking to improve their talent delivery process. It combines Keystone AI's technology with the recruitment expertise and global reach of CGP Group.

Keystone AI is designed to work alongside your recruitment team, automating time-consuming sourcing, matching, outreach, and initial evaluation activities. CGP Group's expert consultants then bring the human expertise needed for interviews, client engagement, negotiations, and final hiring decisions.

No. Keystone AI is intended to complement your team's existing judgement and workflow, rather than require a complete change to the way you recruit.

Getting started is straightforward. Once we understand the role, hiring goals, and relevant signals, your team can begin reviewing candidates quickly.

Yes. Keystone AI can support multiple hiring projects while keeping each role's requirements, search context, and candidate feedback clearly separated.

Keystone AI interprets the role, relevant experience, skills, and context to identify talent that may be a strong fit including people who may not surface through a simple keyword search.

Keystone AI goes beyond traditional sourcing by combining AI-powered talent delivery with CGP Group's recruitment expertise. The technology helps accelerate sourcing, matching, outreach, and initial evaluation, while experienced consultants focus on the human decisions that drive successful hires.

Yes. Keystone AI is designed to look beyond exact terms and consider the broader combination of experience, capability, career context, and role requirements.

Yes. With AI Sourcing, you can describe the kind of person you're looking for in plain language, then refine the results using filters and criteria. With Sourcing Agent Chat, Keystone AI asks you questions directly to help build out the search together. Either way, your input guides and refines the search surfaces.

Yes. Recruiters remain actively involved throughout the search, using their expertise to direct, assess, and validate the talent Keystone AI helps surface.

By looking at verified skills and experience — not just keywords on a resume — Keystone AI can surface relevant candidates across a global pool of 850M+ professionals in 150+ countries, including people with adjacent experience or less obvious but relevant backgrounds.

Yes. You can refine the search at any point — adjusting filters and criteria in AI Sourcing, or continuing the conversation with Sourcing Agent Chat — so Keystone AI stays aligned with what matters most for the role.

No. Keystone AI is designed to work with recruiters, not replace them. The platform handles repetitive sourcing and matching activities, while CGP Group's expert consultants focus on judgment, relationships, interviews, negotiations, and closing.

Keystone AI looks at the role requirements alongside a candidate's skills, experience, and career trajectory — not just keywords — to identify people whose backgrounds genuinely fit. Recruiters then get the context behind each match, so the final call is always theirs.

Relevance comes from the full picture — how a candidate's experience, skills, and career trajectory line up with what the role actually needs — not from a single score. Recruiters see the reasoning behind each match, not just a number.

Yes. Keystone AI helps identify and surface relevant candidates, while recruiters remain in control of the final evaluation and decision-making. This combination of AI efficiency and human expertise helps teams move faster without losing the human element.

Yes. Feedback from your team helps sharpen the search and gives Keystone AI more context about the profiles that are most useful for your hiring goals.

Yes. Keystone AI draws from a global pool that goes well beyond your team's existing network and pipelines, surfacing relevant people you might not have found otherwise.

Keystone AI can help identify relevant talent across a broad range of searches, while CGP Group's experienced consultants bring market knowledge and human judgment to more specialized hiring requirements.

Keystone AI helps reduce time spent on repetitive sourcing and early review, allowing recruiters to focus more attention on outreach, conversations, and hiring decisions.

Yes. Keystone AI is designed to work alongside the systems and processes recruiters already use, adding useful candidate context without replacing human workflows.

Yes. Shared search context and candidate insights make it easier for recruiters and hiring stakeholders to align around the role and discuss the people being considered.

Previous search work can be revisited to retain useful context, revisit candidate thinking, and support future hiring conversations.

Yes. Keystone AI is designed to adapt to the way different teams structure their recruiting process, while keeping the recruiter in control.

The time saved depends on the role and search complexity, but Keystone AI is intended to shorten the repetitive work involved in discovery, review, and early prioritization.

Keystone AI powers the process. CGP Group brings the human expertise. Together, they combine AI-powered talent delivery with experienced recruitment consultants to help clients move from identifying talent to making successful hires.

Recruitment data is protected through measures like encryption in transit and at rest, restricted access on a need-to-know basis, and ongoing security reviews. Full details are available in our Privacy Policy.

Candidate data is handled in support of the recruitment process with consideration for the privacy and confidentiality expectations that apply to hiring. keeping candidates informed, in line with our Privacy Policy.

Access is limited to authorized CGP Group or Keystone AI staff and service providers involved in delivering your hiring process, on a strict need-to-know basis.

Data is retained only as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected, or as required by law. Specific retention periods for your organization are set out in your service agreement — your Keystone AI contact can confirm the details.

Confidential hiring information is protected using the same safeguards as all recruitment data — including encryption and restricted, need-to-know access.