Sofie at Work: How to Streamline Candidate Assessments

Sofie at Work is our series where biopharma professionals share real workflows in Sofie in action. This article focuses on a VP of Quality at a leading CDMO. In the article, he walks through using Sofie to review candidate materials and make confident hiring decisions in just a few minutes.

When you're preparing to make a critical hire, you often start with stacks of interview notes, Predictive Index assessments, and role requirements—each containing fragments of the picture you need to see clearly. Finding the insight that validates your instinct or reveals a concern can take hours of manual review.

Sofie enables you to extract, organize, and analyze candidate information in minutes. Upload your interview notes, Predictive Index assessments, and job requirements to a workspace and let Sofie build a comprehensive view of each candidate. Easily compare qualifications, surface key insights from interviews, and identify how well each person aligns with the role. With Sofie, you can find the right candidate with confidence, faster.

Using Workspaces to Surface What Matters

Hiring is hard. You've conducted multiple interviews, collected Predictive Index assessments, gathered feedback from your team, and now you're staring at a stack of notes trying to piece together which candidate is truly the right fit. The decision feels high-stakes because it is—a wrong hire costs time, money, and team momentum.

Sofie helps you cut through the noise and make confident hiring decisions. Start by uploading all your candidate materials into a workspace: interview notes, Predictive Index results, job role requirements, and any other assessments. From there, build a review table to systematically evaluate each candidate against your criteria.

Structure your analysis by adding questions that map directly to what matters for the role. For example:

• How does the candidate's Predictive Index profile align with the role requirements?

• What specific examples did they give demonstrating relevant experience?

• How did they respond to behavioral questions about collaboration and problem-solving?

• What concerns or red flags emerged during the interview process?

• Overall qualification ranking for this role?

Sofie analyzes each candidate's materials and extracts the insights you need—pulling verbatim quotes from interview notes, summarizing assessment results, and classifying candidates against your key criteria. Instead of flipping between documents and trying to remember what each person said, you get a structured comparison that lays everything out clearly.

Once your table is built, you can interact with it to sharpen your decision:

• Sort candidates by qualification ranking to see your top contenders

• Filter by specific competencies to compare how candidates stack up on what matters most

• Dive deeper into any candidate's materials with follow-up questions

The result? A hiring process that's more thorough, more consistent, and more defensible. You're not just going with your gut—you're making a decision grounded in a systematic review of all the evidence. Harvey helps you find the right person, faster, and feel confident you made the right call.

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