What Is Glider AI?

A Platform for Skills Based Hiring and Retention

Glider AI is a Skills Validation Platform that gives Enterprises, MSPs, and Staffing Firms the skill data they need to recruit and retain top talent for full time employment and contingent workforce programs.

Using AI and automation, Glider AI creates scale and fairness at each stage of the recruiting to retention journey, with solutions that address candidate outreach and engagement, skill assessments for tech and non tech roles, interviews, and practice based learning.

Why Glider AI?

Company Culture

Glider AI started with the mission to make hiring fair and opportunity accessible regardless of background or formal credentials. Through our platform, we help candidates land their dream job and hiring stakeholders build their dream team based on skill and fit data.

Industry Recognition

Since our founding in 2020, industry leaders in staffing and recruiting have recognized Glider AI for its innovation:

• 2021: Staffing Industry Analysts named Glider AI the leading Staffing Technology, taking the top spot in the SIA Shark Tank competition.
• 2022: Glider AI won the number 2 spot in the global World Staffing Summit competition, besting thousands of staffing technologies.
• 2024: G2 recognized Glider AI as a Global Top 50 AI Technology, the only HR tech awarded among industry giants like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI.

Happy, Growing Customer Base

Since our founding in 2020, Glider AI has consistently increased its market share. Glider AI addresses skills based hiring and retention needs holistically, helping customers do more with less. Customers consistently report above average improvements, including 50 percent reduced time to fill, 3x interview to offer ratios, 98 percent higher candidate satisfaction, and reduced candidate fraud.

• Supports both full time and contingent workforce hiring programs.
• Addresses skills hiring for technical and non technical roles.
• Provides a full funnel recruiting and retention platform, rather than addressing only segments of the journey.
• Supports high volume and high demand hiring and retention needs for the world’s largest brands and staffing firms, including Amazon, Intuit, Emirates, FedEx, Capital One, Adecco, and hundreds more.

Product Overview

Glider AI Puts Skills at the Center of Every People Decision

Hiring top candidates and keeping A players is a journey. Glider AI ensures a consistent journey connected by skill, rather than separate tools that only address one part of the hiring funnel.

Engage Products: Pre Screening

Manage candidate outreach and connect with candidates in human like conversations across any channel, while screening for skill, fit, and interest in your open jobs. Learn more.

• Glider Connect: text recruiting with AI chat and omnichannel outreach.
• Phone Screening: AI guided prompts to help recruiters prequalify candidates over a phone call.
• Glider Assist: supports inbound and outbound “level 1” interviews to screen candidates using AI for faster skill and fit qualification.

Assess Products: Skill Assessments

Validate candidate skill, fit, and integrity with AI proctoring and real world task simulations. Learn more.

• Technical Skill Tests: validate hundreds of technical skills in an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) that simulates your actual code.
• Non Technical Skill Tests: validate functional skills across hundreds of non tech jobs with real world tasks.
• Behavioral Assessments: understand candidate fit and potential to support qualitative hiring decisions.

Interview Products: Live and Asynchronous

Meet and interact with candidates in live collaborative meetings, live coding environments, or asynchronous one way video interviews. Learn more.

• One Way Video Interviews: prerecorded interviews to scale screening and create interview consistency.
• Live Coding Interviews: collaborative live coding video interviews to assess coding skills and work style.
• Virtual Interviews: collaborative two way video interviews to gauge work style with real world tasks.
• Guided Interviews: AI guidance during the interview prompts questions for the recruiter, helping qualify candidates without requiring a subject matter expert.

Learn Products: Skill Development

Engage and retain employees using practice based learning to support skill development. Learn more.

• Skill Gap Analysis: understand skill composition within a company, identifying skill gaps and skill potential for better talent utilization.
• Upskilling and Reskilling: practice based learning modules to support talent development through new skill acquisition and improving existing skills.

AI and Automation Capabilities

All Glider AI products have robust AI and automation capabilities to help drive scale, speed, and efficiency. Learn more.

• Autonomous Question Creation: upload your job description, and Glider AI’s AI will generate relevant, vetted questions that address the job requirements and skill needs. Users can edit questions, swap them for alternatives, change the question format (multiple choice, rating scale, and others), and adjust the difficulty level.
• Interview Summaries: Glider AI automatically summarizes the interview and highlights critical skills or phrases that address job requirements, across live and asynchronous interview formats.
• Interview Panel: hiring teams can predefine interview roles, and Glider AI will schedule interviews based on role definition and availability, keeping interviews objective and efficient.
• Skills Mapping: when you upload a job description or add job requirements, Glider AI’s AI maps related skills for the role and matches candidates against the required skills.
• Skills Evaluation: when candidates complete an interview, skill assessment, or screening, Glider AI’s AI analyzes the results and ranks candidates based on how well they meet skill requirements. Hiring stakeholders are still required to approve the rating and can override the AI’s recommendations.
• Feedback Automation: when candidates complete screening, a skill assessment, or an interview, Glider AI automates stakeholder feedback collection, capturing feedback in a standard rubric to support fairness and speed.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Glider AI?
Glider AI is a Skills Validation Platform that gives enterprises, MSPs, and staffing firms the skill data they need to recruit and retain talent for both full time and contingent workforce programs.

What is a skills validation platform?
A skills validation platform is software that verifies what a candidate can actually do, through assessments, structured interviews, and AI analysis, rather than relying only on a resume or credentials.

What kinds of companies use Glider AI?
Glider AI supports enterprises, MSPs, and staffing firms across full time and contingent workforce hiring, including large brands such as Amazon, Intuit, Emirates, FedEx, Capital One, and Adecco.

How is Glider AI different from a typical applicant tracking system?
An applicant tracking system mainly manages the hiring workflow, while Glider AI adds skill data at each stage, from pre screening through interviews to upskilling, so hiring decisions are based on demonstrated skill and fit rather than resume keywords alone.

See Glider AI in Action

Ready to bring a skills validation platform into your own hiring process? Explore Glider AI’s product overview or try the skill assessment platform to see how it works.