Assessing personality traits and interview performance from asynchronous video interviews

Asynchronous Video Interviews (AVIs) allow candidates to record responses to predefined questions using digital devices, offering both flexibility and remote accessibility. Assessing personality traits and interview performance via AVIs provides organizations with valuable insights into candidate profiles and facilitates the prediction of future job performance. However, prior benchmark challenges, whose datasets were predominantly sourced from social media, suffer from suboptimal construct and methodological validity, limiting their utility for model development and real-world applications. To address these limitations, we introduce the AVI Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia 2025, featuring a novel dataset of mock AVIs comprising 3,876 videos from 646 participants in a simulated job application procedure. Interview questions were carefully designed to reflect real-world selection contexts and elicit personality expressions grounded in Trait Activation Theory. Personality traits and job competencies were annotated by trained evaluators and professional recruiters, ensuring both methodological rigor and ecological validity. The solutions and algorithms developed in this challenge are analyzed and summarized in this paper to foster the development of fair, reliable, and AI-driven hiring assessments.