EpicHire Case Study
EpicHire is a career platform that helps students and early-career candidates showcase their skills through assessments and portfolio-style profiles. Fellows worked with Epic Hire to explore immersive recruiting experiences and design a spatial recruiter interface for evaluating candidates’ soft skills and communication abilities.
Industry: HR Tech / Recruiting / Spatial Computing
Engagement: Market Discovery, Product Design
Team: Charlyne Dong, Naya Bakaes, Joel Oniha
Traditional resumes and static candidate profiles fail to capture soft skills, communication ability, and personality, which are qualities that are increasingly critical in remote and early-stage hiring.
Recruiters struggle with:
Assessing communication and leadership before live interviews
Sifting through large volumes of similar resumes
Making confident early-stage decisions using limited signal
These challenges are amplified in virtual hiring environments.
We conducted market discovery and recruiter interviews to understand how hiring teams evaluate candidates today and where current tools fall short. Our work focused on:
Identifying breakdowns in early-stage candidate evaluation
Understanding recruiter efficiency constraints
Exploring how immersive interfaces could add signal without increasing cognitive load
Rather than replacing existing workflows, we designed an experience that augments recruiter judgment.
Research data from Society for Human Resource Management.
We designed a recruiter interface for Apple Vision Pro that enables immersive, structured candidate evaluation.
Core features include:
VR Elevator Pitches that allow candidates to communicate experiences and personality in their own words
Holistic and immersive viewing modes, letting recruiters toggle between high-level summaries and deeper exploration
Interactive profile walkthroughs that organize achievements, skills, and experiences into a navigable spatial layout
Collaborative notes and jump points, enabling hiring teams to review and discuss candidates together
This approach adds a “human layer” early in the hiring process without sacrificing speed or structure.
Mockup of holistic presentation mode of candidate elevator pitch. Everything a recruiter needs is presented in one collective view, including candidate rankings, elevator pitch, story books, and profile overview.
Mockup of how eye tracking technology in the Apple Vision Pro can switch between views.
Mockup of profile walkthrough. The recruiter has a dynamic view of a candidate's achievements, skills, and experience.
Improved ability to assess soft skills earlier in the funnel
Reduced time spent parsing repetitive resumes
Created a more engaging and memorable candidate evaluation experience
Defined clear success metrics tied to recruiter efficiency and quality of hire
Proposed Metrics of Success
Recruiter satisfaction score target of 4.5 / 5
20% reduction in time spent on administrative candidate review
25% improvement in quality-of-hire signals (soft skills & culture fit)
Key Deliverables
Market and user research synthesis
Recruiter pain point analysis
Spatial UI concepts for AVP
High-fidelity immersive interaction designs
Success metrics and validation plan
