Marks are not readiness
A transcript tells you what a student remembered in an exam hall. It does not tell you whether they can explain a design choice to a stranger who is judging them.
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Every student gets a real interview.
One placement officer cannot interview four hundred students before the season starts. Xakal can. Every student gets a proper interview, a score and honest feedback, and your cell gets one ranked list.
The problem
The season starts in six weeks.
A placement cell has a few staff and a few hundred students. The companies arrive in a month. Somebody has to work out who is ready, and there is no honest way to do that in the time available.
There is never enough time
Mock interviews take staff hours nobody has. Most students get one, if they are lucky, a few days before it counts.
Feedback arrives too late
A student learns what went wrong after the company has already gone. By then the batch has moved on and so has the opportunity.
How a batch runs
Four steps, one afternoon of setup.
- Step 01
Share one link
You send a single interview link to the whole batch. Nothing to install, no accounts to create for anyone, no timetable to build.
- Step 02
Students interview when they are ready
A student sits the interview at a time that suits them. Late at night before an exam, or on a Sunday. Xara AI is awake either way.
- Step 03
Everyone gets a score and feedback
Each student receives a report on four things. What they know, how they think, how clearly they explain it and how well they fit the role.
- Step 04
Your cell gets one ranked list
You see who is ready, who is close and who needs work. Weeks before the companies arrive, rather than days after they leave.
Your hiring stack on one platform
Job posts and campaigns
Xakal
Candidate sourcing
Marketplace
First round interview
Xara AI
Scorecards and reports
Xara AI
Tracking and pipeline
Built in ATS
One pipeline from job post to signed offer.
Interview report
Technical depth
92of 100
Problem solving
86of 100
Communication
78of 100
Role fit
88of 100
Evidence linkedTimestamped
Every score links back to the moment in the interview that produced it.
Verified candidate profile
Skills verified by interview
9
Roles matched this month
14
Employers who viewed
23
Reputation score
8.6
PortableOwned by you
The record sits on the candidate profile and travels with them.
Xara AI ranked shortlist
PSCandidate ABackend engineer
8.9Score
RMCandidate BBackend engineer
8.1Score
KTCandidate CBackend engineer
6.4Score
VerifiedRole fitRanked
Ranked against the role you posted, not a generic benchmark.
What we offer
Six things, and you choose which of them you want.
Some colleges take the whole programme. Others start with aptitude tests and AI interviews for the final year, then add the rest next season. Both are fine.
Aptitude tests
The first filter most companies use. Students sit the kind of paper they will face on campus, and you see where the batch stands on reasoning, numbers and comprehension long before anyone visits.
AI interview tests
A structured interview for a real job role, run by Xara AI. The student answers on video, the system asks its own follow up questions, and a scored report comes back the same hour.
Personal AI interviews
Practice on their own terms. A student picks the role, sits the interview at midnight if that is when they think best, and repeats it as often as they like until the score moves.
Mock interviews with real experts
A live interview with a working professional from the field. The AI catches the patterns. A person catches the things only a person notices. Students get both.
MBA admissions and case interviews
Admissions style personal interviews and structured case practice, built by someone with more than thirty years inside the education system. Running today, not coming soon.
Placement training
Two tracks, delivered to the batch. Soft skills for how a student speaks, listens and holds a room. Core skills for the fundamentals a technical interviewer will actually test.
Every service is available on its own or as part of a full programme. There is no minimum bundle.
Internships
An internship for every student who wants one.
Most placement programmes stop at training. A student learns to interview well and then waits for somebody to call. Ours does not stop there.
Every student who wants an internship gets one, arranged through the companies already hiring on Xakal. Not a shortlist. Not only the top of the class. If a student is willing to do the work, we find them a place.
- Open to every student who wants one, whatever their rank
- Arranged through companies already hiring on the network
- Real work with a real team, not a certificate for attending
- The experience goes onto the student verified profile
What a student ends the year with
Aptitude score on record
Yes
AI interviews completed
Yes
Mock interview with an expert
Yes
Training hours behind them
Yes
Internship experience
Yes
One profileEmployers can see it
Everything a company asks for, in one place, before they ask.
Two people it helps
The cell and the student.
For the placement cell
You stop guessing which students are ready. You get evidence, for the whole batch, early enough to do something about it.
- The whole batch assessed on the same papers and question sets
- One ranked list with a report behind every name
- The students who need coaching found early enough to coach
- Something concrete to show a recruiter before they visit
For the student
Practice is the part nobody gets enough of. The feedback is honest, the training is real, and the profile you build is yours to keep.
- Aptitude, AI interviews and a live expert interview
- Honest feedback on what actually cost you marks
- Soft skills and core skills taught, not just tested
- An internship if you want one
Questions
Questions from placement cells.
Everything buyers and candidates ask before they start.
How long does it take to set up for a batch?
About a day. You tell us the roles your students are heading for, we build the question sets, and you share one link with the batch. There is nothing to install and nothing for students to buy.
Does every student need to pay?
No. The first interview is free when a student signs up, and it comes with a full report. Colleges that want their whole batch interviewed regularly are handled through an institutional plan rather than by asking students to pay.
What does the placement cell actually receive?
One ranked list for the batch, with a report behind every name. You can see who is ready, who is close and who needs work, weeks before the companies arrive rather than days after they leave.
Is student data safe?
The interviews run on machines Xakal operates and no outside AI company sees a single student. For institutions that need it closer, the system can be deployed inside your own network. There is a full explanation on the security page.
Does this work for MBA admissions too?
Yes, and it is live now. The same interview system runs admissions style personal interviews and case interviews, built with more than thirty years of education experience behind the framework.
What does a college actually pay?
It depends on the size of your batch and which parts of the programme you want, so we quote rather than publish a price. Tell us your numbers and you will have a written proposal to take to your principal.
Can we take only one or two parts of it?
Yes. Some colleges start with aptitude tests and AI interviews for the final year, then add training and mock interviews the following season. You are not obliged to take the whole programme to begin.
Tell us your batch size and we will send a proposal.
Pricing depends on how many students you have and which parts of the programme you want, so we quote rather than publish a rate card. You will have something in writing to take to your principal.