Your Hong Kong and Guangdong candidates see Hirevire in Cantonese. From the first click to submission.
Every button, instruction, prompt, and error message renders in Cantonese. Write your interview questions in Cantonese or Traditional Chinese, and the entire candidate-facing experience renders natively. Available on every paid plan. No setup call. No add-on.
Set the language once in your job settings, or add ?lang=zh-hk to any application URL. Candidates always see the experience in their language.
What translates, what does not
We are upfront about the scope, because hiring teams have been burned by tools that overclaim.
What the candidate sees, automatically
- All on-screen instructions and microcopy
- Buttons, navigation, and form labels
- Recording controls and progress indicators
- Camera and microphone permission prompts
- Error messages and validation prompts
- Submission confirmation and follow-up screens
- Your careers page, if enabled
Hong Kong teams hiring for client-facing roles often write questions in Cantonese to assess natural fluency, then add a separate English question to screen for bilingual capability. Mainland-facing roles based out of Guangzhou or Shenzhen sometimes prefer Simplified Chinese instead.
Your recruiter dashboard stays in English. Recruiters do not have to relearn an admin panel, and candidates still get a fully native experience.
Why this matters
Hong Kong candidates are sharply attuned to which Chinese variant a brand chooses. Showing up in Simplified Chinese or English-only often reads as a mainland or templated APAC funnel, and trust drops before the interview begins.
Translating the candidate experience is not a polish feature. It is the difference between getting honest answers and being filtered out by candidates who feel the role was not designed for them.
AI Reviews work on Cantonese responses
Hirevire transcribes Cantonese audio and video responses, then runs your scorecard rubric against the transcript. You get the same AI-generated summary and scoring you would for English candidates.
Set the Transcription Language in your job's AI settings to Cantonese for the cleanest transcripts. AI Reviews then surface candidate strengths, gaps against your rubric, and a recommended next step.
Three ways to set the language
Set it in your job settings
When creating a job, pick Cantonese from the language dropdown. Every candidate who opens that job sees the experience in Cantonese, regardless of how they arrived.
Use a URL parameter
Add ?lang=zh-hk to any application URL. Useful when sharing the same role across Hong Kong, Guangdong, and overseas Cantonese channels.
Let candidates choose
If you do not set a language, candidates can toggle it themselves from the language picker in the application page footer. Useful for cross-border roles spanning Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Pricing
Multilingual candidate experience is included on every paid plan at Hirevire. There is no separate language module, no per-language fee, and no minimum contract. You can change the language on any job, at any time, from your dashboard.
Try it with a real job
Start a free trial, set the language to Cantonese, and send the application link to yourself. You will see the full candidate experience in Cantonese in under five minutes. No credit card needed.
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