Creating 5 unique zoom links for interview day WITHOUT host

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @jlm261.

The problem is that you can’t leave a meeting without making someone a Host, and giving your interviewees Host privileges is probably not a great idea, but could certainly be done.

What’s the issue with using Breakout Rooms? If you’re concerned that interviewees will see each other, you could take the approach of enabling the Waiting Room, and let the Host send attendees directly to their assigned Breakout Room from the Waiting Room.

I think your approach could work, but you’d need one more person. Assign Jill, Jack, Frank, Mary, Sally, and the additional person Adam as Alt Hosts for each room. At the transition time, Adam joins Candidate 1, Jill leaves and joins Candidate 2, Jack leaves and joins Candidate 3, Frank goes to Candidate 4, Mary goes to Candidate 5, and Sally goes to Candidate 1, then Adam can leave, and wait for the next half hour slot. There would be a couple of minutes for the cascading transitions to be completed, and the only rule would be “don’t leave and go to the next Candidate until your replacement interviewer has arrived.”

Now your problem is setting up 5 concurrent meetings. You could have each of the interviewers set up a meeting, set the others + Adam as Alt Hosts, and give you the link.  Maybe a template could be set up at the account level, or if you have Admin privilege you could set them up; lastly, if you’re going to do this a lot, there’s a way to enable Scheduling Privilege so you could set the meetings up for the interviewers.

Reach out to me if you’d like some individual help with this.