Screening and comparison are different problems, and treating them the same is why shortlist decisions often feel arbitrary. Screening is absolute: does this person meet the requirements, yes or no. Comparison is relative: given five people who all meet the requirements, which one do we hire? The first has a defensible right answer. The second … Read more
Almost every guide on this topic tells you to read faster — scan the top third, look for keywords, spend six seconds per CV. That advice is popular because it is easy, and it is wrong, because reading is not where your screening time actually goes. Here is a more useful starting point: audit the … Read more
Here is the problem with the way most people do this: they open a CV, open the job description next to it, read both, and form an impression. That process feels rigorous and isn’t. A job description is a recruitment marketing document. It is written to attract applicants — which means it is aspirational, padded … Read more
At fifty applications, screening is a reading problem. You read carefully, you use judgment, you get it roughly right. At a thousand, it stops being a reading problem and becomes a statistical one. Nobody reads a thousand CVs properly. What actually happens is that the first eighty get real attention, the middle six hundred get … Read more
Most guides to candidate screening software are affiliate pages with a ranked list of twelve tools, every one of them described as “powerful” and “intuitive.” They are useless for deciding anything, because they never tell you which problem each tool actually solves. This one is organised differently. First, the three categories of product that all … Read more
A recruiter at a 40-person company posts a mid-level role on LinkedIn. Within 72 hours there are 280 applications sitting in an inbox. There is no dedicated sourcing team, no screening coordinator, and the same person is also running onboarding for two new hires and chasing a signed offer letter. This is the reality of … Read more
The hiring process has changed dramatically in recent years, with many companies now relying on resume screening software to filter applications before they ever reach a human recruiter. While technology promises speed and efficiency, there is an ongoing debate about whether it can truly replace the nuanced judgment of experienced professionals. So, when it comes … Read more