Hiring Screener: From 50 Resumes to a Shortlist Fast
Score resumes against your criteria, rank candidates, and get tailored interview questions for your top picks.
What You Will Get
You posted a job listing and woke up to 68 applications. Half of them clearly didn't read the job description. A quarter might be decent. Somewhere in that pile are three great candidates, and finding them means reading every single resume. For a small business owner doing their own hiring, this is a full day of work that pulls you away from everything else.
With a hiring screener, you define your job criteria once — required skills, years of experience, deal-breakers, nice-to-haves — and paste or forward resumes to your agent. The agent uses the summarize skill to extract key qualifications from each resume, scores every candidate against your criteria, and returns a ranked list with match percentages, key strengths, and red flags for each.
For your top five candidates, the agent also generates tailored interview questions based on their specific background — probing their weak areas and diving deeper into their standout experience. Fifty resumes become a ranked shortlist with interview prep in about fifteen minutes. Setup takes 10-15 minutes.
Setup Steps
Build your screening pipeline in about 15 minutes.
Define Your Job Criteria
Message your agent: 'I'm hiring a [role]. Must-haves: [list]. Nice-to-haves: [list]. Deal-breakers: [list]. Weight the must-haves at 60%, nice-to-haves at 30%, and overall experience fit at 10%.'
Enable the Summarize Skill
Activate summarize so the agent can parse resume text and extract structured data: skills, experience years, education, previous roles, and notable achievements.
Submit Resumes
Paste resume text into your chat on WhatsApp, Telegram, or Slack. For bulk processing, forward resume emails through gog. The agent processes them as they come in and adds each to the running candidate list.
Review the Ranked List
Ask: 'Show me the candidate rankings.' The agent returns a table: name, match score, top strengths, concerns, and a one-line recommendation (advance, maybe, or pass) for each candidate.
Generate Interview Questions
For your top picks, ask: 'Generate interview questions for the top 5 candidates.' The agent creates 3-5 tailored questions per candidate that probe their specific gaps and explore their standout skills.
Share with Your Team
Forward the ranked list and interview questions to your co-founder or hiring partner on Slack. They can add their own impressions before you schedule interviews.
Screening at Scale
Tips and Best Practices
Be Specific About Must-Haves
Vague criteria produce vague rankings. 'Python experience' is less useful than '3+ years of Python with Django or FastAPI in a production environment.' Specificity drives better scoring.
Include Culture Signals
Add qualitative criteria: 'Look for evidence of remote work experience, open-source contributions, or side projects.' These soft signals often predict fit better than resume keywords.
Revisit the Maybe Pile
After interviewing your top picks, go back to the 'maybe' candidates. Sometimes the best hire is someone who doesn't look perfect on paper but interviews exceptionally well.
Update Criteria Between Rounds
If your first batch of candidates all lack a specific skill, either adjust the listing or tell the agent to weight that skill higher in the next round of scoring.
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