(STAGE 01)
The Trigger
Picks up every application as it arrives, whether from your careers page, a job board or a referral.
Recruitment
AI recruitment agents that do the screening, not the deciding.
A recruitment agent does the admin and the first-pass screening for your hiring team, all against the criteria you set. It doesn't decide who gets hired. Your team spends its time on the people, not the paperwork.
The Problem
Where hiring gets stuck.
A single decent role can draw hundreds of applications. Someone has to read them, and reading them properly takes time. CVs get skimmed and strong candidates get missed.
Meanwhile the good people don't wait. A slow reply or a week of silence and they've taken another offer. The process that was meant to find the best person ends up losing them to whoever moved quicker.
A recruitment agent does the reading and the chasing so your team can focus on the candidates really worth meeting.
The Walk-Through
What a recruitment agent does.
Every recruitment agent we build is designed around how you hire. The work usually runs in three stages, each one shaped to your criteria and your process.
(STAGE 02)
The Screening
Reads each CV against the criteria you set and scores it on fit, the same way for every candidate.
(STAGE 03)
The Shortlist
Hands your hiring team a ranked shortlist, with the reason for each candidate's score attached.
PAYOFF
The output is a shortlist your team can act on, with the reasoning behind every score on record.
Every agent is built around your business, not from a template.
We don't fit you to a template or hand you a product to switch on. Each agent is designed and built around your process, then run for the jobs you need doing.
What We'd Build
What a recruitment agent can take on.
These aren't products to choose from. They're examples of what an agent could do, each one designed and built around how you hire.
Sourcing
This could look like an agent that finds candidates who match the brief and opens the conversation.
- Matched against the role you're filling
- Found across job boards and your own talent pool
- A first message drafted for your approval
- Replies gathered in one place
Results
A warm pipeline, without the manual search.
Screening and shortlisting
We might build this as an agent that reads every application against your criteria and ranks what comes back.
- Every CV read, not just the first few
- Scored the same way, candidate to candidate
- The reasoning shown for each one
- A person makes every hiring call
Results
A ranked shortlist, with nothing lost in the pile.
Scheduling and candidate comms
An agent at this stage could handle the back-and-forth that slows a hire down.
- Interviews booked around everyone's diaries
- Candidates updated at each stage
- Reminders and follow-ups sent
- No one left waiting in silence
Results
A process candidates don't drop out of.
Pipeline tracking
An agent that keeps every role moving and flags the ones that have stalled.
- Each candidate's stage in view
- Applications going cold flagged
- Time-to-hire tracked per role
- The next action clear for each one
Results
A pipeline you can see, not chase.
An Example
An in-house team hiring for several roles.
Picture a hiring manager with five roles open and around 300 applications landing each week.
Today
~300 applications a week
Skimmed by hand, a couple of minutes each
Around 10 hours gone, and strong CVs still missed
With a recruitment agent
All 300 screened as they arrive
Ranked against the manager's criteria
A shortlist of about 20 to review
Closer to an hour, spent deciding not sorting
Payoff
Same 300 applicants. Ten hours of skimming becomes about an hour of deciding, and the strong candidates sit at the top instead of buried in the pile.
Figures are illustrative.
Process Questions
Common questions about recruitment agents.
Does the agent decide who gets hired?
No. It screens and ranks against the criteria you set, and a person makes every hiring decision. You decide what it looks at and where the bar sits, and it shows its reasoning for each candidate, so the call is yours and you can see how it got there.
How do you keep the screening fair and consistent?
You set the rules, and you can change them whenever your priorities do. The agent then applies them to every candidate the same way, which is hard to guarantee when CVs are skimmed by hand under time pressure. Set up properly, that makes the process more even-handed than a rushed reader, not less: it weighs everyone against the same standard and records the reasoning, so each decision is easy to review and stand behind.
Will it work with the systems we already use?
Yes. We connect it to your careers page, job boards and applicant tracking system during a Discovery session, so candidates and decisions stay in the tools your team already works in.
Is our data safe?
Your agent runs in an isolated Azure tenancy, on infrastructure built and managed by Synextra, our parent company, who have spent many years running Azure for governance-led businesses. Candidate data is handled in line with your own policies.
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