Recruitment
What a ranked shortlist actually means
15 August 2026
Reading every CV by hand doesn't scale once a role attracts more than a handful of applications. Automatic parsing extracts skills, experience, and current title from every CV the moment it arrives, and each job opening scores its own candidates against its own stated requirements.
That means a ranked shortlist is a genuine, explainable match to the role in question, not a generic score reused across every opening - the same candidate can rank differently against two different roles, because the requirements genuinely differ.
Every candidate stays searchable afterwards in one CV Library, so a strong applicant for one role is never lost the moment a better-fitting role opens later.
Frequently asked questions
Is the scoring a black box?
No - it's a clear, explainable match between the skills a job opening lists as requirements and the skills parsed from a candidate's own CV.
What happens to candidates who aren't hired?
They stay in the searchable CV Library, so they can be reconsidered the moment a better-fitting role opens.
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