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Field notes on AI screening and high-volume hiring

How AI screening actually works in production: resume scoring, voice interviews, and high-volume hiring, written from live pilots.

Robert Half: 67% of HR Leaders Say AI Resumes Slow Hiring
AI screeningVoice AI

Robert Half: 67% of HR Leaders Say AI Resumes Slow Hiring

67% of HR leaders say AI-generated resumes are slowing hiring. Real-time conversational probing is the layer ChatGPT cannot pre-script.

Apr 29, 2026 5 min read
SHRM 2026: 52% of Companies Leave HR Out of AI Strategy
HR technologyAI screening

SHRM 2026: 52% of Companies Leave HR Out of AI Strategy

SHRM 2026: 52% of organisations leave HR out of AI strategy and only 28% have HR leading upskilling.

Apr 29, 2026 6 min read
UKG Cut 950 Jobs. Build-vs-Buy Just Got Decided.
HR technologyAI screening

UKG Cut 950 Jobs. Build-vs-Buy Just Got Decided.

UKG cut 950 jobs citing AI market shifts. When your HCM vendor is restructuring around AI, the screening you need won't ship from its roadmap.

Apr 29, 2026 4 min read
Why Voice Beats Chat for First-Round Screening
Voice AICandidate experience

Why Voice Beats Chat for First-Round Screening

78% of candidates chose an AI voice interview over a human in a 70,000-applicant field study, with 12% more offers.

Apr 29, 2026 5 min read
AI screeningIndia

Cheapest AI Interview Platform in India 2026

The 'cheapest AI interview platform in India' question only makes sense once you fix the unit. Per-student practice tools start at ₹1,199.

Apr 28, 2026 6 min read
Campus hiringIndia

High-Volume Recruitment: The 1:30 HR-Candidate Ratio

High-volume recruitment in India runs into a hard daily ceiling: one HR coordinator can phone-screen about 30 candidates a day.

Apr 28, 2026 5 min read
Voice AIAI screening

Anti-Scripting Voice AI: Detecting Rehearsed Answers

Most AI interview platforms score from the transcript. The signal that catches rehearsed answers lives in the audio: pace, hesitation, fluency.

Apr 27, 2026 5 min read
Campus hiringAI screening

Why Graduate Hiring Funnels Break at the Resume Screen

Graduate hiring funnels in India do not break at sourcing. They break at the resume screen, where good candidates are filtered out by keywords.

Apr 27, 2026 5 min read
IndiaHR tech

Bulk Hiring in Indian IT: The Bottleneck Moved

Indian IT services face 5,000+ applications per 100 fresher seats. The bottleneck moved from sourcing to evaluation, and most ATS cannot keep up.

Apr 26, 2026 9 min read
AI screeningHR tech

Communication-First Screening: The First Filter

For non-engineering campus roles in India, English communication quality is the screening filter that should run first — before resume parsing.

Apr 26, 2026 5 min read
AI screeningATS plugin

Choosing an AI Screening Tool That Plugs Into Your ATS

Your ATS is a pipeline viewer, not a screening layer.

Apr 24, 2026 6 min read
Campus hiringIndia

The Campus Screening Bottleneck: Phone Screens Stop at 500

Every campus hiring program hits a wall near 500 candidates, not because sourcing is hard but because phone-screen bandwidth runs out.

Apr 24, 2026 5 min read