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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.

AI screeningRecruiting

First Round Interview Without a Recruiter: Setup Guide

A first round interview without a recruiter: set the screen up once per role, let candidates self-book, read scorecards in one sitting. See the steps.

Sep 21, 2026 11 min read
AI screeningRecruiting

Roles That Need a Human First Round: 4 Cases and a Test

Which roles need a human first round? A two-factor test for when an unattended AI screen pays off, and the four cases where it does not.

Sep 21, 2026 10 min read
AI screeningRecruiting

How to Reassign Recruiter Roles During a Hiring Drive

A recruiter is on leave mid-drive with live roles. Reassign ownership in the right order so interviews keep running and no candidate gets stranded.

Sep 18, 2026 10 min read
AI screeningHR tech

Multi-Recruiter AI Screening Without Losing Visibility

Running AI screening with several recruiters? Give each one ownership of their roles, keep the full drive visible to admins, and stop the cross-role…

Sep 18, 2026 10 min read
AI screeningHR tech

Recruiter Access Levels: Owner, Admin or Member?

What Owner, Admin and Member access mean in an AI screening workspace, how many admins a hiring team needs, and how to change levels safely.

Sep 18, 2026 10 min read
AI screeningHR tech

Recruiters Seeing Each Other's Candidates? 6 Causes

Recruiters seeing candidates from roles they don't own? Six common causes in a shared AI screening workspace, how to spot each, and the fix.

Sep 18, 2026 9 min read
AI screeningHR tech

Role-Based Access in AI Screening: 10 Checks for TA Leads

Evaluating AI screening tools for a recruiting team? Run these 10 role-based access checks in the demo, from Excel exports to next-candidate links.

Sep 18, 2026 10 min read
AI screeningHR tech

Deleting a Job Description Doesn't Delete the Candidates

Delete a job description in HireQwik and it archives, not erases, so candidate rows and interviews stay intact. Here is the dependents guard.

Sep 16, 2026 11 min read
AI screeningHR tech

Renaming a Job Description Without Losing the Inbox

Rename a job description in HireQwik mid-campaign and every candidate row updates live, old and new, because the label is read per row, not cached.

Sep 16, 2026 10 min read
AI screeningVoice AI

Watching the Recording Behind a Shared Scorecard

A shared HireQwik scorecard includes a short-lived recording link. Here is when watching beats reading, and why the video link expires.

Sep 16, 2026 10 min read
AI screeningHR tech

What the Weekly Screening Recap Tells You About Hires

HireQwik's weekly screening recap now includes a hires line. Here is what it captures, a bug it briefly hid, and how to actually use it.

Sep 16, 2026 10 min read
AI screeningHR tech

When to Write a JD Rubric, and What Scores Without One

HireQwik scores resumes with a JD rubric if one exists, relevance-aware scoring if it does not. Here is the fallback hierarchy, explained.

Sep 16, 2026 11 min read