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You Have 300+ CVs to Screen. Here’s How to Find the Top 10 in 24 Hours.

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You have 300+ CVs sitting in your ATS. Your task: find the "Top 10" to interview. But where do you start?

This is the single biggest bottleneck in hiring. Let's break down the cost of manual screening.

  • The Time Cost: If you spend just 3 minutes on each CV (which is fast), 300 CVs will take you 900 minutes. That is 15 hours of work. That's two full working days you or your manager just lost.
  • The Error Cost: After reading 50 CVs, "screening fatigue" sets in. All the documents blur together. You will miss good candidates.
  • The Bias Cost: Unconscious bias is real. We naturally gravitate towards names, universities, or previous employers we recognise. You might be rejecting your best candidate because they went to a university you've never heard of.

The old way—manually reading every CV and dragging it to a "Yes," "No," or "Maybe" folder—is broken.

The New Way: AI-Powered Screening

Imagine this:

  1. Your job is live.
  2. The 300 applications come in.
  3. Your system instantly reads, parses, and understands all 300.
  4. It then ranks every single candidate against your job description.

Within 10 minutes, you are presented with a simple, ranked list: "Here are your Top 10 candidates, ranked by their skill, experience, and qualifications."

You've just saved 15 hours. You've eliminated bias. You are spending your time interviewing the best, not searching for them.

This is "Talent Intelligence."

Our VacanCV ATS is the perfect tool for organising your candidates. It's your central database.

But for companies that are serious about scaling, our "Talent Intelligence" platform is the game-changer. It's an optional upgrade that bolts directly onto your ATS. It screens, ranks, and shortlists candidates for you, using sophisticated AI.

You don't just get a list of applicants. You get a ready-made shortlist.