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Screening without guesswork

Screening decides who never gets evaluated at all, which makes it the highest-leverage step in the funnel.

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A screen that takes six seconds per CV is not a filter, it is a coin toss with extra steps.

Decide what disqualifies before you open the pipeline

Written criteria, agreed in advance, are what let a second reviewer reproduce the same shortlist from the same pile.

Everything else — the tools, the automation, the ranking — only speeds up whatever policy you already wrote down.

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