Screening · Candidate screening software
Candidate screening software that screens and ranks every applicant for recruiters
Candidate screening is the step where most hiring time disappears. Someone has to read every resume, check the must-haves, and decide who deserves a closer look, and when the pile is hundreds deep that decision drifts. The forty-first resume gets a different standard than the fourth, and strong candidates get missed because nobody reached them in time.
Parse · score · rank · recruiter reviews
Held for recruiter review · never auto-rejected
Screen the pile to watch Prescreener parse every resume, apply your criteria and knockouts, and rank the inbound applicants with a transparent reason on each.
Live, interactive · AI assists, you decide · no signup needed
AI assists · you decide · bias-audited (EEOC / NYC Local Law 144)
Human-in-the-loop you decide
EEOC and LL144 bias-audited
Prescreener is candidate screening software that reads the entire inbound pile the moment applications land. It applies your knockout and eligibility criteria the same way for everyone, asks the screening questions you set, scores role-fit, and ranks candidates with a written reason under each placement. Recruiters review the top matches first, a human makes every decision, and nothing is auto-rejected. Screening is bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144 and runs with candidate consent and AI disclosure.
What separates screening software from the keyword filter already in your ATS is what it reads and what it hands back. A filter answers whether a string appears in a document. Screening software answers whether this person meets the requirements you wrote for this role, and how they compare to the other 300 people who applied, with the reasoning attached so a recruiter can check it and a hiring manager can see why the shortlist looks the way it does. That difference is why teams run both: the ATS holds the pipeline, the screening layer decides what order to work it in.
Why it works
What your team gets with candidate screening software
Consistent criteria
Every candidate is screened against the same knockout and role-fit rules, so the comparison is even and defensible instead of varying by who read the resume and how late in the day they read it.
Top of the pile first
Candidates are ranked so recruiters spend their hours on the strongest matches rather than triaging an undifferentiated inbox in the order people happened to apply.
Reasons, not a black box score
Each candidate carries the criteria they met and missed in plain language. A recruiter can disagree with the ranking and see exactly what produced it, which is what makes the process reviewable later.
Screens as applications arrive
Screening runs on landing rather than in a batch somebody works through on Friday. Candidates who apply to several employers at once tend to take the first real conversation, and this is the step that decides whose call comes first.
Human decides
Prescreener ranks and flags with reasons, but a recruiter reviews and makes the final advance or reject call on every candidate. There is no automatic rejection anywhere in the product.
What it handles
Parsed, scored and ranked on autopilot
Prescreener reads every inbound resume, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, asks the screening questions you set, scores role-fit against consistent criteria, and ranks the applicant pile so your recruiters review the top matches first.
- Reads every inbound resume as applications arrive
- Applies knockout and eligibility criteria consistently across the pile
- Asks the screening questions you set at the point of application
- Scores role-fit and ranks candidates with transparent reasons
- Surfaces the top matches for recruiter review first
- Runs alongside Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, and the ATS you already use
- Bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144, with candidate consent
Why Prescreener
One step that screens the whole inbound pile
Not a full ATS, not a six-figure assessment suite, and not a staffing agency. Parse, score, rank and hand off in one place, shaped to the criteria you already hire on.
Reads every resume
Prescreener parses every inbound application, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, and asks the screening questions you set. Applicants consent and are told AI is screening their application, so no qualified person sits in a backlog for days.
Scores role-fit consistently
Every applicant is scored against the same criteria, with a transparent reason on each candidate, so the pile is compared consistently and the scoring stays bias-audited against EEOC guidance and NYC Local Law 144.
Ranks the pile
The strongest matches rise to the top of a ranked pile your recruiters review first. Prescreener never auto-rejects, it ranks and flags candidates for review, and your team makes every decision.
Good questions
Questions about candidate screening software
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Consistent criteria · bias-audited to EEOC and LL144 · human-in-the-loop