Verticals · Small business resume screening
Resume screening software for small business that ranks every applicant
A small business feels resume volume differently than a big company does. There is no recruiting team and often no dedicated HR person at all, so the owner or an office manager screens applicants between running the business. One decent job posting on Indeed or LinkedIn can still bring 150 to 300 applications, and reading them in the evenings means good candidates wait days for a reply and take another offer. The job is not that the resumes are hard to judge, it is that there is no time to judge them one by one.
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 resume screening software built for exactly that situation. It reads every applicant the moment they apply, applies the must-haves you set (the license, the schedule, the years of experience, work authorization), asks your screening questions, scores how well each person fits the role, and ranks the pile with a plain-English reason on each. You open a ranked shortlist and review the top few instead of a full inbox. It works alongside whatever you already use, a free job board, a spreadsheet, or a small ATS, sets up in an afternoon, and there is no recruiting team required to run it. Candidates are told AI is used, screening is bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144, and Prescreener ranks and flags without ever auto-rejecting, so you make every hiring call yourself.
Why it works
What your team gets with small business resume screening
No HR team required
Prescreener does the first-pass reading a recruiter would do, so an owner or office manager reviews a short ranked list instead of hundreds of resumes after hours.
Reply before applicants move on
The pile is ranked on arrival, so you can reach your strongest candidates the same day rather than losing them to a bigger employer that answered first.
Fair and defensible
The same criteria apply to every applicant with a transparent reason on each ranking, screening is bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144, and you make every decision.
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 applicant from any job board the moment they apply
- Applies your must-haves consistently: license, schedule, experience, authorization
- Scores role-fit and ranks the pile with plain-English reasons
- Surfaces the top few candidates so you skip the full inbox
- Sets up in an afternoon with no recruiting team to run it
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 small business resume screening
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Consistent criteria · bias-audited to EEOC and LL144 · human-in-the-loop