Prescreener

Use cases

Resume screening use cases, by hiring need

The fastest way to clear a screening backlog is to stop reading the inbound pile by hand. Prescreener parses every resume, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, asks the screening questions you set, scores role-fit against consistent criteria, and hands recruiters a ranked pile with a transparent reason on every candidate. Prescreener never auto-rejects, it ranks and flags candidates for your team to review and decide. Pick the hiring need you have, or the role you fill, and see exactly how Prescreener screens faster and fairer.

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See it run

Watch the inbound pile get screened and ranked

Pick a sample role and watch Prescreener work the pile: parse each resume, apply your knockout criteria, score role-fit against consistent criteria, and rank the strongest matches to the top for your recruiters to review.

Shortlist Desk
Criteria

top · held

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

top matches surfaced held for review Reasons on every card

AI assists · you decide · bias-audited (EEOC / NYC Local Law 144)

Screening

Screen the inbound pile at scale, not one resume at a time. Prescreener parses every application, applies your knockout criteria, asks the screening questions you set, scores role-fit against consistent criteria, and hands recruiters a ranked pile to review and decide. These pages cover that job by the shape it takes on your team.

AI candidate screening software

Twenty tools sold as AI candidate screening software. Six of them never read your inbound pile.

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Candidate prescreening software

Every applicant prescreened the same way, before anyone opens a resume.

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Applicant tracking system screening

The AI screening layer that ranks your inbound pile alongside your ATS.

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Resume parser

A resume parser that does not stop at fields. It scores and ranks too.

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Candidate screening software

Screen every candidate on consistent criteria, then review the top matches.

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Resume parsing in the screening flow

Resume parsing built into the screen, so extraction feeds scoring directly.

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AI recruiting software

AI recruiting software focused on the step that buries recruiters: screening.

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AI applicant screening

AI applicant screening that reads everyone and ranks who to review.

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Applicant screening tool

An applicant screening tool that turns the inbox into a ranked shortlist.

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Candidate screening

Candidate screening that is consistent for everyone and reviewed by a human.

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Resume screening

Resume screening that reads 100% of resumes, not just the top of the stack.

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CV screening software

Read and rank every CV the moment it lands, so your team reviews the strongest candidates first.

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Recruitment automation software

Automate the screening step that eats the most recruiter hours.

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Applicant eligibility screening software

Hard requirements checked on every application, flagged rather than auto-rejected.

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AI resume screening software

AI that reads every resume the way your best recruiter would, and writes down why it ranked each one where it did.

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Ranking

Reading every resume is only half of it. These pages cover scoring and ordering the pile: how role-fit is scored, how a shortlist gets built, and what a ranked stack with the reasoning attached changes about the recruiter review that follows.

High volume

For requisitions that draw hundreds of applications each. Bulk screening, faster time to first review, and the throughput questions that decide whether a hiring team keeps up with its own job postings.

Pricing guides

What the major applicant tracking and screening systems actually cost in the United States, checked against each vendor's own pricing page rather than repeated from comparison articles, with the plan that screens resumes marked on every one.

Criteria Corp pricing

Criteria Corp publishes three plans and no price. Its terms of use say how the price is built: tests used, positions, hiring and your employee count, with extra fees if testing runs past your tier.

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Recruit CRM pricing

Recruit CRM publishes no rate on any of its three plans, but it does publish the number that decides whether the entry plan is usable: AI Candidate Matching is capped at 2 matches on Pro against 50 on Business and Enterprise.

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Crelate pricing

Crelate publishes two rates on its pricing page and marks the top two tiers Custom. Its own structured data puts a floor under both: $149 and $299 per user. The contract adds an automatic renewal increase most buyers never see before signing.

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Recruiterflow pricing

Recruiterflow publishes one rate and hides the cheaper one in JavaScript. The card says $149 per user; the annual price is $119, and it is not in the served HTML at all. Here is what each plan costs, and why the plan with the matching agent has no price.

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Loxo pricing

Loxo publishes two of its three rates. Almost every article about Loxo pricing quotes a third number that is not on the page any more. Here is what Loxo states today, where the stale figure comes from, and the one credit question the pricing page does not answer.

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Ceipal pricing

Ceipal used to have a pricing page. It does not any more: the URL now redirects to the homepage. Here is what the company still states, what its own directory listing says, and why the per-user figures circulating elsewhere disagree with each other by a factor of two.

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Spark Hire pricing

Spark Hire publishes real rates, which already puts it ahead of most of this category. The figures need one correction and one warning: the headline rate is a 50-employee rate, and the AI resume review that sells the plan is capped by the year.

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Lever pricing

Lever publishes no rate at all, so the useful question is what buyers actually pay and what the quote covers. Here is the contract data, the one plan Lever now sells, and the AI screening distinction almost every article gets wrong.

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Manatal pricing

Manatal is one of the few applicant tracking systems that publishes a rate and puts AI candidate scoring on its cheapest paid plan. Here is every figure, in US dollars, with the caps that decide whether the entry tier fits you.

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Zoho Recruit pricing

Zoho Recruit publishes two separate price lists, two sets of job caps, and an add-on sheet that never appears on the pricing page. All of it, in US dollars, with the tier that actually screens candidates marked.

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Ashby pricing

Ashby publishes more of its price than almost any competitor, and more than most articles about it admit. The full Foundations band table, the AI credit arithmetic, and what sits outside the subscription.

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TestGorilla pricing

TestGorilla publishes three prices and hides the number that matters: how many candidates the plan actually covers. What each plan costs, what one assessed candidate costs, and where TestGorilla's own documents disagree with each other.

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Jobvite pricing

Jobvite runs a pricing page with no prices on it, and no plan names either. What Jobvite ATS costs, the one directory rate that contradicts the vendor, and the questions that get you a real number.

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Greenhouse pricing

Greenhouse publishes three plan names and no rates. What the ATS actually costs, what verified buyer data shows, and why the estimate articles disagree with each other by thousands of dollars.

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ATS pricing comparison

Twenty two applicant tracking systems, the rates they actually publish, and the eleven that will not give you a number without a sales call.

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By industry

A done-for-you screening step shaped to how you hire, fitting your roles, your criteria and your ATS, sized for a single store or a multi-site high-volume hiring team across retail, sales, customer service, healthcare, hospitality and BPO.

Verticals

Screening sized to a specific kind of hiring team, from campus and early-careers programs running seasonal application waves to a small business filling its first few roles without a recruiting department behind it.

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How Prescreener compares

Already weighing a keyword-matching ATS filter or a heavy enterprise assessment suite? See how a done-for-you screening step stacks up, fairly and side by side, on what it takes to actually screen candidates well instead of just filtering on keywords.

vs Recruitee

Recruitee alternative

Recruitee counts how many of your criteria a candidate met. Prescreener puts the pile in order.

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vs Teamtailor

Teamtailor alternative

Teamtailor screens with checkmarks. Prescreener scores and ranks the pile.

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vs Recruit CRM

Recruit CRM alternative

One is priced per recruiter seat and metered per feature. The other is priced by how many applicants you actually get.

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vs Spark Hire

Spark Hire alternative

Both tools read resumes. The difference is how many, how often, and whether you have to move your ATS.

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vs Oracle Recruiting Cloud

Oracle Recruiting Cloud alternative

Oracle can rate applicants 0 to 5, once an administrator switches it on. Prescreener ranks the pile from $199 a month.

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vs SAP SuccessFactors

SAP SuccessFactors alternative

SuccessFactors can stack rank applicants once you license the AI. Prescreener ranks them from $199 a month.

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vs Jobvite

Jobvite alternative

Keep the ATS. Add the screening layer that ranks every inbound application with a reason.

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vs Criteria Corp

Criteria Corp alternative

Rank every inbound resume on criteria you set, before anyone sits an assessment.

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vs TestGorilla

TestGorilla alternative

Rank the whole inbound pile on criteria you set, before anyone sits a test.

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vs Bullhorn

Bullhorn alternative

Keep the agency system of record. Add the layer that actually reads the inbound pile.

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vs Harver

Harver alternative

Rank the pile on the resume you already have, before anyone sits a test.

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vs BambooHR

BambooHR alternative

Keep your HR system of record. Buy the screening layer that reads the pile.

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vs Fountain

Fountain alternative

Keep your hiring stack. Buy the screening layer that reads the pile.

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vs Workday

Workday alternative

Keep the system of record. Buy the screening layer that reads the pile.

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vs iCIMS

iCIMS alternative

Buy the screening layer, not another enterprise platform you have to implement.

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vs HireVue

HireVue alternative

A focused, screening-first layer that ranks your inbound resume pile, without the enterprise weight.

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vs CVViZ

CVViZ alternative

Transparent ranked-pile reasons and bias audits, working alongside the ATS you already run.

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vs Sapia.ai

Sapia.ai alternative

Screens the resume pile up front, the step before interviews, and ranks with reasons.

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vs Manatal

Manatal alternative

Screening-first ranking of the inbound pile, not another system of record.

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vs Workable

Workable alternative

If the real problem is 400 resumes per role, you do not need to buy a whole ATS to fix it.

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vs Greenhouse

Greenhouse alternative

Published pricing, quick setup once your account is active, and the resume ranking a full ATS was never built to do.

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vs Lever

Lever alternative

Published pricing and a ranked inbound pile, without buying an ATS and CRM you did not ask for.

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vs SmartRecruiters

SmartRecruiters alternative

Enterprise screening at an enterprise entry price, or the same ranked pile for $199 a month.

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vs JazzHR

JazzHR alternative

JazzHR tracks the applications. Prescreener reads them and tells you who to call first.

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vs Paradox

Paradox alternative

A screening-first layer that reads and ranks every resume, with transparent reasons and published pricing.

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vs Ashby

Ashby alternative

Screening-first ranking that works alongside Ashby or any ATS, without becoming your system of record.

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vs Breezy HR

Breezy HR alternative

AI screening that ranks your inbound pile with reasons, working alongside the ATS you already run.

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vs Eightfold

Eightfold alternative

A focused, fast-to-start screening layer that ranks your inbound pile, without an enterprise talent-intelligence rollout.

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vs hireEZ

hireEZ alternative

For teams drowning in inbound applications, not hunting passive candidates: rank the pile you already have.

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vs Pinpoint

Pinpoint alternative

Keep the ATS you already run and add a screening layer, instead of replacing your whole hiring system.

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The outcome

Whatever the use case, the result is a faster, fairer ranked pile

Parse, score, rank, review. Every path leads to the same place: every applicant screened in hours instead of weeks, with consistent role-fit scores and a ranked pile your recruiters trust, on a flat plan with no per-applicant surprises.

Time to first review

Days→Minutes

screened on apply

Applicants screened

100%

every candidate, same criteria

Recruiter time

Hours back

no manual pile reading

Every decision

Human-made

Prescreener ranks, you decide

Figures are typical outcomes for teams that put inbound screening on Prescreener, not guarantees. Prescreener provides decision support only and never makes hiring decisions.

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Screen every applicant on autopilot

Prescreener parses every inbound resume, applies your knockout criteria, scores role-fit, and hands recruiters a ranked pile with a transparent reason on every candidate. Applicants consent and are told AI is screening their application, and your team makes every hiring call.

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Consistent criteria · Role-fit scoring · Human-in-the-loop