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Screen job applicants faster (and fairly)

“I have a stack of applications and no time to read them.”

AI can summarize résumés against your must-haves and flag the strongest. Keep a human making every decision, and don't let it judge on age, gender, race or other protected traits.

Fix it yourself in 3 steps

Write the role's must-haves and nice-to-haves.
Ask the AI to summarize each applicant against that list with evidence from the résumé.
Read the shortlist yourself and decide who to interview.

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Role: [title]. Must-haves: [list]. Nice-to-haves: [list]. For each résumé, give a 3-line summary and mark each must-have Met / Not met / Unclear, quoting the résumé line. Ignore names, photos, age, gender and other personal traits. Don't rank by anything else, reject, or email anyone. Stop after the table.

Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.

Agents people used for this: Claude Code, ChatGPT Agent, Zapier Agents, Lindy.

Inspired by real examples collected at agentusecases.ai.

📚 9 real stories of people doing this with AI agents

Contact job candidates for initial HR screening · custom-built or unnamed agent
Evaluate hiring candidates against competency levels · GitHub Copilot
Screen 115 job candidates with parallel agents · Claude Code
Screen candidates and summarize resumes with AI · custom-built or unnamed agent
Screen job applications and summarize in a digest · Zapier Agents
Screen job candidates and log scores in the CRM · Lindy
Source and screen candidates and reply over WhatsApp · OpenClaw
Source and screen candidates with voice agents · custom-built or unnamed agent
Source recruiting candidates on LinkedIn and build valuation models · ChatGPT Agent

Collected at AgentUseCases.ai.

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