Automated candidate screening

Score, rank and shortlist applications in minutes

Jarvi reads every CV and LinkedIn profile, scores each candidate against your real job requirements, and surfaces the strongest fits at the top of your pipeline. You only review shortlists worth your time.

328 applicants, sorted in 40 secondsJarvi reads every CV and ranks each candidate by fit, with the reason on every call.
Strong fit3
Sarah Chen
Sarah Chen6y SaaS, led a team of 8
Marcus Johnson
Marcus Johnson5y React, scaled a startup
Amina Diallo
Amina DialloFluent FR/EN, exact domain match
Worth a look2
Priya Patel
Priya PatelStrong skills, lives 500km away
David Kim
David KimSpanish required, not mentioned
Not a match2
James Liu
James LiuToo junior, no XP after school
Tom Becker
Tom BeckerCareer in a different field
Stellar
Brainfield
Stakha
SIC
Source To Match
Happy Hire
Millesime

What manual screening costs you every week

Three pain points every recruiter knows. Jarvi takes care of all three.

Drowning in 300 applications per role?

300 CVs become a ranked shortlist

Jarvi reads every incoming CV and LinkedIn profile, parses the data, and ranks candidates against your real job requirements. You open your pipeline and the strongest fits are already at the top.

Losing good candidates buried under irrelevant ones?

The right profiles stop slipping through

Jarvi does not stop at a yes or no. It tells you why a candidate fits, where the gaps are, and which constraints would block a hire. You stop missing strong profiles because they were on page 7.

Spending evenings sorting CVs instead of meeting candidates?

Get hours back, every week

Stop reading 300 CVs to find 10. Jarvi reviews them in seconds and hands you a ranked shortlist, so your time goes into the calls that move a placement forward.

Three steps to a ranked shortlist

Plug Jarvi into your existing sources and let it handle the top of your funnel.

1

Capture every candidate

Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, career site applications and Sales Navigator imports flow into Jarvi, fully parsed and deduplicated.

2

Score against the job

Jarvi reads your job description, applies your knockout criteria, and rates each profile on skills, experience, domain and language fit. Each score comes with a short explanation you can read in seconds.

3

Review your shortlist

Open your project, the top candidates are already ranked. One click to qualify, reject or move the best ones to an interview.

Test Jarvi on a sample job

Pick a job description, hit score, and watch Jarvi rank four candidate profiles. No signup, no upload.

Job description
Senior React Engineer

5+ years building production React apps. TypeScript fluent. SaaS background. Based in or near London, hybrid.

Knockout: UK work permitKnockout: 5+ years of React
EC
Emma C.
Senior Frontend Engineer · 7 years · London
Not scored yet
LM
Lucas M.
Frontend Lead · 6 years · Manchester
Not scored yet
SR
Sofia R.
Full-Stack Developer · 4 years · Milan
Not scored yet
DP
Daniel P.
Junior Developer · 1.5 years · London
Not scored yet

This is what your recruiters see when an application lands in Jarvi. Same logic, applied to every CV in your pipeline.

AI scoring vs keyword matching

Most ATS still rank candidates on whether the right words appear in the CV. Jarvi reads context, not just text.

Keyword search (legacy ATS)

  • Matches "React" but skips "Frontend engineer at a SaaS company who shipped React for 4 years"
  • Misses synonyms, treats "salesforce admin" and "Salesforce admin" as different roles
  • Cannot tell a 6-month internship apart from 6 years of senior work
  • Treats every keyword the same, no sense of what your job actually requires
  • Penalises candidates whose CVs phrase things differently, including non-native speakers and atypical career paths

Jarvi AI scoring

  • Reads the meaning of each line, not just the words
  • Matches adjacent titles correctly (Frontend engineer counts as React developer when context fits)
  • Distinguishes 6 months from 6 years and weighs depth of experience accordingly
  • Applies your knockout criteria as hard rules (visa, salary range, notice period)
  • Explains every score in short, plain English, so you can audit or override it on the spot

What Jarvi looks at on every candidate

Jarvi evaluates each candidate the way an experienced recruiter would, and shows its work, so you can challenge or accept the verdict in seconds.

Skills match against the job description

Hard skills, tools, frameworks and methodologies are extracted from the CV and matched against your requirements. Each gap is listed explicitly, so you know what is missing before the interview.

Years and depth of relevant experience

Jarvi looks beyond total tenure. It distinguishes between years on the actual job to fill and years on adjacent roles, so a strong fit is never confused with a long career in another domain.

Domain and industry fit

Whether you hire for SaaS, finance, industrial or healthcare, Jarvi recognises which past employers and projects are relevant. Candidates from the right ecosystem rise to the top automatically.

Language requirements

Required languages are treated as hard criteria. A profile missing a must-have language is flagged immediately, even if the rest of the match looks strong.

Location and remote constraints

Distance and remote eligibility appear as warnings rather than score penalties, so you keep visibility on great profiles who happen to live further away. The decision stays yours.

Custom knockout criteria

Set the hard filters that decide a hire in your market: visa status, salary band, notice period, certifications, security clearance. Profiles that miss them get a red flag, and you can auto-reject if you want to.

Manual screening versus Jarvi screening

Same 100 applications. Two very different mornings.

Manual screening
Jarvi
Time to shortlist 100 CVs
4 to 6 hours
Under 5 minutes
Share of CVs read end-to-end
30 to 50%
100%
Reasoning written down on each candidate
Rarely
Every candidate, in short plain English
Bias mitigation
Recruiter discipline
Built into the scoring logic
Audit trail for clients and compliance
Email threads and memory
Logged on every score and override

Numbers based on internal benchmarks across 1,200+ Jarvi customers.

See it on your own roles.

Drop in one of your live jobs and watch Jarvi rank your real candidates. Book a 30-minute demo, no prep needed.

Every source Jarvi screens for you

Whatever your sourcing channel, Jarvi screens what comes in.

Inbound applications

Every application from your job postings on Hellowork, Indeed, APEC, LinkedIn and 40+ other boards lands pre-scored in your project.

Career site

Applications submitted on your Jarvi-hosted career site are parsed and scored before you open the pipeline.

CV uploads

Drop a folder of resumes, including image-based CVs, and Jarvi parses, deduplicates and ranks them against the live job in seconds.

LinkedIn profiles

Add a profile from LinkedIn or Sales Navigator with one click and get an instant fit verdict.

Sales Navigator and Recruiter lists

Bulk import hundreds of profiles and let Jarvi rank them, so you start outreach with the strongest fits first.

Existing talent pool

Run a new job against your past candidates with semantic search. Jarvi resurfaces profiles you already met who match the new role.

Post-call screening

AI Notetaker on every screening call

The Jarvi AI Notetaker joins every screening call, transcribes the conversation, and pulls out what really matters: must-have requirements, salary expectations, notice period, motivation, deal-breakers.

That structured summary lands on the candidate file and feeds back into the scoring engine, so the next recruiter who picks up the file has the full picture without rereading the transcript.

See the full AI Notetaker

Estimate what Jarvi could free up for you

Plug in your numbers. See hours back, extra placements, extra revenue.

Your numbers
8
60
12,000 €
With Jarvi
14 hours
freed up per month
5.1 placements
extra per year
61,200 €
in extra revenue per year
Want this in your pipeline? Book a demo

Estimates based on screening times observed across Jarvi customers (2 min/CV manually, 18 s/CV with Jarvi review). Your actual results depend on close rate and pipeline efficiency.

Turn that time back into placements.

We'll run Jarvi on your own roles and your own numbers, so you see the saving before you commit. Book a 30-minute demo.

Transparency and control on every score

Speed only matters if every decision stays defensible. Every Jarvi score is explainable, auditable and human-led.

Human-in-the-loop by design

Scores are recommendations, never verdicts. Recruiters keep final say on every shortlist, with one-click overrides logged in the candidate timeline.

Short, plain-English reasoning on every score

Each candidate score comes with a short explanation of what fits, what is missing, what blocks the match. No black box.

Bias-aware evaluation

Scoring focuses on skills, experience and job-relevant signals. Age, gender, photo, marital status and country of origin are excluded from the scoring logic by default.

GDPR compliance, SOC 2 Type 2 hosting

Candidate data is hosted on SOC 2 Type 2 certified servers, encrypted in transit and at rest, fully GDPR-compliant. Each client's data is isolated from the others.

Full audit trail

Every score, override, message and status change is logged, with the channel, the user and the timestamp. Useful for client reporting, internal QA and regulatory peace of mind.

Your data is yours

Candidate data is never used to train Jarvi's models. When AI runs through our model providers, contractual safeguards keep data on European servers and out of any training pipeline.

GDPR compliant
SOC 2 Type 2 certified
Encrypted at rest and in transit
Full audit trail
18s
Average time to score a CV
90%+
CVs auto-parsed without manual edits
4M+
Candidates processed on Jarvi every year

Automated candidate screening FAQ

What is automated candidate screening?

Automated candidate screening, also called AI resume screening, uses AI to read every incoming CV or profile, evaluate it against the requirements of an open job, and rank candidates by fit. Recruiters get a pre-sorted shortlist with a short written explanation on every candidate, instead of a flat inbox of applications.

How accurate is Jarvi's AI scoring?

Jarvi scores candidates on the same criteria a senior recruiter would weigh: skills, depth of experience, domain fit, language and any custom knockout criteria you set. Every score comes with a short written explanation, so when the scoring gets it wrong, you see why in one click and override in another. Accuracy is auditable on every candidate, not a black-box claim.

Does automated screening replace recruiters?

No. Jarvi removes manual sorting at the top of the funnel, so your team focuses on screening calls, qualification and client relationships. The final decision on any shortlist always sits with the recruiter.

What sources of candidates can Jarvi screen?

Jarvi screens applications from 40+ job boards (Hellowork, Indeed, APEC, LinkedIn and more), CVs uploaded in PDF, DOC, DOCX, ODT and image formats, applications from your Jarvi-hosted career site, LinkedIn and Sales Navigator profiles, Recruiter lists, and your existing talent pool via semantic search.

How does Jarvi prevent bias in candidate screening?

Scoring is based on skills, experience, domain fit and language requirements. Age, gender, photo, marital status and country of origin are excluded from the scoring logic by default. Every score is explainable and reviewable, so a recruiter can challenge any decision and the override is logged in the audit trail.

Can Jarvi screen for soft skills?

Jarvi infers signals about communication, autonomy, leadership and adaptability from the language, scope and outcomes described in a CV or LinkedIn profile. These signals appear as context next to the score, not as a hard ranking criterion. Soft skills are best confirmed in a screening call, and Jarvi's AI Notetaker captures them automatically once the call happens.

Where is candidate data hosted, and is the screening GDPR compliant?

Yes, it is GDPR compliant. Candidate data is hosted on SOC 2 Type 2 certified servers, encrypted in transit and at rest. Each client's data is isolated, and retention rules, consent tracking and audit trail are built in.

Is candidate data used to train Jarvi's AI models?

No. Candidate data uploaded to your Jarvi workspace is never used to train Jarvi's models. When the AI scoring runs through our model providers, contractual safeguards keep data on European servers and out of any training pipeline.

How fast can my team start screening with Jarvi?

Most agencies are screening live applications the same day. Connect your inbox, your job boards and your career site, drop in a job description, and Jarvi starts ranking candidates within minutes. Full migration of an existing candidate database typically takes one to two weeks, mostly driven by how fast the export from your current ATS lands in our hands.

Stop sorting. Start shortlisting.

See what your pipeline looks like once Jarvi has done the screening for you. Book a 30-minute demo on your own roles.

Screening is one piece of Jarvi

Pair automated screening with AI-powered outreach, a full ATS and a CRM built for recruiting agencies.

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