How is Hiearlly different from ATS keyword screening?

Traditional ATS screening keyword-matches resumes and rejects candidates who don't phrase things a certain way. Hiearlly instead evaluates demonstrated skill from an assessment and a structured AI interview, so people are judged on what they can do, not how their resume is worded.

Does AI resume screening reduce bias?

Every candidate is put through the same assessment and structured interview and scored on the same rubric, which removes the name- and wording-based inconsistency documented in manual resume review.

What if a resume is exaggerated or false?

Because shortlisting is based on demonstrated skill and a real interview rather than the resume itself, exaggerated claims don't survive — and background verification runs automatically on the shortlist.

Use Case · AI Resume Screening

Screen on skill, not keywords.

Keyword-matching filters reject good people and trust resumes that can't be verified. Hiearlly screens every applicant on demonstrated skill and a structured AI interview — consistently, without name bias — and returns a ranked shortlist.

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Hiearlly agentlive

AssessmentAI video interviewPre-screeningVerification

Ranked shortlist

3 of 9,842

ARAarav R.94

MKMeera K.91

SDSana D.88

88%

of employers say automated keyword screening filters out qualified candidates for not matching exact criteria.

Harvard Business School / Accenture

70%

of workers admit to lying on their resume — the document you're screening is unreliable.

Forbes / ResumeLab

50%

more callbacks for identical resumes with White-sounding names — manual review is inconsistent.

Bertrand & Mullainathan, NBER

57%

of job seekers abandon applications that are too long or complicated.

HR Dive

01The problem

The resume is the wrong thing to screen on

Keyword filters optimise for how a resume is written, not whether the person can do the job — and the resume itself is often unreliable.

Keyword filters reject good people

Automated screening drops qualified candidates who don't phrase their experience to match the posting — 88% of employers admit it happens.

Resumes can't be trusted

When most workers admit to embellishing, screening on the resume alone means ranking candidates on claims you haven't verified.

Manual review is inconsistent

Identical resumes get different outcomes depending on the name at the top — bias and reviewer fatigue creep into every pile.

Skill-based assessment

Every applicant completes a role-fit assessment that's graded objectively — the first signal is what they can do, not what they wrote.

Structured AI interview

A rubric-anchored AI video interview evaluates each candidate on the same questions, so results are genuinely comparable.

Consistent, bias-aware scoring

One rubric for everyone removes the name- and wording-based inconsistency that plagues manual resume review.

Sentiment & communication signal

Responses are scored for communication quality — context a keyword filter can never capture.

Verification on the shortlist

Background verification runs automatically on shortlisted candidates, so claims are confirmed before an offer.

Ranked, decision-ready shortlist

The agent returns a ranked shortlist with a brief per candidate — recruiters review finalists instead of scanning resumes.

02How Hiearlly solves it

Judge what candidates can do, the same way every time

Hiearlly replaces keyword matching with demonstrated evidence, applied identically to every applicant.

One drive, one funnel

Applicants

9,842

Assessed

9,842

Interviewed

3,110

Verified

420

Shortlist

03Side by side

Keyword ATS screening vs Hiearlly

What each one actually measures.

Keyword ATS

Hiearlly

Screens on

Resume keywords

Demonstrated skill + interview

Qualified candidates

Filtered out on wording

Evaluated on ability

Consistency

Name & reviewer bias

Same rubric for everyone

Unreliable resumes

Taken at face value

Verified against real evidence

Output

A filtered list

A ranked, briefed shortlist

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