Scoring job applications against a role's stated requirements
Read every CV and application against the criteria written for the role, return a score or a shortlist with the reason attached to each, and leave the hiring call with a person who can see that reason and overturn it.
- Effort
- Weeks of work
- Skill level
- Some technical skill
- Organisation size
- Mid-market
- Value
- Time saved, Quality
Tools named for this
- A screening tool that scores applications against employer-defined criteria
- Your applicant tracking system as the system of record
- A sampling check that re-reads a share of the rejections by hand
What to check before you ship it in India
- An application is personal data, and where it is likely to be used to make a decision that affects the candidate, s.8(3) of the DPDP Act puts the duty of completeness, accuracy and consistency on the employer as Data Fiduciary — not on the vendor whose model produced the score.
- The UK regulator's audits of screening vendors found tools that inferred gender and ethnicity from a name and search features that let recruiters filter out candidates with protected characteristics. Nothing about those failures is specific to the UK market. That guidance carries a notice that it is under review following the Data (Use and Access) Act and may change.
- If you hire into the EU: Annex III point 4(a) covers systems intended to analyse and filter job applications and to evaluate candidates, and Article 6(2) classifies Annex III systems as high-risk. This is an EU duty and creates no Indian one. Article 6(3) qualifies this: an Annex III system is not high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm — including where it only improves the result of a completed human activity or performs a preparatory task — though any system that profiles natural persons stays high-risk regardless.
Sources
Every claim on this page traces to one of these, on the date it was read.
- AI tools in recruitment — audit outcomes report (November 2024) · Information Commissioner's Office (United Kingdom) · that this is done · read 2026-09-01
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act) — Article 6(2) and Annex III — Article 6(2) · Official Journal of the European Union · a rule · read 2026-09-01
- The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (No. 22 of 2023) — most obligations commence 13 May 2027 under the DPDP Rules 2025 — s.8(3) · Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology · a rule · read 2026-09-01