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If resume screening is eating your week alive, you're not imagining it. The average recruiter spends 23 hours reviewing resumes for a single role. That's more than half a standard work week, in one position.
A bad hire costs a small business anywhere from $4,000 to $20,000 when you factor in recruiting time, onboarding, lost productivity, and the whole process starting over.
You post a job. By Friday, there are 280 applications in your inbox. You have half a day. Maybe less. And somewhere in that stack is the person you actually want to hire, buried under 200 resumes that don't come close.
Recruitment may seem straightforward, but in reality, it is often slow, inconsistent, and prone to errors. Many teams still rely on manual CV screening and intuition, which leads to missed talent and inefficient hiring processes.