“Prior to AI, we would have to manually sift through all of this volume which took days… after outsourcing this initial screening to AI, we pare down our list of actionable candidates in seconds to minutes”

In The Trenches · The Most Valuable A.I. Use Cases as Reported by Searchers, CEOs and Investors

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Used AI to triage a batch of ~300 job applications, reducing actionable candidates to 4-5 within seconds-to-minutes

300 applications → 4-5 actionable

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