NLP in HR

How AI Resume Screening Works (And How to Get It Right)

By Zaheer Thaha/Jun 15

The average recruiter spends about 6 seconds scanning a resume. At that speed, a hiring team reviewing 250 applications per role is making thousands of micro-judgments based on formatting, keywords, and pattern recognition — rather than genuine qualification assessment. AI resume screening replaces that 6-second scan with a structured, criteria-driven evaluation that processes every resume [...]