
ATS has institutionalized ghosting by focusing on keywords over quality
By Mark Knowlton Webster defines a Paradox as “a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality, expresses a possible truth.” Try this paradox:
Recruiting Needs to Practice What It Preaches.
In IT recruiting, we often judge candidates by surface-level information rather than their true capabilities.
Our Screening-as-a-Service is a partnership with your recruiters, providing a Dev Manager-level screen at scale. A manager’s productivity time value is much higher than their salary, so having them read resumes and do phone screens at the beginning of the hiring process is a loss leader.
Screening-as-a-Service is powered by our AI Verify analysis engine and lets you inject Dev Manager scrutiny at the top of your funnel while saving the actual manager’s precious time. Resumes can’t tell a manager anything about a candidate’s knowledge and capability. We help you document a candidate’s worthiness for a specific role.
Screening-as-a-Service offers the power of AI with human delivery. Our proprietary AI Verify has us creating a detailed technical interview based on the tech stack and deliverables of a specific role. We provide a scheduling calendar for our Solution Architects, so you are booking your candidate with a few clicks.
As long as you give us a 1 hour’s heads-up, we will complete the interview and get back the Verinalysis report within minutes of the interview’s conclusion. The Verinalysis report will give the manager an effective blueprint of a candidate’s ability to produce the actual deliverables of the job, so we will spare the manager from having to read piles of resumes and doing phone screens.
When a company implements Screening-as-a-Service, your recruiters and hiring managers will ONLY talk to candidates who have proven to be technically qualified for a specific role. We help your managers focus on shipping products and we spare your recruiters from wasting time with a candidate – especially the ones with pretty resumes – from spending any time with them before they can be ruled in or out. Recruiters are hunters who excel at screening for soft skills and culture fit. We are their tag team partner who can bring out the technical hammer so they only spend time with candidates who have proven that they are worth it.
How Much Could Screening-As-A-Service Save You?
ATS automates buzzword scans,
only to have recruiters repeat the
process during résumé ‘review’
in avoidable redundancy.
They show what someone has
done, not how well they think or
how they solve complex
problems.
Companies spend 10-20% of
their budget chasing new
“covers” while ignoring
interested candidates growing
cobwebs in your ATS.
Your ATS is a goldmine, but you treat it like a graveyard. It
is not getting mined; it’s being ignored.
Candidates aren’t being rejected. They’re being
overlooked by algorithms that reward keywords over
capability.
You’re not running out of talent….you’re just not recognizing it.
You’re chasing strangers while sitting on gold.
Why keep paying to meet strangers when the gold nuggets in your ATS are
growing cobwebs?
• LI Recruiter: $9,000/750
• Seekout: $6,000/499
• Hirefly: $2,000/slot
• Total Tool Spend: $10B
• Job Advertising: $34B
• 75% of ‘qualified’ candidates
rejeected
• 30-70% of ATS oudated
• 93+% utilzation means
untouched candidates will
continue to rise
• ATS Filtering ruins ‘candidate
experience’
• Populating ATS exacerbates
problem
• Redirect spend for ROI by
screening huge pool
We design role-specific interviews
based on competencies that
actually matter for success.
We validate content with your
hiring managers to build trust and
alignment.
We conduct first-round interviews
using AI Verify™ and produce
detailed Verinalysis™ reports.
If your recruiters are currently operating at an 11:1 submittal-to-hire ratio (industry standard), here’s what a modest improvement in your screening accuracy could mean for your bottom line.
Each recruiter makes approximately 40 submittals per month. Small improvements in hit rate-through better technical fit assessment
-compound dramatically across your team.
How Much Could Your Team Save?
A manager’s time value isn’t based on what you pay them; it’s based on productivity. At tech companies, a manager’s productivity time value typically runs $700 – $800/hour.
Keep in mind that a manager needs to read the resume, come up with screening questions, conduct the interview, and document feedback. That’s 75 minutes per candidate, minimum.
Screening-as-a-Service lets TA teams finally live up to that ethos, while:
• Slashing spend on sourcing
• Unlocking dormant value in the ATS
• Building trust with hiring managers
• Improving speed, insight and decision quality

I can customize for my clients exactly the questions they want us to screen for. The clients love the idea that they can have input on how candidates can get screened specifically for their roles, so we don’t waste their time and we increase our value in the eyes of our clients.

I am super impressed with their certified training program. The platform is easy to use and for a small company wanting to build its own little HR department, TechScreen will certainly be an indispensable tool to use when looking for new staff.

TechScreen is an excellent tool to help a Recruiter better evaluate technical talent. An additional benefit to using this platform is the knowledge and enrichment that the Recruiter will receive. They will become more technically knowledgeable, more comfortable discussing technology, and build stronger credibility with the candidates.

This software makes it very easy and quick to qualify candidates for a variety of different skill sets. There are several skills with pre-loaded questions and anticipated answers along with highlighted buzzwords to listen for. This helped tremendously for skills I am unfamiliar with as it kept me engaged with the explanations to determine whether candidates were qualified. In addition, I enjoyed the ability to rank responses. Candidates who used examples to back their answers can be rewarded with a higher score.

TechScreen is easy to use. It satisfies our compliance with clients and we can close a candidate on a single call instead of sending an assessment to the candidate's email.

The software was the best setup I've experienced. It was intuitive and walked me through each step. I was never left wondering what to do next or how to accomplish something. I had very few questions about the system because it was built with a genius mindset of ease of use and complete functionality. I was able to quickly set up the type of position I was hiring for and easily select from the questions pertaining to that job. The system is super smart and separates questions into categories of level of difficulty because you may not be hiring an engineer, maybe just an entry level tech support position. The software has it all for you built right in, so you never have to create your own questions.

Great tool for my recruiting teams to qualify the technical skills of prospective candidates. It is low cost compared to other testing tools Great customer support - they partner with you to learn your team’s needs and work to meet them. Easy to use and train on - doesn't slow down my recruiters and increases the time to submit.

By Mark Knowlton Webster defines a Paradox as “a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality, expresses a possible truth.” Try this paradox:

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