The evolution of any industry starts with an idea. Innovation follows with improvements to a product, process or practice, revealing a solution that can have a wide application.
Let’s look at the paradigm shifts in platform technology that led to seismic improvements in the way IT Recruiting has been transacted over time. If you are under 50, read the first bullet twice:
- The fax saved agencies from bringing resumes in huge batches to clients or using the mail and couriers
- Email made the fax an historic relic
- The browser leveled the playing field for doing research online
- Job/Resume Boards democratized getting access to candidates and JO leads
- LinkedIn and social media put a dent in job boards in the same way the email crushed the fax
- Text has proven itself to be far stickier than email
- Screening-as-a-Service provides an on-demand Virtual Engineering Manager for interviews leveraging our AI Verify platform
The fax, email and text are just platforms for you to create and send messages to a directed target. Job Boards, the browser and social media aggregate content to make it easier to find people with whom to start a conversation. Screening-as-a-Service is like hiring an on-demand Virtual Engineering Manager that produces the 2 most important things that lead to a candidate getting hired and a recruiter getting paid:
- Accurately screen a technical candidate with the skill of a hiring manager;
- Write an in-depth analysis of how well the candidate performed in the interview, giving the hiring manager documented evidence of the candidate’s worthiness.
We let you try it for free so you can get evidence for yourself by asking hiring managers their opinions in getting submittals with that level of granular technical analysis.
How many of those earlier innovations occurred while you were already working in Recruiting? Under what circumstances would you keep using the fax when email existed? Would you stick to job boards for sourcing at the expense of LinkedIn and social media? Recruiters hope to get an interview by just sending a resume, a document invented by Leonardo DaVinci in 1482 meant to recap career accomplishments. It hasn’t really changed in 542 years.
Screening-as-a-Service is an on-demand offering that uses AI Verify to screen and document an IT interview as if you hired an Engineering Manager to do all of the work. A Verinalysis report analyzes your candidates’ interview performance with a level of detail that would take a human Engineering Manager 90 minutes to write. AI Verify can do it in minutes and you get a Verinalysis report in less than 90 minutes from the time you scheduled the interview.
Some types of AI are built to help make decisions, but we have completely avoided subjectivity in how AI Verify does an analysis on a candidate’s interview performance. We compare the substance of the candidate’s answers against a curated database of provably correct information on 140 different IT topics. AI Verify comments on the accuracy of a candidate’s technical answers.
Some users may be intimidated by making use of AI Verify, because there are multiple ways to capture the recording, so we have made it completely fool-proof. Users can now leverage Screening-as-a-Service, a fully outsourced way to use AI Verify. All you have to do is book an interview with one of your active candidates on an online calendar we share.
Corporate recruiters will gain instant credibility with hiring managers. Agency recruiters can dramatically lower their submittal-to-start ratio and Agency sales people will use the Verinalysis reports to get more meetings with hiring managers. Every time an IT Staffing firm hires a new employee, they absorb a significant productivity hit.
You can book an interview with just 1 hour of advance notice and you will get back a completed interview with a detailed Verinalysis report within 30 minutes of the interview’s commencement. Screening-as-a-Service provides two interviews per day, which means you can receive 40 AI-powered interviews per month. This is like having a seasoned Engineering Manager do your interviews on-demand for an acquisition cost annualized at $21 an hour.
Candidates are increasingly refusing to take coding exercises. The hiring manager is often left with the time-consuming task of doing the initial phone screen to see if the candidate is worth the time of a full interview panel. Screening-as-a-Service is an ideal solution because it provides a hiring manager with evidence of the candidate’s technical insight and depth. Screening-as-a-Service is a surrogate to the manager phone screen.
“A resume tells you someone’s work and education history and forces a manager to make assumptions about the candidate’s knowledge,” TechScreen CEO Mark Knowlton said. “When I was consulting, I would build an evidence-based case that made it clear that the candidates are worthy of consideration. I once placed a C++ developer who hadn’t coded in 4 years because I was able to describe subjects that we covered that mapped directly to the deliverables of the role.”
This is precisely what the Verinalysis does. The manager will be reading how effectively the candidate answered questions that are based on the job’s technical requirements. A resume makes a manager guess; a Verinalysis lets the manager make a decision the way they prefer: By using data.
Mark Knowlton is the CEO & Founder of TechScreen
About TechScreen
TechScreen was created based on the idea there was a problem with properly vetting technical candidates. TechScreen, powered by AI Verify, is the world’s only SaaS product that lets a recruiter or hiring team conduct a detailed interview of an IT candidate without truly knowing the underlying content. Each candidate is also evaluated and scored by our artificial intelligence. While also providing a detailed write-up to share with your client to prove the quality of your technical screening. Learn more about what we do and visit us today at https://techscreen.com/ or contact us at https://techscreen.com/contact-us/ .