A vacancy goes live, and within a day there are forty applications. Some clearly do not fit, some might, and somewhere among those forty are the three people you want to talk to. Finding them costs you a day, and by then the best one has signed elsewhere. The Screening agent screens every applicant the moment they apply. Over WhatsApp it asks the questions that matter for the role, runs the right assessments and lets candidates who qualify book an interview with the right person straight away. You only see the people you want to talk to.
From application to booked interview, in one WhatsApp conversation.
The candidate applies through your vacancy or your ATS and gets a WhatsApp message from the agent right away. No login, no app, no form.
The agent asks the questions that matter for this role. Availability, driving licence, experience with a system, or whatever you set as a knock-out. In plain language, at the candidate's pace.
If the profile fits, one or more short assessments follow in the same chat. A personality questionnaire, a game, a language test, depending on what the role asks for.
Candidates who score green pick a time slot with the hiring manager or recruiter directly. Those who do not fit get a clear, friendly answer and stay in your talent pool.
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Which traits count and where the bar sits, you set in the job profile. The agent executes, you set the criteria.
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The candidate does not notice moving from chat to test. For them it is one conversation, for you it is one report.
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If the role needs a certificate, diploma or driving licence, the agent asks for it and lets the candidate upload it in the chat.
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When a candidate asks something the agent should not answer, the conversation goes to a recruiter. The candidate only notices they get an answer.
A screening agent runs the first part of your selection process without a recruiter. It contacts every applicant, asks the questions that matter for the role, runs assessments and books interviews with the candidates who qualify. The recruiter only sees the candidates who made it through screening, results included.
A chatbot answers questions. The Screening agent makes decisions based on your criteria, runs validated assessments in the same conversation and books a slot in the right person's calendar. The conversation happens on WhatsApp, but behind it the agent works together with your assessments and your ATS.
Any assessment from the Selection Lab library. Personality questionnaires, cognitive tests, game-based assessments, language tests and hard skills tests. Which ones the agent uses depends on the job profile you set. A driver gets a different set than a customer service agent.
They get a clear, friendly message, in the same chat and without waiting. Their details stay in your talent pool, so you can reach out later for a role that does fit. Nobody is left hanging in an application without an answer.
Automated screening of applicants is classed as high risk under the EU AI Act. That does not make it prohibited, but as an employer you have obligations, such as human oversight and informing candidates. How Selection Lab handles this is explained in our EU AI Act guide.
Book a demo and we walk you through how the agent runs on one of your own vacancies, from first message to booked interview.
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