Cutting Candidate Screening Time by 70% for a Recruitment Outsourcing Firm

With a high volume of active roles and a continuous inflow of resumes, TalentBridge’s recruiters were doing the same thing all day: reading CVs against screening criteria, 6–7 minutes at a time.

Worse than the time cost was the inconsistency. Different recruiters interpreted the same criteria differently, management had little visibility into screening quality, and time-to-hire could stretch to two months — a direct hit to both clients and cashflow.

The traditional answer — hire more recruiters — would have scaled the cost right along with the volume.

Rather than promising a full transformation up front, MintoraX ran a focused pilot on one use case: CV screening.

We built an AI screening agent that plugs into TalentBridge’s applicant tracking system and evaluates every incoming CV against auto-generated, standardised evaluation rules created from each job description. Every candidate is scored the same way, every time.

The agent also detects when a role is missing its job description and notifies the team — eliminating dead-end screenings and laying the groundwork for automating the full JD lifecycle. Recruiters review ranked shortlists instead of raw resume piles.

Screening time per candidate dropped from 6–7 minutes to roughly 90 seconds — a 70% reduction. The agent has processed more than 9,500 candidates with a 97.8% completion rate, automating over 6,500 hours of manual work.

Recruiters now spend their time interviewing candidates and advising clients, and TalentBridge is expanding the platform across the full hiring lifecycle — from job intake and scheduling to feedback collection and client submissions.