The recruiter tasks worth automating first
A recruiter's week fragments into work that requires judgement and work that only requires time. Reading a hundred CVs to discard eighty is time. Deciding which of the remaining twenty to call is judgement. Automating the first without touching the second is where the hours come back.
In practice the highest-yield candidates for automation are the ones that repeat identically: extracting structured data from CVs in different formats, first-pass screening against explicit criteria, scheduling with several calendars, and writing the interview summary from notes. None of those decide anything; all of them consume afternoons.
- Structured extraction from CVs in any format
- First-pass screening against explicit written criteria
- Scheduling across the panel's calendars
- Interview summary drafted from the recruiter's notes