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Recruiting, explained
16 short, direct answers to the questions recruiters, hiring managers and founders ask about sourcing, screening, interviewing and AI hiring tools. No pitch above the fold.
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Candidate Sourcing
How recruiters find people who are not applying.
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Screening & Applicant Quality
Turning large applicant volumes into a shortlist.
Screening & Applicant Quality
How do you spot a fake job application?
Fake and AI-generated applications are now common for remote roles. Nine signals, from resume-profile mismatches to interview proxies, to catch them early.
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Screening & Applicant Quality
What is a screening call?
A screening call is a 15-30 minute first conversation that checks a candidate's basic fit before anyone invests in a full interview. Here is how it works.
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Screening & Applicant Quality
What is AI resume screening?
AI resume screening uses language models to read applications, match them to a role and rank or summarize candidates. What it does and where it fails.
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Screening & Applicant Quality
What is pre-screening in recruiting?
Pre-screening is the filtering step between application and interview: knock-out questions, resume checks and tests that remove unqualified candidates.
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Interviewing & Scheduling
Structuring, scheduling and documenting interviews.
Interviewing & Scheduling
How does automated interview scheduling work?
Automated interview scheduling matches interviewer calendars with candidate availability, books invites and handles reschedules without a coordinator.
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Interviewing & Scheduling
What is a structured interview?
A structured interview asks every candidate the same job-related questions and scores answers on a fixed rubric. The most predictive common interview format.
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Interviewing & Scheduling
What is an AI interview notetaker?
An AI interview notetaker records interviews, transcribes them and writes a structured summary against the scorecard. Benefits and consent rules.
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Interviewing & Scheduling
What is an interview panel?
An interview panel is two or more interviewers who assess a candidate together or as a coordinated loop. When panels help, when they hurt, how to run one.
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Candidate Outreach
Reaching candidates and getting replies.
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Recruiting Roles & Models
Who does what in a hiring team, and how agencies work.
Recruiting Roles & Models
What is full-cycle recruiting?
Full-cycle recruiting means one recruiter owns a hire end to end: intake, sourcing, screening, interviews, offer and onboarding. The six stages explained.
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Recruiting Roles & Models
What is headhunting?
Headhunting is proactively finding and approaching people who are not looking for a job, usually for senior roles. Retained vs contingent, and fees.
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Hiring Process & Terms
Employment types, offers and the mechanics of a hire.
Hiring Process & Terms
What is an applicant tracking system?
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is the database of record for hiring: it posts jobs, collects applications and tracks candidates through stages.
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Hiring Process & Terms
What is contract-to-hire?
Contract-to-hire means a worker starts on a fixed-term contract, typically 3-6 months, with the stated intent to convert to a permanent employee.
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Hiring Process & Terms
What does direct hire mean?
Direct hire means a company employs a candidate as a permanent employee from day one, with no contract or agency period. How it compares to temp-to-perm.
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AI in Recruiting
What AI recruiting tools actually do, and how they are priced.
Looking for vendor comparisons, pricing breakdowns and research instead? Those live on the Noon blog and in the pillar guides.