Your resume mentions scaling the order service. What broke first when traffic doubled, and what did you change?
The Postgres connection pool saturated first. We added PgBouncer, then split reads onto a replica and moved sessions to Redis…
Every score opens onto the transcript and video it came from.
The limits of parsing a document
Keyword matching rewards the wrong people
The candidate who studied your job ad and mirrored its phrasing outranks the one who did the work but described it in their own words.
Titles don't transfer
'Senior Engineer' means something different at a four-person startup and a bank. Nothing in the document tells you which one you're reading.
Formatting decides careers
Two columns, a photo, an unusual date format — plenty of parsers quietly mangle these, and a person who would have been excellent is scored on garbage.
How Career1 does it
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Post the role
Type a job title and Career1 drafts the description, or dictate it, or upload the JD you already have. You choose what the application form asks for — phone, city, and any screening questions of your own.
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Everyone gets interviewed
Every applicant, not a filtered subset, gets a link to a spoken interview they can take at 2am on a phone. It asks about their actual experience, follows up when an answer is thin, and runs about eight minutes.
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Read a ranked shortlist
You get a match score, the verified strengths, the risks, a hire recommendation, and the full transcript and video behind every claim. The evidence ships with the score, so you can check the reasoning instead of trusting it.
What gets verified beyond the document
- Claimed skills
- Every technology on the CV is fair game for a question about how they actually used it.
- Scope of the work
- Whether 'built the platform' means alone over two years or as one of thirty people for a quarter.
- Recency
- Something listed from six years ago and never touched since is a different asset from something used last month.
- Gaps, without prejudice
- The interview asks about the timeline rather than assuming the worst about a break.
Questions people ask
What is résumé screening software?
Traditionally, software that parses CVs and ranks them by keyword match against a job description. Career1 does that reading step and then goes further: it interviews every applicant about what they claimed, so the ranking is based on answers, not on how the document was written.
Can AI résumé screening be biased?
Any ranking system can be. Career1's mitigation is that the score is built from a structured interview every applicant gets, scored on the same criteria, with the full transcript and video attached so your team can audit any individual decision instead of taking a number on trust.
How many résumés can it screen?
There is no queue — applicants are interviewed as they apply, in parallel. Your plan sets how many candidates you vet each month, starting with a free allowance and no card.
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