How to screen resumes with AI against your own criteria
To screen resumes with AI in Truffle, describe the role, answer the optional role brief, keep Resume switched on, then review the criteria Truffle drafts and choose Looks right before you activate. Every resume comes back scored against those criteria with the evidence shown, and you decide who moves on.
Key takeaways
- Truffle drafts your resume criteria from the position description and the role brief. Name the experience that matters, where it was earned, and the tools the person will use.
- The role brief is three optional questions, including who would struggle even if their resume looks great. Even one answer sharpens the criteria.
- On Build position you choose how the position runs: Apply first, where you pick who continues, or Apply and finish in one sitting, where candidates complete the next step in the same session.
- Drafted criteria arrive Suggested, not reviewed. The position cannot go live until you choose Looks right or edit them.
- Mark what a resume must show as Required. Required labels the criterion on the results. It does not reject anyone, and neither does a score.
- Each candidate's Resume tab rates every criterion Strong, Some or None, with the line from the resume it rests on. Resume screening costs 1 credit per resume scored.
Screen resumes against criteria you control, set up in about a minute.
You describe the role and answer the role brief. Truffle drafts resume criteria from both, and you read them, choose Looks right, and mark what a resume must show as Required. Every resume that comes in is scored against those criteria, with each one rated Strong, Some or None and the line from the resume it rests on.
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Transcript
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Here’s resume screening against your own criteria, set up in a few minutes. Let’s build one. Start a new position. Give it a title, and describe the role in plain language. Then answer the role brief: three quick questions, like who would struggle here, even if their resume looks great. On Build position, Resume arrives already on, marked Suggested. Then choose how the position runs. Apply first, and you pick who continues, or apply and finish in one sitting. On Configure screening, Truffle drafts your resume criteria from the description and the brief. They arrive suggested, not reviewed. If they’re right, choose Looks right. Then mark what a resume must show as required, and edit anything that’s off. Last, review your setup, and activate. Every resume comes back scored against your criteria, with the reasoning shown. You decide who moves on. Start free at hiretruffle.com.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Truffle reject candidates based on their resume?
- No. Each resume is scored against your criteria and the evidence is shown next to the score. A score never rejects anyone, and neither does a criterion marked Required. The only automatic rejection in Truffle is a qualification check you set to Reject automatically. You decide who continues.
- Where do the resume criteria come from?
- Truffle drafts them on Configure screening from your position description and your role brief answers, usually in about 15 seconds. They arrive as Suggested, not reviewed. You can edit, remove or add criteria, or regenerate the whole set, and the position cannot go live until you choose Looks right or edit them.
- What is the difference between Apply first and one sitting?
- With Apply first, candidates send a resume, it is scored and ranked, and they wait in your list until you invite them to the next step. With Apply and finish in one sitting, candidates give their resume and complete the next step in the same session, and you review everything together. Resumes are scored either way.
- How many credits does resume screening use?
- 1 credit per resume scored. Credits are charged per step a candidate finishes, so someone who never starts costs nothing. The 7-day free trial includes 30 credits, with no credit card.
- What makes a good resume criterion?
- One a reader could check from a resume: named tools, time spans, scope. A criterion like strong communicator is hard to score consistently. Truffle shows examples under See examples of strong criteria.
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