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Recruiting

CV screening with Claude

This one comes with a caveat that belongs at the top rather than the bottom. Under the EU AI Act, AI systems used to screen or filter job applications fall into the high-risk category, which carries obligations around human oversight, transparency and record-keeping. That does not mean you cannot use Claude here. It means the setup below is deliberately built so that Claude summarises and structures, and a person decides. Automated rejection is out of scope, and should stay out of scope.

Compiled from public documentation. Not independently tested.

What you need

  • Claude Cowork
  • Claude.ai

Skills, plugins and connectors

  • skill

    pdf skill

    From anthropics/skills. Extracts text from CVs, which arrive as PDFs more often than not.

    More in skills and plugin catalogues

  • product

    Projects

    In Claude.ai. Holds the role brief and the criteria so every candidate is read against the same standard.

  • skill

    xlsx skill

    From anthropics/skills. Produces the comparison sheet the hiring team actually works from.

    More in skills and plugin catalogues

The order to do it in

  1. 01

    Write the criteria down first

    Before you upload anything. Which requirements are hard, which are preferences, and what evidence counts as meeting each one. Vague criteria produce confident nonsense.

  2. 02

    Put the brief in a project

    Put the role brief and criteria in a project so they apply identically to every candidate rather than drifting as you go.

  3. 03

    Ask for extraction, not evaluation

    For each CV, what the person has actually done against each criterion, with the wording they used. No score, no ranking.

  4. 04

    Ask for a comparison sheet

    In the same shape for everyone. Same columns, same order, so the hiring team compares like with like.

  5. 05

    Forbid inference

    Instruct it explicitly to leave a field empty where the CV does not say, rather than inferring. Inference is where bias enters, and an empty cell is a question for the interview.

  6. 06

    Read the sheet and decide yourself

    Keep a record of who decided what and on what basis - that record is the oversight obligation, not a formality.

Roughly what it costs

A batch of thirty CVs fits a Pro session comfortably. Volume recruiting is a Max case. Note that document volume, not candidate count, is what consumes the allowance.

This guide is compiled, not tested. If you have run this workflow, tell us at info@claudenetwork.com.

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