Stop Screening CVs. Start Having Conversations.
Recruitment agencies spend 23 hours per hire on first-pass screening, work that Zyverno's AI interviewer, Lina, handles overnight. Get a ranked, scored shortlist before your team starts their day and focus on the conversations that actually close roles.
The daily reality
What recruiters deal with every day
The CV pile never gets smaller
UK roles now receive an average of 118 applications, a figure that rose 286% year-on-year as the jobs market shifted. Working through this manually means either staying late or accepting that qualified candidates are being missed in the pile.
Tribepad, 2024Inconsistent decisions
By application 150, your scoring criteria have drifted from application 1. Fatigue produces inconsistency; inconsistency produces bias and poor hires.
Shortlistd, 2024Candidates don't wait
The best applicants withdraw within 3-5 days if they don't hear back. A slow screening process loses the people you most want.
Standout CV, 2025Bad hires cost more than you think
CIPD data puts the average cost of a bad hire in the UK at £12,000, and 41% of employers made at least one regretted hire in the past 12 months. Rushed screening under volume pressure is the most commonly cited cause.
CIPD, Labour Market Outlook, Summer 2026How Zyverno helps
How Zyverno changes your day
Your shortlist is ready before 9am
Zyverno's AI interviewer, Lina, conducts structured voice or text screenings around the clock. Applications submitted at midnight are scored and ranked by 8am. Lina asks the same questions in the same order for every candidate, no scheduling, no no-shows, no follow-up admin. Your recruiters open their laptop to a stack-ranked shortlist, not a pile of unread CVs. Agencies using automated candidate screening tools like Lina consistently report handling 3x more open roles per recruiter without increasing headcount.
Every candidate, the same standard
Zyverno asks every applicant the same questions in the same order. No variance based on which recruiter opens the file, what time of day it is, or how many CVs came before. Consistent input, comparable output.
Candidates get an answer fast
Recruitment agencies typically manage dozens of open roles across multiple clients at once. Zyverno lets you configure independent screening criteria per role, so Lina can screen for a care assistant role and a warehouse team leader role simultaneously, with no overlap or confusion. Each client gets a separate, branded candidate experience. You get separate shortlists, separate scorecards, and a single dashboard across all active roles. This is the staffing agency software capability that makes real capacity growth possible.
White-label candidate experience, ATS-ready output
Candidates receive a branded invitation to complete their screening on mobile or desktop, at any time that suits them. Completion rates average above 65%, significantly higher than scheduling a call. Every outcome feeds back into your workflow: structured scores, candidate notes, and shortlist recommendations are exportable to your ATS or shareable directly with hiring managers. No more copying data between systems.
The Zyverno advantage
Why recruitment agencies choose Zyverno over traditional screening tools
Most recruitment agency software treats screening as an add-on, a basic keyword filter bolted onto an ATS that was built for tracking, not for evaluating. Zyverno is purpose-built as an AI screening tool for recruiters: the entire platform is designed around the problem of assessing candidates quickly, consistently, and at scale. Rather than filtering CVs by keywords, Lina conducts an actual conversation, one that is structured, scored, and directly comparable across your entire candidate pool.
The ROI case for automating candidate phone screens is well established. Research from Impress.ai found that AI recruitment automation reduces time-to-hire by 75%, and CoRecruit data shows recruiting agencies save 8 or more hours per week per recruiter when AI handles first-pass screening. For a 10-person agency team, that is 80 hours a week redirected from scheduling and note-taking to business development and client relationships, the work that actually grows revenue.
Zyverno is not a replacement for recruiter judgement. It is a force multiplier. Every shortlisting decision, override, and interview call remains with your team. What changes is that your recruiters arrive at those decisions having already seen every candidate through the same structured lens, rather than from a rushed read of a CV submitted at 11pm. That is what replace phone interviews with AI actually means in practice: better decisions, faster, with less recruiter burnout.
“I used to spend Tuesday mornings going through 80 applications for one role. Now I spend 20 minutes reviewing a ranked shortlist and move straight to calls.”
The numbers
What recruiters gain with Zyverno
4h/week
Average time saved per recruiter per role
3x more roles
Managed per recruiter with the same headcount
94%
Candidate satisfaction with the screening experience
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
From the blog
Further reading
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