HR Screener PRO: AI Resume Screening & Candidate Scoring Agent

Install the AI resume screening agent from the ASCN marketplace and clear your first stack of applications today. New users get the referral program and discounts on 6- or 12-month plans. Current pricing lives at ascn.ai/pricing.

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Overview

One role pulls 200–300 applications. A recruiter spends 20–30 hours reading them and building a shortlist — at $25–50 an hour that is real money. Staffing agencies charge 15–20% of the first-year salary per hire. While resumes sit unread, your strongest candidates accept offers from teams that replied first.

HR Screener PRO is a ready-made AI agent for the ASCN platform that takes the first read off your plate:

• 📥 Catches applications in Gmail. Pulls resumes from PDF and DOCX attachments and email text, scores them the day they land.
• 🎯 Scores A/B/C against your role rubric. Every criterion shows what it found in the resume and why the score — traceable down to the line.
• 🚩 Flags risks. Signs of AI-written resumes, date gaps, and job hopping get marked "check in the interview," never treated as a verdict.
• 📊 Runs the funnel in Google Sheets. Score, status, resume link, and next step for every candidate.
• 📝 Builds scorecards from interview transcripts. Competency ratings with verbatim quotes and a hire / no-hire / borderline recommendation.

You run it from the ASCN chat or Telegram. A-candidates arrive as an instant alert; the rest wait in the Friday funnel digest.

How the AI resume screening agent works

No coding. All it needs is your role, described in plain words.

1. Install from the marketplace. Click "Use template" and the agent lands in your account in under 5 minutes.
2. Connect services by chat. Type "Connect my Gmail and Google Sheets," the agent hands you an OAuth link, one click to authorize. Drive for a resume archive is optional.
3. Build the rubric. Send the job description; the agent drafts a rubric — must-haves, nice-to-haves, weights, and A/B/C thresholds. You adjust it.
4. Start the tasks. The agent sets a trigger on new applications and a Friday digest cron. Quiet hours 11pm–8am stay respected.
5. Test run. Drop in 5–10 real resumes and the agent returns a shortlist table plus one full trace as an example.
6. Run it from one chat. "Show the funnel," "scorecard for Anna," "add a role" — right in the ASCN chat or Telegram.

Why it beats a recruiter and an agency on cost

• Scores on the day it arrives. Strong candidates hear back first and don't drift to competitors.
• One subscription instead of recruiter hours. 20–30 hours per role versus a plan — Start from $29/mo as of 06/12/2026. Payback on a single role runs into dozens of times over.
• Every score comes with evidence. The agent doesn't invent facts: the trace holds only what the resume states, tied to the line. Any score is easy to double-check.
• Scoring without bias. Age, gender, photos, and marital status are barred from scoring at the agent's rule level — professional criteria only.
• Scale without hiring. A new role means a rubric in 5 minutes. Need a second agent for another department? You spin it up in minutes.

What users get

Across rollouts the agent removes up to 80% of manual resume reading and cuts the path to a shortlist from days to hours. A-candidates surface the day they apply, not a week later.

Results depend on your application volume, the quality of the rubric in the agent's knowledge base, and how precisely the criteria are written. The agent delivers speed and traceable evidence; the accuracy of the setup is yours. The figures above are illustrative and vary by role.

Rollout statistics

Software company — engineering hiring

• Connected: Gmail with a trigger, Google Sheets and Drive, Telegram channel
• Result: 280 applications for a mid-level developer cleared in a day, a shortlist of 12 A-candidates with traces
• Saved: about 22 recruiter hours on one role

Staffing agency — high-volume recruiting

• Connected: a dedicated jobs@ label in Gmail, a Sheets funnel across 6 roles
• Result: one rubric per role, a Friday digest of inflow and stalled candidates
• Saved: roughly 15 hours a week on first-pass screening

Retail chain — office and store hiring

• Connected: Gmail and Sheets, interview scorecards in Google Docs
• Result: a call transcript turns into a scorecard with quotes in minutes, hire/no-hire backed by evidence
• Saved: interview write-up time down 4–5x

Figures are illustrative, shown as expected effect, and reviewed by the ASCN team before publication.

What's included

• A configured agent: role, scoring rules, and two skills — resume-scoring and interview-scorecard — already written in.
• A control guide: how to connect services, build the rubric, and adjust behavior by chat.
• Templates on board: a role rubric and polite candidate emails (invite and rejection) — the agent fills in the data and shows a draft for approval.
• A personal manager: helps tune the agent to your roles on the Personal plan and above.
• A private community: help from other users and fast support answers.

While others pay a recruiter to read three hundred resumes, hand first-pass screening to an agent that scores every application the day it lands. 🔥🔥🔥

Set the rubric once — every new application gets a score you can explain, and strong candidates reach you before your competitors notice them.

FAQ

Do I need coding skills?

No. The agent installs from the marketplace and is set up by chat: describe the role, and it connects Gmail and Sheets and creates the tasks itself.

How is candidate data kept safe?

Connections run through official OAuth, tokens sit in encrypted storage and never reach chats or logs. Personal data lives in your Google Sheets and Drive, not in the agent's memory. You can revoke any service at any moment.

Does the agent reject candidates on its own?

No. A C score means "low fit to the rubric" — the final call is yours. No email goes to a candidate without your approval, and there are no auto-rejections.

Does it factor in age, gender, or photos?

No. Scoring uses professional rubric criteria only. If you ask for such a filter, the agent declines and offers a professional alternative.

Can I tune the rubric to my role?

Yes. The agent drafts a rubric from your job description, and you edit criteria, weights, and A/B/C thresholds by chat. Each role gets its own rubric section.

Which services does the agent work with?

Gmail and Google Sheets are required. Google Drive (resume and transcript archive) and a Telegram channel are recommended. Google Docs for standalone scorecards is optional. You can also connect any external MCP server, such as your ATS.

What if applications hit a busy shared inbox?

The trigger fires on every incoming email and spends credits. For heavy volume the agent suggests a dedicated jobs@ label or a once-a-day scheduled screening run.

How does the agent build an interview scorecard?

Drop the transcript into an "Interviews/" folder in Drive or paste it into the chat. The agent rates competencies 1–4, each with a verbatim quote, marks red flags, and gives a hire / no-hire / borderline recommendation.

Can I switch the notification channel?

Yes. Alerts and digests go to Telegram or the ASCN chat — connect the channel you want, the agent's logic stays the same.