Candidate matching software that ranks people, not keywords
AI candidate screening & assessment
Identify qualified applicants faster through AI-powered candidate screening that keeps recruiters in control.
Puck’s platform combines AI candidate matching, structured phone-based assessments, built-in fraud detection, and human review to help hiring teams surface their strongest candidates while creating a better experience for everyone involved.
Somewhere in that pile is your next great hire.
Puck helps you find them faster.
Every recruiter knows the feeling: a role goes live, and within days hundreds of applications pour into your ATS.
Some candidates are highly qualified, many used AI to tailor their resumes, and there's never time to review them all.
So recruiters scan resumes in seconds, qualified candidates slip through the cracks, and hiring managers wait longer to interview the people who could become their next great hires.
Traditional resume screening software makes it worse, relying on keyword matching and resume formatting that filter out strong applicants with different job titles, transferable skills, or unconventional career paths.
Puck takes a different approach.
Our AI candidate screening software combines intelligent candidate matching with structured phone-based assessments to evaluate candidates on the skills and qualities your organization actually values.
The result is a prioritized pipeline built on real job fit, so hiring teams spend more time evaluating great people and less time sorting paperwork.
From applicant to interview:
our candidate assessment process
Candidate screening works best when every stage builds on the last. That's why Puck combines matching, assessment, fraud protection, and human decision-making into one connected workflow.
#1
Applicants enter your pipeline
Candidates apply through your ATS, recruiting campaigns, or sourcing efforts. Every applicant remains visible. Nothing disappears into a hidden algorithm.
#2
AI candidate matching
prioritizes your queue
Puck builds a customized skills rubric based on your hiring criteria. Applicants are ranked against that rubric so recruiters immediately see which candidates deserve the closest attention.
Unlike generic resume screening software, recruiters can understand why candidates appear where they do in the ranking. The process is transparent, configurable, and aligned with your team's hiring priorities.
#3
AI Recruiter structured
candidate assessments
Top-ranked candidates are invited to complete a phone-based screening conversation.
Rather than asking candidates to record awkward one-way videos or complete static questionnaires, Puck conducts structured conversations that evaluate responses against the same criteria established during matching. This friction-free experience drives an industry-leading 70% assessment completion rate across technical and high-volume roles.
During assessments, Puck's candidate screening checks that someone's identity is authentic across signals including publicly available data.
Recruiters receive:
- Complete audio recordings and highlights
- Searchable call transcripts
- Structured summary scorecards
- Consistent candidate evaluations
… all without spending hours scheduling or conducting first-round phone screens.
#4
Recruiters review every candidate
Artificial intelligence helps prioritize work, not make hiring decisions.
Every candidate remains available for review, and recruiters evaluate transcripts, recordings, fraud flags, and rubric scores before deciding who advances.
#5
Hiring teams conduct interviews
By the time candidates reach hiring managers, recruiters have already identified the strongest matches through a consistent, structured screening process that dramatically reduces administrative work while improving candidate quality.
Puck is more than a resume screening tool
Candidate screening is only one piece of successful recruiting. Puck connects screening with the rest of your hiring process so every stage works together.
Attract the right people first
Better screening starts with better applicants. Puck's Employer Branding tools help organizations build branded career pages, showcase authentic employee stories, and create job pages that encourage stronger candidates to apply in the first place.
Automate candidate screening & assessment calls
Puck's AI Recruiter automatically conducts structured phone-based candidate assessments using your organization's hiring rubric. Recruiters receive consistent evaluations for every qualified applicant without picking up the phone.
Unlike personality tests or psychometric assessments, Puck evaluates candidates against job-relevant competencies that matter to your hiring process.
Build strong candidate relationships
Not every qualified candidate is the right fit today.
Puck's Talent CRM keeps promising applicants engaged through automated nurture campaigns, making it easy to reconnect with previous candidates when future opportunities become available.
Track every candidate in one place
Puck's Lightweight ATS helps recruiting teams manage every applicant from application through offer. Candidate information moves seamlessly between matching, screening, interviews, and hiring, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
Automated candidate screening that reduces busywork & bias
Recruiting teams want efficiency, but they also want confidence that qualified candidates aren't being filtered out unfairly.
That's why Puck uses structured evaluation rather than automatic rejection.
Every candidate is measured against the same predefined skills rubric instead of subjective resume formatting or keyword density. Recruiters can review every recommendation, understand why candidates received their rankings, and make final hiring decisions themselves.
This human-in-the-loop approach provides meaningful time savings without introducing unnecessary compliance concerns associated with fully automated hiring decisions.
Puck never rejects candidates automatically.
Instead, AI organizes information, surfaces the strongest matches, and gives recruiters the tools they need to make faster, better-informed hiring decisions.
The technology handles repetitive administrative work while people remain responsible for evaluating talent.
Real results from teams using Puck to screen candidates
Organizations using Puck spend dramatically less time reviewing applications while evaluating more candidates than ever before.
Instead of relying on resume keywords alone, recruiting teams use structured conversations and AI-powered prioritization to identify qualified applicants faster and more consistently.
Vivrelle
After implementing Puck's AI Recruiter, Vivrelle completed 317 AI-powered interviews across 12 open roles while reducing recruiter phone screening time by 88%.
Recruiters expanded their top of funnel without expanding their team, allowing qualified candidates to move through the hiring process faster while maintaining a consistent screening experience.
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Frequently asked questions about candidate screening
What is candidate screening software?
Candidate screening software helps recruiting teams evaluate applicants more efficiently by organizing, prioritizing, and assessing candidates based on skills, experience, and structured hiring criteria. Rather than relying exclusively on manual resume review, modern screening platforms help recruiters identify qualified applicants faster while maintaining consistency across the hiring process.
How does Puck's candidate matching work?
Puck creates a customized skills rubric based on your organization's hiring priorities. Incoming applicants are ranked against that rubric so recruiters can immediately focus on the strongest candidates. Rankings remain transparent, allowing recruiters to understand why each candidate appears where they do rather than relying on unexplained algorithmic scores.
How is this different from keyword-based resume screening software?
Traditional resume screening software searches for keywords and formatting patterns that may not accurately reflect candidate quality. Puck evaluates applicants against your hiring criteria instead. Combined with structured phone-based assessments, recruiters gain a more complete understanding of each candidate before moving them forward.
Is Puck a candidate assessment tool?
Yes, but with an important distinction. Puck's AI Recruiter conducts structured candidate assessments tied directly to job-related competencies. It is not a personality, cognitive, or psychological testing platform. Every assessment supports recruiting decisions based on the hiring rubric your team defines.
Does Puck's AI reject candidates automatically?
No. Puck never makes hiring decisions on behalf of recruiters. AI prioritizes applicants and summarizes screening conversations, but recruiters review every evaluation and decide who advances through the hiring process.
Does ranking candidates introduce bias?
Puck helps reduce inconsistency by evaluating every applicant against the same structured criteria. Recruiters review every recommendation before making decisions, ensuring AI supports, not replaces, human judgment.
How does Puck prevent candidate fraud or AI-generated cheating?
Puck includes active voice verification and behavioral detection during phone assessments. These systems automatically flag AI-generated responses, bots, and proxy interviewers, ensuring recruiters evaluate authentic candidate skills.
Does candidate screening work with the ATS we already use?
Yes. Puck integrates with leading applicant tracking systems including Workday, Greenhouse, Pinpoint, Lever, and Ashby, allowing assessment scores, transcripts, and recordings to sync automatically. Organizations looking for a complete recruiting platform can also manage their hiring process directly within Puck's Lightweight ATS.
Let's find the right match for your team together
Hiring should never feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Puck has helped match more than 30,000 candidates with their next employers by giving recruiting teams better tools to identify, assess, and engage qualified talent.
See how Puck can help your team reduce screening time, improve candidate quality, and make better hiring decisions.