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SiftFirst
Stop drowning in AI resumes, start hiring the right people
23 followers
Stop drowning in AI resumes, start hiring the right people
23 followers
Small businesses now get 200+ applications per role, most AI-generated. SiftFirst ranks candidates against your criteria and quotes the evidence for every score. No signup required to try. You set the rubric, you make the call, you see the reasoning. New this month: an Ask tab to chat with your shortlist, team sharing with interview review, AI-prefilled interview scorecards, and pool analytics.
Very interesting product, these days one needs to try every new tool one can get, as you never know, sometimes you might find one that can solve your problem all together and I think this tool might be the one
One small comment, on the website after "Three steps to your shortlist" there are 3 points, they get highlighted with mouse hover (looks like a button) while click does not do anything, maybe worth making it do something or do nothing at all :) But this is just my quirk
@alexander_bosyy Thank you, and genuinely, that is the right instinct: try it on a real pile before trusting any claim, which is exactly why there is no signup wall. And great catch on those three steps, you are right, they carry a hover state but are not actually clickable. That is a misleading bit of polish on my end, I will make them either do something or stop pretending to be a button. Really appreciate you flagging it. If you do run a batch through, I would love to hear whether the ranking matched your gut.
Cool product, seems extremely useful in current market! Any plans to allow uploading of CVs as separate files in addition to copy-paste?
@raul_muser Good question! Folder full of CV-s - how to get them uploaded to start the process?
@raul_muser @raino_sinisalu @raino_sinisalu easiest path for a whole folder: zip it and drop the ZIP in, SiftFirst unpacks it and treats each file as one candidate. Or multi-select all the PDFs at once in the upload dialog, same result. A CSV works too if they are already in a spreadsheet. So a folder of 200 CVs becomes a single drag-and-drop. Are yours usually PDFs, or a mix of formats?
@raul_muser Thanks, Raul! Good news, that already works: you can upload CVs as separate PDF files, drop a whole ZIP of them, or a CSV, and even a photo of a printed one, right alongside paste. The Chrome extension also grabs candidates one at a time straight from a page or a LinkedIn profile. Genuine question back: what does your ideal "get the whole pile in" flow look like? That input step is where I most want to remove friction.
Is this only for tech roles, or would it work for hiring, say, a shop manager or a welder?
@raino_sinisalu Not tech at all, that is actually the core case I built it for. You write the criteria, so "can weld to spec", "has run a shop floor", or "shows up reliably" score exactly like a technical skill would, each with the resume line quoted as the evidence. Honestly the flood is everywhere now: an assistant coach for a US college volleyball program told us in person they get more hopefuls than they can physically read through. Anywhere people apply in volume, the same problem shows up.
We run a modular building factory and hire dozens of people every year- carpenters, finishers, team leads, and warehouse staff. Screening eats days of our production managers' time, and lately most applications look polished but say nothing. SiftFirst looks promising for exactly this: it ranks candidates against our own criteria and shows the evidence behind every score, so hiring decisions could be defended internally instead of relying on gut feel. The rubric stays ours, the call stays ours. Haven't run a real hiring round through it yet, but looks promising!
@kristjan_edula Kristjan, this is exactly the case I most want SiftFirst to serve: high-volume, non-tech hiring where the person doing the screening is also running production. The criteria are entirely yours, so "reliable on site", "has led a crew", or "shows up" score the same way a technical skill would, each with the resume line behind it. Genuine question: for roles like finishers or warehouse staff, how much of your real signal comes from the CV versus a quick call or a trial day? I am curious where a tool like this helps most, and where it honestly cannot reach.
Honestly the quoted evidence thing is what got me, like I can actually see why someone got ranked where they did instead of just trusting a score. Tried it without signing up which was refreshing, the Ask tab feels like a nice add for digging into a shortlist.
@muhammedkpvsfd This genuinely made my day. That is exactly the bet: the evidence quote IS the product, the score is just its summary, if you cannot see WHY someone ranked where they did, you will never act on it. Glad the no-signup path felt right too, I wanted people to judge it before committing anything. And you found the Ask tab fast. Genuine question: when you are digging into a shortlist, what is the first thing you would want to ask it? I am shaping where that goes next.
The no signup trial is great for testing the waters. One thing that would really help: let me bulk paste 20-30 JDs and have SiftFirst suggest a starter rubric I can tweak, instead of building criteria from scratch for each role. Would save a ton of setup time when hiring across multiple departments.
@bulem257022 Really useful, thank you. Good news, two-thirds of that already exists: SiftFirst drafts a starter rubric from a single JD today (paste the role, it suggests the criteria, you tweak the weights), and there is a library of 100+ role templates to start from instead of scratch. The bulk part, 20-30 JDs at once for multi-department hiring, is a genuinely good extension I had not framed that way. Quick question: would you want one shared rubric across similar roles, or a separate suggested one per JD that you then align? That changes how I would build it.