How I Screened 150 Resumes in 15 mins Without Cloud Uploads: remio's AI HR Solution

Olivia Johnson
Jul 23
3 min read

Sarah, a talent HR at a tech startup, needed to screen about 150 resumes for a critical role. By syncing her past hiring data and collecting new profiles automatically, remio identified top candidates in 15 minutes (vs. her usual 3-hour manual review).

It was 7 PM, and I was on my 37th resume of the day. My coffee had gone cold, my eyes were blurry, and I still had 80+ applications to screen before tomorrow’s meeting with the engineering team. That’s when I decided to try something radical…

I’d spent three weeks drowning in recruiting hell. Our search for machine learning engineers felt like a digital labyrinth:

LinkedIn profiles with half-sentence accomplishments
ATS entries with inconsistent tagging in different platforms
PDF resumes scattered across downloads folders
Interview notes buried in Google Docs

I was juggling between 10+ browser tabs to piece together one candidate’s profile. Yet this is a process I had to repeat at least 150 times for every single job opening.

Worst of all? Every cloud tool I considered required uploading sensitive candidate data, which is a compliance nightmare I couldn’t risk.

That night, as I compared the 38th candidate’s resume against their GitHub portfolio, I realized: I was spending more time organizing than evaluating talent. And I may hear "We need you to move faster!" from engineering leads one more time... That's when I gave remio a chance.

The Breaking Point - start with remio's AI features

I'd heard remio could pull together webpages and local PDFs using on-device AI. I realized it could speed up my hiring process.

With one click, LinkedIn profiles morphed into neatly notes in my “ML Engineer Pool” collection. Candidates' skills, projects, and timelines auto-extracted like a digital archivist working overtime. No reformatting. No copy-paste purgatory.

And the real magic struck when I uploaded old resumes from local Folders. remio didn’t just store them— it wove connections I’d missed for weeks. Zhang’s resume materialized beside his GitHub projects like reunited twins. A TensorFlow optimization project I’d seen in interviews months ago now floated perfectly aligned with his application. The system drew invisible threads between fragments I never thought to connect.

Then came the true test: Thursday’s red-eye to headquarters. As the plane lurched off the runway, I flicked on airplane mode and held my breath. “Show me Python + AWS candidates who switched jobs in 2023,” I whispered to the screen. 5 profiles lit up instantly—one I’d spent 45 minutes hunting down just days prior. For the first time, compliance anxiety dissolved. No cloud uploads. No phantom data trails. Just pure, encrypted clarity at 30,000 feet.

Prepping for the final interview, I took my boldest gamble yet. “Compare Jia Li and Mark Davies’ NLP project depths,” I commanded. Seconds later, bullet points materialized like a seasoned recruiter whispering in my ear: Jia’s three published papers on transformer optimization versus Mark’s five fintech implementations. The half-hour prep ritual evaporated into 120 seconds of quiet confidence.

remio hadn’t just organized my mess; it became my photographic memory. The countdown timer I’d left running? 150+ applications processed.

Later, I also asked remio to compile summary profiles of the top 5 candidates. It surprised me with the results: remio not only highlighted key candidate insights but also provided personality-based suggestions for interview questions.

The New Reality of AI HR Solution

At tomorrow’s engineering sync:

"Sarah – how'd you screen 150 applicants so fast? These candidates were exactly what we needed."My answer is "I stopped screening and started thinking with an AI second brain."

My dashboard now tells the tale:

Task	Before remio	With remio
Build candidate pool	3 hrs (manual)	15 min
Cross-reference	45 min per hire	Instant
Interview prep	30 min	2 min AI draft

No frantic searches for files. No compliance panic attacks. Just a private command center where scattered recruiting artifacts transform into decisions – with AI working like my second brain, which could be the AI HR Solution in the future.

That's remio, an AI Assistant that really knows your workflow and is powered by your knowledge base.