AI-powered recruiting tool that cuts screening time
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Recruiting technical talent shouldn’t feel like a bottleneck, but for many it often does. As well as it did for us in Globaldev Group. Every promising candidate meant hours of senior developer time spent on screenings: building question sets, running interviews, and writing feedback before serious hiring conversations even began.
To escape this cycle, Globaldev built GenIA, an AI avatar for early recruitment screenings that automates first-round technical interviews. Since April 2025, our in-house recruiters have been using GenIA internally to pre-screen candidates around the clock, freeing engineers from repetitive calls and giving recruiters structured, comparable evaluations within minutes.
What began as an internal fix has grown into a scalable product, a concrete example of how AI tools for recruiting can transform hiring from a drain on resources into a fast, focused process.
Early-stage technical screenings often follow a familiar pattern. Once a recruiter identifies a promising candidate, senior developers must step in. They spend time drafting technical questions, conducting a live interview, and then compiling feedback for recruiters and hiring managers. Each candidate can consume 2–3 hours of scarce senior engineering time, which at $70 per hour translates to roughly $140–$210 each. With five candidates typically screened per vacancy, this vetting alone can cost $700–$1,050.
Recruiters are caught in the middle. They may lack the technical expertise to evaluate candidates upfront, which means weak fits often slip through. Senior engineers then spend hours in interviews that go nowhere.
At the same time, hiring managers are frustrated by the slow pace: by the time strong candidates finally make it through the queue, they are often off the market. This “recruitment drag” creates a feedback loop:
- Recruiters feel pressure to send more candidates faster
- Engineers become the gatekeepers, not builders
- Hiring managers lose trust in the process
- Candidates are disappointed in how long the interviewing process takes
As an AI software development company, we knew how to turn this hiring bottleneck into a product opportunity.
The team built GenIA, a recruitment AI avatar that runs automated first-round interviews with the efficiency and structure of a senior technical screener, but without tying up any human time.
When recruiters shortlist candidates, GenIA takes over the early screening. Each candidate receives a secure link to an interview room, where an AI avatar conducts a structured interview, asking technical and practical questions. The system transcribes their answers, evaluates response depth, clarity, and relevance, and assigns a weighted score for each competency.
Recruiters can then review a clean summary with ranked candidates, full transcripts, video recordings, and even anti-cheat signals like tab-switch counts without having to schedule a single call.
This AI avatar interviewing approach makes the process fully asynchronous: candidates complete interviews within a five-day window, and recruiters get results within minutes once the interview is completed.
Since April 2025, Globaldev’s recruitment team has been using GenIA to screen candidates across multiple roles. In just under six months, it has:
- Cut early screening time from 10 to 15 senior developer hours in half
- Reduced recruiter workload by removing scheduling and manual note-taking
- Delivered consistent, comparable candidate evaluations that make shortlisting faster and more objective
This freed engineers to focus on advanced interviews and real project work, while giving recruiters a clearer signal of which candidates are actually worth that time.
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Candidate-facing key functionality of GenIA
Recruiter-facing key functionality of GenIA
AI for recruiting core capabilities
Tech stack and integrations
GenIA’s next milestones focus on scaling Workable integration to automatically pull candidates, send invites, and post back results; and expanded ATS integrations (Zoho Recruit, SmartRecruiters, Greenhouse, Teamtailor).
What’s more, soon we’ll implement Stripe billing to support SaaS subscriptions. Other than that, we continuously work on improvements to GenIA’s evaluation logic, avatar UX, and prompt frameworks.
With these upgrades, GenIA is evolving into a full-fledged AI-powered recruiting platform, ready to help other companies accelerate their hiring pipelines as well.
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