HiringBranch Launches Conversational Skills Screener to Redefine Resume-Based Hiring

HiringBranch, a leader in soft skills and communication assessments, has unveiled its Job Skills Screener — a cutting-edge solution designed to replace traditional resume scanning with conversational, simulation-based evaluations. Announced at the Gartner® HR Symposium/Xpo™, the new tool allows recruiters to assess every applicant quickly and accurately, ensuring no qualified candidate is overlooked.

For decades, resumes have been the cornerstone of hiring — yet in the era of AI-generated and embellished applications, they’ve become increasingly unreliable. HiringBranch’s new screener reimagines the hiring funnel by enabling recruiters to send 10-minute job simulation assessments to all applicants. The goal: evaluate communication, empathy, and critical thinking directly, not just rely on what’s written on paper.

“As AI reshapes recruiting, traditional resumes no longer reflect true skill or potential,” said Stephane Rivard, CEO of HiringBranch. “Our Job Skills Screener provides real performance signals at the start of the process — not after several rounds of mismatched interviews. Every applicant now has the chance to demonstrate what they can do, right from the beginning.”

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Developing this concise yet scientifically valid assessment required extensive validation and iteration. Assaf Bar-Moshe, Chief Research & Development Officer at HiringBranch, explained:“Short assessments are notoriously hard to design. Every question removed can reduce predictive accuracy. Our proprietary soft-skills language model and acoustic NLP engine solve this challenge by maintaining validity even in shorter formats.”

This breakthrough marks a major step forward for conversational assessment technology — bringing faster, fairer, and more reliable evaluation capabilities to enterprise hiring teams.

Key Features of the HiringBranch Job Skills Screener

• Realistic Job Simulation: Candidates engage in role-specific tasks, giving them a taste of the actual job experience before hire.

• Skills-First Evaluation: Over 50 communication and soft skills — including fluency, collaboration, and negotiation — are measured in real time by HiringBranch’s proprietary AI model.

• Voice-Based Assessment: The system analyzes both what candidates say and how they say it, ideal for customer-facing positions in sales and support.

While many organizations chase automation at the expense of candidate quality, HiringBranch takes a different stance — proving that technology can elevate human evaluation rather than replace it.“Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between efficiency and quality,” Rivard added. “With our new screener, they get both — faster processes and better hires.”

Having already delivered measurable results for global enterprises — from reducing attrition and absenteeism to improving job performance — HiringBranch now brings that same performance-driven rigor to the earliest stage of hiring.

The Job Skills Screener represents not just a technological innovation but a philosophical shift: from “reading about candidates” to listening to their real-world capabilities.

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