If you’ve ever been involved in hiring developers, you know the drill. You open a position, and within 48 hours, you have 300+ PDFs sitting in your inbox.

Most of them are spam, heavily exaggerated, or completely irrelevant. But to find the hidden gems, your engineering team has to waste hours scanning PDFs and doing repetitive 15-minute screening calls just to check if the candidate actually knows what an API is.

It was draining our team's time. So, I decided to build a system that acts as an automated "first-line" technical recruiter.

Here is how I built an AI agent to parse CVs and conduct chat-based technical interviews before a human ever steps in.

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