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Resume screening and first-round interviews, automated

Open-plan office, studio, shop floor or clinic: every team has a role to fill, and it starts at a desk with a job post.

Every team needs the right person.

Every team

Every workplace, the same search.

Office, studio, shop floor, clinic.

The job post goes live. A pause, a first application, then more than anyone can read.

You post the role. Then you wait.

Then the flood.

One role. Hundreds of resumes. One of you.

Day after day and night after night, each resume gets a glance before it lands on a thin keep pile or a growing reject pile, and a strong one slips through.

So you read. One glance each.

Days of skimming. Nights of second-guessing.

Somewhere in that pile was the right person.

Novara reads every resume in full against the job post and gives each one a Job Fit Score with its reasons: what matches and what's missing. The strong candidate the pile buried comes back to the top.

Now every resume is read, start to finish.

Each one scored against your job post.

With the reasons written down.

Including the one you missed.

The desk is cleared and the wall TV switches on to Novara: the AI interviewer asks questions built from the job post and resume gaps and adapts to every answer, integrity signals are flagged for review, and the hiring team makes the call.

A clear desk, for once.

  1. Applied
  2. AI Request
  3. Prescheduled
  4. Scheduled
  5. Completed
  6. HR Round
  7. Offered / Rejected

Who fits the role, and why.

Kenji Watanabe

Product designer · 6 yrs · B2B logistics software

Job role
Senior Product Designer
Criteria matched
5 of 6
Current stage
Applied

88%

Job Fit Score

Resume read in full

What matches

  • Design systems at scale
  • Research that changed decisions
  • 5+ years in SaaS design
  • Fast interactive prototyping
  • Ships alongside engineers

What's missing

  • Measures design impactNo outcome data, like task completion, shown for the redesigns.
  1. Applied, done
  2. AI Request, done
  3. Prescheduled, done
  4. Scheduled
  5. Completed
  6. HR Round
  7. Offered / Rejected

Questions from your role, their resume, and its gaps.

  • Job postSenior Product Designer: design systems, research, B2B
  • ResumeKenji Watanabe · 6 yrs · 140-component system, 30 interviews
  • GapMeasures design impact: not on the resume

AI interviewer

Asks, listens, follows up

  1. Invite sent
  2. Time booked
  3. Scheduled
Automatic
  1. AI interviewerBuilt from the gap

    Your resume shows the dispatch board redesign, but no results. What did you change first?

  1. Applied, done
  2. AI Request, done
  3. Prescheduled, done
  4. Scheduled
  5. Completed
  6. HR Round
  7. Offered / Rejected

Every answer shapes the next question.

  • Job postSenior Product Designer: design systems, research, B2B
  • ResumeKenji Watanabe · 6 yrs · 140-component system, 30 interviews
  • GapMeasures design impact: not on the resume

AI interviewer

Asks, listens, follows up

  1. Invite sent
  2. Time booked
  3. Scheduled
Automatic
  1. AI interviewerBuilt from the gap

    Your resume shows the dispatch board redesign, but no results. What did you change first?

  2. Kenji Watanabe

    Dispatchers hunted for late loads, so I pinned them first and cut filters from nine to three.

  3. AI interviewer↳ Picks up “late loads”

    You said dispatchers hunted for “late loads”. How did you check that pinning them worked?

  1. Applied, done
  2. AI Request, done
  3. Prescheduled, done
  4. Scheduled
  5. Completed
  6. HR Round
  7. Offered / Rejected

Rehearsed lines don't survive a follow-up.

  • Job postSenior Product Designer: design systems, research, B2B
  • ResumeKenji Watanabe · 6 yrs · 140-component system, 30 interviews
  • GapMeasures design impact: not on the resume

AI interviewer

Asks, listens, follows up

  1. Invite sent
  2. Time booked
  3. Scheduled
Automatic
  1. AI interviewerBuilt from the gap

    Your resume shows the dispatch board redesign, but no results. What did you change first?

  2. Kenji Watanabe

    Dispatchers hunted for late loads, so I pinned them first and cut filters from nine to three.

  3. AI interviewer↳ Picks up “late loads”

    You said dispatchers hunted for “late loads”. How did you check that pinning them worked?

  4. Kenji Watanabe

    I always measure by iterating with stakeholders and tracking KPIs to deliver impactful, user-centred outcomes.

  5. AI interviewerFollow-up

    Which metric moved, by how much, and when did you first see it?

  6. Kenji Watanabe

    Late-load misses fell from 14 a week to 3 over the six-week pilot, tracked on the dispatch dashboard.

  1. Applied, done
  2. AI Request, done
  3. Prescheduled, done
  4. Scheduled, done
  5. Completed
  6. HR Round
  7. Offered / Rejected

Integrity signals, flagged for your team to review.

Integrity signals, Kenji Watanabe

Senior Product Designer

AI interview score
82%
Current stage
AI Interview Completed
  • Switching tabsNone seen0
  • Leaving full screenFlagged for review1
  • Copy and pasteNone seen0
  • Camera offNone seen0
  • More than one faceNone seen0
  • Looking awayNone seen0
  1. Applied, done
  2. AI Request, done
  3. Prescheduled, done
  4. Scheduled, done
  5. Completed
  6. HR Round
  7. Offered / Rejected

Different questions, one yardstick: your job post.

Job post Product Designer 5 AI interviews completed

One yardstick: the same criteria for everyone. Different questions for each candidate.

CandidateTheir questions
Kenji WatanabeKenjiDispatch board: first change?Keeping 140 components consistentHow did you check it worked?4 of 5, Design systems at scale4 of 5, Research that changed decisions4 of 5, 5+ years in SaaS design4 of 5, Fast interactive prototyping4 of 5, Ships alongside engineers3 of 5, Measures design impact
Sofia LindqvistSofiaWhich part did you design yourself?Which edge case was hardest?Name a decision the data changed2 of 5, Design systems at scale2 of 5, Research that changed decisions4 of 5, 5+ years in SaaS design3 of 5, Fast interactive prototyping3 of 5, Ships alongside engineers2 of 5, Measures design impact
Amara OkaforAmaraWhy 12 users per cycle?Scaling a 40-component libraryFramer to production: what broke?3 of 5, Design systems at scale4 of 5, Research that changed decisions2 of 5, 5+ years in SaaS design4 of 5, Fast interactive prototyping4 of 5, Ships alongside engineers4 of 5, Measures design impact
Omar JaberOmarA research finding you overruledTokens or one-off styles?Your last handoff to engineers4 of 5, Design systems at scale3 of 5, Research that changed decisions4 of 5, 5+ years in SaaS design3 of 5, Fast interactive prototyping4 of 5, Ships alongside engineers3 of 5, Measures design impact
Elsa VirtanenElsaA prototype you threw awayOnboarding redesign: what moved?Working with a remote squad3 of 5, Design systems at scale3 of 5, Research that changed decisions3 of 5, 5+ years in SaaS design4 of 5, Fast interactive prototyping3 of 5, Ships alongside engineers3 of 5, Measures design impact

Rubric level, 1 to 5, from the interview. Your team reads every answer.

  1. Applied, done
  2. AI Request, done
  3. Prescheduled, done
  4. Scheduled, done
  5. Completed
  6. HR Round
  7. Offered / Rejected

Scores, recording and reasoning, side by side.

Kenji Watanabe

Product Designer, interview report

Current stage
AI Interview Completed
AI Interview Score
82%
Job Fit Score
88%
Interview recording

Topics covered

  • Research that changed decisions
  • Design systems at scale
  • Measures design impact

Strengths

  • Tied the change to interview findings and gave the filter count before and after.
  • Described tokens, a review rotation and a deprecation rule, with an example of each.

Gaps

  • Cited a small pilot as the before-and-after. No longer-term measure or customer data was given.
  • Measures design impact: no outcome data shown for the redesigns.

Why

Answers tie each change to interview findings and a named system, and the follow-up questions found concrete detail. Impact is the open question: the only check was a small pilot.

  1. Applied, done
  2. AI Request, done
  3. Prescheduled, done
  4. Scheduled, done
  5. Completed, done
  6. HR Round
  7. Offered / Rejected

Invites, interviews, scores and reports: handled.

Product Designer

Senior · Interview pipeline

Applied

  • Marta L.Job fitJob Fit Score 71%
  • Dev P.Job fitJob Fit Score 64%
  • Noor A.Job fitJob Fit Score 58%

AI Request

  • Tomas B.Job fitJob Fit Score 77%
  • Ines C.Job fitJob Fit Score 69%

Prescheduled

  • Yuki T.Job fitJob Fit Score 82%
  • Ravi R.Job fitJob Fit Score 73%

Scheduled

  • Pia N.Job fitJob Fit Score 79%
  • Hana S.Job fitJob Fit Score 84%

Completed

  • Omar J.Job fitJob Fit Score 79%AI scoreAI Interview Score 78%
  • Elsa V.Job fitJob Fit Score 76%AI scoreAI Interview Score 74%

HR Round

  • Kenji W.Job fitJob Fit Score 88%AI scoreAI Interview Score 82%
  • Ada C.Job fitJob Fit Score 85%AI scoreAI Interview Score 79%

Offered / Rejected

  • Leo F.Job fitJob Fit Score 81%AI scoreAI Interview Score 77%
  1. Applied, done
  2. AI Request, done
  3. Prescheduled, done
  4. Scheduled, done
  5. Completed, done
  6. HR Round, done
  7. Offered / Rejected

You make the call: who moves on, who's hired.

Hiring funnel

Senior Product Designer

  1. Applied412
  2. AI Request46
  3. Prescheduled38
  4. Scheduled31
  5. Completed28
  6. HR Round4
  7. Offered1

Kenji Watanabe

Senior Product Designer

Job fit score

Job Fit Score 88%

AI interview score

AI Interview Score 82%

Offered

Morning. The hiring manager shakes hands with the person the pile almost buried.

Meet your hire.

Novara: resume screening and first-round interviews, automated, for hiring teams.

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