What if every applicant got a screening call the same day they applied?
Kognify's HR Screening operator calls your candidates, holds a natural conversation in their language and turns every answer into a structured scorecard. It:
- Calls every candidate within your call window - hundreds in parallel, retries and callbacks included.
- Asks the same qualification questions - experience, certificates, shifts, location, start date, salary expectations.
- Answers questions about the role from your brief and books the next step with the right recruiter.
- Returns a comparable scorecard per candidate - every answer captured, every gap flagged, nothing invented.
Your recruiters start the day with a reasoned shortlist - and spend their time on interviews, not on dialling.
High-volume hiring is lost on the phone. Kognify takes the phone off your recruiters' desk.
Seasonal waves, new sites, warehouse, retail, courier and contact-center roles - every opening brings hundreds of applicants, and every one needs a first call before anyone knows if they fit. Recruiters spend their days dialling, leaving voicemails and re-typing notes. Meanwhile the strongest candidates accept the offer that called them first.
Six ways autonomous screening changes hiring.
This isn't a dialler. Taking the first conversation off your recruiters' desk changes how fast, how fairly and how cheaply you hire - at the step where most candidates are lost.
Hire before competitors do
Same-day screening cuts the wait for a first call - the step where most candidates drop out or accept elsewhere.
Lower cost per hire
Screening capacity no longer scales with recruiters or agencies. Peaks are absorbed by the platform, not by overtime.
Consistent and documented
Every candidate is asked the same questions and assessed against the criteria you defined - logged for every call.
Recruiters do recruiting
Time moves from dialling and note-taking to interviews, hiring-manager alignment and closing offers.
The funnel in real time
Reached, qualified, rescheduled, handed over - per role, per site, per source, live and exportable.
A better candidate experience
Candidates are called promptly, at a time that suits them, get answers about the role - and always know the next step.
From applicant list to shortlist - without a single manual dial.
HR Screening runs on Campaign Manager, the outbound extension of the Kognify Call Center. Because it knows what a screening call has to achieve, every step is built for it - and verified before the next one starts. Here is the path every candidate takes:
- Role briefRequirements, shifts, location, pay range and FAQs - in plain language
- Screening questionsMust-haves, knock-outs and the fields you want back
- Candidates importedATS export or CSV - numbers checked, duplicates merged, gaps flagged
- Call window & languagee.g. Bulgarian, 09:00-19:00, Mon-Sat
- Calls in parallelSpread across your window - hundreds at once
- Natural dialogueAsks, listens and clarifies - in the candidate's language
- Questions answeredAbout the role, shifts and pay - from your brief, never invented
- Callbacks remembered"Call me after six" - rescheduled, with a context-aware greeting
- Speech to dataNames, phone numbers, dates and addresses - with great precision
- Confirmed on the callKey values read back and confirmed by the candidate
- Your criteria appliedMust-haves and knock-outs checked against your rules
- Gaps flaggedUnclear or missing answers marked - never guessed
- Scorecard per candidateThe same fields for everyone - comparable by design
- Next step bookedInterview slot offered from your recruiters' availability
- Recruiter decidesA recommendation with its reasons - people make the hiring call
- Into your systemsCSV export and webhook hand-off to your ATS
of reached candidates come back with the same structured scorecard
- Answers captured, confirmed and checked against your criteriaCalled
→Captured→Scored - Qualified candidates leave the call with a booked next stepInterview or second meeting - depending on your process.
- Every call reviewable at any timeSummary, extracted fields and the full call history per candidate.
candidates silently dropped - every exception arrives with its context
- Clearly marked, never buriedRescheduled / unreachableNeeds a recruiter
- Questions outside the brief are handed overContract details, negotiation or a sensitive situation - not improvised.
- Full context on handCall summary, collected answers and the reason for every flag.
Every candidate, every attempt - visible as it happens.
An illustrative campaign: 640 applicants for warehouse operator roles across two sites. Each row is one candidate - select one to see what the call captured.
Contact
Three years in a logistics warehouse, valid forklift licence, open to rotating shifts. Asked how to get to the site - answered from the brief (company shuttle). Interview booked with the site recruiter.
Fields extracted from the call
candidate: "Ivan Petrov" phone: "+359 888 412 690" # confirmed experience_years: 3 forklift_licence: true shifts: "rotating, incl. nights" start_date: "2026-03-16" salary_expectation: "within range" knockouts: none next_step: "Interview · Mar 5, 10:30 · Sofia-East"
Contact
Asked to be called after work. The second call opened with This is the evening call you asked for
and picked up where the first one stopped. Day shifts only - flagged for the recruiter to match against the Plovdiv rota.
Fields extracted from the call
candidate: "Iva Georgieva" experience_years: 1 forklift_licence: false shifts: "day only" # flagged start_date: "2026-03-23" salary_expectation: "within range" knockouts: none next_step: "Interview · Mar 6, 16:00 · Plovdiv"
Contact
Clear, friendly call. Cannot work night shifts, which the Sofia-East role requires - marked as a knock-out with the reason, for the recruiter to confirm. Interested in day-shift openings in future waves.
Fields extracted from the call
candidate: "Nikolay Dimitrov" experience_years: 5 forklift_licence: true shifts: "day only" knockouts: "night shifts required" # reason logged future_interest: true next_step: "Recruiter review"
Contact
The line dropped mid-call. The platform called back two minutes later and continued from the last answered question - nothing asked twice.
Fields extracted from the call
candidate: "Ina Koleva" experience_years: 2 shifts: "rotating" start_date: "immediately" salary_expectation: "within range" knockouts: none next_step: "Interview · Mar 5, 14:00 · Sofia-East"
Contact
Asked detailed questions about contract type and a previous application with the company - outside the brief. The operator did not improvise: it promised a call from a recruiter and handed over the summary.
Fields extracted from the call
candidate: "Stefan Iliev" experience_years: 7 team_lead_years: 3 open_questions: "contract type; earlier application" escalation_reason: "outside role brief" next_step: "Recruiter callback · today"
Contact
Two attempts without an answer, at different times of day. The third attempt is placed in the early evening, inside the call window - and stops at the attempt limit you set.
Fields extracted from the call
candidate: "Maria Todorova" attempts: 2 last_attempt: "2026-03-04 13:15" next_attempt: "2026-03-05 17:30" status: "retrying"
The full Call Center engine, run as a campaign.
HR Screening is a campaign operator - Campaign Manager, configured and tested for one purpose. It inherits the scheduling, memory and monitoring of Campaign Manager and the speech-to-data precision of the Kognify Call Center.
Contacts per campaign, tested at production volumes
Parallel campaigns - one per role, site or hiring wave
From candidate list to a running campaign
Turn-taking in natural conversation, specialised for EU languages
People make the hiring decision. Kognify makes it well-informed.
The operator collects, structures and recommends. Every recommendation carries its reasons, and the decision stays with your recruiters. Every call is logged and traceable, on infrastructure that meets EU standards.
Configured the way you'd brief a new recruiter.
No telephony project, no scripts written by developers. Your HR team describes the role, the questions and the next steps in plain language, and changes go live for the next call.
Plain-language scenario
Greeting, outline, questions and the fields to extract - written as instructions, not code.
Contextual memory
Remembers earlier calls with the same candidate - within a campaign and across campaigns.
Intelligent rescheduling
"Call me tomorrow at six" becomes a scheduled call with a context-aware greeting.
Multi-language
Language set per campaign - run Bulgarian and English screening side by side.
Steer mid-run
Pause a campaign, reschedule or remove a candidate, fix a number - without losing data.
Fits your HR stack
CSV and webhook hand-off to your ATS or HRIS; cloud telephony or your existing PBX.
The Kognify platform runs in production for some of the largest companies in Bulgaria.
Screen your next hiring wave with Kognify.
Send us a role brief and a sample candidate list. We co-configure the screening scenario with your team - no engineering on your side - and run a pilot batch in your tenant within two weeks. You review every scorecard before you scale.