Streamlining Candidate Review with Phenom X+: A Time-Saving Guide for Recruiters

Finding time in your busy day as a recruiter can be challenging — especially when you need to thoroughly review and share potential candidates with hiring managers. But what if your talent platform could do the heavy lifting for you?

In two recent episodes of "Dear Phenom" – a new series for customers to learn more about how to get the best out of their Phenom products — Devon Morrow, Customer Enablement Manager, and Jared Bouchard, Director of Customer Enablement, answer these questions from recruiters:

Dear Phenom, How can I get some time back in my day? How can I be the most efficient in using the Phenom platform?
Dear Phenom, After the new year, I was flooded with candidates in my requisitions. How do I spend less time reviewing a candidate’s profile so I can determine if they are a good fit for my role?

They walked through how Phenom X+ “Ask Anything” feature in Phenom Talent CRM can help recruiters review and forward candidate profiles more efficiently — enabling them to uncover qualified talent who might otherwise be overlooked due to hard-to-read resumes or buried details around skills and experience.

Watch now to see how AI-powered profile review makes finding candidates and summarizing their work experience easier, or read on for the highlights and step-by-step directions on how to leverage Phenom X+ Ask Anything for candidate review strategies.

What is X+ Ask Anything?

X+ Ask Anything is Phenom's intelligent feature that allows recruiters to quickly analyze candidate profiles using conversational language instead of manually scanning through extensive resumes. It helps you identify specific skills and experience and generates comprehensive summaries that can be shared with hiring managers — saving valuable time in the recruitment process.

As Morrow explained, X+ helps you "get some time back in your day" when traditional manual review methods are slowing down your workflow.

How do I use Phenom X+ to review candidate profiles?

Thoroughly reviewing candidate profiles is essential, but can be time-consuming. Traditional methods require reading through entire resumes and manually extracting key information. Phenom X+ makes it easier to quickly summarize and assess candidates and share insights with hiring managers — all within the Phenom Talent CRM to speed up the hiring process.

Finding specific information in candidate profiles

When you need to verify specific experience or skills that might not be immediately obvious at first glance:

Open the candidate's profile in your Phenom Talent CRM
Use the X+ Ask Anything feature to ask specific questions about the candidate (e.g., "What software experience does this candidate have?” or “What is this candidate's educational background and certifications?")
X+ will scan all information in the profile and provide you with a clear answer
This allows you to quickly confirm qualifications without manually reviewing the entire profile

You can even ask about the last communication that was had with this candidate in order to determine whether or not follow-up is appropriate.

Creating candidate summaries for hiring managers

When you want to share candidate profiles with hiring managers without requiring them to read through extensive resumes:

Select the candidate profile you wish to forward
Use the X+ feature to generate a comprehensive summary of the candidate
X+ automatically analyzes all profile information and creates a concise overview
Forward the AI-generated summary to hiring managers along with the profile pdf

Benefits of using X+ for candidate review

X+ is changing how recruiters evaluate and share candidate information by:

Reducing manual review time and surfacing key skills or experience that might otherwise be missed
Delivering clear, consistent candidate summaries to both recruiters and hiring managers
Streamlining collaboration across the hiring team to keep decisions moving forward

By using conversational AI to extract and generate summaries of candidate information, you can review more candidates in less time while providing better insights to your hiring managers.

Phenom X+ Ask Anything is just one of many features in Phenom Talent CRM designed to make recruiters more productive. By leveraging AI to assist in time-consuming tasks like candidate review and summarization, you can focus on what matters most — building relationships with top talent and helping your organization make great hires.

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Maggie Blehar

Maggie is a writer at Phenom, bringing you information on all things talent experience. In addition to writing, she enjoys traveling, painting, cooking, and spending time with her family and friends.