High-volume hiring without the high-volume bottleneck.
When a req draws two thousand applicants, someone has to choose — and today that someone is a keyword filter or an exhausted recruiter at 11pm. FirstPanel interviews all two thousand, overnight, and hands you a ranked shortlist your team can defend in the morning.
At volume, the filter that saves you time is the one throwing away your best hires.
A seasonal posting opens and the applications don’t trickle in — they arrive in a flood, hundreds a day. No team can phone-screen them, so a keyword filter does the cutting, silently binning anyone who didn’t phrase their CV the way the parser expected. Recruiters burn out on the few who slip through, strong candidates take another offer while they wait, and the ones you rush to hire wash out in weeks. The traits that actually predict success at the frontline never make it onto the page.
Built for the way you hire
No bottleneck, ever
Interviews run in parallel and around the clock, so a thousand applicants become a thousand completed, scored interviews overnight — not a queue that grows faster than your team can clear it.
Shortlist in days
Instead of weeks of sifting, your recruiters open a ranked shortlist of the few worth their time, each with a highlight reel, and go straight to the final human conversation.
Priced per interview
You pay for completed interviews, not idle seats. Spin a seasonal req up to thousands of candidates, wind it down when the peak passes, and never carry cost between rushes.
Fair at scale
Every applicant — all two thousand — gets the identical structured interview, scored on job-relevant evidence only. Adverse-impact monitoring runs continuously across the whole cohort.
Evidence, not gut feel
Eight MERIT-8™ agents score each candidate against your rubric, and every rating links to the exact moment in the transcript that earned it — so a shortlist of thousands is still auditable one by one.
A brand-safe rejection
At volume, most applicants get a no — and today most get silence. Everyone here gets a real interview and personalised feedback instead, so a rejection still leaves a fan of your brand.
Turn the flood into a shortlist
Your recruiters shouldn’t spend a peak season drowning in CVs. FirstPanel runs the entire first round at any volume, so they meet only the candidates worth meeting — with the evidence to move fast and hire confidently.
- One consistent bar across every applicant, region, and req
- Ranked shortlist with transcripts and highlight reels
- Recruiters make the call — AI never rejects anyone alone
The competencies that predict success
Eight AI agents each own one competency and score it against your rubric — every rating linked to the moment in the interview that earned it. These are the ones that matter most for this kind of role.
For frontline and entry roles this is the whole job — probed through real scenarios, not a self-rating, on every single applicant.
Shifts, punctuality, follow-through: the single biggest driver of high-volume churn, surfaced before you make the offer.
A queue, a rush, a system down — volume roles are constant small chaos. Measures composure and recovery, consistently across thousands.
Clear, warm, and quick with customers and teammates — including across the 40+ languages your applicant pool actually speaks.
Questions teams ask
Can FirstPanel really handle thousands of applicants at once?+
Yes — that’s exactly what it’s built for. Interviews run in parallel, 24/7, so volume never becomes a queue. A req that draws several thousand applicants can have a fully interviewed, ranked shortlist building while your team sleeps.
How is this priced for seasonal spikes?+
You pay per completed interview, not per seat or per month. Scale a peak-season req up to thousands of candidates, then wind it down — there’s no idle cost carried between rushes.
Is it fair when you’re screening at this scale?+
It’s far fairer than a keyword filter or a rushed phone screen. Every applicant gets the identical structured interview and is judged on what they say and do, on job-relevant evidence only. Adverse-impact monitoring runs continuously across the full cohort.
Do candidates need to download or schedule anything?+
No. They interview in the browser — voice, video, or text, in 40+ languages — on their own phone and their own schedule, including at midnight the day they apply.
Does a human still decide at this volume?+
Always. FirstPanel shortlists and evidences; a named recruiter or manager reviews and makes every hiring decision. No candidate is ever rejected by AI alone — at any scale.
See it on one of your own roles
Pick your longest-open requisition. First interviewed shortlist in about two weeks — keep the reports either way.