Why hiring managers drown in screening call recordings
Screening calls can often anywhere between 5 to 55 minutes. Most of that time is rapport-building and background context for the candidate, but painful to sit through on if you've recorded the session.
The moments that actually tell you something useful are scattered throughout. Red flags, strong answers, gaps in experience.
Hiring managers had to watch every minute to find them.
Across a busy hiring week, that adds up to hours of passive playback before a single decision gets made. And even then, the hire often came down to a gut feeling. Not because the data wasn't there, but because finding it took too long.
How Clara flags the moments you need to see
AI listens to every screening call in real time
Key moments are identified and timestamped automatically
Hiring managers receive a searchable transcript after each call
Each highlight links directly to that moment in the recording
Full call recordings stay available for deeper reference
What hiring teams gain when the noise is removed
Your screening process shifts from passive playback to active review. Managers jump straight to the flagged moments, assess them, and move on.
A 45-minute call becomes a focused 10-minute review. That time saving compounds quickly. Across a team running dozens of screenings a week, you're talking about hours reclaimed every day.
Decisions become more consistent too. When every manager is working from the same transcript and highlights, you reduce the variation that comes from relying on memory or gut instinct. The call becomes evidence, not just a conversation.
Peak hiring time dropped from 8 weeks to 4 weeks at THG Fulfil after Clara was introduced. Faster, more structured screening was a big part of how they got there.
Spend your time deciding, not rewatching
Clara gives your hiring managers the signal without the noise.
When every screening call surfaces its own highlights, your team moves faster and hires with more confidence.
Part of Clara, the Job&Talent AI recruitment suite
Interview highlights and transcripts are one part of Clara's full AI recruitment capability within the Job&Talent AI-powered workforce management platform.
Clara also handles job board multiposting, AI-powered candidate screening, CV parsing, customisable scoring, and ATS integrations.
Hire data flows directly from Clara into workforce planning and scheduling, so the transition from candidate to active worker is part of a single connected system.
Get in touch
Could your hiring team be spending less time rewatching recordings and more time making great hires?
Book a demo with Job&Talent Business and see how Clara surfaces the moments that matter, automatically.
