The One Line That Was You | A Short Story About AI and Hiring
A short story about hiring in 2035, when AI agents talk to each other before people ever do. I. Him “You should start looking properly,” his father said over breakfast. “Get your resume ready this week.” Kanishk looked up from his phone. “My what?” “Your resume. Two pages. School, work, what you’re good at.” Kanishk […]
Testing AI agents in hiring: tales from the wild
By Dr. Vaisagh Viswanathan (VT), CEO & Co-founder, impress.ai We were recently asked for input to an industry consultation on testing agentic systems. That work has since been published as IMDA’s Starter Kit for Testing Agentic Systems for Safety and Reliability, which cites impress.ai among its sources. The consultation deck separated outcome testing from trajectory […]
Candidate Experience Metrics in 2026: What to Track When Software Screens Most of Your Applicants
Here’s an uncomfortable detail from the 2026 Hiring Benchmarks Report from Starred. Nearly 90% of candidate survey invitations in 2025 went to rejected candidates, and about 70% of those rejections happened at the application stage. For most applicants, the whole candidate experience is a form, a wait, and an email. Often with no human anywhere […]
AI Recruiting Software for Candidate Screening in 2026: What’s Actually New
Every January for the last four years, someone has published a list of “AI recruiting trends to watch,” and every year the list looks suspiciously similar to the one before it: faster screening, less bias, better candidate experience. Readers have learned to skim past it. 2026 is actually different, and not for a flattering reason. […]
AI Candidate Screening Software for Staffing Agencies: How to Compare Tools
Every guide to “comparing AI screening software” is written for one hiring manager, one job description, one set of requirements. A staffing agency doesn’t work that way. On any given afternoon, your recruiters are screening for a client that wants five years of SAP experience, a client that just needs someone who’ll show up for […]
Ready to Use Quality of Hire Questionnaire: 20 Questions to Ask
Most companies measure hiring the way they measure a delivery service: how fast, how cheap, how many boxes shipped. Time-to-fill and cost-per-hire answer those questions well. Neither one tells you if the person you hired was actually good at the job. That’s what a quality of hire questionnaire is for. It’s a set of structured […]
Candidate Screening Software: How to Choose the Right One
Most candidate screening software gets sold the same way: a big accuracy number on a slide, a promise to cut screening time in half, and a tool that barely talks to the ATS your team already uses. Weeks later, nobody can explain why it ranked one candidate over another, and the “accuracy” number turns out […]
Savos vs. Greenhouse: Two Different Bets on What AI Can Do for Hiring
If you are evaluating recruiting technology right now, Greenhouse is likely on your shortlist. It is one of the most widely used applicant tracking systems on the market, and it has been adding AI features at a significant pace over the last year. Several of those features are genuinely worth understanding. Savos is a different […]
Internal Hiring vs External Hiring: Cost, Culture, and Speed
Every time a role opens up, HR teams face the same fork in the road: do you look inside the building, or outside of it? It sounds like a simple call. In practice, it’s one of the most consequential decisions a talent team makes — and getting it wrong costs more than most leaders realize. […]
Savos Featured in AI Verify Foundation’s Global AI Assurance Case Studies at ATxSummit 2026
At ATxSummit 2026 last week, Singapore’s Minister for Digital Development and Information, Josephine Teo, spoke about the strategic importance of the AI Verify Foundation’s latest assurance case studies as part of Singapore’s broader push toward responsible and large-scale AI adoption. We are proud that Savos by impress.ai was featured among them. This is not our […]