AI-driven platform

Smarter talent screening. Smarter applicant preparation.

Transforming how recruiters assess potential at scale & educators prepare tomorrow’s talent. Powered by Human-Assist AI.

Trusted by over 3,000 employers, recruiters, and educators since 2010

For Hiring
Talent screening & assessment

Transform your hiring process with pre-employment skills tests, video interviews, science-backed assessments and expert-designed services. Shortlister pinpoints top talent faster, leveraging the latest in AI, while ensuring structured, bias-free, and data-backed hiring decisions.

For Employability
Personalised job application readiness

Give your students an unfair advantage with Shortlist.Me — our coaching platform offering access to real-world interviews, skills assessments, workplace simulations, aptitude tests, CV optimisation tools and personalised feedback to boost job success rates.

For Admissions
Optimised applicant interviews

Accelerate time to offer, boost attendance rates, and diversify your applicant pool with accessible video interviews featuring in-built fraud prevention. Free up academic time and remove the logistics and cost from admissions interviews.

Smarter talent screening. Smarter employability.

5,000

data points analysed

Every interview sees 5,000+ AI-analysed data points, ensuring you take a data-driven approach to screening decisions and feedback using structured, bias-free, competency-based scoring.

10x

your review capability

Review, score and feedback on 10x more applications with accelerated interview playback, AI statement extraction, AI highlights, authenticity checks, and recommended scoring for faster, smarter hiring.

3x

your completion rates

Boost completion rates with our personalised UI and curated notifications – safe in the knowledge that 96% of candidates rate the experience as “highly positive”. Smart prompts reduce drop-offs, increase engagement, and deliver more completions.

Shortlist with certainty

For all your talent screening needs

Whether for general hiring, early talent, apprenticeships, admissions, or internships, you may want to start with a SJT, numerical test or go direct to video interview. Shortlister’s portfolio of talent screening tools and evaluation frameworks fit around your process. You may even want to future proof your process with our expert assessment design services.

Transform career prospects

Personalised employability training

Shortlister is the only employability training platform using real-life interviews and assessments covering every step of the journey, from CV – tests – interviews – workplace simulations, providing personalised feedback at every stage. And for employers, if you want to amplify your brand and build diverse talent pools fast, publish your roles and interviews in our platform that’s embedded in 75% UK universities.

What sets us apart

Why Shortlister is the preferred choice for recruiters, educators, and candidates.

We are committed to the responsible use of AI. By integrating AI in a human-assisted manner, we ensure that our technology supports and enhances human decision-making rather than replacing it.

With over 10 years of experience, we’ve faced a wide range of requirements, allowing us to develop extensive features to support diverse needs. We’ve consistently delivered high interview completion rates, reduced time-to-hire, and improved candidate satisfaction.

We provide 24/7 dedicated support to all our customers, without any hidden costs or premium fees. Unlike others who reserve their best service for top-paying clients, we ensure everyone receives the same level of high-quality assistance, underpinned by our Service & Product Excellence Charter.

Fully customise every stage of the candidate journey, from branded communications to tailored assessments, ensuring that every candidate interaction is aligned with your brand values and messaging.

We are candidate-first, providing an easy-to-use platform designed to extract the best performance from candidates. Our intuitive interface reduces stress and empowers candidates to focus on showcasing their skills.

With deep expertise in early-talent hiring, our Chartered Occupational Psychologists design bias-aware, AI-resilient assessments that align to real job demands – trusted by leading global brands to deliver fair, effective selection.

We’d love to help you streamline your hiring, admissions or employability process.

Book a demo to get a friendly, no-pressure tour of our AI-powered platform.

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