Custom AI pipeline that took 10–30 minute CV reformatting off senior recruiters' plates.
A life sciences recruitment agency with more than ten years in the market. Specialises in matching senior talent to scientific, medical, and biotech companies. A wrong placement can delay a research programme by months.
Problem
Every vacancy produced dozens to hundreds of inbound CVs in every possible format. Word, PDF, scanned images, text pasted into email. Each had to be reformatted into the agency's internal standard so it could be sent to client companies, which expected candidate information in a specific structured way. Manual reformatting took 10–30 minutes per CV. Across a full week of hiring, the equivalent of a full-time job. Junior staff can absorb the work, but consistency suffers.
How the industry typically approaches this
AI resume parsing is one of the most mature applications of LLMs in the recruitment stack. Ingest CVs from email, boards, and upload forms. Extract structured data. Write back to CRM or ATS. Output the extracted data in whatever template the business uses for client-facing submissions.
Our approach
CV parsing system specifically for life sciences recruitment. Ingest CVs from email and upload points. Extract the relevant fields. Write them into the agency's internal template so every candidate profile came out identical regardless of input format. Senior recruiters did not need the AI to do their thinking; they needed it to take the reformatting off their plate so they could focus on candidate evaluation and client conversations.
Outcome
Delivered- •Reformatting eliminated as a manual task
- •Consistent output regardless of input format
- •System built, tested, handed over
What the industry has achieved with similar solutions
External benchmarks from comparable deployments. Sourced and labelled as third-party evidence, not our own results.
High-growth HR tech client via 4Spot
150+ hours per month of manual data entry removed.
Regional financial services firm, ~5,000 hires/yr
+25% shortlist accuracy. +30% recruiter time reclaimed. ~$250K annual savings. MiHCM
Fast-growing SME, 500 applicants/role
+60% application volume. +20% fill rate. Onboarding time halved. MiHCM
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