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HR and recruitment

Reduceyourrecruitmentcycleby40%.

Your recruiters spend 60% of their time sorting CVs and repetitive communications. SkaLean automates pre-qualification, onboarding and answers to HR questions. GDPR compliant, deployment in 5 to 20 days.

40%recruitment timeline reduction
15hsaved per week
2 daysonboarding reduced to
90%HR questions resolved by AI
Collective agreement
Onboarding
Benefits
Indexed documents
Active source
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SkaLean Studio AI
Collective agreement
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120 CVs/wk processed automatically
97 % success rate
[09:15] Application received - Mr. Pelletier
[09:15] AI scoring -> 87/100, qualified profile
[09:16] Interview scheduling in progress...
Pre-screening
Interview scheduling
HR policy
The context

Top candidates don't wait 48 hours for a response

These obstacles slow down your hiring and cost thousands of dollars in lost productivity. SkaLean solves them in 5 to 20 days without technical expertise.

8h per week sorting CVs
A recruiter spends 8h per week reading CVs to identify relevant profiles. For 100 applications received, 70 are rejected after 30 seconds of reading. Precious time wasted on tasks that AI completes in minutes.
70% of CVs rejected after 30 seconds
Repetitive and poorly standardized onboarding
Each new employee asks the same questions about internal policies, benefits and procedures. Without a centralized knowledge base, answers vary depending on available HR and information is lost.
3 weeks onboarding on average
Talent shortage and long timelines
In a market where talent is scarce, every day of delay in the recruitment process represents a potentially lost candidate. The average cycle is 36 days, and top profiles accept an offer in less than 10 days.
36 days on average per hire
Your sector by the numbers

The data that justifies action

60%
of recruitment time in sorting and repetitive communication
Indeed, 2024
Recruiter time per hire
CV screening/shortlisting35%
Candidate communication25%
Interview coordination15%
Writing offers15%
Onboarding10%
SkaLean Analysis + Indeed, 2024
Average cost of recruitment
Average hiring cost
$4,000-7,000
Process duration
36 days
Turnover rate
15%
Departure cost (% salary)
50-200%
Indeed 2024 / Industry data
Measurable impact

Before and after SkaLean

Comparison of key metrics for a 5-person HR team before and after SkaLean platform deployment.

Before
Recruitment cycle
36 days
CV sorting hours/week
8h
Onboarding duration
3 weeks
HR questions by AI
0%
With SkaLean
Recruitment cycle
22 days
CV sorting hours/week
3h
Onboarding duration
2 days
HR questions by AI
90%
How it works

The automated candidate journey

From receiving the application to onboarding the new employee, everything is orchestrated by AI.

CV received
automatic analysis
AI evaluation
job fit assessment
Interview scheduled
calendar synchronized
Onboarding launched
personalized journey
Measurable results

The concrete impact on your recruitment

Documented results from the first month. Measurable results within the first month for a 5-person HR team.

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manual tasks
0
freed per week
0
pipeline success rate
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measurable results

Frequently Asked Questions

SkaLean reduces the recruitment cycle by 40% by automating the most time-consuming steps. As soon as an application enters your ATS (Greenhouse, Workday, BambooHR), the AI automatically analyzes the resume in under 30 seconds: it extracts skills, years of experience, education, and languages, compares them to the role criteria, and assigns a relevance score.

Applications above the configurable threshold automatically advance to the next step (pre-screening questionnaire, asynchronous video interview invitation), while others receive a personalized acknowledgment and are archived in the talent pool. An HR manager who typically processed 200 resumes in 8 hours can reduce this to under 45 minutes of oversight. The workflow also includes automatic interview scheduling: the AI syncs the manager's and candidate's calendars and proposes available slots, eliminating email back-and-forth. On average, time to first interview drops from 9 days to 3 days.

Absolutely. SkaLean's AI Assistant operates 24/7 on the channels you choose (WhatsApp, careers site chat, email, SMS) to manage two distinct types of communications:

  • For candidates: the assistant answers questions about open positions, selection process steps, response timelines, benefits offered, compensation policies, and eligibility criteria. It can also collect initial information from a candidate at any time.
  • For current employees: the assistant handles questions about HR policies (leave, benefits, remote work policies), conflict escalation procedures, and available forms.

In a company of 200 employees, approximately 35% of questions addressed to HR are repetitive questions that AI can handle entirely, freeing HR specialists for value-added tasks. The assistant can be configured to always remind that it is an AI tool and redirect to a human specialist for sensitive situations.

Compliance with candidate data protection laws is natively integrated into SkaLean.

  • GDPR: each candidate whose data is collected automatically receives a processing notification compliant with Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR, specifying the retention period, processing purposes, and individual rights. The right to erasure is implemented: a candidate can request complete deletion of their data by sending a simple email, and the purge is executed within 72 hours with confirmation.
  • Quebec Law 25: SkaLean integrates the specific requirements of explicit consent and provides an exportable register of processing activities for the Data Protection Authority. Application retention periods are configurable by position type (data for non-selected candidates automatically purged after 12 months, with possibility of archiving in the talent pool with explicit consent).

SkaLean also ensures that automatic scoring systems respect non-discrimination principles by offering algorithmic bias audit features, compliant with emerging guidelines on fair AI in recruitment.

SkaLean offers a complete onboarding workflow that begins from the moment an offer is accepted and accompanies the new employee through their first 90 days. The process unfolds in several automated steps:

  1. Upon acceptance: a personalized welcome email is sent with a pre-employment action checklist (provide legal documents, complete tax form, set up IT access).
  2. Day D-5: the new employee receives a message from the AI assistant on WhatsApp or email with practical information (address, parking, HR contact, first week agenda).
  3. First weeks: the assistant proactively sends documents to read (employee handbook, security policies, benefits guide) staggering them to avoid overload. It answers the new employee's questions 24/7 and automatically generates reminders for mandatory training.

Managers receive a weekly automated report on onboarding progress. An onboarding program that used to take 40 hours of HR and manager effort can be reduced to 12 hours through automation, with the remainder being high-value human interactions.

Yes, AI Studio can centralize and make searchable all your internal HR documentation: employee handbook, company policies, disciplinary procedures, benefits programs, training plans, org charts, job descriptions, standard contracts, and labor law case notes.

Once indexed, these documents are accessible to your HR team and employees (according to configured access rights) via a natural language search interface. For example, a manager can ask: "What is our remote work policy for employees in probation?" and receive the precise answer extracted from the current policy, with the page and update date.

The benefits are multiple: new hires find information themselves without overwhelming HR, updated policies are available immediately after loading into AI Studio, and managers make consistent decisions based on official policies. AI Studio supports all common formats (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and document updates are reflected in the index in under 60 seconds.

SkaLean offers native connectors for the main ATS and HRIS on the market: BambooHR, Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Recruitee, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, and ADP. Integration is bidirectional: SkaLean reads application data from the ATS to apply its AI analyses, and sends back scores, summaries, and pre-screening decisions directly into the existing ATS. Recruiters continue working in their usual interface without changing their tools.

For HRIS, SkaLean can connect to synchronize onboarding data, benefits information, and HR policies. For systems without a native connector, integration via standard REST API is available. Practically, a 500-employee company using Workday can add SkaLean's AI capabilities while keeping Workday as the primary source of truth. Deploying a standard ATS integration takes between 5 and 10 business days.

HR & Recruitment

Deploy AI in your HR team

Our team understands the HR sector and configures SkaLean for your specific context. Deployment in 5 to 20 days, measurable results within the first month.