When you’re a small team competing with big companies for top talent, it can feel like you don’t stand a chance. You might not have many recruiters or fancy hiring software, but you can still make great hires quickly with the right system.

Before we discuss the hiring shortcut that works, let’s first look at what you may be doing wrong.

If you are hiring using email or Google Forms, you must be exhausted. Those tools weren’t built for hiring. They make you manually sort through piles of applications, wasting hours that could be spent growing your business. This slows down your entire process and increases the risk of losing great candidates to faster-moving companies.

And if you use a traditional ATS platform, you may deal with complexities that make the process harder than it needs to be. Such platforms increase the risk of hiring someone who is paper-qualified but cannot perform on the job because they rely on keyword matching to score and rank applicants. The problem with this is that candidates are already using AI to polish applications for those keywords. It ends up as AI judging AI, creating zero real value for everyone involved.

So what’s the hiring shortcut that really works for small teams?

Make sure you are not wasting time on any unqualified candidates.. You only need to focus on serious, qualified candidates. That is where Workscreen comes in. This is a fast, lightweight, and easy-to-use hiring platform that automatically filters out unserious candidates and gives you a shortlist of serious, qualified candidates, saving you hours and helping you hire faster. 

It protects your team’s productivity by eliminating resume overload so you can focus only on fewer resumes from qualified applicants who truly matter. And the good thing is that it helps you test for skills before hiring, saving you from costly mistakes.

So, if you have been struggling to hire as a small team, check out Workscreen today and improve the quality of your hires.