Practical workplace AI request

Can I use AI to screen candidate CVs?

This scenario begins with talent acquisition lead and a practical goal: screen candidate CVs. The policy route turns on the proposed material and the fact that personal data and proxy factors can affect who receives an interview.

The short answer

It depends on your company’s policy and the exact request. Start with the facts below, then run the completed request against the current published policy.

Decision inputs

Facts that change the policy answer

Within people and hr, this request uses candidate CVs and role criteria to produce a shortlist or screening recommendation. Both belong in the submission before any policy route is trusted.

1Task and owner
Talent acquisition lead wants to screen candidate CVs. Responsibility for a shortlist or screening recommendation stays with a named person or team throughout the request.
2Information involved
Candidate CVs and role criteria. The classification must cover what the tool can retrieve as well as what the requester types.
3Tool and account
An approved company account. The request should identify the exact account because product-level approval leaves important controls unknown.
4Intended result
The expected result is a shortlist or screening recommendation. Follow the result to its real endpoint so the request captures its practical effect.
5Consequence if it is wrong
Personal data and proxy factors can affect who receives an interview. A familiar task still needs escalation when this consequence becomes plausible.
6Human review
recruiting and people owner should inspect, change, reject or stop the result. Review is meaningful only when that person has enough context and authority to change the result.

Possible policy routes

The task name alone cannot decide it.

A published workplace policy can return different answers for the same task. These are the practical branches worth encoding.

1

A routine policy route may be possible

The lower-friction route begins when the exact account is approved, only the minimum candidate personal information is used, a shortlist or screening recommendation remains within the stated purpose, and recruiting and people owner reviews it before use.

2

Approval may be required

A named reviewer should take over when the account or data handling is uncertain, personal data and proxy factors can affect who receives an interview, or a shortlist or screening recommendation reaches people or systems beyond the requester’s authority.

3

The request may need to stop or change

Do not continue unchanged when restricted information would enter an unapproved service, the output would act before recruiting and people owner can intervene, or define job-related criteria, test outcomes and keep meaningful human review cannot be maintained. Consider less information, a controlled account or a non-AI process.

Request checklist

Questions to ask before using the tool

  1. 01

    Has the company approved this account configuration for screen candidate CVs, rather than only approving the product?

  2. 02

    What is the most sensitive element in candidate CVs and role criteria, and does the tool need it?

  3. 03

    Who receives a shortlist or screening recommendation, and what will they do with it?

  4. 04

    What evidence will recruiting and people owner use to accept, correct or reject the result?

  5. 05

    Would another region, audience or frequency activate a different company rule?

Worked request

What the employee should submit

This example supplies decision facts without pasting the underlying material into the approval record.

requester
talent acquisition lead
task
Use AI to screen candidate CVs.
information
candidate CVs and role criteria
tool
An approved company account
frequency
Recurring work
region
Where the work and affected people are located
purpose
Analyse
impact
Employment decision
review
Complete human review
owner
recruiting and people owner

Useful safeguards

Controls that fit this request

  • Define job-related criteria, test outcomes and keep meaningful human review

  • Separate source material from the request record and expose only what the tool needs for a shortlist or screening recommendation.

  • Keep the use within analyse and run another check if the audience, tool or intended effect changes.

  • Keep the submitted facts, recruiting and people owner’s decision and the exact published policy version.

Questions people ask

About this AI use

Is using AI to screen candidate CVs automatically allowed?

Permission depends on the facts submitted for this request. A different tool, information class, region or use of a shortlist or screening recommendation can produce another route.

What does the policy need to know about this use?

Describe a shortlist or screening recommendation, identify candidate CVs and role criteria, name the exact tool and account, explain who will receive or rely on the output, and state how recruiting and people owner will review it.

How should a later reviewer understand this decision?

Keep the submitted facts, recruiting and people owner’s decision and the exact published policy version. A classification and controlled reference may be enough when copying candidate CVs and role criteria would create unnecessary risk.