Product
Inside the Recruo recruitment flow.
Sourcing, AI screening, human judgement, and a structured scorecard. Each step laid out below — plus the validation tools, compliance posture, and platform access options that hang off it.
Intake call
30-min scoping call. We capture the JD, must-haves, culture, budget, timeline.
Output:
Signed mandate
Sourcing
LinkedIn Recruiter, DOU, Djinni, direct outreach, our private CEE network.
Output:
60–120 raw candidates
AI CV screening
Every CV scored against the JD. Only 70+ scores move forward.
Output:
Top 15–25 ranked
Soft-skills interview
20–30 min call: motivation, culture fit, salary, English, availability.
Output:
Structured notes
AI technical interview
AI-conducted technical interview on video with adaptive follow-ups and anti-cheat checks. Every result is reviewed by a human recruiter.
Output:
Hard-skills report + score
Shortlist delivery
3–5 candidates delivered in a single document per role.
Output:
Full candidate package
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Intake call
Human (AM)30-min scoping call. We capture the JD, must-haves, culture, budget, timeline.
Output: Signed mandate
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Sourcing
RecruiterLinkedIn Recruiter, DOU, Djinni, direct outreach, our private CEE network.
Output: 60–120 raw candidates
- 2
AI CV screening
AIEvery CV scored against the JD. Only 70+ scores move forward.
Output: Top 15–25 ranked
- 3
Soft-skills interview
Recruiter20–30 min call: motivation, culture fit, salary, English, availability.
Output: Structured notes
- 4
AI technical interview
AI AgentAI-conducted technical interview on video with adaptive follow-ups and anti-cheat checks. Every result is reviewed by a human recruiter.
Output: Hard-skills report + score
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Shortlist delivery
Human + AI3–5 candidates delivered in a single document per role.
Output: Full candidate package
The deliverable
What you actually get.
Every role ends with one document like this — per candidate, 3–5 candidates per role. Below is a real shortlist (redacted) for a Senior Java Developer at a Series B UK fintech.
Candidate A
ActiveAI Match Result
EXCELLENT MATCH
Based on job requirements analysis
AI Executive Summary
Candidate A is an excellent fit for the Senior Java Developer position. With 8 years of backend experience and deep expertise in distributed systems, database design, and API architecture, they exceed the core technical requirements. Strong culture fit signals and competitive salary expectations within budget. Minor gap in event-driven architecture experience, addressable through onboarding.
Matched Skills
Skills Gap
Missing Core
For senior roles where cheating costs more
than missing a good hire.
Two layers of defense: AI Skills Validation tests how candidates actually use AI tools. Recruo Secure Browser ensures the test results you see are real.
78% of engineering teams now use AI daily
GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT — AI-assisted development is the default. But most hiring pipelines still test for pre-AI skills only.
AI proficiency ≠ copy-pasting prompts
The best engineers know when to use AI, when to override it, and how to validate its output. That judgment is what separates a 2x engineer from a 10x one in 2026.
Bad AI habits cost more than no AI at all
Blindly trusting AI-generated code leads to security vulnerabilities, hallucinated logic, and tech debt that compounds silently for months.
AI Skills Validation
A dedicated module added to the technical interview: real coding tasks with AI tools available, followed by probing questions about the candidate's AI-assisted workflow. The result is a separate AI Proficiency Score alongside the standard technical evaluation.
How it works
The candidate gets access to Copilot/Cursor during part of the interview. We observe how they prompt, validate, and iterate — then score their AI fluency on a structured rubric.
AI-assisted coding
Can they use Copilot/Cursor effectively while catching errors?
Prompt engineering
Do they write precise prompts, or do they brute-force trial and error?
AI output validation
Can they spot when an LLM hallucinates, introduces a vulnerability, or produces subtly wrong logic?
AI-native architecture
Do they know when to reach for an LLM vs. a deterministic solution?
Recruo Secure Browser
Our proprietary anti-cheat interview environment. The candidate joins the AI technical interview through our locked browser session — preventing tab switching, screen sharing to a second device, and silent ChatGPT usage.
Why it matters in 2026
73% of candidates admit to using AI assistants during remote technical interviews. Without proctoring, a great-looking technical score may just be a great-looking ChatGPT prompt.
Locked browser session
Candidate cannot open new tabs, navigate away, or use external apps during the interview.
Copy-paste detection
Every paste from outside the session is flagged with timestamp and content fingerprint.
Eye-tracking & focus checks
Webcam-based attention monitoring detects looking off-screen for sustained periods.
Screen-share & process monitoring
Detects screen sharing to a second device, suspicious processes, and AI assistants running in the background.
Both included by default in Retained mandates. Available as add-ons for Standard and Fixed-fee plans.
Most used when hiring LLM engineers, RAG engineers, Evals engineers, ML platform engineers, Agentic AI developers or AI/ML engineers.
EU AI Act
Compliant by design,
not bolted on.
AI-driven hiring is classified as high-risk under Annex III of the EU AI Act. Penalties reach €35M or 7% of global turnover.
Recruo's model is human-in-the-loop by design: AI is a recommendation engine, a human recruiter owns every decision. That maps directly onto what regulators require — not something we added after the fact.
Compliance checklist we publish per engagement
Candidate notification of AI use, in writing, before interview.
Full audit trail of AI scoring decisions, retained 5+ years.
Bias audits across gender, age, disability and ethnicity — published quarterly.
Right to human review on any AI-rejected candidate, enforced at the platform level.
CE marking and EU database registration tracked and timestamped.
No fully-automated rejection — ever. A human recruiter sees every decision.
EU AI Act Rollout
Feb 2025
Prohibited AI practices ban
Aug 2025
GPAI + governance obligations
Dec 2027
NextHigh-risk AI (hiring) obligations
delayed from Aug 2026 (AI Act Omnibus)
Aug 2028
Embedded AI systems + €35M penalties
Recruo is ready today
Human-in-the-loop is our default, not a retrofit. Every engagement ships with a full compliance checklist.
Platform access
Want Recruo evaluation inside your own hiring system?
The same AI technical interview, secure browser, and structured scorecard can be discussed as private API or MCP partner access for ATS, marketplace, agency, and internal hiring workflows.
AI technical interview API
Trigger evaluations from an ATS or hiring platform and receive scorecard output through API and webhook patterns.
Explore API accessRecruiting MCP server
Expose candidate evaluation, status checks, scorecard retrieval, and audit evidence to internal hiring agents.
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