Identity and work rights
Passports, driver licences, visa grants and work-rights evidence.
Recruitment document automation for ATS and HR tech
Automate candidate-document workflows, turn resumes, IDs, work-rights evidence, licences, contracts and timesheets into validated data, and connect the results to your recruitment systems.
Choose the right recruitment automation solution
Use the purpose-built Resume Parser when your ATS or HR technology product needs fast, consistent parsing at scale. Use Affinda Platform when your recruitment document workflow spans document types, validation rules, review and downstream systems.
High-volume resume parsing
For ATS, job boards and HR technology products that need standardised recruitment documents at API scale.
- Purpose-built resume and CV schema
- Hosted or self-hosted deployment
- Predictable high-volume processing
Recruitment workflows beyond the resume
For staffing, RPO, talent and onboarding teams handling multiple document types, validation rules and exceptions.
- Mixed candidate and contractor packs
- Configurable validation and review
- Data prepared for downstream systems
Remove document bottlenecks with recruitment process automation
High volume at the top of the funnel
Resumes and job descriptions arrive in different formats, languages and layouts. Turning them into consistent candidate and role data by hand slows product experiences and recruiter workflows.
Compliance evidence before placement
Identity documents, work-rights evidence, licences, qualifications and checks must be collected and reviewed before a candidate can start. Missing or inconsistent evidence creates rework and placement risk.
Back-office administration per placement
Contractor packs, timesheets, rate cards and invoices create repetitive data entry across recruitment, payroll and finance systems long after a candidate has been selected.
Resume parsing built for recruitment products
Give your ATS, job board or HR-tech platform fast, accurate candidate data through a purpose-built API, without building and maintaining resume parsing infrastructure yourself.
Built for ATS, job boards and HR technology
Add AI recruitment technology to your ATS, job board or HR platform. Convert PDFs, DOCX files, scans and photos into a stable schema with candidate data ready to use.
- 50 ms median parse time and 50 resumes per second per container
- 95%+ accuracy under strict scoring across varied resume layouts
- Hosted in APAC, EU or US, or self-hosted inside your own network
- Candidate resumes are never used to train Affinda models
Automate candidate, contractor and placement documents
Use recruitment document processing to build controlled workflows for onboarding, compliance and workforce administration without replacing your existing ATS or HR systems.
Qualifications and checks
Qualifications, registrations, tickets, police checks and working-with-children checks.
Contractor onboarding
Tax, superannuation, bank, insurance and other contractor onboarding forms.
Placement operations
Timesheets, client job orders, rate cards, supplier invoices and supporting records.
Connect recruitment document workflows from intake to write-back
Configure the workflow once, then let clean documents move while people focus on the exceptions that need judgement.
Collect
Receive files by upload, email, API or an existing business-system integration.
Classify
Identify each document in a mixed candidate, contractor or placement pack.
Extract
Capture the fields, tables and dates your recruitment workflow needs.
Validate
Check completeness, formats, expiry dates and consistency against your configured rules.
Review exceptions
Route missing, ambiguous or inconsistent evidence to a person with the source attached.
Write back
Prepare validated data for ATS, CRM, onboarding, payroll and finance systems.
Support blind hiring across your recruitment workflow
Blind hiring does not remove every source of bias, but redacting the right details gives every reviewer a more consistent starting point.
Anonymise resumes before screening with CV redaction software that hides the fields likely to sway an early assessment, while keeping skills and experience in full view.
Michael Zhao, AI Product Manager, SEEK
High accuracy parsing across multiple languages
Improved customer experience thanks to better structured data
Stronger compliance with international data security and software standards
Akram Assaf, Chief Technology Officer, Bayt.com
40%
faster onboarding for jobseekers
6.5M
resumes parsed annually
Enterprise-grade compliance, privacy and security needs met
Samar Basnet, Co-Founder and Chief Software Architect, Aqore
120,000+
resumes parsed and indexed annually
1,800+
recruiters using the Aqore platform
95%
accuracy on key resume fields
Frequently asked questions
What is recruitment document automation?
Recruitment document automation turns resumes, identity files, work-rights evidence, qualifications, onboarding forms, timesheets and other recruitment documents into structured, validated data. It can classify files, extract required fields, check them against configured rules, route exceptions for review and prepare the results for ATS, HR, payroll and finance systems.
What is a resume parser, and when should recruitment technology use one?
A resume parser turns resumes and CVs into structured candidate data such as skills, work history, education and contact details. A purpose-built parser suits ATS, job boards and HR technology products that need a stable API, consistent fields and high-volume processing without maintaining parsing infrastructure in-house.
Learn more about resume parsing technology transforming recruitment platforms.
Can Affinda parse resumes, CVs and job descriptions?
Yes. Affinda can parse resumes and CVs, structure role data from job descriptions, redact selected candidate information and support search and matching workflows. Explore our industry-leading Resume Parser with job description parser functionality and Resume Redactor solutions.
Does Affinda Resume Parser support resume search and match?
Yes. Affinda’s resume search and match capabilities let you search parsed resumes using a job description or your own criteria and rank candidates by relevance. Detailed results can show how each resume matches the search criteria and where information may be missing, helping recruitment platforms and ATS providers build more useful candidate discovery and matching experiences. If you'd like to learn more about our search and match functionality, talk with our team.
How does the Resume Parser API integrate with an ATS or HR platform?
The Resume Parser API receives a candidate document and returns structured data that can be mapped into an ATS, CRM, HRIS or recruitment product. Affinda offers hosted and self-hosted deployment options, so product teams can choose where parsing runs while building against a consistent API. See the Resume Parser for technical details and a live test.
How can ATS and HR-tech providers automate recruitment document workflows?
ATS and HR-tech providers can automate the operational paperwork around candidates, contractors and placements without building a separate processing system. The Affinda Platform can classify mixed document packs, extract the fields each workflow needs, validate them against configured rules, route exceptions for review and prepare the resulting data for downstream recruitment and workforce systems.
What is the difference between recruitment automation and resume parsing?
Resume parsing is a specific candidate-intake capability that converts resumes and CVs into structured data. Recruitment workflow automation covers the wider document process, including classification, extraction, validation, exception review and write-back across candidate, compliance, onboarding and placement documents.
Product teams can use the Resume Parser for high-volume resume data at 0.05 seconds per resume, or the Affinda Platform for broader recruitment document workflows.
Which candidate and contractor documents can Affinda process?
Affinda can be configured for passports, driver licences, visa grants and work-rights evidence, qualifications, registrations, tickets, police checks, working-with-children checks, contractor onboarding forms, insurance certificates, timesheets, client job orders, rate cards and supplier invoices. The Affinda Platform is designed for workflows that span multiple document types and layouts.
Can Affinda help manage work-rights evidence, licences and expiry dates?
Yes. Affinda can extract identifying information, document numbers, issue dates and expiry dates, then validate those values against your configured rules and flag missing, expired or inconsistent evidence for review. Affinda does not replace an authoritative government or registry check; it helps prepare and route the document evidence used in that process.
Can recruitment document data flow into ATS, CRM and payroll systems?
ATS workflow automation can move validated candidate and placement data into the systems your team already uses. Affinda prepares data for ATS, CRM, onboarding and payroll systems through APIs, configured exports and integrations.
If you’re looking for a solution that builds workflows beyond resume parsing, such as staffing, RPO, talent and onboarding teams, take a look at the Affinda Platform. It handles multiple document types, validation rules and exceptions to automate recruitment processes at scale.
Can candidate documents be processed without replacing an existing ATS?
Yes. Affinda is designed to add document processing to an existing ATS, HR platform or recruitment product rather than replace it. Documents can enter through an API, upload, email or integration, and the resulting data can be transformed to match the fields and formats expected by downstream systems.
Take a look at our blog, Intelligent document processing use cases, to see how document processing extends beyond resumes to identity, compliance, onboarding and other recruitment workflows.
How can ATS and HR-tech providers keep candidate data secure during document processing?
Providers should look for encryption, access controls, auditability, regional hosting and deployment flexibility. Affinda is ISO 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, offers regional hosting for the hosted Resume Parser and supports self-hosted parsing where documents need to remain inside the provider's infrastructure. Learn more about security and deployment.
How can resume redaction support fair and blind hiring workflows?
Resume redaction can remove selected personal details before a resume reaches a reviewer, helping ATS and HR-tech providers support blind-screening workflows. Teams choose which information to redact and how the redacted document is used within their process.
Read our blog, What is a blind resume and how does it help reduce hiring bias?, to understand which candidate details blind hiring removes and how resume redaction can support a fairer screening workflow.
How can a job description parser support recruitment automation?
A job description parser turns role descriptions into structured requirements such as job title, skills, experience and qualifications. ATS, job board and HR-tech providers can use that role data alongside structured candidate data in search, matching and recruitment workflows.
How does exception review work for recruitment document workflows?
Teams define the fields and validation rules each document type must pass. Clean documents can continue through the workflow, while missing, ambiguous or inconsistent data is routed to review with the source document attached. This keeps people focused on exceptions and decisions rather than rekeying every file.