When Hiring Becomes Agent-Mediated: Evaluating Access and Recurrence in Two-Agent Résumé Screening
Hiring is bilateral: employers assess fit, while candidates present and defend evidence of their qualifications. Yet résumé screening, the first gate, is commonly automated as a static, one-call judgment over a résumé-job pair. We study a two-agent alternative in which employer-side and candidate-side agents represent these roles, exchange evidence, and update their judgments before deciding who advances. We compare procedures on 600 constructed résumé-job pairs using GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7. Two-agent screening advances more applications (33.3% to 39.3% for GPT-5.5; 34.0% to 35.5% for Opus 4.7). Across three runs on the common 191-pair borderline pool, pass-instance rates rise from 4...
| Authors | Jian Gao, Hang Jiang |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 17 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 17 September 2026 |
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