AI CV checker trained on 22 years of recruitment experience
Client
- Company
- Forta Solutions
- Tagline
- Matchmakers for Finance & Office Professionals
- Company details
- Almere · 400+ clients · max 5 vacancies per recruiter
Specialist
- Name
- Linda Wildbret
- Role
- Recruitment specialist · 22 years' experience
Results
- 8 hours saved per week
- CV checks: 30 min → 0 min
- More people helped, same way
The problem
Forta Solutions matches finance and office professionals for 400+ clients out of Almere. The approach: a maximum of five vacancies per recruiter, personal contact, no CV piles. Linda Wildbret works there as senior recruiter, 22 years of experience. On the side, she's been giving free CV feedback for years to people who reach out via LinkedIn. Each CV takes around 30 minutes. The more people found her, the harder it got to keep helping everyone the same way without giving up her evenings. Generic AI screening wasn't an option: she wasn't willing to lose her own judgment.
The approach
We took Linda's own judgment (22 years of feedback, criteria, and intuition) and built it into an AI CV checker. Not a generic model: it screens the way Linda screens, in the same tone, with the same care.
What we built
- AI CV checker trained on Linda's own criteria
- Full CV analysis at the level she used to deliver manually
- Output directly in her workflow, no new tool to learn
Result
CV checks went from 30 minutes per candidate to 0. Linda saves around 8 hours per week. That time now goes to the real work: personal conversations, placements, and the people who reach out via LinkedIn for feedback. She can help more people the same way, without changing how she works: five vacancies per recruiter, personal contact, no CV piles. The AI takes the screening work, not the relationship.
In Linda's words
My developer has access to my Claude, my ChatGPT and my entire recruitment process.
Sounds scary. It isn't.
Martin Veltman and I got talking about AI a while back. I've been working with AI for years; he understands both the technology and the trade. That combination is rare.
At some point I asked him: would you take a look at my processes? I have a lot of tools running, can't that be smarter?
After the analysis, his answer surprised me. He said I had set things up better than he expected. But that there was still something to gain.
So I said: well, then do that for me. And he did.
By now, Martin has rebuilt my entire AI stack under the hood. He handles the technology behind it, I spar with him about what I need. To me, AI remains an assistant, not a replacement. But one I want to keep sharp, so I keep moving with the times.
Now that Instagram is getting busier and I do free CV checks every day, he's building something new. A tool that takes in my feedback, my analyses and 22 years of recruitment experience. So candidates automatically get a CV analysis at the level I currently deliver by hand.
How it works between us is simple. I toss an idea over the fence. He comes back with a proposal. I say where it pinches, he adjusts. Sometimes a quick question, sometimes a big project like the CV tool.
He has become my permanent AI partner. Not someone who builds and walks away, but someone who thinks along about how AI can actually make my work as a recruiter better.
AI isn't a thing of the future. It's now. And if you want it to deliver something in your daily work instead of becoming yet another experiment, you need someone who understands both the technology and recruitment.
Martin at Plaatsr - Recruitment Automations does that.
Do you work in recruitment or run an agency, and want this too? Comment below or send me a message, and I'll put you in touch.
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