For applicants
You were screened on the work. Here is exactly how.
If a company uses notanATS, your first screening is a chat — not a form, not a keyword scan of your resume. This page explains what happens, what is scored, and what you get back.
What happens, in order
You apply
You apply on the position's page and add a resume. There is no account to create. If your resume cannot be read by the system, your application still goes through — the screening does not depend on your resume being machine-readable.
You book a time — or start now
You pick a screening time and receive a private link. The link is yours alone: the first time it opens, it checks that it reached your inbox, and it only works inside your booked window. Miss the window and you get one chance to rebook.
You know the ground rules before you start
Before the chat, you can see what the work involves and what capability looks like for this role — those come straight from the hiring manager's definition of the job. What you do not see is the manager's scoring rubric. That part is private, the same way an examiner's marking guide is private.
The chat
A typed conversation, up to an hour, about the work itself. You will be asked about real experience: times you did the thing this role needs. Follow-up questions dig into your answers. There is no camera and no voice recording — it is a written conversation, in your own words.
The scoring
After the chat, your answers are matched against the manager's definition of the role, dimension by dimension. The pool is then reviewed and interviewees are picked — by the hiring manager, or by automatic advancement where the organisation has that turned on. Either way, if you are picked, your interview is booked inside notanATS — with people.
You hear back
When the position closes, you hear back — and where the organisation's transparency settings allow it, you can see where you stood in the pool on each dimension you were screened on. Not a single rank out of the whole pool, and not a personal debrief: where you were strong, and where the pool was stronger.
Your data
Handled like it matters, because it does.
Masked before scoring. Your name and email address are masked out of the answers the AI screens and scores — it works from what you say, not who you are.
Not tracked. No analytics run on applicant pages. Your screening is not a marketing surface and you are not a metric.
Not kept forever. Screening conversations are purged on a schedule set by the plan the company is on — on free plans the conversation is deleted after 30 days; on paid plans your application is anonymised after 12 months. Aggregate scores are kept; your identity is not.
Yours to erase. You can ask for your data to be erased, and there is a route for that even if you cannot reach the company directly.
About the fairness questions
Some companies turn on a short, voluntary demographics survey. It is never part of your screening score. It exists so the company can check its own selection rates for fairness — notanATS monitors those rates with the EEOC four-fifths rule and flags it when a group is being selected at a materially lower rate than another. Access to that report is logged.
One honest note
The screening is a machine. The decision is not.
notanATS conducts the screening chat and scores it against the manager's definition. The score alone does not decide: the hiring manager reviews the pool and makes the call (some organisations also let the top of the pool advance automatically). If you are interviewed, it will be by people — that part of hiring was never ours to automate.