Smart Recruit - AI Resume Based Assessment Tool

Abstract

Smart Recruit is an AI-driven recruitment and assessment tool designed to automate and enhance the hiring process by evaluating candidate resumes with high accuracy and speed. The system extracts and analyzes key information from resumes using natural language processing (NLP), compares it with job requirements, and generates an objective candidate suitability score. It further supports recruiters by providing a streamlined dashboard, candidate overview, and automated test creation based on skill gaps identified in the resume. By minimizing manual screening time and reducing human bias, Smart Recruit improves decision-making efficiency and ensures that the most relevant candidates are shortlisted. This AI-powered solution ultimately optimizes the recruitment workflow, making it faster, data-driven, and more reliable for organizations.

Introduction

Modern recruitment faces significant challenges due to large applicant volumes, slow manual screening, and human bias. To improve efficiency and fairness, organizations are increasingly adopting AI-based systems. Smart Recruit is an AI-powered recruitment tool designed to automate resume screening, validate candidate skills, and generate objective suitability scores. It uses NLP, machine learning, TF-IDF similarity, and multi-modal scoring (text, audio, and resume features) to deliver accurate and unbiased candidate evaluations.

The project aims to validate candidate-claimed skills, build a weighted scoring framework, generate personalized AI-driven feedback, and create a standardized digital evaluation system. Existing recruitment systems rely heavily on subjective human judgment, shallow keyword matching, and lack deep semantic analysis, resume–answer verification, and personalized feedback. Smart Recruit addresses these limitations by performing advanced NLP-based resume parsing, job–resume similarity scoring, grammar evaluation, keyword extraction, and resume–answer skill validation using TF-IDF and cosine similarity.

The methodology includes multi-stage pipelines: resume parsing, skill verification, multi-modal scoring, and automated feedback generation using rule-based logic and AI models. The system is implemented as a modular web platform with a React frontend, FastAPI backend, NLP and speech-processing modules, and a secure SQLite-based storage layer. Audio inputs are analyzed through Whisper transcription and acoustic feature extraction to evaluate confidence and stress levels.

Results show that Smart Recruit performs reliably across all modules. The TF-IDF engine accurately matches resumes to job requirements, while resume–answer similarity checks effectively detect skill inconsistencies. Speech analysis classifications are accurate, and the system generates meaningful automated feedback. Overall, Smart Recruit offers a fast, objective, and comprehensive recruitment solution that enhances efficiency, reduces bias, and improves decision-making in modern hiring processes.

Conclusion

Smart Recruit successfully demonstrates how AI-driven, multi-modal analysis can transform traditional recruitment workflows into more objective, efficient, and data-driven processes. By integrating NLP-based resume assessment, TF-IDF similarity checks, audio analysis, and structured scoring, the system provides a comprehensive evaluation of a candidate’s skills, communication quality, and job relevance. Its automated feedback generation ensures transparency while offering candidates meaningful insights for improvement. The platform reduces manual screening time, minimizes human bias, and enhances the precision of candidate shortlisting. Overall, Smart Recruit serves as a powerful and scalable solution for modern hiring environments, offering reliable performance even with diverse inputs and varying candidate profiles. Its modular architecture allows easy expansion into additional evaluation modalitiesincluding coding assessments, behavioral analytics, or video processingmaking it suitable for future advancements in recruitment technology. Through its intelligent automation and robust analytical capabilities, Smart Recruit demonstrates the potential of AI to significantly elevate the fairness and effectiveness of the hiring process.

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Copyright

Copyright © 2025 Divya Patil, Adarsh B S, Disha G L, Prajwal B M, Rashmi K P. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.