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Cognaire Respond for Recruiters

Find better candidates, format faster, submit with confidence.

Recruitment teams lose time reformatting CVs, searching old candidate records and assembling submissions under pressure. Respond turns incoming CVs and job briefs into formatted profiles, better shortlists and client-ready packs.

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Inbound email
From: alex@brightline.co
Subject: Jordan Marsh — Acme Platform Eng
Role: Senior Platform Eng
Client: Acme · Remote EU
Clearance: BPSS · Avail: 2 wks
jordan-marsh-cv.pdf · 142 KB
Branded profile

Jordan Marsh

Senior Platform Engineer · 9y

K8sAWSGo
+ indexed into talent pool · 18s
90%

Estimated reduction in CV formatting time versus manual reformatting.

80%

Estimated reduction in time to find strong-fit candidates.

6hrs

Typical time saved creating a client-ready submission pack.

See it in action

Watch Respond turn a candidate brief into a client-ready submission.

A four-minute walk-through of CV formatting, talent-pool match search, and the AI-assisted submission pack — narrated by the team.

Respond for Recruiters — product walkthrough poster

Respond for Recruiters — product walkthrough

~ 4 min
CV formatting

Send a CV. Get a branded profile.

Agencies spend hours reformatting CVs or waiting on offshore services before a candidate can be sent to a client. Respond does the formatting automatically.

  • Dedicated CV email address
    Forward a PDF or Word CV to your team address. A formatted Word profile comes back within minutes.
  • Consistent roles and skills
    Respond cleans up job titles and skill wording so similar candidates are easier to find later.
  • Your brand applied
    Every candidate profile uses your agency template, structure and presentation style.
  • Notes from the email captured
    Client, target role, availability, clearance and location details in the email can be added to the profile.
CV Ingestion · 24 processed today
Marsh_Jordan_CV.pdf
12 sections · 47 skills · 4 roles extracted
Formatted
PShah-resume-2026.docx
Multi-column layout · normalized
Formatted
Mateo_A.pdf
Extracting skills & certifications…
Processing
a-linden-sre.pdf
Queued · 2nd
Queued
Searchable talent pool

Turn your CV database into a usable asset.

Every formatted CV becomes a searchable candidate profile with skills, years of experience, seniority, certifications, clearance, location, work rights, last role and last employer. No manual data entry. Whether you have 50 profiles or 100,000, your team can filter and search the pool.

Jordan Marsh
Senior Platform Engineer · Berlin · BPSS
94%
K8sAWSTerraformGo
Priya Shah
Infra Engineer · Dublin · SC-eligible
88%
K8sAWSPython
Mateo Álvarez
DevOps Lead · Madrid
82%
K8sGCPTerraform
Anna Linden
SRE · Remote EU
77%
ObservabilityAWSGo
Matching and analysis

Find strong candidates even when CVs use different words.

Keyword search misses good people. Respond ranks candidates against the job brief by meaning and context, then helps your team compare strengths, gaps, readiness and fit before you send a shortlist.

  • Fit scores recruiters can use
    Technical fit, industry fit, experience level, deployment readiness and optional hiring manager fit.
  • Find more like this
    Found a strong candidate? Search for similar profiles across the pool without guessing the right keywords.
  • Strengths, gaps and red flags
    Each candidate gets a plain-English recommendation with issues surfaced before client submission.
6 shortlisted candidates · Acme Platform Eng Plot: Technical × Domain
Technical Fit → Domain Expertise →
JM
PS
MA
AL
SO
LV
Strong fit (> 85) Shortlisted Compare up to 6 side by side
How it works

Format. Match. Submit.

Three steps your team can adopt quickly. No ATS replacement project required.

1Format CV

Send CVs and build the pool

Forward each CV to your dedicated email address. Add normal recruiter notes if useful - client name, target role, availability or clearance. Respond formats the CV into your agency template and creates a searchable candidate profile.

2Match

Shortlist against the job brief

Create a project from the role requirements and run candidate matching. Respond ranks the talent pool by fit, helps you find similar candidates, and lets your team build shortlists without relying on memory or exact keyword searches.

3Submit

Send a client-ready pack

Choose the final candidates, review their fit, check the pack for coverage gaps, then export formatted CVs and a draft client email. Optional masking supports blind shortlisting where the client requires it.

Bonus capability

Also automates the RFPs and tenders that come with the territory.

Most agencies answer panel tenders, preferred supplier lists and client onboarding forms alongside their candidate work. Respond handles that from the same platform — no separate tool required.

RFP & Tender Responses

Import questions from Excel, Word or pasted text. Respond generates answers from your approved procedures, policies and compliance documents.

Onboarding & Compliance Packs

Reuse approved answers across client onboarding forms and security assessments without rebuilding content from scratch.

Assigned review queues

Coordinators work from focused queues of assigned questions instead of jumping between documents and inboxes.

Leader visibility

Monitor CV formatting status, talent pool growth, shortlist quality and submission progress.

Blind shortlisting

Mask candidate names and contact details on export when clients require anonymised first-round review.

FAQ

Your questions, answered.

How do you protect sensitive candidate and workforce data?

Respond protects candidate data with strict access controls, encryption, audit trails and tenant isolation. Your content is not used to train external models. Regional deployments can be arranged when data needs to stay in a specific jurisdiction — ask us about available options.

How does the AI-powered CV formatting work?

Send a PDF or Word CV to your dedicated Respond email address. The system reads the document, extracts the candidate content, applies your agency template, and returns a professionally formatted Word profile within minutes.

Can Respond match candidates to job briefs across a large talent pool?

Yes. Respond can rank large talent pools against a specific job brief and surface candidates whose experience fits the role even when their CV uses different wording from your search terms.

Does Respond for Recruiters also include RFP questionnaire automation?

Yes. Recruitment teams can use Respond for CV formatting, candidate matching and submission packs, and also for RFPs, panel tenders, onboarding forms and compliance questionnaires.

See Respond on your own job brief and CVs.

Bring a redacted job brief and a handful of CVs. We will walk through formatting, matching and a submission pack in one call.