Recruiters-

Every recruiter I have spoken to describes the same frustration - they spend more time coordinating interviews than actually conducting them.
A single first-round screening costs a company between 3 to 5 hours of recruiter time on average. Job posted. Applications filtered. Candidate shortlisted. Interview scheduled. Candidate does not show up. Reschedule. Repeat. And somewhere in that process, the best candidates have already accepted another offer.
On the other side, a candidate applies to 10 companies, waits 2 weeks per company, attends the same introductory interview 10 separate times, and still may never hear back from most of them.
Both sides are losing enormous time on a process that has not fundamentally changed in 20 years - despite every other part of the hiring stack being digitised. Job portals evolved. ATS systems evolved. AI screening evolved. But the actual live human screening conversation is still stuck in the same back-and-forth scheduling loop it has always been.
I have been researching this problem deeply for several months - stress testing it from the candidate perspective, the recruiter perspective, and the platform perspective. The more I dig, the more convinced I am that there is a real structural gap in how first-round interviews are conducted today that nobody has fully addressed yet.
I am not ready to share the solution publicly yet - but I would genuinely love to hear from anyone who has experienced this pain firsthand, either as a recruiter, hiring manager, or candidate.
Two specific questions for this community - where do you feel the biggest breakdown happens in first-round screening today? And has anything you have tried actually made a meaningful difference?