How PeopleBank screened 3x more candidates with Bullhorn Amplify

An after hours gap

After normal business hours, there was no coverage. So candidates applying outside business hours sat in a queue until the next morning. For Peoplebank, that lag was a real disadvantage as it was missing out on good IT talent.

Byrne spent her first year back with Peoplebank researching AI options thoroughly, this included more than 1,000 hours of evaluation assessing over 120 vendors. The brief was clear though, they wanted to find a connected approach to recruitment that would improve capacity and speed, close the after-hours gap, and make recruitment more about the relationships, not less.

Bullhorn Amplify: meeting recruiters where they are

After evaluating the market extensively, PeopleBank chose Bullhorn Amplify.

Byrne noted, “Amplify is an ecosystem, not a point solution.” This meant rather than solving one narrow problem, Amplify gave PeopleBank the ability to address challenges across their full recruitment lifecycle without having to leave their core platform. Amplify meets PeopleBank’s recruiters where they already are on a daily basis. This allowed Byrne and her team to remove any friction entirely from their workflow.

As a buy-first business without a large internal development team, PeopleBank needed the ability to configure and build solutions without heavy technical overhead. Amplify gave their team genuine flexibility and room to test and innovate upon their initial use cases. For example, PeopleBank could decide exactly how autonomous or human-led each workflow would be. This was essential to comply with their ethical approach to AI policies and helped them to design experiences that worked for the neurodivergent candidates common in IT and technology recruitment.

When implementation began in July 2025, PeopleBank focused first on a single high-impact use case: an after-hours AI screening agent. They named her AIDA (short for AI Aid) following a staff naming competition. By early August, AIDA was live!

272 hours saved. 3x more candidates screened.

In order to truly test the effectiveness of AIDA, Byrne knew they needed a large set of data so they allowed 1,000 candidates to go through AIDA’s screening process.

The results on capacity were clear. With AIDA, People were able to screen 3x the number of candidates versus what a recruiter could feasibly do.

Their candidate experience results were equally strong. 50% of candidates offered the screening via AIDA chose to do so and of that group 80% immediately opted in to be considered and screened for additional roles. Additionally, Peoplebank saw a 4.4 out of 5 satisfaction score from the candidates that completed the screening.

The screening offered by Peopleback extended the working day without adding headcount, covering the after-hours window that had previously gone unserviced. Candidates who applied in the evening were screened, assessed, and engaged before the team arrived the next morning. This time saving for their team equated to 272 hours.