Principal Senior Living Group
"Before Smart Screening, I reviewed every resume. Now I can make a decision within seconds because the key details are surfaced right away."
Brandi Acheson, Recruitment Coordinator
Principal Senior Living Group hires caregivers, activity assistants, LPNs, med techs and CNAs across its communities. These roles attract roughly 2,500 to 2,800 applicants each month.
This makes consistent, high-quality screening essential to identifying the right candidates quickly. The team manages its hiring through the HiringThing ATS, which serves as the central place where recruiters review and evaluate applicants.
Before Smart Screening, Brandi handled all resume reviews herself. She had no consistent screening tool to help her quickly identify strong applicants
Delivering higher-quality candidate evaluation
As the team hires for over 200 roles, Principal Senior Living Group needed a more effective way to identify qualified applicants. Smart Screening now supports consistent and reliable early evaluation. In fact, she estimates she is 90% confident in the accuracy of the smart fit scores.
To quickly identify qualified candidates, Brandi starts with the 0–100 candidate smart fit score generated by evaluating the candidate’s profile, application and screening responses to each specific role.
That score, combined with the recent experience snapshot, license verifications, and flagged follow-ups, provides a clear candidate summary. Recruitment Coordinator Brandi Acheson says she feels confident in deciding who to contact based on the score and candidate summary.
For roles where applicants often have broad or varied backgrounds, such as caregiver and activity assistant, these insights help the team consistently identify stronger candidates early in the process.
"Smart Screening has made it much easier to spot the right candidates early. The score and experience snapshot help me quickly see who is truly qualified."
Brandi Acheson, Recruitment Coordinator
Principal Senior Living Group
Increasing speed through faster screening decisions
Smart Screening helps recruiters move more quickly through applicant evaluations by starting with the score, summary, recent work history and credential verifications to determine whether a candidate requires a deeper review.
Before Smart Screening, Brandi spent 5–7 minutes per resume, regardless of whether the candidate was qualified or not. With Smart Screening, her evaluations begin with a quick scan of the summary, ensuring the key checks are in place first. This helps ensure she can spend more time on qualified candidates and reach them more quickly.
As she describes it, this shift saves more than half the time, depending on the role — a major improvement given the volume of applicants she handles each month.
She still reviews resumes as needed, but the snapshot brings the critical details to the forefront, helping her work more efficiently and make quicker, more confident decisions.
Improving efficiency within existing workflows
Principal Senior Living Group hires across approximately 70 to 75 active roles at any given time, spanning 16 buildings. These roles generate a substantial applicant volume — around 2,500 to 2,800 applicants per month, which Brandi says is above industry average.
Smart Screening integrates seamlessly with HiringThing, enabling Principal Senior Living Group to use its current workflow while accessing pre-screened applicants and enhanced candidate insights. Recruiters can review candidates in the same system they already rely on, with immediate visibility into:
- Pre-screened and scored applicants
- Clear summaries of recent experience
- License verification for roles such as LPN
Consistent screening and filtering within their existing ATS processes
This enables the team to evaluate applicants more efficiently without requiring the implementation of new tools or altering their existing workflow.
Conclusion
As Brandi described it: “We use the score and recent experience section to quickly decide whether to reach out.”
By incorporating Smart Screening, Principal Senior Living Group has enhanced candidate quality, expedited early evaluation, and improved efficiency across its existing hiring workflow. The shift has enabled the team to spend less time reviewing unqualified resumes and more time with the right applicants — a crucial advantage when processing nearly 3,000 applicants per month.
