Prepared for MENA Water

From hundreds of applications to a clear shortlist.

An ATS Score Analyser concept by Synops Labs, prepared for MENA Water: score every CV against the job description, explain each score, and keep every decision with your team. It is a starting point, built to be shaped by your inputs.

Our starting assumptions

Hundreds of CVs per opening, and a shortlist that has to be defensible.

We have not collected requirements from your team yet, so this concept starts from three assumptions about high-volume technical hiring. Where they are wrong, tell us: that conversation is exactly what we are asking for.

01

Screening by hand does not scale

A single opening for a Process Engineer can draw hundreds of CVs. Reading them properly takes days of HR time. Skimming them risks the wrong shortlist.

02

Every reviewer ranks differently

Two screeners, one stack of CVs, two different shortlists. Without shared criteria, decisions are hard to defend and harder to repeat.

03

Good candidates get buried

The right SCADA engineer may be CV number 214 in the inbox. If nobody reaches it, the hire never happens.

How it would work

Five steps between an inbox full of CVs and a defensible decision.

1

Upload

Every CV for a vacancy: PDF, Word, scans, or one ZIP.

2

Parse

The ATS reads skills, experience and education from each CV.

3

Score

Each candidate gets an ATS score against your job description.

4

Rank

The whole batch, ordered. Filters, shortlists, export.

5

Decide

Interviews, scorecards and analytics close the loop.

Module 01 · Intake

One batch per vacancy

A recruitment batch starts with your job description. Paste it or upload it, and the platform extracts the requirements it will score against: required skills, years of experience, education. Your HR team can adjust them before a single CV is read.

  • JD upload or paste, requirements extracted automatically
  • Must-have and nice-to-have skills kept separate
  • Criteria are visible and editable, never a black box

Module 02 · Upload

Drop in every CV you have received

PDF, Word, scanned documents, photographed CVs, or a single ZIP with 300 files. Scans go through OCR automatically, and duplicates are flagged before review.

  • Bulk upload with live progress, built for hundreds of CVs
  • OCR for scanned and photographed documents
  • Duplicate detection across the whole batch

Module 03 · ATS scoring · Interactive demo

Watch a CV get its ATS score, and see exactly why

Every score breaks down into what matched, what is missing, and how each factor was weighed. Pick a candidate to see the analysis run.

AR
Ayesha RahmanSenior Process Engineer
Experience8 yrs · water treatment
EducationB.Eng Chemical
Skills vs job description
Matched Partial Missing
0/100
Analyzing candidate...
Why this score Explainable
Skills match 50% weight
0%
Experience fit 25% weight
0%
Education 10% weight
0%
Keyword relevance 15% weight
0%

The engine behind the score

CV PARSING

Affinda / Textkernel

The parsing engines behind global staffing platforms. 40+ languages, scanned-document OCR, structured data from every CV format.

EXPLANATION ENGINE

Anthropic Claude / OpenAI GPT

Frontier language models on enterprise API tiers generate the explanations and summaries, configured for zero data retention.

SEMANTIC MATCHING

Vector embeddings

Catches what keyword filters miss: "PLC" still matches "programmable logic controllers", and paraphrased experience still counts.

SCORING ENGINE

Built by Synops Labs

The weighted formula is ours: transparent, auditable, tuned with your HR team. The final vendor mix is agreed with your IT team before build.

Module 04 · Ranking

The whole batch, ordered and ready to work

Every parsed CV lands in one ranked table. Filter by skill or score, star candidates into a shortlist, and export the result for your hiring managers. The platform recommends; shortlist decisions stay with your team.

  • Sort and filter by score, skills, experience
  • One-click shortlisting with full audit trail
  • Export to Excel or CSV for stakeholders

Module 05 · Compare

Finalists, side by side

When it is down to three candidates, put them next to each other: scores, skills, experience and education in one view. Consistency checks flag anything worth a closer look, like overlapping employment dates or duplicate applications.

  • Any two or three candidates, compared in one screen
  • Automatic flags for date overlaps and duplicates
  • Share a comparison link with the hiring manager

Module 06 · Interviews

Interviews scheduled, feedback structured

Move a shortlisted candidate to interview and the platform handles the coordination: calendar slots, invites and reminders. Afterwards, every interviewer fills a structured scorecard, and the panel's verdict sits beside the ATS score in one view.

  • Calendar integration and candidate self-scheduling
  • Structured scorecards per interviewer, per competency
  • Panel summary shown beside the original match score

Module 07 · Analytics

The whole funnel, measured

Leadership sees the hiring operation clearly: how many applied, how many passed screening, where candidates drop off, and how long each stage takes. Over time, it also shows whether the scores predicted the candidates you actually hired.

  • Funnel conversion and time-to-hire per role
  • Source quality: which channels bring real hires
  • Score calibration: ATS scores vs actual hires

Enterprise foundations

The security and infrastructure your IT team will expect.

Role-based access

Admin, HR Recruiter and Hiring Manager each see exactly what they should.

SSO and MFA

Sign in with your company identity provider. Multi-factor by default.

Audit trail

Every score, shortlist and stage change is logged: who, what, when.

Encrypted throughout

Candidate data encrypted in transit and at rest.

Built for volume

Designed for 10,000+ CVs without slowing down.

Your infrastructure or ours

Cloud hosting in-region, or deployment on your own servers.

Candidate data, handled properly.

Stays in your region

Hosted in the UAE or on your own servers. Candidate data never leaves the jurisdiction you choose.

Never used to train models

Every processing vendor runs in enterprise mode: your CVs are not used for model training and are not retained after processing.

Retention you control

Deletion windows follow your HR policy. Erase a candidate on request, with the removal logged.

UAE PDPL aligned

Consent capture, access logging, and a signed data processing agreement as standard.

How we would deliver it

Three phases. Working software from the first one.

Each phase ships software your team can use, and what we learn shapes the next phase. Phase 1 stands on its own, and each phase has to earn the next.

Phase 1 · Weeks 1-6

Scoring core

Batches, JD parsing, bulk CV upload with OCR, the ATS scoring engine and the explainability view. Phase 1 gives your team a working screening tool from week six.

Phase 2 · Weeks 7-11

Recruiter workflow

Ranked tables, filters, shortlists, side-by-side comparison, duplicate and consistency flags, exports and the full audit trail.

Phase 3 · Weeks 12-16

Interviews and analytics

Scheduling with calendar integration, structured scorecards, panel summaries and the leadership analytics dashboard.

Why Synops Labs

Custom enterprise software, engineered by our own team.

Synops Labs LLC designs and engineers bespoke platforms for enterprises: screening and scoring systems, operational dashboards and workflow tools, built to fit how your organisation works, not the other way around.

This walkthrough was designed and built end to end by our team. Treat it as a preview of how we work: understand the problem deeply, show the solution clearly, then build it properly.

Synops Labs

The next step: a 30-minute working session.

Walk us through how you actually hire: the roles, the volumes, the criteria that matter. We will reshape this concept around those inputs and come back with scope, timeline and pricing. If it is not the right direction, that is just as useful to hear.

pranav@synopslabs.com +971 56 627 2141 Pranav · Synops Labs LLC