The real cost of manual resume screening (with calculator)

Let's do the math. A mid-level recruiter in India costs ₹4-8 lakh/year fully loaded. That's roughly ₹250/hour. A 50-resume batch takes 60 minutes to screen manually (12 resumes/hour is the realistic cap).

That's ₹2,500 per batch of 50 resumes, or ₹50 per resume, just for the screening step. Multiply by 4 hires/month and you're spending ₹10,000/month on screening alone — for one recruiter.

Screenly ranks the same 50-resume batch in 90 seconds. Cost per resume: ₹1-2 (LLM inference). At our Starter plan (₹499/month for 250 scans), the math is brutal for manual screening.

ROI breakeven: 1 hire per month. Most of our customers do 5+ hires per month. The screen pays for itself on the first day.

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