Hiring Solutions

Pre-Hire Screening

Extend your hiring team with scalable attraction, screening and interview-ready candidates

Keep control of final interviews and hiring decisions while ABL manages the high-volume work required to build a qualified candidate pipeline. We attract, review, screen, assess and coordinate candidates against criteria developed with your team.

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How It Works

What Is Pre-Hire Screening?

Pre-Hire Screening is a flexible recruitment partnership for organizations that want to retain responsibility for final interviews, offers, onboarding and employee management, but need added capacity at the front end of the hiring process.

ABL acts as an extension of your internal HR or recruitment team. We can work from applications generated by ABL, resumes received by your organization, or a combination of both. Together, we define the role requirements, screening criteria, interview questions, assessments, scheduling process and the information your hiring team needs before meeting a candidate.

ABL can manage attraction and sourcing, resume review, telephone prescreens, video interviews, skills or qualification assessments and interview scheduling. Candidates who meet the agreed benchmark are advanced as qualified, interview-ready applicants. Your organization makes the final hiring decision and manages onboarding onto its payroll.

Benefits of Pre-Hire Screening

01

Give Your Internal Team More Interviewing Capacity

Move resume review, preliminary screening, candidate follow-up and scheduling off your team’s workload.

02

Standardize Candidate Evaluation

Establish consistent questions, minimum qualifications, assessments and success criteria for every candidate.

03

Build a Scalable Candidate Pipeline

Adjust recruitment activity for high-volume projects, recurring hiring, expansion, seasonal demand or multi-location recruitment.

04

Improve the Quality of Client Interviews

Your hiring team meets candidates who have already completed the agreed screening steps.

05

Keep Final Hiring Control

Your organization retains the final interview, selection, offer and onboarding decisions.

When to Choose Pre-Hire Screening

  • You have an internal HR or recruitment team but need more capacity for sourcing, resume review and preliminary screening.
  • You are planning a high-volume hiring project or have ongoing, recurring hiring needs.
  • Hiring managers are spending too much time interviewing applicants who do not meet the basic requirements.
  • You need a repeatable, standardized screening process across locations, departments or recruiting teams.
  • The roles require assessments, language capabilities, availability, communication standards or other measurable criteria.
  • You want to retain control of final interviews, offers, onboarding and payroll.

Why Choose ABL?

  • High-volume recruitment experience: ABL supports ongoing and project-based recruitment, including contact-centre and BPO hiring.
  • Custom screening design: Questions, criteria, assessments and workflow are developed collaboratively and can change as hiring needs evolve.
  • Broad attraction reach: ABL combines its candidate database, referral networks, online presence and multi-platform sourcing.
  • Administrative and customer-focused expertise: ABL Careers specializes in office, customer service, call-centre, bilingual and business-support recruitment.
  • Multi-region capability: The model can support distributed hiring across Canadian regions.
  • Live coordination: Shared scheduling and tracking processes can give both teams visibility into interview status and candidate progress.
  • Flexible scope: ABL can manage the full front end of recruitment or selected stages according to your internal capacity.

Our Process

1

Design the Hiring Project

Confirm volumes, locations, timelines, role requirements, compensation, qualifications, screening questions, assessments, reporting and responsibilities.

2

Attract, Screen and Assess

ABL launches the attraction campaign or works from your applicant flow, then reviews, prescreens, interviews and administers agreed assessments.

3

Present, Schedule and Improve

Qualified candidates are presented or scheduled into your interview process. Both teams review outcomes and refine the workflow throughout the project.

Positions We Fill

Customer and Contact Centre

Customer service representatives; call-centre agents; bilingual service and collections; sales; telemarketing; technical support. Capable of managing high-volume hiring classes.

Office and Business Support

Administrative assistants; data-entry; document processing; order desk; scheduling; accounts receivable; collections; coordinators.

Specialized Screening Projects

Language assessment; defined skills testing; multi-region campaigns; client-specific interview and assessment benchmarks.

Industries We Serve

Call Centres & BPO

High-volume customer-contact and business-process operations.

Business Services

Professional, administrative and shared-service teams.

Finance & Service Operations

Banking, finance, energy and service environments.

Healthcare Support

Administrative and customer-focused healthcare support.

Retail & Consumer Services

Customer-facing, sales and service operations.

Telecommunications

Customer care and technical support environments.

Shared Services

Administrative and centralized business-support teams.

What Other Companies Have Achieved with ABL

Case Study

Ongoing Bilingual, Multi-Region Recruitment

ABL attracted and screened candidates, administered an assessment and scheduled qualified applicants into a standing interview process. A shared scheduling document supported live updates. The program included bilingual recruitment across nine Canadian provinces, and 90% of candidates interviewed by the client were offered positions.

Case Study

Long-Term High-Volume Pre-Hire Partnership

ABL advertised roles, reviewed resumes, prescreened applicants and booked qualified candidates into the hiring team’s schedule. The program supported customer service, collections, bilingual collections and telemarketing hiring, and 75% of candidates interviewed by the client were hired.

Case Study

Recruitment Support During Rapid Growth

ABL worked with an internal HR team to support large hiring projects and difficult-to-fill bilingual and sales-experienced positions while the client team focused on final interviews and retention.

FAQs

The model combines a one-time project fee with a per-interview fee for qualified candidates who complete an interview with your team. Scope, billing and terms are confirmed in the agreement.

Screening can include resume review, telephone prescreening, agreed questions, video interviews, language or skills assessments, availability and compensation confirmation, and qualification review.

Choose Pre-Hire when candidates will join your payroll directly and your organization will manage final interviews, offers, onboarding and employment.

Your organization does. ABL advances candidates who meet the agreed criteria; your team completes final interviews, selection, offers and onboarding.

Yes. ABL can screen resumes generated by your organization, candidates attracted by ABL, or a combined applicant pool.

Other Staffing Solutions

Temporary Staffing

Flexible people for peaks, projects, absences, seasonal demand and changing workloads.

Temp-to-Hire

Evaluate performance and fit while the associate works on ABL payroll before moving to your team.

Direct Hire

Targeted permanent recruitment for professional, management, executive and specialized positions.

Accelerated Hire

Place selected candidates directly on your payroll while the fee is billed over an agreed working period.

Contact ABL

Need more recruitment capacity without giving up control of final hiring decisions? Tell us about the roles, hiring volume, locations, timeline and screening requirements. ABL will help design a structured Pre-Hire solution around your internal process.