Portfolio Demonstration · Caribbean National University (Fictional)

Smarter Academic Recruitment. Stronger Institutions.

An AI-powered university recruitment platform that streamlines headhunting, candidate evaluation, committee review, interviews, and HR handoff — while keeping people in control of every hiring decision.

16

Positions Modeled

70+

Fictional Candidates

10

Demo Roles

18

Workflow Steps

Watch the Overview

See ScholarSearch AI in two minutes

A guided tour of the recruitment lifecycle, credential verification, and the human-in-the-loop governance built into every AI-assisted step.

The Problem

Academic hiring is slow, fragmented, and hard to see across.

University recruitment spans position planning, sourcing, screening, committee coordination, multi-stage interviews, and a formal HR handoff — often across disconnected spreadsheets, email threads, and paper files. Search committees lose visibility, candidates lose confidence, and institutions lose time and talent to competitors with faster processes.

The Solution

One platform, from workforce planning to HR handoff.

ScholarSearch AI unifies the entire academic recruitment lifecycle in a single, role-aware platform. AI assists with drafting, summarization, matching, and comparison at every stage — but every status change, evaluation, and final recommendation is made and approved by a person. Transparency and human oversight are built in, not bolted on.

Key Capabilities

Everything a search committee needs, in one place

Position Planning & Approval

Guided six-step wizard for defining role expectations, qualifications, competencies, and timeline before a search opens.

AI Job Description Generation

Draft, refine, and inclusive-language-check job advertisements in minutes, not days.

Proactive Talent Sourcing

Simulated headhunting workspace with match scoring, outreach generation, and talent pooling.

Eligibility Screening

Structured, criterion-by-criterion review with AI-prefilled recommendations a recruiter must approve.

Committee Collaboration

Independent evaluation rubrics, conflict disclosures, and readiness dashboards for search committees.

Interviews & Assessments

Preliminary interviews, teaching demonstrations, and research seminars with structured, AI-generated questions.

Finalist Comparison

Side-by-side and radar comparisons across qualifications, evaluations, and interview performance.

Formal HR Handoff

A complete, auditable recruitment file transferred to HR once a chair recommendation is finalized.

AI-Powered Workflow

From workforce planning to HR handoff

Follow the featured Associate Professor of Educational Leadership search through all ten workflow stages inside the demo.

1

Workforce planning & position creation

2

Recruitment strategy & job advertisement

3

Candidate sourcing & outreach

4

Application management & CV intelligence

5

Eligibility screening & AI-assisted evaluation

6

Search committee review & longlist/shortlist

7

Preliminary interviews

8

Teaching demonstrations & research seminars

9

Finalist comparison & chair interview

10

Chair recommendation & HR handoff

Inside the Platform

A premium, data-driven interface

Active Searches

16

Total Applicants

72

Finalists Under Review

11

Transferred to HR

5

Recruitment Funnel

Qualification Mix

Built for Every Stakeholder

Ten roles, one connected platform

Use the role switcher inside the demo to instantly preview the platform from any of these perspectives.

Recruitment Administrator

Oversees the full recruitment pipeline across faculties

Recruiter

Manages sourcing, applications, and screening for assigned searches

Department Chair

Requests positions and conducts the final chair interview

Dean

Approves positions and reviews faculty-wide recruitment performance

Search Committee Chair

Leads the search committee through review and evaluation

Search Committee Member

Evaluates candidates and participates in committee meetings

Executive Approver

Approves position funding and reviews institutional analytics

HR Handoff Officer

Receives completed recruitment files for employment processing

Candidate

Applies for positions and tracks application progress

Platform Administrator

Manages users, templates, frameworks, and platform settings

Governance & Human Oversight

AI assists. People decide.

Every AI-generated recommendation is clearly labeled, explainable, and requires human approval before it changes a candidate's status. The platform explicitly prohibits automatic rejection, facial or emotion analysis, personality inference, and any use of protected characteristics in candidate scoring.

Read the Full Governance Policy

Technology Stack

Next.js (App Router)
TypeScript
React
Tailwind CSS
shadcn/ui
Lucide Icons
Recharts
React Hook Form
Zod
Framer Motion
jsPDF
Zustand
Supabase-ready architecture

Outcomes & Benefits

Designed for measurable recruitment impact

Reduce Administrative Workload

Automate drafting, summarization, and comparison so recruiters and committees focus on judgment, not paperwork.

Improve Recruitment Consistency

Structured rubrics and standardized question sets keep every candidate evaluated the same way.

Strengthen Candidate Sourcing

Proactive outreach and talent pooling build a bench of qualified candidates before a position even opens.

Accelerate Time to Shortlist

AI-assisted screening and matching compress weeks of manual review into days.

Support Search Committees

Readiness dashboards, independent scoring, and aggregated results simplify committee coordination.

Improve Institutional Transparency

Every stage — from sourcing to handoff — is visible to the roles that need to see it.

Create Complete Audit Trails

Every AI-assisted action and human decision is logged for compliance and institutional memory.

Enhance Candidate Experience

A dedicated candidate portal keeps applicants informed from application through decision.

Featured Case Study

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership

Faculty of Education · Department of Leadership, Policy and Administration

Design Challenge

The department needed to fill a critical doctoral-supervision gap through an international search, without losing visibility across 18 applicants and a five-person committee.

Process

AI drafted the job description and recruitment strategy; sourcing and outreach built the pipeline; eligibility screening and committee rubrics narrowed 18 applicants to 3 finalists.

Solution

Teaching demonstrations, research seminars, and a structured chair interview gave the department chair a complete, comparable picture of all three finalists in one workspace.

Impact

The search closed in 134 days with a unanimous committee recommendation and a fully documented HR handoff — from first applicant to transferred file, entirely inside one platform.

See the full recruitment lifecycle in action

Explore all ten roles, the featured search, and every AI-assisted tool — no sign-up required.