Improve shortlist quality

Build stronger shortlists with evidence you can trust.

Go beyond the CV with structured assessments, intelligent review and verification that helps your team understand who should progress and why. Want more confidence in who reaches interview? Let us help you build a stronger shortlist.

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Account Executive

21 to review

Virginia W.

92%

Edgar P.

85%

Lina B.

78%

The challenge

A shortlist is only as strong as the evidence behind it.

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CVs only tell part of the story

Experience on paper does not always show how someone communicates, thinks or responds to the situations that matter in the role.

More applications create more noise

When candidate volumes rise, it becomes harder to separate strong, genuine applicants from weak-fit or low-signal applications.

Candidate information still needs verifying

Identity, right to work and background requirements can all affect whether someone is ready to progress, creating extra checks later in the process.

How Willo helps

Collect better candidate evidence, verify the information that matters and compare everyone against the same role-relevant criteria before they reach your hiring managers.

1,500+

Ready-made assessments across roles and skills, or build one around the criteria your team uses to shortlist.

More candidates reviewed each week, with transcripts, summaries and role-specific Insights helping your team get to the evidence faster.

Verified

Willo Verified adds identity, right-to-work and DBS checks where needed, giving your team more confidence before candidates progress.

Candidate NPS across a simple, accessible assessment experience.

Know why every candidate made the shortlist.

Review responses, transcripts, summaries and role-specific evidence together, then add identity, right-to-work and DBS checks where required before candidates progress.

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Account Executive — review queue

48 to review

Virginia W.

5 of 5 answered · 4m 12s

92%

Yes

Edgar P.

5 of 5 answered · 3m 48s

85%

Yes

Lina B.

5 of 5 answered · 5m 02s

78%

Maybe

Candidate scorecard

Discovery

92%

Commercial sense

78%

Communication

85%

Resilience

65%

Willo Intelligence

Q2 of 5

"Walk us through a deal you won that looked lost."

Transcript

"The buyer had gone quiet after a pricing call. I went back to their original brief, rebuilt the proposal around the two outcomes they cared about and got their CFO on a call the next week…"

Summary against your criteria

Reframes around the buyer's goals

Names the stakeholders involved

No figures on deal size or cycle length

Willo Intelligence organizes the evidence. Willo Verified adds verification. Your team decides who progresses.

See how Willo Intelligence works

“

We rate Willo as a good platform to use so they don’t have to spend extra time in interviews with candidates who don’t fit our requirements for the role.

Sabine Saliete-Rudzite

Talent Acquisition Manager, airBaltic

Stronger shortlists. More confident decisions.

See how teams are improving screening consistency, getting clearer candidate evidence and giving hiring managers stronger people to meet.

Result

3,000+

Emerging-talent applications assessed each year with stronger evidence beyond the CV, saving an estimated 161 hours.

Toyota GB — Emerging talent

Customer story

Structured screening has reduced screening time, improved consistency and helped the team shortlist stronger candidates more quickly.

Bott + Co

Stronger candidates shortlisted more quickly

Result

Consistent

Assessment against core values and role requirements, helping the team make better hiring decisions.

Rapid Electronics

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