Determine the comparative hiring validity and benefits of one-call and two-agent screening

Determine whether one-call screening or two-agent screening is more accurate, fair, or beneficial for hiring decisions.

Background

The study evaluates one-call and two-agent resume-screening procedures using constructed resumes and public job postings, without real candidates or downstream outcomes such as interviews, offers, or job performance. Consequently, the reported differences concern access to human review, selection membership, and recurrence rather than validated hiring quality.

Establishing whether either procedure is more accurate, fair, or beneficial requires evaluation on realistic candidates and outcomes that can serve as measures of qualification, fairness, and downstream employment benefit.

References

Because the testbed contains no real candidates or downstream interview, offer, or job-performance outcomes, we cannot determine whether either procedure is more accurate, fair, or beneficial.

— When Hiring Becomes Agent-Mediated: Evaluating Access and Recurrence in Two-Agent Résumé Screening  (2609.19530 - Gao et al., 17 Sep 2026) in Limitations, subsection “Testbed and model scope”