Hey everyone,
I work as a senior technical recruiter, and I’ve been using Talantly for a while now. Honestly, I love it. Its structured job descriptions and candidate analysis have made my process much smoother.
That said, one challenge I keep running into is volume. With the number of candidates I handle across multiple regions and roles, uploading resumes one by one can get pretty time-consuming. Sometimes I need to process dozens (or even hundreds) of resumes at once, and right now it feels like a bottleneck.
So my question is: is there a way to upload resumes in bulk, or is that something the Talantly team is planning?
I’d also love to hear how others are managing this. Do you batch uploads in a certain way, use integrations, or just power through manually? Any workarounds you’ve found helpful?
I can definitely relate to this challenge, and it's interesting to hear from someone on the technical recruiting side since my experience has been more on the generalist HR front at our consulting firm.
From my perspective over the past few months, the volume issue you're describing really depends on your use case. In management consulting, we're typically dealing with smaller, more targeted candidate pools - maybe 20-30 resumes for a senior consultant role, or 50-60 for entry-level positions. So the one-by-one upload hasn't been as much of a pain point for us, but I can absolutely see how that would become unwieldy when you're managing technical roles across multiple regions.
What I've found works well for our workflow is batching by role type rather than trying to process everything at once. We'll typically dedicate focused time blocks - say, uploading all candidates for a specific practice area in one session. This lets us maintain the quality of analysis while still being efficient. The candidate analysis feature you mentioned has been particularly valuable for us because it helps identify those standout profiles that might otherwise get lost in a large pool.
That said, I think you're hitting on something that could be a real competitive advantage for Talantly if they addressed it. In consulting, we often talk about scalability challenges, and this feels like a classic example where the platform works beautifully for certain use cases but hits friction points at higher volumes.
Have you experimented with any workarounds on the integration side? I know some of our technical teams have had success with API-based solutions for similar bottlenecks in other tools, though I haven't explored that route with Talantly yet. It might be worth reaching out to their support team directly - in my experience, they've been pretty responsive to workflow optimization questions, and bulk upload seems like a common enough need that it could be on their roadmap.
What's your typical volume range when this becomes most problematic? I'm curious if there's a threshold where the manual approach just completely breaks down.
The volume challenge definitely resonates with me from the telecom side - we're often processing candidates across different regions with varying technical requirements, and the manual upload process can become a real bottleneck during peak hiring periods. I've found that batching by business unit helps somewhat, but when you're dealing with urgent headcount needs across multiple markets, it still feels inefficient. The analysis quality is solid once everything's uploaded, but I'd definitely welcome a bulk upload feature to streamline the front-end process.