Built for HR teams who deserve their evenings back

A calmer way to get
through every single CV

Drop in all your applications. Set your filters. Zen Job CV quietly sorts hundreds of CVs into a shortlist you can trust, so hiring feels less like a flood, more like a flow.

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Speaks Dutch
196 CVs gently set aside
Has led a team ♥
zjcv.com · Product Designer · 214 applications
Your filters
Experience
5+ years People management
Skills
Figma Design systems UX research
Location
Amsterdam Remote OK
Languages
English Dutch
+ Add filter
Shortlist · 18 strong matches
196 gently filtered out
AV
Amara Visser Senior Product Designer · 7 yrs · Amsterdam
Strong match
96%
LK
Lena Kowalczyk Design Lead · 9 yrs · Remote (CET)
Strong match
93%
SO
Sofia Okonkwo Product Designer · 6 yrs · Utrecht
Good match
88%
MR
Maya Rahman UX Designer · 5 yrs · Rotterdam
Good match
84%
Every ranking comes with its reasons. Hover any candidate to see why.

Trusted by people teams at

Maple & MainSolstice HealthNORA StudioBloom RetailVerve FinancialPetal & CoHarbor HouseLuma Care Maple & MainSolstice HealthNORA StudioBloom RetailVerve FinancialPetal & CoHarbor HouseLuma Care
0+ CVs filtered every month
0 hrs saved per role, per week
0 / 5 average rating from HR teams

How it works

Three steps. Zero overwhelm.

01
2 minutes

Pour everything in

Drag in CVs from your inbox, job boards, or ATS. PDFs, Word docs, even that one weird scan. We read them all.

02
5 minutes

Set filters in plain words

“5+ years, speaks Dutch, has led a team.” No boolean strings, no query language. Just say what matters to you.

03
Instant

Meet your shortlist

A ranked, explainable shortlist in minutes, with a reason next to every name, so you can defend every decision.

The difference a filter makes

Same Tuesday. Very different inbox.

Before Zen

The 214-attachment evening

214 attachments across three inboxes and a shared drive
A spreadsheet named FINAL_shortlist_v7_REAL.xlsx
Great candidates buried on page 40, never seen
Sunday evening spent skimming, coffee going cold
“Why was she rejected?” with no good answer
With Zen

The 20-minute shortlist

Every CV in one place, read and standardized automatically
Filters written in plain language, saved as templates
A ranked shortlist of 18, each with its reasons attached
Near-misses flagged for a second look, never silently dropped
An audit trail that answers every “why?” in one click

Filters that feel like you

You know a great hire when you see one. We just clear the noise.

Filters are plain-language rules, not boolean puzzles. Stack them, reorder them, soften them, and every decision stays visible and reversible.

5+ years experience Speaks Dutch Has led a team Portfolio included Within commuting distance Notice period < 2 months Worked in retail
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p

Plain-language filters

Write rules the way you'd brief a colleague. Zen translates them into precise screening logic behind the scenes.

e

Explainable rankings

Every candidate score comes with the why: which filters they met, which they missed, and by how much.

s

Soft filters, not cliffs

Mark filters as must-have or nice-to-have. Great candidates who miss one box get flagged, not silently dropped.

b

Bias-aware screening

Optionally blind names, photos, ages, and schools during the first pass, so your shortlist starts fair.

t

Team review, one place

Share a shortlist link, gather thumbs and notes, and settle the debate without a 40-message email thread.

m

The Monday digest

One calm summary of new applicants who match your filters, waiting in your inbox each Monday morning. No more daily checking.

From one HR inbox to another

The Sunday-night dread is gone.

★★★★★
“I used to block out whole evenings just to open attachments. Now I set five filters over lunch and the shortlist is waiting for me.”
IB
Ingrid Bakker Head of People, Bloom Retail
★★★★★
“The explanations are what sold my hiring managers. It's not a black box; every name comes with a reason.”
PS
Priya Sharma Talent Lead, Solstice Health
★★★★★
“We screened 600 applications for one role in an afternoon. Calm is honestly the right word for it.”
CM
Charlotte Meijer HR Director, Verve Financial
IB PS CM + Joined by 2,300+ HR professionals who filter with Zen every week

Pricing

Simple plans, no surprises.

Every plan includes unlimited team seats. Because hiring is a team sport.

Calm

For one role at a time

€0 / month
1 active role
Up to 100 CVs per month
5 filters per role
Email support
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Flow

For busy people teams

€89 / month
10 active roles
Up to 2,000 CVs per month
Unlimited filters + soft filters
Bias-aware blind screening
Shared shortlists & team notes
The Monday digest
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Sanctuary

For enterprise HR

Custom
Unlimited roles & CVs
ATS integrations & API
SSO, audit logs, DPA
Dedicated success manager
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Annual billing saves 20% · VAT excluded · Cancel anytime, no hard feelings

FAQ

Gentle answers to fair questions

PDF, Word, plain text, and scanned documents. Zen reads them all, extracts the substance, and standardizes everything so your filters apply evenly to every candidate.

That's exactly what soft filters prevent. Mark criteria as nice-to-have and near-miss candidates are flagged for your review instead of dropped. You always see who was filtered out, and why. Nothing disappears silently.

Yes. Data is stored in the EU, candidates can be anonymized during screening, every decision is logged and explainable, and we sign a DPA on all paid plans. Deletion requests are honored automatically.

The Sanctuary plan connects to Greenhouse, Workable, Personio, and more via API, so CVs flow in automatically and shortlists flow back. On other plans, drag-and-drop or email-forwarding works in seconds.

They stay visible in a “set aside” list with the reason attached, so you can rescue anyone, send kind rejections in bulk, or revisit them for a future role. Nothing is deleted unless you say so.

About ten minutes. Upload a batch of CVs, describe your ideal candidate in plain language, and your first shortlist appears before the kettle boils. No IT ticket required.

Still wondering about something? Write to us and a human answers within a day.
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