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Build It in a Weekend. Run It for Years.

Build It in a Weekend. Run It for Years.

Three AI Recruitment Agents in C# and the Real Work of Keeping Them Alive

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June 7, 2026

Contents

1
The Math No Recruiter Can Win by Hand
2
What an AI Agent Actually Is
3
The leash
4
The Toolkit
5
The model: small, capable, swappable
6
Talking to Your ATS
7
Use Case 1: Resume Screening Against a Job
8
The shape of the loop
9
Running it: thought, action, observation
10
Use Case 2: CV Formatting & Redacting for Clients
11
Reformatting into your branded template
12
Resume Shortlisting
13
That Was Easy
14
Security & Compliance
15
Keeping PII out of the LLM
16
Exceptions & Reliability
17
Silent API drift: the ATS changes under you
18
When it fails anyway: dead-letter and the leash
19
Monitoring & Observability
20
Maintenance & the Lifecycle
21
The Scorecard: Success Metrics & KPIs
22
Build vs. Buy vs. Managed
23
What an engineer actually costs
24
What the wider data says happens next
25
Conclusion: How This Gets Run for You
26
The promises behind the service
27
Fuller Code Listings
28
One full screening ReAct loop (Semantic Kernel)
29
.env & Deployment Reference
30
Secrets in dev vs production
31
Bullhorn & JobAdder Endpoint Cheat-Sheets
32
Sources & Further Reading
33
Compliance (primary law sources)

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