Case Study: Dwolla achieves automated applicant screening with Zapier

How DoSomething Screens Job Applicants and Finds the Perfect Intern in a Stack of 300 Resumes

Dwolla and its hiring team faced the challenge of sorting through 300+ job applicants for a role, which can easily overwhelm an email inbox and make it hard to track resumes, respond quickly, and coordinate feedback. The company needed a simple way to manage candidate screening without expensive HR software, using tools that could handle applications more efficiently.

Zapier helped by connecting Gmail to Trello so incoming applications automatically created candidate cards in a Trello hiring board. This let Dwolla organize applicants into stages like apply, phone interview, and review while keeping attachments such as resumes and cover letters attached to each card, improving visibility and streamlining the hiring process.

Dwolla

Ben Milne

Founder and Chief Executive Officer