Background

IRAS leveraged Savos to improve the evaluation of candidates for analytical and compliance-focused roles by generating richer candidate intelligence and enabling more consistent hiring decisions.

Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Savos combines enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure with AI-powered candidate intelligence to help IRAS evaluate applicants more efficiently while maintaining the security, scalability, and reliability required for public sector recruitment.

The Problem

IRAS recruits for roles that require strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, sound judgement, and the ability to operate within highly regulated environments.

While candidates often possess similar academic credentials and professional experience, traditional recruitment methods provide limited visibility into how individuals approach complex problems, interpret information, and make decisions.

The challenge was to improve the quality and consistency of hiring decisions while reducing the effort required to evaluate large volumes of applicants.

Using Amazon Bedrock, Savos enables AI-assisted candidate engagement, candidate intelligence generation, and recruiter decision support, helping hiring teams move beyond traditional resume-based evaluation while maintaining human oversight throughout the recruitment process. The platform is deployed on a secure AWS architecture comprising Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53, with Amazon SQS orchestrating recruitment workflows. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), private VPC networking, and Multi-AZ deployment help ensure secure, resilient operations while protecting sensitive candidate data.

Outcomes of Project & Success Metrics

Observed operational outcomes included:

  • 50% reduction in evaluation effort
  • 45% faster applicant assessment cycles
  • 70% improvement in evaluation consistency
  • 80% increase in recruiter productivity
  • 35% faster time-to-shortlist

Built on AWS, the solution enabled IRAS to securely scale recruitment operations while reducing recruiter effort, improving evaluation consistency, and supporting faster, evidence-based hiring decisions across analytical and compliance-focused roles.

KPIs tracked include:

  • recruiter productivity
  • application processing time
  • hiring manager satisfaction
  • candidate engagement rates
  • shortlist quality metrics