Anonymise CVs before screening while keeping the skills, experience and qualifications you need to assess each candidate. Use Affinda’s free resume redactor online, process resumes in bulk, or integrate resume redaction directly into your ATS or HR-tech platform through our API.
Upload resumes, choose the personal information you want to hide and download anonymised versions for screening. Use the resume anonymiser to remove selected identifying details before a recruiter or hiring manager reviews the candidate.
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Add resume redaction to your ATS or HR software through the API. Send a resume to Affinda, define which fields should be redacted and return the anonymised document inside the experience your customers already use.
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A resume can contain plenty of information that has nothing to do with whether someone can do the job. Names, photos, age, gender, location, education providers and other personal details can influence an assessment before a reviewer reaches the candidate’s skills and experience.
Resume redaction software lets you remove selected information before screening begins. The result is a redacted resume that keeps the information reviewers need while hiding the details you’ve chosen to remove.
Remove selected personal and demographic information before initial screening.
Give reviewers the information that relates to the role without as many irrelevant signals competing for their attention.
Keep early screening focused more closely on skills, experience, qualifications and achievements.
Blind hiring doesn’t remove every source of bias from recruitment. But removing selected information from a CV can reduce some of the signals that contribute to unconscious bias during early screening.
Combined with consistent assessment criteria and a structured recruitment process, blind CV screening can support fairer candidate comparisons.
Not every organisation needs the same level of anonymisation. Affinda lets you choose which resume fields to redact and which should remain visible, so the output reflects the recruitment process as needed. Specific fields and PII data you can redact include:
Need to redact another candidate field? Talk to our team.
Unconscious bias can influence how a candidate is perceived, even when the information shaping that impression isn’t relevant to the role. Resume redaction removes selected personal details before screening, helping reduce the opportunity for common forms of bias to affect an early assessment.
Shared backgrounds, interests or experiences can make a candidate feel more familiar to a reviewer, even when those similarities aren’t relevant to the job.
Names, pronouns and other gender cues can influence assumptions about whether someone is suited to a particular role.
One noticeable characteristic can influence how a reviewer interprets unrelated parts of a candidate’s resume.
Dates and other age-related information can affect how a candidate is assessed before their experience is considered on its merits.
Once a reviewer forms an early impression, they may pay more attention to information that reinforces it.
Redacting selected information gives recruiters fewer irrelevant signals to consider during the first review, helping reduce the influence of unconscious bias.
It isn’t a substitute for structured interviews, consistent hiring criteria or good recruiter judgement. It’s one practical way to keep initial screening more focused on what the candidate can do.
Recruitment teams may use the online tool directly. Recruitment technology companies can put the same capability inside their own product. The Affinda Resume Redactor API lets your application send candidate resumes for redaction and return anonymised documents without adding another tool to the recruiter’s day.
Candidate resumes contain personal information, so privacy, security and data handling need to be part of any technical evaluation. Affinda has experience working through enterprise procurement, legal and information security reviews. If you have requirements around privacy, candidate data or data storage before implementing resume redaction, talk to our team about what you need.
We can support the procurement, legal and technical teams involved in evaluating the Resume Redactor.
Tell us about the requirements that apply to candidate documents in your organisation or product.
A redacted resume is a CV or resume with selected information hidden before it is reviewed.
Resume redaction usually removes personal or identifying details while leaving job-relevant information such as skills, work experience and qualifications visible.
A redacted resume may also be described as an anonymised resume, anonymous CV or blind CV.
To redact a CV or resume, identify the information you don’t want a reviewer to see, remove or obscure those fields, then use the redacted copy during screening.
With Affinda, you can:
For recurring or higher-volume requirements, the same process can be automated through the resume redactor API.
Blind resume screening is the practice of reviewing a candidate after selected personal information has been removed from their resume.
A blind resume might hide information such as a candidate’s name, photo, age, gender, location or education provider before the first screening decision.
The aim is to keep more attention on information relevant to the role, such as skills, experience and qualifications.
Affinda can redact a configurable range of information from resumes, including names, contact information, headshots, locations, dates, gender, education information, employment information, links and referee details.
You decide which fields should be hidden and which should remain visible.
That means the same CV redaction software can support different blind hiring policies without requiring every organisation to anonymise resumes in exactly the same way.
An anonymised CV keeps the useful content of the original resume while hiding the information selected for redaction.
Recruiters can still review the candidate’s relevant skills, employment history, education and qualifications.
The difference is that selected identifying or potentially biasing information is no longer visible during that stage of screening.
Resume redaction is designed around information found in candidate resumes and the requirements of recruitment screening.
That can include standard personally identifiable information as well as recruitment-specific details such as headshots, education providers, employment information and dates.
PII redaction is broader. A PII redactor is designed to identify and remove personally identifiable information from many types of documents, not only resumes.
If your use case is specifically blind hiring or candidate screening, a resume redactor gives you controls designed around CV content. If you need to mask or remove PII from other document types as well, a broader PII redaction solution may be more appropriate.
Yes. Affinda supports bulk resume redaction for teams that need to anonymise multiple CVs together.
For recurring or larger-scale processing, recruitment technology teams can use the resume redactor API to apply consistent redaction rules as documents move through their product.
The best resume redaction software depends on how many resumes you process, which fields you need to remove and whether recruiters will use the software directly or through another product.
When comparing CV redaction software, look for the ability to:
Affinda supports direct online resume redaction as well as bulk, white-label and API-based use cases.
Resume redaction can reduce hiring bias by removing selected information that may influence an initial assessment even though it isn’t relevant to a candidate’s ability to do the job.
That gives reviewers more room to focus on skills, experience, qualifications and achievements.
Used alongside consistent assessment criteria, blind resume screening can support skills-based hiring and a fairer recruitment process.
Redaction alone can’t guarantee unbiased hiring. It works best as one part of a broader approach to consistent candidate assessment.
Blind resume screening is usually most useful before or during the first candidate review.
The selected information is redacted before the resume reaches the recruiter, hiring manager or screening panel. Reviewers can then assess candidates against the criteria for the role without seeing those fields.
Information can be made available later when it becomes necessary for interviews, communication or other stages of the recruitment process.
The exact point will depend on your organisation’s hiring policy.
Yes. The Affinda resume redactor API is designed for recruitment technology teams that want to incorporate CV redaction into an existing product.
Your application can send the resume for redaction, specify the information to remove and return the anonymised document to the appropriate user.
This lets an ATS, job board or HR product offer blind resume screening without requiring recruiters to move documents into a separate redaction tool.
The current online Resume Redactor supports common resume document formats, including PDF and Word documents.
Processing time depends on the document and the number of resumes being submitted.
The online tool is designed for interactive resume redaction, while bulk and API options are available for larger or recurring volumes.
Tell us about your recruitment product or redaction requirements and we’ll help you find the right approach.
