AI-Powered Resume Parsing: Streamlining Athlete Onboarding to Under 2 Minutes
Transforming Onboarding from Friction Point to Competitive Advantage
Client Info
Her Competitive Advantage is a trailblazing platform connecting female collegiate athletes with career opportunities, recognizing the valuable workplace skills these athletes develop that often go unnoticed in traditional hiring processes.
The Challenge
Her Competitive Advantage approached Avodah after discovering a critical post-launch issue. Their data revealed that athletes were abandoning profile creation midway, and those who completed had inconsistent information that made recruiter comparisons difficult.
"We built this platform to help these incredible athletes showcase their talents," the founder explained, "but our onboarding friction was preventing that mission." They needed a solution that would streamline profile creation while ensuring standardized, high-quality information for recruiters to effectively evaluate candidates.
Our Solution
Approach:
Avodah collaborated with HCA to reimagine the entire onboarding flow, placing resume upload at the beginning rather than asking athletes to manually input their information. We developed an AI system that could intelligently extract, structure, and enhance resume data into recruiter-optimized profiles.
AI-Powered Resume Analysis & Transformation:
Unlike generic resume parsers that simply extract text, our solution required deep understanding of both athletic and professional experiences:
Context-Aware Parsing: The system identifies and categorizes both athletic achievements and limited work experience
Data Enhancement: Structuring information into recruiter-friendly sections beyond what appears in the original resume
Format Standardization: Creating consistent profile layouts regardless of input resume quality or format
Verification Layer: Allowing athletes to review, edit and enhance automatically generated content
The result was a system that could transform a simple resume upload into a comprehensive, recruiter-ready professional profile in seconds.
Results
Outcomes:
The implementation of AI-powered resume onboarding created immediate, measurable impact:
Reduced onboarding time to under 2 minutes through resume upload
Dramatically reduced drop-off during the sign-up process
Enhanced athlete satisfaction through a streamlined experience
By identifying and solving a critical friction point, Avodah transformed HCA's onboarding experience from a barrier to a competitive advantage. The AI-powered resume parsing solution delivered immediate value to both athletes and recruiters while significantly accelerating platform growth.
This project demonstrates how strategically applied AI can solve real business challenges while improving the user experience. Rather than implementing technology for its own sake, we focused on addressing a specific pain point with a solution that delivered measurable results.