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Student teams propose AI résumé screeners to tackle DHRD backlog

Hawaii Code Challenge (tenth annual) · December 1, 2025
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Several high school and college teams at the Hawaii Code Challenge demoed AI-driven résumé screeners for the state Department of Human Resources (DHRD), aiming to help process an estimated backlog of about 5,500 applications while retaining human review and mitigating bias.

Multiple student teams presented AI tools designed to help the Department of Human Resources (DHRD) process a reported backlog of roughly 5,500 applications.

Presenters described common features: an AI scoring engine to cross-reference résumés against minimum qualifications, a reviewer dashboard for human-in-the-loop decisions, and evidence-extraction features to make AI reasoning transparent to reviewers. Teams reported small-scale tests—typically with about 10 sample résumés—yielding reported accuracy or confidence metrics in…

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