Every job gets its own email address

Post a role and Smorg gives it an address of its own — j41@smorg.co.za, and so on. Put that address on the advert, hand it to a client, forward a CV to it yourself. Anything that arrives becomes an application against that job.

What happens to the email

The attachment is pulled out and read — Word or PDF, and a zip is unpacked rather than rejected. A Google Drive link in the body is followed and downloaded. The CV is turned into structured fields, then a second, anonymised copy is made with the name, contact details and protected attributes stripped out.

That anonymised copy is what gets scored against the job: a number out of 100 and a sentence saying why, built from the skills, experience and seniority the role actually asks for. A candidate who misses a hard requirement is capped, so a strong generalist can’t outrank someone who meets the brief.

The score is a sort order, not a verdict. You see the reason next to it and the CV is one click away.

Why an address rather than a form

Because it meets people where the CVs already are. Candidates email; clients forward; you email yourself a CV you were sent on WhatsApp. A form asks all of them to stop doing that.

It also means the whole team sees the same pipeline without anyone maintaining it. No forwarding chains, no “can you send me that one again”, no CV that exists only in one person’s inbox.

Replies stay on the thread. When you answer an applicant, the mail goes out from the address they wrote to, as a proper reply, so it lands in the conversation they already have rather than starting a new one.

What it doesn’t do

It doesn’t decide. It doesn’t reject anyone, email anyone on your behalf, or move a candidate anywhere without you. The scoring reads an anonymised CV precisely so that the ranking can’t turn on who someone is.