Our company went through piles of candidates who were not qualified and it took us months to find a good fit after going through hundreds of resumes and scores

Our company went through piles of candidates who were not qualified and it took us months to find a good fit after going through hundreds of resumes and scores of interviews. Except you don't always simply know they weren't qualified. Only that they didn't pass your filter. I know, I know: In many cases, it's reasonably clear the candidate simply isn't even ballpark qualified. But when we get to "maybe" territory, the recall-precision gap, and hence room for false negatives, is also quite large.