I've been a co-chair or communication lead on our professional search & screen committees at UWM for a few years now. When hiring season ramps up, I tend to shift my normal job responsibilities so I can devote at least 30-50% of my day to HR-related work. Screening resumes, communicating with applicants, scheduling interviews, publicizing the job....it takes A LOT of work, especially when you have to follow state procedures (as hawing knows). Right now we're hiring for 2 professional staff positions, and I anticipate that we'll get between 80-100 resumes for each one. Then the 6-person Search & Screen needs to read every single resume and complete an accompanying rubric. It's very time consuming. But, in the end, every single applicant gets at least one email from me, no later than 3 weeks after they have applied. I'm just lucky my job allows me to devote that much time to the process.