The Top 13 Best Recruiting and HR Chatbots - December 2020

Humanly has designed an AI powered chatbot that is specifically built for mid market companies who need a tool that is simple and fast to implement.  Their product will allow your recruiting team to screen and schedule candidates in a DEI friendly manner that also integrates directly with your ATS so that recruiters don't need to log into another system.

They are doing all sorts of interesting things including using the data from your performance management system to continually get better at screening candidates so you can make the right hires.  If you're a mid market company looking to add a chatbot, text recruiting, or AI capabilities to your talent acquisition stack, check them out.

Wade & Wendy’s recruiting chatbot helps your team by sourcing passive candidates, and screening candidates that come in via your careers page or sourcing activities. Their solution learns over time which profiles are a good fit for a given role which results in better and better matches.  Overall this is designed to save your TA team time, and allow them to focus on more strategic initiatives.

Olivia/Paradox has one of the most robust Recruiting Chatbots out there.  Their founding team has been in HRTech basically forever and have built everything from job boards in the 90s to recruitment marketing software in the 00s, and now chatbots.

Paradox, the company behind Olivia, will take the majority of implementation burden off your HR team by making sure your new bot has the initial set of responses to candidates’ most frequent questions - a great way to make sure you’re setup for success.   Learn More About Paradox

AllyO’s chatbot has had over 10 million conversations with candidates, and boasts customers like FedEx and Cheesecake factory.   The company’s founders left jobs at McKinsey and Google to start this business.  While doing so, they went as far as to start a staffing company to understand their customer needs, and were the first “candidates” to apply through their bot to better understand the candidate experience.

If you take a look at their product, check out the ATS re-discovery feature that allows for surfacing of previous candidates, along with their text recruiting module which is now sending 13k texts per day to candidates.

Mya has grown insanely fast with $30 mm of venture funding, and has apparently invested much of that capital into R&D as their offering boasts a 79% reduction in time to interview, a 93% applicant completion rate, and many more interesting stats.

Ideal’s chatbot saves recruiting time by screening and staging candidates throughout the hiring process, all done through their AI powered assistant.  Also worth checking out is their ATS re-discovery product which will go into your ATS, see who is a good fit for your existing reqs, resurface/contact them, screen them, and put them in front of your recruiters.   Learn More About Ideal

Talkpush helps talent acquisition teams focused on hiring in high volume to drastically decrease the time they need to screen applicants at the top of funnel through a conversational application process that also adds to the candidate experience.  Their global team is equipped to localize your hiring funnel to fit local culture and work requirements.  Their bot is used by companies like Amazon, Walmart and McDonald's to automate the hiring process.

Espressive’s solution is specifically designed to help employees get answers to their most common questions (PTO, benefits, etc), without burdening the HR team. Employees can access Espressive's AI-based virtual support agent (VSA) Barista on any device or browser. Barista also has a unique omni-channel ability enabling employees to interact via Slack, Teams, and more.

They see nearly 85% employee adoption, and 40-60% reductions in calls to HR and IT. Customers can take advantage of their constantly evolving Employee Language Cloud which includes nearly 1 billion employee phrases across HR and other departments across the enterprise. Enterprise level companies looking for a top HR chatbot should take a look.

Eightfold’s recruiting chatbot is designed to engage job seekers on the career site to answer pressing questions, and direct them to the best fit jobs for their interests and background. Their bot can also screen candidates. This is just one module within a broader recruitment marketing platform that is centered around a dynamic career site designed to convert more applicants into the right jobs.

The Arya AI recruiting platform from Leoforce builds shortlists of quality candidates based on your job description.  These shortlists come from the open web, as well as your own ATS/CRM.  The platform also includes a multi-channel candidate engagement suite that allows you to quickly and easily reach out to these candidates, ask them screening questions, and schedule the relevant candidates with your recruiters. Needless to say, this decreases cost per hire and time to fill.  It's unsurprising over 10,000 clients are currently using this system to automate their recruiting!

Brazen’s bot is designed to convert more career site traffic into applications in your ATS by answering candidate's most pressing questions, or navigating them through the application. They’ve found their bot engages 40% more career site visitors than just asking candidates to apply, and that candidates who’ve engaged with the bot are 100-200% more likely to be hired.

The simplest version of their platform can be live in a few days, which gives your team the ability to try their solution before committing 100%.  Learn More About Brazen

The team that pioneered the recruitment marketing software space is back with the first chatbot that is tightly integrated into a leading candidate relationship management (CRM) offering.

Please note, this solution is only for companies who’re using Smashfly and is not available as a standalone offering.