How Allen Recruitment Leverages Their AI Recruiter

Allen Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency with offices in 7 countries and a global team living in 12 countries. With over 25 years of staffing experience, Allen Recruitment has consistently ranked best-in-class by offering the best services to their clients and leveraging cutting-edge technologies.

Today, one of Allen Recruitment’s most important team members is Alex, their AI recruiter powered by Apriora.

End-to-end screening and interviewing with Alex

Allen Recruitment adopted conversational AI the same way they adopt other technology: with the mindset of using the power of automation to maximize its positive impact for their clients and candidate through clear ROI. To allow conversational AI to flourish, they needed something that brought clear value on within the first month.

By having an AI recruiter like Alex automate the top-of-funnel process, Allen Recruitment is able to reclaim recruiting bandwidth, source and screen more candidates, and submit candidates to their clients faster than their competitors. At Allen Recruitment, Alex conducted 300 phone screens in her first week.

Traditionally in recruitment, there is a limit on the number of candidates that a recruiter can talk to in a day. This time limitation is what makes recruitment work the way it does. Apriora is a game changer, with every interested candidate being considered for the role.
Brian Cunningham, Managing Director of Allen Recruitment

Alex writes clean, structured interview data

For Allen Recruitment, Alex is screening candidates 24/7 across hundreds of positions. After each screen, Alex writes detailed feedback and performance notes on the candidate, citing evidence directly from the interview. All of this structured data is synced to their ATS, and Allen Recruitment is building a proprietary database of data-driven candidate insights that they’re leveraging for searching and matching. Because Alex is a domain expert across verticals (IT, light industrials, hospitality, engineering, healthcare, and more), staffing agencies like Allen Recruitment are gaining deeper insights on their candidates, leading to better shortlists and next-level win rates from their clients.

Having the summary and notes from Alex’s interviews on the candidates record makes shortlisting super easy and quick and already our shortlists are more accurate.
Brian Cunningham, Managing Director of Allen Recruitment

Apriora integrates with Bullhorn

Allen Recruitment uses Bullhorn ATS/CRM as a key software across its recruiting functions. Apriora supercharges their Bullhorn with AI-powered interviewing and screening capabilities built natively into their ATS implementation. Allen Recruitment works on hundreds of positions concurrently, with new positions and applicants added daily. Alex automatically stays updated with new positions and readily interviews candidates on new positions at anytime.

Apriora’s onboarding team quickly understood how the integration needed to work and built it so we can set up Alex and have all the data we need from Apriora in Bullhorn. Apriora has exceeded our expectations.
Brian Cunningham, Managing Director of Allen Recruitment

Alex enhances candidate experience with skills-based interviewing

Allen Recruitment has an outstanding reputation for providing a superior candidate experience, which is a main reason why the company is trusted by many of the leading technology and finance companies across the globe.

“Allen Recruitment has always striven to put our candidates first,” Cunningham said. “Apriora makes it easier for candidates to make themselves stand out, instead of relying on a fleeting glance at the CV.”

Instead of screening candidates solely based on university prestige or biases towards companies and job titles, Alex speaks with each candidate to learn more about his or her skills, knowledge, and experiences that are directly relevant for the role. “Alex's ability to assess skills objectively creates a truly equitable experience,” added Cunningham.