Transforming hiring: How companies can overcome hiring challenges with AI in Greenhouse

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Hiring today feels like an uphill battle. Recruiters are expected to move fast, find top talent and deliver results – all while juggling tight budgets, legal red tape and the growing pressure to embrace AI. Executives want hiring to be faster and more impactful, but hiring teams often hit three major roadblocks:

• Legal and security teams raise fair compliance and risk concerns.
• Budget constraints make it tough to invest in new AI tools.
• Many teams simply don’t have the in-house AI expertise to make it all work.

We get it – adopting AI into hiring workflows has been slower than expected. But here’s the thing: AI doesn’t have to be a complicated overhaul. The key is embedding AI into the tools you already use, making your job easier without the extra hassle. That’s exactly what we’re doing at Greenhouse – bringing AI into your workflow in a way that actually works for you

How Greenhouse AI recruiting tools make hiring easier

Our AI-powered tools help you find, filter, interview and analyze candidates – all in one place. No more wasted time, just smarter hiring. Here’s how we’re making it happen today and in the short term:

AI-powered sourcing. Finding great candidates is tough, but our AI candidate sourcing tools make it easier by:

• Digging through past applicants to resurface top talent.
• Personalizing outreach with AI-generated emails that actually get responses.
• Tracking candidate engagement and automating follow-ups.
• Adding personalization tokens to make messaging feel human.
• Generating job descriptions so you don’t have to start from scratch.
• Creating a branded job board that blends seamlessly with your company’s site.

Smarter filtering at the top of the funnel. Sifting through resumes can be overwhelming, but AI cuts through the noise by:

• Refining massive applicant pools with talent rediscovery and filtering tools.
• Detecting duplicate applications and filtering out spam.
• Auto-advancing candidates based on smart resume parsing.

AI-powered interviewing. Interviews should be insightful, not a guessing game. Our current and upcoming AI tools make them more structured and efficient by:

• Creating interview plans tailored to each role.
• Generating scorecards so everyone evaluates candidates consistently.
• Anonymizing resumes to reduce bias.
• Transcribing and analyzing video interviews for better insights.
• Summarizing key takeaways so you can focus on the best candidates.
• Suggesting focus areas for each interview.
• Auto-generating interview questions and key insights.
• Summarizing scorecards to highlight top contenders.

Data analysis for better hiring decisions. Great recruiting isn’t about gut feelings – it’s about using data to make smarter, objective decisions. Greenhouse will continue to help you stay ahead by:

• Forecasting hiring needs so you can plan ahead.
• Analyzing candidate sentiment to refine your hiring approach.
• Answering hiring questions with natural language queries – just ask, and AI delivers insights.
• Spotting trends and outliers before they become issues.

What makes Greenhouse’s AI different?

A lot of AI tools, like ChatGPT, rely on the quality of the prompt to generate useful responses. The problem? Most recruiters aren’t AI prompt engineers. That’s where we come in.

With Greenhouse, we take the guesswork out of AI recruiting by using deep contextual knowledge of your candidates, jobs and hiring trends. This means our AI delivers real, actionable insights – no complicated prompts required.

And we don’t just make hiring easier; we help you measure the impact. Greenhouse will soon even show you exactly how much AI you’ve used, how much time you’ve saved and the insights AI has generated for you. Plus, we’ll handle all the security and compliance legwork, so your legal team doesn’t have to worry. And if there’s an AI feature you don’t want to use, you can simply opt out.

The future of hiring is here

AI is changing the way we work, and for recruiters, it has the potential to be a real game-changer – helping you focus on what matters most. With Greenhouse, AI isn’t about working harder; it’s about working smarter. While we don’t know exactly how things will evolve, one thing feels certain: the companies that lean into AI now will be the ones best prepared for whatever comes next. And with Greenhouse’s AI tools, that future is already within reach.

Find out how to maximize AI’s impact and ensure your hiring process stays ahead of the curve by watching this on-demand webinar.

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