TLDR: AI-native tech hiring platform hackajob has launched three AI voice agents – Chase, Archer, and Thena – designed to automate administrative tasks in recruitment. This initiative aims to free up talent acquisition (TA) teams to focus on human-led experiences, addressing challenges like high application volumes, fake candidates, and the increasing demand for AI expertise. The new agents build upon hackajob’s existing AI intelligence platform, which has already reduced interviews needed for a hire by 68%.
AI-native tech hiring platform hackajob has introduced a trio of AI voice agents – Chase, Archer, and Thena – with the strategic goal of making the recruitment process more human-centric by automating burdensome administrative tasks. This move is set to empower talent acquisition (TA) teams to dedicate more time to engaging with candidates and fostering a rewarding, human-led hiring experience.
The launch comes at a critical time for TA leaders, who are currently navigating a ‘perfect storm’ in the industry. Teams are shrinking, recruitment volumes are down, yet the demand for technical roles, particularly those requiring AI expertise, remains exceptionally high. Compounding these challenges is a deluge of applications, many of which are irrelevant or fraudulent. According to hackajob, it now takes an average of 340 applications to secure a single tech hire, a staggering 3.8-fold increase since 2021. Concurrently, the number of AI-related roles has surged by 450% over the same period.
Andrew Groves, Head of UK Recruitment at global technology and management consultancy Capco, highlighted the industry’s pain points: “Tech recruitment is a constant challenge. The volume of applications can be very high, with quality varying widely. It’s a major drain on time, time we’d much rather spend giving the best talent the hiring experience they deserve.”
hackajob’s new AI agents are specifically engineered to tackle these issues:
Chase: This agent interprets a hiring manager’s needs, then autonomously sources, engages, and qualifies tech talent that aligns with the requirements.
Archer: Designed to boost application conversion rates, Archer invites only the most suitable talent to apply directly into a company’s Application Tracking System (ATS).
Thena: This agent intelligently evaluates ATS applications, instantly identifying best-fit candidates and significantly reducing manual review time.
These new agents are an evolution of hackajob’s existing ‘hackajob intelligence’ platform, which underwent a complete infrastructure overhaul last year to embed enhanced AI capabilities. Since its release in July 2024, hackajob intelligence has become a leading AI talent matching platform, processing over 50,000 jobs and hundreds of thousands of candidates. Its biometric screening technology verifies candidate identities, effectively reducing the number of fake profiles entering the system. Notably, hackajob intelligence has already achieved a 68% reduction in the number of interviews required to make a hire, leading to substantial operational expenditure (OpEx) savings for companies amidst record application volumes.
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Mark Chaffey, Co-Founder & CEO of hackajob, emphasized the company’s decade-long commitment to data quality and automation: “As a sector, recruitment was quick to look at AI and ask: how can this make our lives easier and our working processes better? But not all AI is created equal. At hackajob, we’ve spent the last decade building the largest dataset of first-party talent and hiring interactions in our space, investing in deeper automation and maintaining a crystal-clear focus on data quality and matching accuracy. These foundations mean our AI doesn’t just sound smart – it actually works in the messy, real world of recruiting.”
