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Agentic hiring processes help the Adecco Group deliver faster placements

Agentforce captures job details from calls and emails, creates interview questions, drafts campaigns, and identifies top candidates in minutes instead of hours.

The results

28 %
faster end-to-end hiring process
830K
LLM calls per month
93 %
faster job campaign prep

Routine tasks delayed hiring

In recruiting, speed isn’t just nice to have — it’s everything. Employers expect a short list of qualified candidates in as little as two hours, and even a 48-hour delay can send business to faster competitors.

To find the right candidates for open roles, Adecco’s 1,400 recruiters spent hours updating candidate information, tailoring job descriptions, and preparing job campaigns, interview questions, summaries, and reports. A single job campaign alone took an average of three to four hours to pull together. Because these essential tasks were largely time-consuming and manual, they left less time for recruiters to focus on the most meaningful part of their work: building relationships.

Automating the recruiting lifecycle

With Agentforce, AI agents powered by the Salesforce Agentic Enterprise Architecture, recruiters can now complete essential work without getting bogged down in manual processes or switching between multiple tools. Agentforce works seamlessly within Agentforce Sales, the platform they use every day to automate key steps of the recruiting lifecycle:

  • Job order creation: When a customer reaches out with details about a role — whether by phone or email — Agentforce captures the interaction automatically. Calls are recorded and transcribed with Agentforce Voice, while emails are analyzed directly. In both cases, Agentforce extracts key information like scope, pay range, and qualifications, then creates a job order in Agentforce Sales so every opportunity is logged accurately and ready for action.
  • Interview preparation: Recruiters can engage Agentforce to generate role- and candidate-specific interview questions using data from jobs, applications, and candidate profiles. “When you’re recruiting for similar roles all the time, the top-of-funnel screening questions can become monotonous and repetitive,” said Kizzy Price, Vice President of Change and Business Excellence. “Now, recruiters can get to engaged candidates and have those rich conversations quicker.”
  • Post-interview tasks: Once a candidate call wraps, Agentforce analyzes transcripts and generates interview summaries and client-ready reports highlighting strengths, skills, certifications, and experience. At the same time, Agentforce updates candidate records and creates short lists of the most qualified candidates for the recruiter to review. These actions drive faster follow-ups, better visibility for managers, and more consistent data across teams.
  • Targeted outreach: When candidates engage with job postings, that activity flows directly into Agentforce Marketing, triggering timely, relevant outreach and two-way conversations across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and the website.

Faster hiring, smarter workflows

Recruiters now move from idea to live campaign in just 10–15 minutes — reducing prep time by more than 93%. Flex prompt templates further streamline their day, drafting emails, writing job descriptions, updating candidate and job records after calls, and transforming emails or conversations into job demand records with a single click. 

Behind the scenes, nearly 830,000 secure LLM calls run each month across the Salesforce Agentic Enterprise Architecture to power generative AI and agent actions — all translating to a 28% faster end-to-end hiring process, stronger fill rates, and better quality of hire scores.

Why the Adecco Group chose Salesforce

Deeply unified platform

Because their data and workflows were already built in Salesforce, Adecco could embed Agentforce into the tools recruiters use every day. “Agentforce augments everything we've already built and gives us more room for the human element we bring to the mix,” said Greg Shewmaker, SVP of Global Operations and AI.

Trust Layer

The Trust Layer allows the company to use AI within a secure environment by protecting candidate and client data at every step. All data processing adheres to Salesforce Trust policies and international regulations, including GDPR and CCPA, and audit trails for AI-generated recommendations and actions provide transparency and accountability.

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About the company

As the world’s leading talent, technology, and advisory company, the Adecco Group specializes in accelerating growth and building future-ready workforces.