AI Phone Assistant for Recruiters

Your recruiting line, always available

Our AI phone assistant for recruiters is AI software that automatically answers calls from job applicants, hiring managers, and recruiting teams, and either handles them directly or forwards them. Every day, fonio's AI phone assistant provides professional phone support to small and medium-sized businesses. The AI phone assistant for recruiters answers calls, schedules interviews, and, when needed, transfers callers to the recruiting team or a hiring manager. This reduces the workload of routine administrative tasks, such as processing applications or answering candidate inquiries.
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Reviews from Recruiters

As a recruiter, I used to be on call practically around the clock because everyone had my personal cell phone number and would call me even after 8 p.m. for trivial matters. With fonio, I finally have a real end to my workday again, since the AI assistant professionally screens all calls.

Lars Sorenson
Lars SorensonHead of Talent Acquisition

Since we started using fonio, we no longer have to worry about being reachable, because the AI answers every call immediately and handles the initial details. We receive clean transcripts of the conversations and can call back at specific times when we have the time. This makes us appear much more professional to candidates, and we no longer miss a single opportunity to connect with great talent.

Livia Bianchi
Livia BianchiTalent Acquisition Manager

Important information often ended up on illegible scraps of paper, or the voicemail box was simply full. fonio has put an end to the chaos by automatically and digitally recording caller names, callback numbers, and the reason for the call. The data is immediately available to the entire team, which greatly speeds up internal coordination.

Arvid Lindgren
Arvid LindgrenRecruiting Operations Manager

Every day, we were held up by the same standard questions about job openings or application status. We've trained fonio so that these questions can now be answered directly over the phone without a recruiter having to pick up the call.

Sloane de Vries
Sloane de VriesTalent Acquisition Specialist

What can the AI Phone Assistant do for Recruiters?

The main functions of the AI phone assistant for recruiters include taking calls for initial interviews, pre-screening applicants with predefined questions, and scheduling interviews. The AI phone assistant for recruiters can also give candidates detailed information.

Answers Initial Interview Calls

The AI phone assistant answers the phone automatically and notes what the caller needs. It is available 24/7 and doesn't depend on office hours or on whether recruiters or hiring managers are free. An AI phone assistant can answer calls at any time of day, on weekdays, weekends, and holidays.

Pre-Screens Applicants

The AI phone assistant can fully handle recurring tasks, such as taking initial applications for open positions. It asks every candidate the same predefined questions, collects their contact information, and emails the application to the recruiting team or the right hiring manager. It flags candidates who meet your criteria; your recruiters make every decision.

Schedules Interview Appointments

The AI phone assistant books interviews or one-on-one meetings between companies and candidates directly into the calendar. To do this, the AI collects the caller's contact information and works with the recruiting team's existing IT systems. It checks in real time which interview slots are free and suggests options to the caller. Once the caller picks a slot, the AI compiles the details and saves them to the system automatically.

Answers Applicant Questions

The AI phone assistant for recruiters provides applicants with information about the open position and the company. For recruiting, the AI assistant draws on company information you store in a knowledge base. With access to these key details, the AI phone assistant can answer applicants' questions about topics such as the salary range, remote or hybrid options, company culture, and the application process.

Creates Call Transcripts

Our AI phone assistant creates transcripts of conversations with candidates to help recruiters prepare for interviews. Because the AI phone assistant converts speech to text automatically, applicant calls can be stored and reviewed afterward. When needed, the AI-based phone assistant sends the recruiting team a summary of every call, including the candidate's pre-screening results.

Advantages of Our AI Phone Assistant for Recruiters

The main benefits of our AI phone assistant for recruiters are that it's available around the clock, gets recruiting tasks done faster, and takes work off the team. With the AI phone assistant, recruiters have more time for qualified applicants and save costs.

Available Around the Clock

With our AI phone assistant, recruiters, HR teams, and staffing agencies are reachable around the clock. Thanks to the AI-based phone assistant, candidates can contact the recruiting team 24/7 and ask their questions. This round-the-clock availability is especially helpful for applicants at night, on weekends, and on holidays.

Gets Recruiting Tasks Done Faster

The AI phone assistant gets recruiting tasks done faster and responds to applicants more quickly than human recruiters can. Automation significantly reduces response and processing times and saves time on labor-intensive tasks during candidate selection. With the AI phone assistant, candidates never wait on hold, because it takes several applicant calls at the same time.

Takes Work Off the Team

Our AI phone assistant takes work off the team by freeing recruiters from repetitive tasks. Recruiting teams can get back to strategic work and preparing for in-person interviews. Thanks to the AI phone assistant, frequent, recurring questions about the open position no longer need to be answered by a person.

More Time for Qualified Applicants

The AI phone assistant makes sure recruiters have more time for qualified applicants, shifting the focus from the sheer volume of applicants to the quality of candidates. Our virtual phone assistant flags candidates who meet your defined criteria, and your recruiters make every decision. That way, recruiters can prioritize pre-qualified applicants and have more in-depth interviews.

Cost Savings

With our AI phone assistant, companies save money, because personnel and process costs go down. A company can save on additional recruiters, HR positions, or external call center providers, since the AI assistant handles almost all initial communication itself.

Efficient Applicant Communication

The AI phone assistant makes applicant communication efficient, because it ensures faster, more consistent, and more structured application management. Thanks to modern language processing, our AI-powered phone assistant has natural, fluent, human-sounding conversations, which significantly improves the candidate experience. Every applicant gets an immediate response from the AI phone assistant, and your recruiters make every decision.

GDPR Compliance

Our AI phone assistant ensures GDPR compliance, since data protection is systematically maintained. We store only absolutely necessary candidate data on servers within the EU and delete it immediately upon request. A data processing agreement (DPA) is a standard part of our terms and conditions, ensuring that candidate data is stored and processed securely.

Your assistant, ready to test in 30 seconds

Anyone can get fonio up and running, no coding skills required.

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Create AI phone assistants

Select voice, language, and a welcome message.

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Define in-call behavior and post-processing

Set up different call handling and choose how you want to receive the transcripts.

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Let the AI take your phone calls

The AI will be linked to a fonio phone number or your own phone system.

fonio AI Phone Assistant for Recruiters

AI assistant for efficient recruiting processes

The fonio AI Phone Assistant for Recruiters was built to support the demands of modern recruiting efficiently and reliably. Our AI Phone Assistant for Recruiters automates first contact with applicants while keeping it professional.

AI assistants take the load off recruiting teams

The intelligent phone assistant handles calls for staffing agencies in real time, answers frequently asked questions, runs structured pre-screening, and significantly reduces the workload for the entire recruiting team. Our fonio phone assistant is a powerful AI solution that increases efficiency and improves the quality of candidate communication for the long term.

How much does the AI phone assistant for recruiters cost?

Pricing depends on your call volume: Solo suits up to 20 calls a day, Team up to 100, and Scale covers higher volumes. You'll find current prices for your region on our pricing page.

For large staffing agencies with more than 100 calls a day, we calculate the price and included services individually.

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