Allen Recruitment completes 300 interviews in its first week with Alex

At a Glance

• 300 interviews completed in the first week with Alex
• Top-of-funnel screening deployed across hundreds of open roles
• Interview summaries and performance notes synced into Bullhorn

Reach beyond the limits of a recruiter’s calendar

Allen Recruitment completed 300 interviews in its first week with Alex, giving recruiters more candidate evidence for their shortlists inside Bullhorn. The global staffing firm has offices in seven countries and a team distributed across twelve, serving clients in IT, hospitality, healthcare, and engineering.

Manual phone screening placed a daily limit on that work. Each conversation used a slot in a recruiter’s calendar, and every busy day meant choices about whom to contact first. Growing demand made the capacity constraint more pressing.

Managing Director Brian Cunningham wanted a process that could hear from more interested candidates and give recruiters better information for deciding who should move forward. Allen Recruitment introduced Alex to conduct early phone screens across hundreds of open roles.

“Alex expands the number of interested candidates we can consider beyond the limits of a recruiter’s daily interview schedule.”
Brian Cunningham, Managing Director, Allen Recruitment

Turn first conversations into a shared record

Alex interviews candidates around the clock, evaluates their responses, and produces detailed summaries and performance notes. Those records sync directly into Bullhorn, the applicant tracking system Allen Recruitment already uses.

The integration connects expanded screening capacity to recruiters’ everyday work. Instead of reviewing an application in isolation, a recruiter can see information from an initial conversation on the candidate record. Responses and direct quotes provide material for comparing candidates and deciding what to explore next.

That structure is particularly useful for a distributed team. The notes give recruiters a consistent form of information to work from while they apply their knowledge of the role and the client’s requirements.

Make shortlisting easier to act on

In its first week with Alex, Allen Recruitment completed 300 interviews. The firm immediately had hundreds of candidate conversations available to inform its recruiting work, without requiring its recruiters to personally conduct each screen.

Brian describes a practical improvement in the next step: assembling a shortlist. With interview notes attached to the candidate record, his team can move from a conversation’s evidence to a shortlisting decision within the workflow it already knows.

“Our shortlists are already more accurate. With Alex’s interview notes on the candidate record, we can build them faster.”
Brian Cunningham, Managing Director, Allen Recruitment

The team’s reported improvement is grounded in that visibility. Recruiters have candidate responses and structured insights to consider alongside the résumé, rather than relying on the résumé to carry the whole first impression.

Turn more candidate conversations into stronger shortlists

Interview summaries and performance notes flow into Bullhorn, so recruiters can assess candidate responses and build shortlists within the system they already use.

The value continues beyond the first review. The firm’s collection of candidate insights supports search and matching across its client base, while recruiters retain the context of what candidates said. For a team working across twelve countries, that combines greater screening reach with a shared record for making candidate recommendations.