Recruitment

AI Voice Agents for Recruitment

Recruitment teams lose time on repetitive outreach and scheduling. Bolna voice agents help qualify candidates, capture structured answers, and keep interview pipelines moving without manual back-and-forth.

Primary fits for Recruitment

These agents map most directly to recruitment teams and operational phone tasks.

Best fit

Lead Qualification Agent

Import

A voice agent that calls or answers leads, asks qualifying questions, books follow-ups, and pushes structured data into your CRM in real time.

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Best fit

Recruitment Agent

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A recruitment voice agent that runs first-round screening calls, captures structured answers, and routes strong candidates into the next hiring step.

Recruitment

How do recruiters use AI voice agents?

Recruiters use AI voice agents to call applicants, run structured screening interviews and shortlist candidates before a human recruiter steps in. Bolna's recruitment template asks your screening questions in English or Hindi. Post-call extractions turn the answers into fields you define, such as notice period or expected salary. You can screen a full candidate CSV as one batch and transfer shortlisted candidates to HR on the same call.

Common recruitment calls Bolna agents handle

Call typeWhat the agent doesTemplate
Candidate screeningAsks your screening questions, assesses each answer against your criteria and records a shortlist outcome.View agent
Interest and availability checkConfirms the candidate is still interested in the role and captures notice period, location and current status.View agent
Interview schedulingChecks open interviewer slots in Cal.com and books the interview while the candidate is on the call.Custom build
Interview remindersCalls candidates before a scheduled interview to confirm attendance and capture reschedule requests.Custom build
Recruiter handoffTransfers shortlisted or high-priority candidates to a recruiter's phone number during the call.Custom build
Client lead qualification (staffing firms)Calls inbound leads from hiring companies, qualifies their requirements and routes high-intent prospects to your sales team.View agent

How do you set up an AI voice agent for recruitment?

  1. Log in to Agent Studio at platform.bolna.ai and import the recruitment agent template from the Agents Library.
  2. Write your screening questions and role details into the prompt, and pass candidate name, role and source as context variables. Add Hindi or another language if your candidates need it.
  3. Set up extractions for the answers you need, such as notice period, expected salary and shortlist status, so each call produces structured data.
  4. Add tools: the transfer call tool to reach a recruiter, and the Cal.com calendar availability and booking tools if the agent should schedule interviews.
  5. Connect a phone number, upload your candidate CSV as a batch with auto-retry for unanswered calls, and send results to your ATS or a sheet through a webhook.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. The recruitment template works in English and Hindi. Bolna also supports Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and other languages, and a multilingual agent switches when the candidate does.

Yes, if your ATS has an API. A custom function can write data during the call, or a webhook can send the transcript and extracted fields to your endpoint after each call. Bolna also connects to Zapier, Make and viaSocket.

A single batch can hold hundreds or thousands of candidates from one CSV. How many calls run at the same time depends on your plan's concurrency limit, and higher limits are available on the Enterprise plan.

Auto-retry calls back numbers that were busy, unanswered or failed, up to three times with delays you choose. Calling guardrails keep calls inside the hours you set in the candidate's timezone.

Pricing is per call minute and depends on the providers you choose. See bolna.ai/pricing for current rates.

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