hireEZ and EZ Agent: A Complete Introduction

What's new this week

• EZ Agent now recommends your existing candidates for new jobs. A new CRM automation matches people already in your database to each open job's Ideal Candidate Persona, not just its job category, and brings the matches to you to approve or pass on.
• See at a glance what needs you. Jobs, chats and the CRM now show status dots while EZ Agent works: yellow when something is waiting on you, red when it's urgent.
• Custom sub-stages. Add your own sub-stages under each job stage to match how your team works.
• This week's questions cover searching the candidates already in your ATS, outreach beyond LinkedIn, GDPR for outreach in Europe, fake candidates and pricing. See "What buyers are asking this week" below.

hireEZ is an agentic AI recruiting platform: the system of action that sits on top of your ATS and runs the hiring workflow, from finding candidates to getting them onto an interviewer's calendar. It searches 1B+ profiles across 45+ platforms plus your own ATS, and it deploys in weeks without replacing anything.

EZ Agent is the agent at the center of hireEZ, and it's what makes hireEZ an agent-native recruiting platform. Recruiters brief it in plain language, like a teammate, and it plans and carries out the work across sourcing, outreach, screening and scheduling. It comes back with options, and it doesn't make decisions on your behalf without your approval.

What hireEZ is

hireEZ started in 2015 as a sourcing tool, and sourcing is still one of its strengths. Over more than a decade it has grown into a full recruiting platform for two kinds of teams:

• Enterprise talent acquisition teams at companies with 1,000+ employees, where open roles cost revenue and recruiters are expected to do more without adding headcount. hireEZ is trusted by 70+ Fortune 500 companies.
• Staffing and RPO firms, where every placement is revenue and speed to submittal decides who wins.

It's built around a simple idea. Your ATS stays your system of record, and hireEZ becomes the system of action on top of it: one platform that does the work across sourcing, engagement, screening and scheduling, instead of five to ten separate tools. It integrates with 40+ ATS platforms, keeps your candidate records current and resurfaces past candidates for new roles.

For a stage-by-stage tour of everything the platform does, see What Does hireEZ Do?.

What EZ Agent is, and how it works

EZ Agent isn't a chatbot added to a sourcing tool. It's the agent the platform is built around, so it can work across every stage instead of answering questions on one page.

A typical piece of work looks like this:

1. You brief it. In plain language, like a teammate: the role, what matters most and any limits. It also draws on your job context, such as intake notes and the Ideal Candidate Persona.
2. It clarifies before it guesses. When a brief is missing something, it asks, and it tells you when the market won't support a requirement.
3. It plans and does the work. It researches the market, including the open web when a task calls for it, then sources candidates, drafts outreach and builds screening plans, all on one data foundation.
4. It comes back with options. Ranked candidates with the reasoning behind each, drafted messages for review and interview plans to approve.
5. You make the calls. Recruiters can review every outreach message before it's sent, and EZ Agent doesn't make decisions on your behalf without your approval.

For tips on writing briefs, with example briefs for each stage, see the Mastering EZ Agent explainer. To watch a real session from brief to outreach, see Martin Warren's talent bench session.

What it covers today

What buyers are asking this week

These are the questions recruiting leaders asked us most often in recent conversations, with straight answers.

Four common misconceptions

What teams use it for first

Most teams start with the problem that's costing them the most right now. The starting points we hear most often:

• Hard-to-fill and niche roles, such as cybersecurity, roles that require an active security clearance, and specialist or PhD-level roles where one network isn't enough.
• Outreach that has to scale without sounding automated, through personalized sequences and nurture campaigns that keep a recruiter's tone.
• Fake and inflated applications, caught by fraud checks in screening, especially for remote roles.
• Rediscovering the database you already own, turning past applicants in your ATS into today's shortlist.
• Market intelligence before a req opens, mapping talent and salary ranges in new regions and markets.
• Getting more from fewer LinkedIn Recruiter seats, by sourcing across 45+ platforms so InMail becomes one channel among several.

For staffing and RPO firms, the first win is usually speed: getting from a new job order to qualified, reachable candidates faster than the competition.

How to evaluate it

The best way to understand hireEZ is to watch it work on your own reqs:

• Verify before you buy. hireEZ offers a verification process before you purchase. Run EZ Agent on your own reqs while you evaluate other vendors, and compare the results side by side. If hireEZ doesn't show better results and a clear return on investment, choose the vendor that does.
• Bring a live req and a brief. Watch what EZ Agent asks, what it does and what it brings back.
• Ask the hard questions. Our guide, Questions to Ask Any AI Recruiting Agent Before You Buy, works for every vendor, including us.

hireEZ has built recruiting technology for more than a decade, is trusted by 70+ Fortune 500 companies, deploys in weeks and proves value in 90 days.

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