Lever

How we use AI

• Built in collaboration with IBM watsonx, Employ’s AI is designed to be transparent, secure, and accountable by default across our hiring suite —JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite. Every recommendation is explainable, bias is continuously monitored, and governance is always on. That means hiring teams can move faster with confidence, knowing their AI is fair, auditable, and aligned with ethical hiring practices.

Talent Fit Candidate Matching

• Lever’s Talent Fit capability automatically identifies top-matched candidates based on job requirements, providing clear justification for each match. This helps recruiters quickly focus on high-potential applicants, saving time and streamlining the process. Talent Fit Analytics (in Visual Insights) show you exactly how AI-powered candidate matching improves your recruiting by spotlighting efficiency gains, performance benchmarks, and business impact so you can prove value and optimize outcomes.
  
  To help prevent and mitigate bias in this tool, in the process of anonymization, we strip out any identifying information, including any data that alludes to race, age, gender or disability status. In addition, the Talent Fit prompt specifically instructs the LLM to disregard any data that alludes to these, in the event that the anonymization were to miss any data that indicates race, age, gender, disability or veteran status.
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  IBM watsonx.governance tracks Employ’s compliance as a software provider, helping ensure for our clients that the AI functions we create are free from bias. When evaluating bias in AI, we use a method similar to the way the EEOC determines if a hiring practice has resulted in an adverse impact. They use an impact ratio of 0.8 when measuring the selection rate of the group in the minority versus selection rate of the group in the majority. We will hold ourselves to a higher standard, ensuring we meet an impact ratio over 0.9. Should our number dip below that, we will be alerted immediately by IBM watsonx.governance and rectify immediately.

VONQ Cost per Applicant (CPA)+

• Leveraging LinkedIn’s advanced matching technology and VONQ’s AI-powered pre-screening, CPA+ provides knockout questions and candidate scoring, culminating in a complete applicant dossier with resume, interview transcript, and evaluation scores — saving time, reducing job board spend, and significantly accelerating time to hire.

AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries

• AI Interview Transcripts and Summaries automatically capture full interview conversations and generate concise, actionable summaries, so recruiters and hiring managers can stay focused on the candidate instead of taking diligent notes. This saves time, speeds up feedback, and helps teams make better, faster hiring decisions. Usage limits apply.

ROI Dashboard AI Recommendations

• Lever’s ROI Dashboard includes AI-powered recommendations that analyze your hiring data against industry benchmarks and suggest specific actions — like reducing interview steps — to help you improve time to hire, optimize your process, and demonstrate greater ROI.

AI Interview Companion

• AI Interview Companions is an AI assistant that proactively provides interview-related insights with the ability to provide next steps or recommendations based on those insights. This includes guiding interviewers in real time with structured, skill-based questions; auto-generating transcripts and summaries so you can stay focused while AI captures key moments and feedback; and delivers personalized coaching feedback and training for better conversations.

AI Screening Companion

• AI Screening Companion is an AI assistant that helps you screen smarter, connect faster, and reduce costly candidate drop-offs, all while staying more human in your hiring. This includes flagging risks and surfacing insights; accelerating decisions with assessments and reference checks; detecting drop-off signals and re-engaging potential candidates before it’s too late; and delivering automated feedback on candidate fit and suggesting next steps. Screening Companion also includes Candidate Transparency, a feature that generates personalized emails for rejected candidates by providing feedback based on the candidate’s profile.

Onboarding

• For organizations looking to reduce administrative burdens and costs while delivering a quality onboarding experience, our intelligent onboarding solution automates manual tasks and information gathering needed to ensure accurate and effective onboarding for every new hire, including compliance. This includes a comprehensive compliance library of pre-built templates and forms, a self-updating compliance engine, a mobile-friendly welcome page, and AI-powered form builder that quickly generates and sends precisely tailored compliance documents.

watsonx.gov Always-On AI Governance

• Every AI innovation we deliver is built with watsonx.governance and backed by IBM’s leadership in responsible technology. That means embedding always-on support, verification, and toolsets across our intelligent hiring platform to ensure fairness, transparency, and audit readiness so you and your team can move forward with confidence.
  
  Our AI is built to enhance human insight and decision-making, not replace it. We empower you to make the final call, because hiring should be human led, every single time. We provide clear communication, transparency, and robust usage practices to reinforce our commitment to responsible and compliant data practices. Hiring is still a human-led strategy, with AI managing the bulk of the workflow.
  
  If you have questions about how Lever uses AI, please contact us.

Nurture Campaigns

• Keep promising candidates engaged with personalized outreach campaigns.

Career Site Builder

• Career Site Builder empowers hiring teams to build on-brand, visually compelling careers pages in a matter of minutes. Using our WYSIWYG editor, you can showcase your employer branding, share your company story and mission, and entice active job seekers to apply.

Candidate Texting

• Speed up your recruiting process and boost your new-hire conversion rate by sending timely, personalized SMS messages to job seekers with our built-in Candidate Texting functionality.

Fast Resume Review

• Fast Resume Review lets recruiters quickly evaluate, skip, or advance candidates in one view.

Talent Fit

• AI-powered candidate matching automatically flags best-fit applicants using your job criteria and candidate qualifications.

AI-Powered Workflows

• Streamline your hiring process, reduce time –to hire and enhance the candidate experience.

Talent Analytics

• Monitor team performance, identify bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions to optimize your recruitment strategy.

Automation Hub

• Automate routine tasks like archiving, tagging, emailing, and advancing candidates. This intelligent automation ensures consistency and gives your team more time to concentrate on strategic hiring initiatives.

Offers and Approvals

• Quickly configure forms and approval tokens to align with your team’s defined approval structure and ensure nothing stands in the way of recruiting and hiring.

Job Board Marketplace

• Post seamlessly across job boards without jumping between systems.

Candidate Insights

• Leverage AI-powered screening at the top of your hiring funnel to surface qualified candidates instantly. Assessments and reference checks are sent automatically when candidates apply, revealing skills, fit, and potential fraud before manual screening begins.

AI-Powered Candidate Matching

• Automatically identify top-matched candidates based on job requirements with Talent Fit, providing clear justification for each match, and helping recruiters quickly focus on high-potential applicants, saving time and streamlining the hiring process.

AI-Powered Interview Transcripts and Summaries

• With AI-generated interview transcripts and smart summaries built right into the platform, your team can spend less time taking notes and more time making confident, well-documented hiring decisions. It’s faster, fairer hiring—no extra tools required.

Multi-Channel Sourcing

• Find and engage candidates from multiple sources like LinkedIn, Indeed, and niche job boards in one place.

ROI Dashboard + AI-Recommended Improvements

• From time-to-hire to source effectiveness, you can confidently prove ROI and uncover areas for optimization – all in one place. Easily turn those insights into action with AI-powered recommended next steps to improve time to hire, maximize your resources, and add more value.

Pipeline and Sourcing Dashboards

• Monitor important metrics, open bottlenecks, and reduce friction with real-time insights at every pipeline stage

DEI and Compliance Dashboards

• Review candidate diversity at the top of the funnel, eliminate unconscious biases in your recruiting, and break down compensation by ethnicity, race, and gender. Lever’s Advanced Analytics helps you measure your DEI efforts’ success.

Data Export

• Use Lever’s Data Warehouse Sync to export your information to any business intelligence tool or to dive deeper into your recruiting metrics and create unique reports for your team.

Expand Your Reach

• Directly connect with contacts in your pipeline, deliver stellar candidate experiences, streamline your nurturing efforts, and shave hours off your work week.

Customize the Candidate Experience

• Initiate personalized and timely texts to candidates while seamlessly guiding them throughout the hiring process.

Stay Compliant

• Remain TCPA-compliant and provide an enjoyable candidate experience by offering scheduled messages and opt-out capability based on engagement preferences.

AI Interview Companion (agent)

• Enable skills-based hiring: make objective decisions based on real data, not gut feeling.
• Coach and upskill interviewers: Deliver personalized coaching feedback and training for better conversations.
• Auto-generate transcripts and summaries so you stay focused while AI captures key moments and feedback.
• Guide interviewers in real time with structured, skills-based questions to help reduce bias.
• Conduct faster, fairer interviews with the AI Interview Companion to help reduce bias and make stronger hiring decisions. Available as an add-on.

AI Screening Companion (agent)

• Deliver automated feedback on candidate fit and suggest next steps with no extra effort required.
• Detect drop-off signals and re-engage high-potential candidates before it’s too late.
• Accelerate decisions and grow your passive pipeline with assessments and reference checks.
• Let AI flag risks and surface insights so you can focus on the right people, faster.
• Our built-in assistant can help you screen smarter, connect faster, and reduce costly candidate drop-offs, all while staying more human in your hiring.

AI Sourcing Companion (agent)

• This built-in digital assistant helps you post smarter, target the right talent, and maximize every dollar you spend.
• Boost job visibility: Optimize titles and descriptions for job boards and social.
• Post with performance in mind: Only pay when pre-qualified candidates apply.
• Automate job recommendations: AI suggests where and how to post — no guesswork.
• Rediscover high-fit talent: Tap into past applicants already in your pipeline.

Partnership with IBM watsonx

• Employ is partnered with IBM to embed watsonx directly into our products as our always-on AI accountability partner. Watsonx's governance tools provide the transparency and controls needed to ensure your hiring processes remain fair, explainable, and compliant.
• Bias Monitoring: Real-time, continuous bias checks across all data
• Full Transparency: Complete visibility into how AI makes recommendations
• 24/7 safeguard and controls: Continuous guardrails that ensure responsible, explainable AI use
• Audit-ready: Built-in auditability for regulators, legal teams and leadership