HR Tech 2025 recap: Hirevue agent humanizes hiring

At HR Tech 2025, Hirevue’s Chief Evangelist, Dina Taylor, and Senior Data Scientist, Kathleen Preddy, took the stage to share how agentic AI is transforming hiring. Their session, “Ditch the Script: Meet the AI Agent that Humanizes Hiring,” spotlighted the power of AI agents to reimagine candidate engagement, streamline processes, and, most importantly, build a validated, data-driven talent ecosystem.

Why hiring needs a new playbook

Traditional hiring models are built on single points of interaction like applications, resumes, and interviews. But they only capture fragments of who a candidate really is. 

Taylor emphasized the urgent need to move past guesswork and toward capturing meaningful, validated data over time. The challenge for TA teams isn’t just collecting more data but rather identifying the right data and ensuring it reflects actual candidate skills and attributes.

This is where Hirevue is breaking new ground.

Introducing the Talent Engagement agent

Hirevue’s new Talent Engagement agent is built on agentic AI, a new frontier where AI systems interpret natural language, engage in iterative conversations, and execute real-world hiring workflows. Unlike static chatbots, the Talent Engagement agent:

• Engages from the start: Conversations begin the moment a candidate lands on the career site.

• Builds validated profiles: Data is captured and verified over time, creating a living candidate profile that powers better hiring decisions.

• Seamlessly integrates: With ATS and CRM integrations, recruiters avoid the burden of logging into multiple systems.

• Speeds up hiring: One Hirevue customer has cut their application process from 15 minutes to just 5 without sacrificing data quality.

The result? A process that’s faster, smarter, and more human.

Humanizing the candidate experience

Preddy highlighted how agentic AI enables dynamic, two-way conversations with candidates. Instead of filling out endless forms, candidates can express their preferences, interests, and skills in natural dialogue. The agent then matches them with relevant jobs, surfaces opportunities they may not have considered, and ensures the process feels less transactional and more personal.

This isn’t automation for efficiency’s sake. It’s automation with human consideration at its core, helping candidates feel seen and supported, while giving hiring teams the validated data they need to make confident decisions.

A data-dentric talent ecosystem

By continuously engaging with candidates, Hirevue’s Talent Engagement agent creates a data-centric ecosystem. Over time, organizations can identify the skills and attributes of top performers, refine their hiring profiles, and continuously improve workforce planning.

And because Hirevue builds with IO psychologists and data scientists, this data isn’t guesswork. It’s grounded in science to deliver fairer outcomes, quality, and predictive power.

The future of hiring is here

The session closed with a live demo, showcasing how the Talent Engagement agent personalizes candidate conversations, populates profiles with validated data points, and connects seamlessly to downstream hiring workflows like interviewing and scheduling.

Taylor summed it up best: it’s time to ditch the script. 

By embracing AI agents that humanize hiring, organizations can combine speed and quality without compromise, ultimately staying ahead in today’s ever-changing HR tech world.

Want to see the agent in action yourself? Take a self-guided tour here or request a demo to dive deeper into how our Talent Engagement agent can help your team.