GreenhouseAI HR and Recruiting
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AI-powered applicant tracking system trusted by 7,500+ companies to build structured, equitable hiring pipelines at scale.
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PaidConversational hiring AI that automates candidate screening, scheduling, and onboarding through an intelligent chatbot called Olivia.
What is Paradox?
Paradox is a conversational hiring software company whose AI assistant, Olivia, handles the most time-consuming parts of recruiting so that HR teams can focus on people, not admin. Olivia engages candidates via SMS, chat, or email to screen them, answer questions about the role, schedule interviews automatically, and even kick off onboarding, all without a recruiter needing to be involved in each step. Paradox is particularly powerful for high-volume, frontline, and hourly hiring in industries like retail, restaurant, healthcare, and logistics, where speed-to-engage is critical and dropout rates are high. Now part of the Workday ecosystem, Paradox combines conversational automation with a full Conversational ATS, CRM, and career site solution for enterprise-grade deployment.
Key Features
AI Recruiting Chatbot (Olivia)Conversational ATSConversational CRMAutomated Candidate ScreeningInterview Self-SchedulingText-to-Apply FunctionalityCareer Site ChatbotCampus Event AutomationOnboarding AutomationCandidate Re-Engagement CampaignsMobile-First ExperienceMulti-Language Candidate SupportRecorded Video InterviewsATS & HRIS IntegrationCandidate SurveysRecruiting Event ManagementPipeline Stage AutomationAnalytics & Hiring Funnel Reporting
Integrations
Other
WorkdaySAP SuccessFactorsiCIMSOracle TaleoGoogle Calendar
Communication
SlackMicrosoft Teams
How to Use Paradox
1Deploy Olivia on your careers site or job listings as a chat widget
2Candidates apply and get screened via conversational AI in real time
3Olivia automatically schedules interviews based on team availability
4Recruiters review pre-screened, scheduled candidates in their ATS
5Olivia triggers onboarding tasks and paperwork collection after offer acceptance
Who is Paradox for?
✅ Best For
- High-volume hiring teams in retail, restaurant, and healthcare who need to move candidates from application to interview in under 24 hours without overwhelming their recruiting staff with scheduling and screening calls.
- Enterprise HR teams managing frontline and hourly worker hiring at scale who lose candidates to slow follow-up and need an always-on AI to engage applicants the moment they apply.
❌ Not For
- Professional or executive recruiting teams hiring for niche, senior, or highly specialized roles where nuanced human judgment and relationship-building are more important than speed and automation.
- Companies that want a full standalone ATS with deep workflow customization, as Paradox works best as a conversational layer on top of an existing ATS or as part of the Workday ecosystem.
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Pricing
Is Paradox free? No, there is no free plan.
EssentialCustom
- ✓Conversational screening
- ✓interview scheduling
- ✓career site chatbot
AdvancedCustom
- ✓CRM
- ✓events
- ✓onboarding automation
- ✓multi-channel engagement
EnterpriseCustom
- ✓Full conversational ATS
- ✓Workday integration
- ✓dedicated support
Prompts to Try
How does Olivia screen candidates automatically?
Can Paradox schedule interviews without a recruiter involved?
How does text-to-apply work in Paradox?
Use Cases
A fast food chain's HR team deploys Paradox on their careers site and reduces time-to-interview from 5 days to 6 hours by having Olivia screen and schedule 300 hourly applicants per week automatically.
A retail hiring manager texts a job link to walk-in applicants, who complete a full screening conversation with Olivia on their phone and receive an interview confirmation before leaving the store.
A healthcare network uses Paradox to re-engage 2,000 lapsed applicants from their ATS with personalized SMS messages, converting 18% into active candidates for open nursing positions.
A university career center deploys Paradox for campus recruiting events, using Olivia to register students, send reminders, and collect post-event feedback without any staff effort.
An HR operations director at a logistics company uses Paradox's onboarding automation to collect new hire paperwork via chat before the first day, reducing Day 1 admin time by 4 hours per hire.
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