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<\/a>Source: 2026 Fosway 9-Grid\u2122 for Talent Acquisition<\/a><\/p>\nSmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors: AI at the center of hiring<\/p>\n
SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors<\/a> combines a modern, AI\u2011native recruiting platform with SAP\u2019s core HCM to help create a more connected and intelligent hiring experience at global scale. Hiring becomes part of an integrated flow of workforce decisions\u2014linked directly to skills, planning, mobility, and long-term business strategy.<\/p>\n With embedded AI across the hiring lifecycle, organizations can:<\/p>\n Deliver intuitive, consumer\u2011grade candidate experiences at scale, from first interaction through new hire onboarding.<\/p>\n Empower recruiters and hiring managers with AI\u2011enabled insights and automation directly within daily workflows.<\/p>\n Strengthen hiring decisions by connecting recruiting data to skills, roles, and workforce plans.<\/p>\n Scale globally with confidence, balancing centralized governance with local market flexibility.<\/p>\n Autonomous HCM: turn HR into a strategic growth engine with AI<\/p>\n SmartRecruiters\u2019 AI hiring companion, Winston, works alongside Joule<\/a> to help automate repetitive tasks, surface top candidates, and explain recommendations transparently, which allows recruiters to focus on higher\u2011value decision\u2011making while moving faster and with greater confidence.<\/p>\n New capabilities, including agentic interviewing and real\u2011time candidate engagement, are helping organizations accelerate hiring while improving candidate experience at scale. For example, early adopters of AI\u2011driven screening have seen up to a 75% reduction<\/a> in time\u2011to\u2011decision, demonstrating how AI can streamline evaluation without sacrificing quality.<\/p>\n At the same time, innovations like agentic CRM are helping organizations activate existing talent pools\u2014surfacing, ranking, and re\u2011engaging candidates automatically\u2014turning recruiting from a reactive process into a continuous, dynamic pipeline.<\/p>\n From recruiting to Autonomous HCM<\/p>\n SmartRecruiters plays a key role in SAP\u2019s broader shift toward Autonomous HCM<\/a>\u2014where AI-driven agents can continuously orchestrate workforce decisions across hiring, planning, development, and mobility.<\/p>\n Rather than treating hiring as an isolated function, SAP is embedding AI across SAP SuccessFactors solutions to create a unified, skills-based system of action. Workforce planning, learning, and talent acquisition are directly connected, enabling organizations to align skills with business and financial priorities in real time.<\/p>\n At SAP Sapphire<\/a>, this vision came to life through innovations that increase agility and responsiveness. Intelligent agents can identify skill gaps, recommend hiring or redeployment strategies, and take action\u2014turning talent management into a dynamic, continuously optimized system.<\/p>\n Within this model, hiring becomes one of several coordinated levers in an adaptive workforce strategy, ensuring every decision is guided by real-time data, skills intelligence, and evolving business needs.<\/p>\n Customer impact: AI\u2011driven hiring in action<\/p>\n Organizations across industries are already seeing the impact of AI\u2011driven, connected hiring.<\/p>\n Retailer JYSK<\/a> selected SmartRecruiters to improve the candidate experience and reduce drop-off in a high-volume hiring environment. Today, the company processes 50,000 applications each month, reducing the application processing time from 28 days to just four and cutting time-to-fill from 56 days to just 20\u2014demonstrating how speed and experience directly improve hiring outcomes.<\/p>\n