MELBOURNE, 1 October, 2020 – PageUp, a leading provider of cloud-based talent management software today announced a global partnership with Curious Thing, a Sydney-based startup that offers AI phone interviews.
The partnership will now allow PageUp customers to unlock Curious Thing’s digital recruitment solution which allows recruiters to interview every candidate who applies for a role. This enables talent teams to use more than candidate resumes to make decisions. The multi-dimensional candidate analytics provided by Curious Thing enable data-driven shortlisting decisions that can be made quickly and reliably. Curious Thing also significantly reduces time to hire and alleviates the manual effort for hiring managers while preserving the candidate experience.
For each vacant role with 50 to 100 applicants, Curious Thing’s digital interviewer reduces the time to hire by 60-90%. OrganisationsOrganizations in retail, hospitality and insurance sectors – particularly those with contact centre operations and those that often need to recruit high volumes at-scale – are set to benefit from this capability.
“We are excited to partner with PageUp. Our two companies have a mutual goal of making the recruitment process more intelligent and future-proof. This partnership will deliver great value to our clients.”, said Sam Zheng, CEO & Co-Founder, Curious Thing.
Mark Rice, CEO, PageUp, said, “We are thrilled to be partnering with such an innovative company to enable our customers optimiseoptimize the ways they recruit. Our integration with Curious Thing will give our customers the competitive advantage to make stronger hires by leveraging their industry-leading AI technology to diversify and strengthen the quality of shortlisted candidates.”
PageUp customer Stellar, a leading global experience management organisationorganization, is already using Curious Thing to optimiseoptimize its recruitment efforts. So far, the organisationorganization has seen a 65% reduction in screening costs, and is able to effectively screen candidates for soft skills and behavioural attributes.
Rik Johnson, Head of Intelligent Automation at Stellar, said, “Bringing Curious Thing’s digital interviewer into our recruitment process has given us more than just cost saving. It has allowed us to engage with every candidate, no matter how many applicants we get, and to glean earlier which candidates are going to thrive in our environment. And our candidates are enjoying the experience, which is really important to us.”
About Curious Thing
Curious Thing is an AI phone interviewer for recruiters who want to automate their screening process and gain deeper insights into their candidate pool. The process is simple. You design the questions and invite all applicants to an interview with Curious Thing’s digital recruiter. Curious Thing’s AI phone interviewer will then ask candidates these questions and analyse their responses to deliver insightful data that scores behavioural traits like motivation, business acumen and communication skills. This data can then be used to make well-informed shortlisting decisions. Curious Thing offers the only product one on the market that actively listens to candidates and asks highly relevant follow-up questions.
Curious Thing is available across Australia, USA, Philippines, Canada, New Zealand, UK and Singapore.