Recruiting · Production

Marriott uses conversational AI to automate hiring and increase candidate conversion

The problem

Marriott's hiring process for 200,000 annual hires across 180 countries was slow, clunky, and expensive, with significant spend on job advertisements and hiring managers left with a large share of the workload.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Candidate visits career site
trigger
“a conversational career site that converts candidates”
2
AI rapid candidate communication
ai_action
“candidates are being met quickly with communication”
3
Auto-screen and schedule interview
ai_action
“automatically scheduled for an interview if they meet the initial requirements”
4
Quality candidates delivered to managers
integration
“interview scheduling that brings quality candidates to their hiring managers”
Reported outcome

Marriott now sees organic conversion increase from a conversational career site and a decrease in spend on job advertisements.

Reported metrics
Job advertisement spend (prior state)millions spent on job advertisements
Organic candidate conversionorganic conversion increase
Job advertisement spenddecrease in spend on job advertisements
applications YoY/monthincrease in applications YoY/month
Show all 5 reported metrics
job advertisement spend (prior state)millions spent on job advertisements
organic candidate conversionorganic conversion increase
job advertisement spenddecrease in spend on job advertisements
applications YoY/monthincrease in applications YoY/month
average time to scheduleaverage time to schedule
Reported stack
conversational AI
Source
https://www.paradox.ai/case-studies/marriott
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

Marriott now sees organic conversion increase from a conversational career site and a decrease in spend on job advertisements.

What tools did this team use?

conversational AI.

What results were reported?

Job advertisement spend (prior state): millions spent on job advertisements; Organic candidate conversion: organic conversion increase; Job advertisement spend: decrease in spend on job advertisements; applications YoY/month: increase in applications YoY/month (source-reported, not independently verified).

How is this recruiting AI workflow structured?

Candidate visits career site → AI rapid candidate communication → Auto-screen and schedule interview → Quality candidates delivered to managers.

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