Recruiting · Production

HireVue conversational AI helps National Safety Apparel reduce time-to-offer from 60 days to 15 days

The problem

National Safety Apparel needed to fill factory requisitions quickly and maintain staffing levels without relying on a costly staffing agency, but manual recruiter screening was slow and time-consuming, leaving candidates waiting up to 60 days for an offer.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Candidate applies via text or chatbot
trigger
“Candidates could seamlessly and quickly find a job, prescreen for a role, and self-schedule an interview all within minutes via text or their careers page web chatbot”
2
AI captures and screens candidates
ai_action
“NSA set up a system that captured, screened, and scheduled interviews with candidates”
3
Recruiters interview top candidates
human_review
“recruiters' calendars were freed up to interview top candidates within a shorter time frame”
4
Offer extended within 15 days
output
“Candidates were now receiving offers to join NSA within 15 days – 4 times faster than before”
Reported outcome

Chat and automation saved NSA 6.5 weeks of recruiter time annually and reduced the cost to interview and hire significantly, while cutting time-to-offer from 60 days to 15 days — four times faster than before.

Reported metrics
Time to offer (current)15 days
Time to offer (previous baseline)60 days
Offer speed improvement4 times faster than before
Recruiter time saved annually6.5 weeks
Show all 6 reported metrics
time to offer (current)15 days
time to offer (previous baseline)60 days
offer speed improvement4 times faster than before
recruiter time saved annually6.5 weeks
cost to interview and hirereduced the cost to interview and hire significantly
recruiter timesaving a significant amount of recruiter time
Reported stack
HireVue
Source
https://www.hirevue.com/case-studies/national-safety-apparel
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

Chat and automation saved NSA 6.5 weeks of recruiter time annually and reduced the cost to interview and hire significantly, while cutting time-to-offer from 60 days to 15 days — four times faster than before.

What tools did this team use?

HireVue.

What results were reported?

Time to offer (current): 15 days; Time to offer (previous baseline): 60 days; Offer speed improvement: 4 times faster than before; Recruiter time saved annually: 6.5 weeks (source-reported, not independently verified).

How is this recruiting AI workflow structured?

Candidate applies via text or chatbot → AI captures and screens candidates → Recruiters interview top candidates → Offer extended within 15 days.

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