recruiting · travel · workflow
Southern Rock increases applicant flow 42x and cuts job advertising spend 90% with Paradox AI assistant Savannah
Southern Rock, a franchise group operating over 150 McAlister's Deli locations, was failing to interview candidates at the scale their size required and was forced to increase job advertising spend — spending $65K per month on Indeed but receiving fewer than 1,000 applicants in return.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Candidate enters conversational ATS
Candidates interact with Paradox's Conversational ATS, driven by AI assistant Savannah, to begin the application process.
Tools used
ParadoxSavannah
Outcome
After implementing Paradox's Conversational ATS with AI assistant Savannah, Southern Rock increased applicant flows 42x while reducing job advertising by 90%, saving $840K annually, and achieving a 95% application completion rate.
Results
Time saved<1K applicants
Volume42K applicants a month
Cost replaced$65K a month
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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