How Ignite AI Helps Recruiters Focus on the Right People, Faster
Hiring teams today aren’t short on candidates. They’re short on time. Every open role brings a wave of applications and resumes, and teams in high-volume environments need to move quickly without sacrificing quality.
New recruiting agents in Paylocity address these challenges by helping teams prioritize candidates who are the best match for open roles and quickly understand their qualifications. They’re embedded within existing recruiting processes, so you gain efficiency right away and stay in your flow. By making screening faster and easier, you get time back to engage candidates while staying in control of every hiring decision.
52% of decision makers are actively looking for new AI solutions in areas like recruiting to stay innovative and efficient.
- March 2026 Qualtrics Study
Narrow in on high-quality candidates, fast
With hundreds of candidates applying for open roles, working through all of them takes time many teams don’t have. The Candidate Fit Agent supports both efficiency and quality by surfacing applicants for review based on the most important criteria for the role.
Set search criteria based on role requirements.
- Recommended criteria: We give you a start by suggesting skills, certifications, education, and more to look for based on the job description.
- Customize your search: You can tune recommended criteria or create your own to home in on the top candidates.
- Compliance guardrails: Alerts flag any criteria that are vague or could potentially create compliance risk so you can adjust them proactively.
Review fit along with transparent rationale behind each assessment.
- Prioritized candidate list: Applicants that match the most criteria are surfaced first along with a summary of what’s driving their fit strength.
- You stay in control: While the agent makes suggestions, you own the decisions. We provide transparency into what’s driving every fit assessment, so you have the context you need.
“As a seasonal business, we do a lot of bulk recruiting — so as we’re ramping up, we get hundreds of applications a week. Having Ignite AI help accelerate the review and look for specific criteria that we are looking for will save us so much time.”
Ryan Zimmerman, POLYWOODUnderstand qualifications at a glance
Resumes vary widely in format, length, and level of detail, creating headaches as you search for qualifying information on your top candidates. The Resume Summary Agent does the legwork by turning resumes into short summaries to triage candidates before doing a deeper review.
Get summaries that are structured and easy to understand.
- Qualification insights: The agent scans resumes and presents key information in a clear, predictable format — including skills, work history, and education.
- Critical details up front: By making it easy to understand basic fit, you can focus energy on recognizing transferable skills and evaluating candidates in the context of the role.
Gain confidence with granular visibility and control
Being able to see where AI is active and what it’s doing is paramount in sensitive processes like recruiting. Our Ignite AI Hub is a centralized dashboard for you to easily manage recruiting agents alongside all the other AI embedded across Paylocity.
- See adoption and impact like the number of candidate fit assessments generated and resumes summarized.
- Turn agents on and off so you can roll out automation based on your needs and comfort level.
- Configure each agent individually, including who has access to use it, whether candidates are informed about how AI is used in the process, and if they have the option to opt-out.
As part of our commitment to responsible AI, our recruiting agents went through an independent audit that found no evidence of bias in the recommendations and insights they provide. The agents do not remove applicants from view or make hiring decisions — you and your team stay in control of decisions and can assess every candidate before deciding which to engage.
Get started with Ignite AI
Recruiting comes down to making the right human decisions for your business and for candidates. Our recruiting agents handle the manual work so you can invest more of your time into finding the right people. Request a demo to see everything Ignite AI can do, and why our ONE platform for HR, Finance, and IT stands apart.
If you’re a client, reach out to your Paylocity team to learn more about these new capabilities and how to get access.
Hire smarter
Finding the right talent for your team can be challenging in today’s market. But with the right tools, it doesn’t have to be a strain on your internal resources as well. Our recruiting platform streamlines the process, bringing you an intuitive way to search for and engage with top candidates. With communication methods like texting and video, and data that helps you track progress, attracting and winning has never been easier.
