How are frontline hiring teams actually using AI? Not by taking people out of the process. The teams getting the best results are giving recruiters better tools and meeting candidates where they are: on the phone, over text, in their own language, at the hours they can actually talk.
This product demo shows how employers across manufacturing, hospitality, logistics, and transportation are using Achilles to do exactly that:
- Source: multi-channel sourcing across job boards, digital ads, and a phone line at the facility that always answers, plus text campaigns that re-engage applicants already in your system. One school transportation company made 200 CDL hires in 60 days from candidates in their own database.
- Screen: every candidate gets a role-specific text and voice interview the moment they apply, available in ~50 languages. Employers reaching candidates by phone and text see hire rates increase 200%+.
- Schedule: qualified candidates booked automatically, with reminders they can text back, cutting no-shows.
- Hire: interview reports and scoring delivered to hiring managers in minutes, tools for your recruiters to call and text candidates directly, and your ATS updated at every step. One national manufacturer that builds heavy-haul trailers cut time-to-hire from 21 days to 4.5.
Your team sets the bar and stays in control, whether your recruiters run the process in Achilles or the Achilles team runs roles end to end as an extension of your team. Either way we work alongside you to implement, optimize, and expand it. This walkthrough shows what that looks like in practice, from first application to accepted offer.
Meet the Presenter
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Read Egger
Read Egger is Co-Founder and CEO of Achilles, a frontline recruiting platform and service that helps employers hire in house across manufacturing, hospitality, logistics, skilled trades, and transportation. Egger has spent his entire career in frontline industries, starting in oil and gas, construction, and real estate operations before moving into industrial labor at RigUp and Traba. At Traba he sourced, screened, and scheduled frontline candidates himself and built the operational systems to do it faster, and across his career he has personally interviewed tens of thousands of frontline workers. He founded Achilles to give every frontline employer their own recruiting engine, tailored to their business, and to work with more businesses to strengthen their in-house hiring muscle. Just as important, he built it to give candidates the accessibility he saw they needed and deserved: a real interview regardless of their resume, in their own language, at hours that work for them.
This session is a product demo and does not qualify for SHRM recertification credit.