AI Receptionist for Staffing & Employment Agencies
Your recruiters are on calls, placing candidates, and building client relationships. They can't answer every inbound at the same time — and every missed call is a placement that goes to your competitor.
Recruiters stay busy placing candidates — the phone pays for none of it when it goes to voicemail.
Your recruiter is conducting a phone screen and a hot client call comes in. It rings out. The client has three agencies on speed dial — yours was one of them.
$3K–$10K placement lostJob seekers asking about open positions, clients requesting workers for tomorrow's shift, past placements calling about payroll — all hitting the same phone line at once.
Dozens of calls dailyA manufacturing client needs 10 workers for a Monday morning shift. They call Friday at 5:15 PM. You find the voicemail Monday at 8 AM. They filled it with someone else Saturday morning.
Entire client relationship at riskTop candidates are active on multiple platforms and calling multiple agencies simultaneously. The one that responds first — even at 9 PM — gets the placement.
First response winsAttendly answers immediately — qualifying the candidate, capturing the client request, or answering the job availability question — so your recruiters get structured summaries, not missed voicemails.
How It Works
No hardware, no complex setup. Attendly plugs into your existing phone number and starts answering.
Forward your existing agency phone line to Attendly — or get a dedicated number. Takes minutes.
Tell Attendly your open job categories, screening questions, client names, and routing preferences.
Attendly screens candidates, captures client requests, answers job availability questions, and books interviews 24/7.
Your recruiters get structured candidate profiles and client intake forms delivered via email and SMS — ready to act on.
Real Call Scenarios
From first-time job seekers to urgent enterprise staffing requests — Attendly knows what to do.
Darius calls asking if there are any open warehouse positions near Lansing. Attendly confirms current openings, asks screening questions (experience, shift preference, pay rate), and schedules a follow-up call with a recruiter. Darius gets a confirmation text.
✓ Screened & scheduledA manufacturing client calls needing 12 light industrial workers by Monday morning. Attendly captures the full intake — roles, shifts, site address, PPE requirements, bill rate — and immediately texts the on-call recruiter. The client gets a confirmation that it's being handled.
✓ Intake captured, recruiter alertedMaria applied online three days ago and wants an update. Attendly confirms her application was received, provides expected timeline, and offers to connect her with a recruiter if she wants to discuss her background — freeing your front desk from repetitive status calls.
✓ Candidate updated, recruiter freedA placed temp worker calls asking when his paycheck deposits and how to submit overtime hours. Attendly answers based on your payroll schedule, explains the timesheet process, and routes to your payroll contact if needed. No recruiter time wasted.
✓ Answered, recruiter time savedBuilt for Staffing
Attendly is trained on staffing and recruitment workflows — not generic customer service scripts.
Conducts structured phone screens — work history, availability, skills, location radius, desired pay — and delivers formatted candidate summaries to your ATS or inbox.
Captures full client requisitions — headcount, role, site address, shifts, required experience, bill rate, start date — and routes urgent requests to the right recruiter instantly.
Answers candidate questions about open positions, pay ranges, locations, and required credentials based on your current job list — updated as your openings change.
Books candidate interviews and client discovery calls against your recruiters' calendars, sends confirmations, and handles rescheduling requests automatically.
Job seekers don't search 9–5. Attendly answers evenings and weekends — screening candidates and booking callbacks so your morning queue is full of qualified prospects.
Flags time-sensitive client requests with immediate SMS/email alerts to your on-call recruiter — so a Monday-morning emergency call Friday afternoon doesn't become Monday's crisis.
Staffing placements are worth $1,000–$10,000+. A few missed calls a week adds up fast.
Lost monthly — placements that went to competitors
Net monthly gain after Attendly cost (Pro plan) — just from captured calls
Generic answering services aren't built for staffing. Attendly is.
| Feature | Attendly | Traditional Answering Service |
|---|---|---|
| Candidate screening & qualification | ✓ Structured intake | ✗ Message only |
| Client staffing request capture | ✓ Full requisition form | ✗ Basic message |
| Job availability answers | ✓ Real-time info | ✗ Cannot answer |
| Interview scheduling | ✓ Books to calendar | ✗ Not available |
| Urgent request escalation (SMS/email) | ✓ Instant alerts | ✗ Email only, delayed |
| Payroll & timesheet FAQ handling | ✓ Answers from your data | ✗ Cannot answer |
| Monthly cost | From $99/mo | $200–$800/mo + per-minute charges |
Agencies using Attendly stop losing placements to agencies that simply answer the phone.
"We were losing 3–4 candidate calls a day to voicemail during peak screening hours. Attendly captures them all now — screened, categorized, and ready for my recruiters first thing. We've added at least two extra placements a month just from that."
"A client called at 5:30 PM on a Friday needing 15 workers by Monday. My recruiters were gone. Attendly captured the entire requisition and texted our on-call rep immediately. We filled it. That one call was worth $12,000. The service paid for itself in a day."
"My front desk was drowning in payroll questions and application status calls. Attendly handles all of it now — consistently and professionally. My team focuses entirely on sourcing and placement. Productivity jumped immediately."
One filled placement covers your Attendly cost for the entire year.
+ one-time $125 setup fee
+ one-time $125 setup fee
Both plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required to start.
Every call you miss is a candidate or client that your competitor just won. Attendly makes sure that never happens again.