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SmartRecruiters Introduces the Future of Hiring: From AI Agents to Autonomous Talent Acquisition

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SmartRecruiters Introduces the Future of Hiring: From AI Agents to Autonomous Talent Acquisition SAN FRANCISCO, April 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, today shared its vision for the future of simplified and accelerated talent acquisition. The company showcased innovative new capabilities as well as visionary goals for 2026 and beyond. State-of-the-art innovations introduced include agentic interviewing, enhanced candidate engagement, agentic CRM, integration with the SAP SuccessFactors human capital management platform, and applicant fraud detection.

Rebecca Carr, CEO, SmartRecruiters, said: “SmartRecruiters’ mission is to make hiring easy – a simple statement with a big promise. Being part of SAP has dramatically accelerated our ability to realize this ambition. We now have visibility into some of an organizations most critical data sets from employee performance to business growth to organizational intelligence. This access, coupled with the world’s leading engineers and industry experts, have played a part in delivering the momentum and innovation we are showcasing today.”

Central to SmartRecruiters’ vision is Winston, the AI hiring companion, a human-centered recruiting agent that helps recruiters and hiring teams create campaigns to fill roles, surface and screen candidates, speed up workflows and reduce bias. Winston is evolving into a central orchestration layer, streamlining sourcing, engagement and decision-making across the hiring funnel.

Upgrades to Winston’s capabilities include:

Early reported customer wins shared include:

Introducing agentic CRM:

Seamless integration with SAP SuccessFactors:

SmartRecruiters also shared that it has developed a connector that embeds SmartRecruiters into SAP SuccessFactors with one login, integrated navigation, and data synchronization. The company previewed a range of agentic integration and migration tools which guide onboarding and adoption of SmartRecruiters, recommend field mappings, support data validation and monitor and prevent data-related failures.

Universal candidate fraud protection:

In response to the industry challenge of fraudulent applications, SmartRecruiters demonstrated a prototype fraud-risk tool that combines behavioral signals, device intelligence and network indicators to identify suspicious submissions. Fraud indicators plug into recruiter workflows, so high-risk applications can be quarantined, routed for additional verification (for example, Winston Interview) or sent to a review queue. The feature is designed to be configurable, auditable and reportable so teams can tune thresholds to their risk tolerance.

“What we’re building is a fundamentally new hiring experience – one that brings together innovations across conversational AI, automation and deep intelligence matching into a single, cohesive workflow,” says Shiran Yaroslavsky, SVP of Product at SmartRecruiters. “We are structurally reshaping SmartRecruiters to be end-to-end agentic, whilst being human-centric by design. From screening and engagement through to decision making, each capability is designed to empower recruiters so they can find the right candidates, faster.”

For more information about this Product Preview and to watch the full event, click here.

About SmartRecruiters

SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 140 million candidates, and 4,000 organizations, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald’s, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams.

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