AI Recruitment Agents for Agencies

So what could an agent do for you?

Your people work every corner of Talisman. The candidate, the client, the job, the placement, the booking, the week, the pay run and the invoice.

An agent reaches the same records, on the permissions of the person who set it up. Give it the job you would give a new starter, and it works that job every day.

Design concept for a Talisman team list, showing consultants and agents side by side across a temp desk, a perm desk, and compliance and pay — Where this goes: your consultants and your agents on one team list, perm desk and temp desk together. A design for a future Talisman surface.

The agents working desks today

Sourcing Sam

Does the resourcing, and keeps the CRM tidy.

Compliance Clara

Always watching, so your compliance stays in order.

Timesheet Tommy

Chases the timesheets, and reads the images that come in.

Growth Grace

Works the outreach, and fills in the contact detail.

Manager Max

Reads what moved overnight, and writes your morning briefing.

The roster keeps growing. Every new agent arrives with a name, a job and a person who signs its work off.

Things an agent could do for your agency

Each line below is a job someone on your desk does today. Pick one, brief it, and watch it run on your own records.

Design concept for a Talisman morning briefing, listing what each agent worked on overnight and what is waiting for the recruiter — The overnight brief: what each agent worked on while the office was shut, and what is waiting for you in the morning. A design for a future Talisman surface.

Winning the work

Draft the outreach to companies that posted roles in your patch overnight.
Fill in the phone number and the job title behind a new lead.
Build the follow-up sequence for a client who went quiet in June.
Surface the clients who used to book every week, and put them on your call list.
Turn a client’s job spec into a draft advert for you to check.

Sourcing and the shortlist

Read the CVs that arrived overnight and code each profile against the live vacancy.
Rank your own database against a perm vacancy, best call first.
Run a search again once the speciality is coded, and bring back the matches.
Summarise the Talisman record before you pick up the phone.
Draft the shortlist email to the client, in your words, ready for you to send.

The perm desk

Chase both references the day an offer lands, and file the replies on the record.
Tell you where a placement has stalled between interview and offer.
Keep interview feedback on the record, so the next consultant reads it first.
Set the reminders for the start date and the probation review.
Write the weekly client update for every live perm role.

Temp, contract and shift

Fill the morning’s open shifts from the workers who can actually do them.
Text the workers who are free tomorrow, and keep the availability board current.
Copy last week’s booking pattern onto next week’s dates.
Flag the double shift before you book it.
Push the vacancy advert out, where you have set that up.

Compliance

Watch every right to work, DBS and professional registration for its expiry date.
Chase the certificate, then hand you the one that needs a person.
Hold the booking while a missing check is cleared.
Check where a worker stands on AWR before the rate changes.
Compare the pay rate with the one you agreed with the client.

Timesheets, pay and billing

Chase the weeks still waiting, worker by worker, on Tuesday.
Read a photographed paper timesheet and match it to the booking.
Push the odd weeks to the top of the approval queue, with the reason.
Query the hours that look wrong, and keep the fix on the same record.
Get the invoice run ready with the timesheets attached as backing.
Tell you which invoices have aged past terms, and who to ring.

Contracts and paperwork

Send the contract off the placement, and watch for the signature.
File the signed copy against the record it belongs to.
Build the document chase once, then run it on every new starter.
Get the right to work pack together before the first day.

The people outside your office

Nudge the worker who still has an onboarding form to finish.
Tell each client manager which approvals are sitting with them.
Confirm tomorrow’s shift, and update the booking on the reply.
Send a candidate their own record to check and correct.

Reporting, and the record itself

Write the morning briefing from everything that moved overnight.
Build the dashboard you described in a sentence.
Trace a number on a dashboard back to the placement or the shift behind it.
Keep the CRM tidy, so records are coded and the notes sit on the right file.

Follow any of these through the product: the recruitment CRM, the Booking Desk, online timesheets, Pay & Bill and dashboards and reporting.

Build your own agent

Describe the job the way you would describe it to a new starter. That description becomes the agent.

Say what the job is, in plain English.
Name the records it works on, and the moment it starts.
Choose who reads its work and signs it off.
Start with one. Sign it off. Then brief the next.

Bring the job you want covered and we will build the agent around it.

Design concept for a Talisman conversation with an agent, where a recruiter asks in plain English and the agent replies with matched candidates — Briefing an agent and giving feedback during the training period. A design for a future Talisman surface.

Sourcing Sam, one run

Sam reads the CVs that came in overnight and codes each profile against the live vacancy. The recruiter decides who is right and who gets the call.

How a Sourcing Sam run is laid out in Talisman: the stages it works through, and the jobs and candidates it brings back. Figures are illustrative. — How a finished run reads: when it started and stopped, what it searched, and what it added to the shortlist. Those nine wait for the recruiter.

How it works

Your team or an agent

The agents

Talisman

TalismanA CV lands, or a DBS expires
The agentsReads the live record, on the permissions it was givenSourcing Sam, or Compliance Clara
The agentsDid it produce a clear result?Uncertain work carries its reason
Your team or an agentReview early results and feed back corrections
TalismanRun automatically once the team is confidentWithin the agreed workflow and permissions
TalismanThe placement, or the booking, carries on

Where it stops and waits for somebody

A person needs to take overFlagged with the reason, beside the clean workStops here. A named person picks it up.
Your process needs a personKeep the decisions and exceptions you choose with your teamStops here. A named person picks it up.

During the training period, review results and feed back corrections. Then automate once your team is confident.

What you control

One screen shows which agents are running, how far through they are, what each run cost and the results it recorded.

Stop a run mid-way. Pick it up again later.
Use checkpoints to recover completed work.
Open a run and review its recorded steps.
Write the way your agency does a thing down once, as a playbook.

An agent signs in as a real user in your agency's environment, and every action carries that name. Read about security, audit, consent and GDPR controls across Talisman.

The Talisman agents dashboard, with agent cards grouped into system, scheduled, ready and queued

ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude

An approved assistant arrives as the signed-in person, on their permissions.
It reads the live candidate, client, job and booking they can already reach.
Write tools can act directly; check the assistant’s confirmation settings.
Agree which supported actions the connection may use.

See how ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude connect to Talisman.

Getting started

Brief it with the person who does that job today.
Review early results during the training period.
Correct the brief wherever it differs from your team.
Automate once your team is confident, then brief the next agent.

The rest of Talisman

Build a fixed workflow from triggers and steps

Talimate keeps the follow-up on schedule.

Follow a timesheet from photo to payslip

Submitted time, the query, then Pay & Bill.

Open the dashboards your managers actually use

Ask the question, land on the live number.

The platform pricing and optional modules are written down.

Agents by sector

The same agents, on the desk your sector actually runs.

Sam sources the people your sector places and Clara watches the checks that gate a placement there — CSCS cards on a construction desk, Driver CPC on a logistics one, enhanced DBS in childcare. Pick your sector to see the desk end to end.

All thirty sectors, with the six desk types explained

AI recruitment agent FAQ

What is an AI recruitment agent in Talisman?

It is an AI worker configured for a recruitment task. Your team reviews the early results and feeds back corrections. Once that feedback is incorporated and you are confident in the output, the agreed workflow runs automatically. People handle the exceptions and decisions your process reserves for them.

Which AI-agent roles can agencies meet today?

Sourcing Sam reads CVs and codes profiles. Compliance Clara chases certificates and expiry dates. Timesheet Tommy turns submitted and photographed hours into something usable. Growth Grace drafts outreach and fills in missing contact detail. Manager Max writes the morning briefing. Those are the agents live in the product today, and the roster grows as we build.

How can managers control agent work?

Review run progress, recorded work and costs. Use the training period to check results and incorporate feedback, then automate the agreed workflow. You can stop and resume runs; checkpoints help recover recorded work. Stopping does not undo completed actions.

How do agencies start with Talisman AI agents?

Start with the process you know best. Run it on live Talisman records for one to six weeks while the desk carries on as normal. Compare what the agent did with what your team would have done. Correct the brief, then widen it when the work matches. Getting an agent right takes careful correction from the first run. Permissions, the queue of work and the stop button apply from that run. So do the full run history and everything that goes back onto the record.

Can approved assistants such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude use Talisman context?

Yes, through an authorised MCP connection. Available records and actions depend on supported tools and access controls. Write tools can act directly, so agree enabled actions and check the assistant’s confirmation settings before use.

AI recruitment agents for every desk you run