A job ad goes live, the calls flood in, and your consultants are in interviews or gone home. Every unanswered candidate just dialled the next agency. Meet Hank, the 24/7 AI voice agent from WebCallHub: it answers in under 3 seconds, pre-screens candidates, books interviews, and routes employer calls to the right consultant — around the clock.
Recruitment is a speed game. The agency that talks to a candidate first usually places them. When your phone rings out, you don't lose "a call" — you lose a fill, a fee, and a relationship that might have lasted years.
A nurse on a night shift calls about a contract role at 23:00. A warehouse worker between jobs rings every agency on the ad at lunch. A client with an urgent vacancy calls while your consultant is mid-interview. They are all ready to move now — and a working candidate or a hiring manager will not call back twice. Voicemail tells them to wait; they don't. Hank screens the candidate or routes the client on the spot, so the lead lands in your pipeline instead of a competitor's.
Figures above are realistic illustrative ranges for small and mid-size staffing agencies, used to size the opportunity — your numbers will vary by desk, sector and ad spend.
Hank isn't a voicemail or a chatbot. It's a natural-voice AI agent that handles the volume your consultants can't get to — and hands off cleanly to a human when it should.
Role interest, availability and notice period, location and commute, right-to-work status, salary or rate expectation — Hank asks your qualifying questions on every call and logs a clean summary against the right vacancy.
When a candidate clears your criteria, Hank offers real open slots from your consultant's calendar and books a phone screen or interview — or schedules a callback at a time the candidate picks.
Name, phone, email and a CV link or upload prompt — captured on every call so your recruiter has a complete candidate record, not a one-line voicemail to chase down later.
Hank tells a client apart from a candidate and routes the vacancy to the right desk by sector or account — or captures the brief and books a callback if the consultant is busy.
Is the role still open? What's the pay, the location, the shift pattern, the agency's process? Hank answers the everyday questions instantly, trained on your live vacancies and your way of working.
Hank switches automatically to the caller's language — for local candidates, international talent and relocating hires alike. One agent, both languages, no extra evening staff.
Honest by design: Hank screens, qualifies and books. It never makes a hiring or shortlisting decision — your consultants do. Built on the WebCallHub AI voice platform.
You don't configure anything. We do it for you in 5 business days, then Hank answers your calls for a flat monthly price. No app, no hardware, no per-minute surprises.
| What happens when a candidate or client calls | Voicemail / missed call | Hank (WebCallHub) |
|---|---|---|
| Evening & weekend coverage (when ads peak) | None — caller hits voicemail or nothing | 24/7, every day of the year |
| Response time | Hours — or never; candidates don't call back | Answered in under 3 seconds |
| Candidate screening | 0 — recruiter re-screens from scratch later | Availability, location, right-to-work, salary captured |
| Interview booking | Manual phone tag with a working candidate | Booked into the consultant's calendar on the call |
| Employer / client calls | Sit in voicemail until someone notices | Routed to the right consultant or brief captured |
| Record of the call | Maybe a voicemail (80% leave none) | Full transcript + candidate summary, every call |
| Cost of a lost fill | A placement fee, gone to a competitor | From €49/mo flat — candidate kept in your pipeline |
Yes — that's its core job for agencies. On every candidate call Hank runs your first-pass screen: which role they're calling about, their availability and notice period, location and willingness to commute or relocate, right-to-work status, and salary or rate expectation. It captures their name, phone, email and any CV link, then logs a clean candidate summary against the right vacancy. Hank screens and qualifies — your consultants still make every hiring and shortlisting decision.
Yes. Once a candidate clears your basic criteria, Hank offers real open slots from your consultant's calendar and books a phone screen or interview directly — or schedules a callback at a time the candidate chooses. Either way the candidate's screening summary and contact details are attached, so your recruiter walks into the call already knowing the role, availability and salary band.
Yes. Hank recognises whether the caller is a candidate replying to an ad or an employer with a vacancy. Candidates get the screening flow; client and employer calls get routed to the right consultant or desk — by sector, account or whoever owns the role — and if that person is unavailable Hank captures the brief and books a callback. One number, two completely different conversations, handled correctly.
Yes — this is where agencies win the most. Job ads get the heaviest call volume the evening they go live and over the weekend, exactly when your desk is empty. Hank answers 24/7 in under three seconds, screens and books candidates while you sleep, and has a qualified pipeline waiting in your dashboard on Monday morning instead of a list of voicemails that already called your competitor.
Yes. Hank is fluent in Finnish and English and switches automatically to whichever the caller uses — useful for both local candidates and international or relocating talent. The whole screen (availability, location, right-to-work, palkkatoive) can be completed in Finnish, or in English for cross-border roles. No menu trees, just natural conversation.
Yes — GDPR-first and built for European recruiters, who handle especially sensitive personal data. Everything is EU-hosted in Helsinki (Hetzner). Candidates are asked for consent before any recording, screening notes and transcripts are encrypted, and candidates can exercise their right to access or erasure. A Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available for your agency.
Click the green call button in the bottom-right corner and play a candidate: ask about a role, tell Hank your availability and salary expectation, and book an interview. This is exactly what a candidate would experience calling about one of your job ads.
Done-for-you setup in 5 business days. €390 setup, then €49/mo. 14-day free trial, no credit card. EU-hosted in Helsinki, GDPR-first.
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