The limits of manual work in Clockwork Recruiting
- Long careers to analyze. An executive often has twenty years of career behind them. Reading each one in detail for a target list takes evenings.
- High-stakes interviews. An interview with a future CEO takes preparation. You need to know the career and what to dig into.
- Reports the client is waiting for. The board or the executive wants a precise report on every candidate presented.
How Delectus connects to Clockwork Recruiting
- You authorize the connection. A Clockwork Recruiting administrator approves access from Delectus during setup.
- Your talent pool arrives in Delectus. Jobs, candidates and resumes are picked up automatically, read-only: nothing is changed in Clockwork Recruiting.
- The agents take it from there. Every resume is ranked with its reasons, then the prescreening agents reach out to the shortlisted candidates.
The Clockwork Recruiting integration, step by step
Clockwork Recruiting is software built for executive search and senior leadership hiring. A Clockwork Recruiting administrator authorizes the connection from Delectus during setup. From then on, jobs, candidates and documents from Clockwork Recruiting are picked up automatically, with no double entry.
Consultants then work in Delectus for resume reading, prescreening and interviews. Clockwork Recruiting stays your system of record for managing clients and engagements.
Many teams start with a pilot engagement. They compare the AI's rankings with their own reading of the resumes, adjust the criteria, then turn on prescreening by text and phone for all open roles.
What does Delectus add to Clockwork Recruiting?
Clockwork Recruiting organizes the work: it keeps track of candidates, clients and engagements. What it leaves to your consultants is reading resumes, the first conversations with candidates and formatting presentations. That's exactly the part Delectus takes on.
Every resume is read and compared with the role, with an explained match score. Shortlisted candidates are contacted by the SMS or voice prescreening agent, which collects their answers and offers a meeting. Interviews are prepared with a question kit, transcribed live and summarized by topic. The consultant reviews, decides and presents.
Analyzing the careers of your search targets
Resumes picked up from Clockwork Recruiting are read by AI and summarized: key career milestones, scope managed, industries worked in. For each candidate, a summary weighs their strengths and gaps against the mandate.
The AI chat answers your specific questions about a profile, for example "has he led a transformation at a publicly listed company?", citing the resume. You prepare your approaches with a sharper read, without staying up all night.
Prepared interviews and reports that quote the candidate
For each mandate, Delectus prepares an interview kit with the questions and evaluation criteria. During the video conversation, the transcript scrolls in real time and the tool suggests follow-up questions on topics not yet covered.
The topic-by-topic report quotes the candidate's answers. It forms the basis of the report you hand the client, which you enrich with your own analysis. Here, the SMS agent is mainly used to schedule meetings, and the assessment stays in your hands.
Example: a CFO search
An executive search firm is retained to recruit the CFO of a mid-market company. The targets identified in Clockwork Recruiting arrive in Delectus, where each career is summarized and compared with the mandate.
The partner runs the interviews with the prepared kit, then relies on the transcribed reports to write up the shortlist. The client receives analyses that quote what each candidate said.
Clockwork Recruiting and Delectus: read-only, with data in Europe
Delectus reads Clockwork Recruiting data and doesn't change it. You can stop the connection at any time without affecting your ATS.
Resumes, conversations and transcripts are hosted in the European Union, follow your retention periods and are never used to train models. No candidate is rejected without a human decision: the AI ranks and explains, your consultants decide.
Frequently asked questions
Does Delectus replace Clockwork Recruiting?
No. Clockwork Recruiting remains your system of record. Delectus works alongside it to read resumes, prescreen candidates and prepare interviews and submissions.
Does Delectus change data in Clockwork Recruiting?
No. The connection is read-only: Delectus picks up your jobs, candidates and their resumes without writing anything to Clockwork Recruiting.
How do I connect Clockwork Recruiting to Delectus?
During setup, an administrator on your Clockwork Recruiting account authorizes access from Delectus. Candidates and resumes then arrive automatically.
Does Delectus contact the targets of a search?
Only if you decide so. In executive search, the approach often stays personal. The SMS agent can be used to schedule meetings once contact has been made.
Do candidates know they're talking to an AI?
Yes. The SMS and voice prescreening agents introduce themselves as an AI from the very first exchange and ask for the candidate's consent.
