How Dayforce helps deliver real AI value for enterprise hiring

Recruiters are overextended. Roles often sit open for weeks or months. Great candidates fall through the cracks because the process is too slow — or worse, too complicated. And in the background, everyone from CHROs to frontline managers is asking the same thing: Why is this taking so long? 

The answer? Too many large organizations are still using outdated, disconnected systems that can’t keep pace with today’s hiring demands. This often leads to a perfect storm of problems: inefficient hiring workflows, poor quality of hire, and a subpar candidate experience that sends top talent elsewhere. 

At Dayforce, our work with some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies has proven there’s a better way. One that’s faster, smarter, and built for the modern enterprise. Working hand in hand with customers, we’ve reimagined recruiting as part of our single AI-powered people platform — designed to provide simplicity at scale so you can operate with confidence and help your teams hire not just quickly, but wisely. 

The challenge: inefficient hiring, poor quality of hire, and a broken candidate experience 

Building a great recruiting process isn’t just about speed. It’s also about managing the cost of inefficiency. 

When hiring drags or stalls, companies can lose in more ways than one. Operational gaps can widen. Morale can dip. Teams can burn out. And the best candidates — the ones you really want — may go elsewhere, turned off by a clunky or confusing experience. 

Even worse? A rushed or poor-fit hire can often lead to turnover, disengagement, and rework. Multiply that across dozens or hundreds of roles, and suddenly hiring isn’t just slow — it’s actively holding your business back. 

At Dayforce, we’ve built tools that help tackle these challenges head-on because the real cost of inefficient recruiting isn’t just time. It’s the value you leave on the table. 

The solution: An AI-powered people platform to help you do the work you’re meant to do 

Recruiting within Dayforce isn’t just a one-off solution — it’s part of a single AI-powered people platform that supports HR, pay, time, talent, and analytics. That means your hiring teams get a unified experience that connects every part of the employee journey. 

Dayforce helps you: 
 

• Match candidates to roles based on skills, potential, and fit, not just keywords. 
• Surface key actions that move hiring forward using real-time insights. 
• Shortlist top talent faster with AI-enhanced candidate grading you can customize. 
• Make better hiring decisions with transparent, explainable recommendations. 
• Streamline workflows for both recruiters and candidates, reducing time-to-hire. 

In short, this is recruiting designed to work at the speed and agility of the modern enterprise. 

How you’ll get there 

Clarity over chaos 

Enterprise recruiting has long been a tangle of tools, approvals, and unread resumes. It’s no wonder hiring timelines keep growing. We reimagined the recruiting experience within the Dayforce platform to help change that. 

With our Recruiter Insights dashboard, teams can quickly see what actions they need to take next, whether it’s advancing a candidate, scheduling an interview, or nudging a hiring manager. That helps remove guesswork and bottlenecks. 

 And because everything lives in a single platform, new hire data flows smoothly into the rest of your HCM ecosystem, including your new employee’s HR profile and personalized onboarding experience. That’s simplicity at scale, and it’s what sets Dayforce technology apart. 

Smarter matching, better hiring 

Making the right hire starts with seeing the right candidates. That’s why the Dayforce platform uses AI to help you evaluate not just keywords in job applications, but skills, experience, and potential fit. Our customizable scoring engine helps recruiters focus on candidates most likely to succeed while making it easy to adjust criteria based on the role’s specific needs. Every score is explainable and transparent, so hiring managers and talent acquisiton leaders can understand the logic behind recommendations and make decisions with confidence. This helps you improve both your quality of hire and recruiting speed, ideally leading to fewer false starts, less turnover, and stronger teams. 

Fairness isn’t optional — it’s foundational 

We’ve all seen the headlines: AI in hiring can introduce bias. At Dayforce, we take that concern seriously. That’s why we’ve built our AI to be responsible and explainable by design. The models we use are auditable, traceable, and aligned with best practices. It’s this compliance-first mindset that’s helped make Dayforce a global leader in compliance among the world’s top HCM solution partners. You’ll know what data is used, why recommendations are made, and how to adjust for fairness and equity. 

This gives you more than confidence — it gives your hiring team the tools to help them make decisions that reflect your values as well as your goals. Because fairness shouldn’t be a tradeoff. It should be the standard. 

Benefits that go beyond hiring 

When you improve recruiting, the benefits should cascade across your organization. Dayforce technology is designed to help: 

Reduce time-to-hire: By surfacing next-best actions and automating key steps, teams can move faster without sacrificing quality. 

Improve hiring accuracy: AI-enhanced candidate grading helps you match the right candidates to the right roles, improving performance and reducing time spent searching for best-fit candidates. 

Attract top talent: A smoother, faster, and more transparent candidate experience helps give your organization a competitive edge in the market. 

Increase recruiter productivity: With smart tools helping you handle the busy work, your team can focus on strategy — not just sifting through resumes. 

Enhance inclusion and belonging: Explainable AI can help you make unbiased hiring decisions by better enabling you to reduce bias and increase representation. 

Built for enterprise. Trusted by leaders. 

Dayforce is trusted by some of the world’s most complex organizations to deliver people-first technology that works at scale and under pressure. Our AI-powered people platform brings together Talent, HR, pay, time, and analytics into one system. That means fewer integrations, better data, and faster impact. We’re also a global compliance leader, helping you navigate ever-changing rules and regulations with confidence.  

Enterprise hiring doesn’t have to be slow, chaotic, or unfair. It doesn’t have to be a black box or a bottleneck. And it definitely doesn’t have to be painful. With Dayforce technology, it can become a strategic advantage, helping you build stronger teams faster, and with more confidence than ever before. 

Let’s make work life better — starting with how you hire. 

Learn more about how Dayforce can transform your recruiting