Scaling Talent at the Pace of AI

Em julho de 2025, a ElevenLabs recebeu mais de 31.000 candidaturas de candidatos de todo o mundo, com diversas formações e experiências. No primeiro semestre de 2025, realizamos 3.200 entrevistas e contratamos 143 novos colegas em 39 países. E não vamos parar - nosso objetivo é aumentar nosso quadro de funcionários em 50% a cada trimestre.

But scaling at this pace presents challenges. How do we identify the right person, for the right role, at the right time without compromising on quality, candidate experience, or recruiter focus?

Os candidatos frequentemente têm perguntas semelhantes sobre nosso processo de entrevista, benefícios, política de trabalho remoto e cultura da empresa. Percebemos que essas eram questões que poderiam ser respondidas antes mesmo da primeira entrevista, o que ajudaria os candidatos a se sentirem informados e engajados desde o início, além de liberar tempo para que nossos recrutadores se concentrem em conversas mais significativas. Aqui vimos uma oportunidade de aplicar nosso próprio produto no próprio funil de recrutamento. E assim,

Candidates often have similar questions about our interview process, benefits, remote policy, and company culture. We realised these were questions that could be answered even before the first interview, which would help candidates feel informed and engaged from the start, as well free up time for our recruiters to focus on more meaningful conversations.Here we saw an opportunity to apply our own product to the recruiting funnel itself. And so, AI Becky and AI Oscar were born - digital counterparts modeled after Becky, one of our GTM recruiters, and Oscar, one of our technical recruiters. Built using ElevenLabs, these agents are now an integral part of the interview experience, answering common questions before a candidate’s first live conversation with a recruiter. 

To understand how this could actually help candidates, the real Becky, collaborating with the real Oscar, put this concept out to the public on LinkedIn. They invited candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers to chime in, asking: 

"If you were interviewing at a company like ElevenLabs, what would you want to know before your first call with a recruiter?" 

With this input, we set out to clone the voices and knowledge of our recruiters. Within hours, we had used our own Conversational AI platform to build, voice-clone, and deploy both agents, giving every candidate a scalable, informative, and deeply ElevenLabs-style introduction to our recruiting process.

Every day, these agents go out to dozens of candidates we invite to interview, and the initiative does more than just introduce candidates to our product and platform - it embodies a fundamental value of our company: use AI to creatively solve real problems. 

Interview smarter with AI

We want every person interviewing with us to feel energized, confident, and prepared. So just as we use AI to streamline our internal operations, we encourage candidates to use it to empower your preparation.

In that spirit, here are some specific ideas you can try:

• Turn AI into your research assistant: Preparing for an interview means understanding the company inside and out. There are a number of AI tools that can become your ultimate research assistant. If you’re interested in joining a company, feed blog posts, news articles, and documents into an AI tool. Elevate your understanding of the company’s recent breakthroughs, think deeply about its strategic direction, and prepare thoughtful questions. 
• Listen on-the-go: Using the ElevenLabs Reader app, you can convert materials into a personalized podcast. The GenFM co-hosts will summarize the content, so you can even prep on-the-go, during a walk, workout, or commute. 
• Run a mock interview with an AI agent: Using our Conversational AI product, you can spin up an AI agent to simulate an interview with a recruiter, and give it your resume, the job description, and any other context. Practice answering tailored questions, and get feedback on your structure and response. 

From how we recruit to how we prepare candidates, we believe in using AI to scale what we can achieve. The better prepared our candidates are, the better our conversations become, and the better we are as a collective team.

We're building something fast, global, and ambitious. If you’re exploring ElevenLabs, we hope AI Becky and AI Oscar can help you get started - and that you’ll bring your own creativity to the table. Let’s build the future together.

Get started with ElevenLabs today

You can converse with AI Becky and AI Oscar – give it a try and learn more about the roles we are hiring for in GTM and Engineering. You can also apply directly to one of the several roles we have listed on our careers page here. Lastly, we encourage you to create an account and start building with ElevenLabs today.