Employment Hero Recruitment Agent alternative: keep your current ATS
Employment Hero’s Recruitment Agent ranks applicants, places AI screening calls, shortlists automatically and runs AI video interviews. If you already run HR and payroll on Employment Hero, it is right there.
If you do not, it works best when you move your hiring into Employment Hero’s ATS. That is a big change to make just to get a better first interview.
The short version
- Where it lives: the Recruitment Agent works inside Employment Hero’s ATS. Greet works with a link, a CSV, or the ATS you already have.
- Interview: Employment Hero uses general structured questions. Greet lets the AI play a customer, patient or caller from the job.
- Price: the agent’s pricing is not listed separately. Greet is $99/month for 100 sessions.
What Employment Hero Recruitment Agent is
Employment Hero, based in Sydney, sells HR and payroll software to SMBs in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Its Recruitment Agent works inside the Employment Hero ATS. It scores and ranks applicants, places AI screening calls, shortlists automatically and runs AI video interviews.
It does that well. It is built into a widely used HR and payroll platform, it covers ranking, screening calls and video interviews in one place, and it gives access to a large candidate database.
Where it falls short
From its own product page:
- It works best on Employment Hero’s ATS. If your hiring runs somewhere else, you get the most from it by switching.
- The interviews are general. Structured questions, rather than scenarios from your role.
- Separate pricing is not clear. It is part of Employment Hero plans, and the agent is not priced on its own.
What Greet does instead
No system change
Greet is a standalone screening step. Share one link in a job ad, or import a CSV and send each applicant a unique link. Export results as CSV or PDF. If you use Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, BambooHR, Workable, Teamtailor, Bullhorn or softgarden, you can connect it, but you do not have to.
A scene from the job
Write up to 10 questions or scenarios. The AI can play the other person: a guest whose room is not ready, a parent calling about a missed pickup, a customer asking for a refund the policy does not cover. It asks follow-ups and stays in role. You see how the candidate handles the moment, not how they talk about it.
Scoring built for the role
Define the assessment blocks yourself: knowledge, communication, English level, problem-solving. Each session returns a match rate, a summary, the transcript and the recording (Pro and above). Two candidates in the same session are judged the same way.
On your careers page
Embed a voice or video application form on your careers page with one script tag. Candidates apply by talking, and their session shows up in Greet with a score.
Side by side
| Employment Hero Recruitment Agent | Greet | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Inside Employment Hero’s ATS | Standalone; link, CSV, careers page or your ATS |
| Interview | AI screening calls and video interviews | Two-way AI voice, browser or phone call, camera optional |
| What it tests | General structured questions | Your job scenarios with AI role-play |
| Scoring | Ranks and shortlists applicants | Assessment blocks you define, with transcript and recording |
| Price | Part of Employment Hero plans; agent not priced separately | $99/month for 100 sessions, $200/month for 500 |
| Other features | HR, payroll, candidate database | Role-play training after the hire |
Which one to pick
Pick Employment Hero if you already run HR and payroll on Employment Hero and want screening inside the same system, with access to its candidate database.
Pick Greet if you are happy with your current ATS (or do not use one), and you want the first interview to test a real situation from the job, at a price you can see before you sign up.
Try it on one role
- Pick one open role. Leave your ATS as it is.
- Describe the role in a sentence and let AI draft the session.
- Take it yourself with Play.
- Paste the link into the job ad.
Create your Greet account and add it to the hiring you already do.
Competitor details come from the public pages below, checked November 2026. Prices change; check the vendor’s site. Greet details are from greetai.co.