SAP SuccessFactors and SmartRecruiters unite for AI-enabled hiring and a skills-driven workforce
Hiring is a company-wide priority. SAP SuccessFactors + SmartRecruiters speed hiring with AI, unify data, and tie recruiting to skills, growth, and performance across lifecycle.
Hiring Is a Business Imperative: Why SAP + SmartRecruiters Matters for HR
People are the pulse of every organization. Their skills and agility determine whether your company can innovate, grow, and adapt to changing technology and customer demands.
Attracting and hiring great talent is more competitive than ever. According to the World Economic Forum, 70% of organizations plan to hire staff with in-demand skills by 2030, while more than three-quarters of executives see skills availability as a top risk. The message is clear: hiring isn't just an HR challenge. It's a company-wide priority.
What the SAP + SmartRecruiters combination brings
SAP SuccessFactors is an AI-enabled global suite spanning core HR and payroll, talent, employee experience, and analytics. SmartRecruiters brings deep expertise in high-volume recruiting, recruitment automation, and AI-enabled sourcing, candidate experience, and engagement.
Together, the goal is straightforward: make hiring faster, smarter, and more fair-while connecting recruiting to every other part of the employee lifecycle.
What you can expect
- Smoother recruiting workflows: User-friendly interfaces and seamless processes from requisition to offer improve decision-making and reduce time-to-hire.
- AI where it helps: Intelligent candidate recommendations, predictive hiring insights, and personalized candidate experiences-guided by SAP Business AI's relevant, reliable, and responsible standards.
- High-volume hiring, simplified: Automation and AI-assisted sourcing to engage large talent pools without sacrificing quality or fairness.
- One data foundation: A single system of record across recruiting and HCM reveals talent pools, bottlenecks, and skills gaps to inform workforce planning and internal mobility.
- Better experiences for everyone: Candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters get clarity, speed, and consistency.
Beyond hiring: connect skills, growth, and performance
Recruiting is the starting line, not the finish line. With a shared data model, you can link external talent insights with internal skills, learning paths, performance signals, and progression.
The result: smarter workforce planning, stronger internal mobility, and continuous development that aligns with business goals.
What HR leaders can do now
- Audit your funnel: Identify the slowest steps (intake, screening, interview loops, offers) and define the automation and decision rights needed to speed them up.
- Align on skills: Standardize job architectures and skills taxonomies so recommendations, mobility, and learning actually work across systems.
- Set AI guardrails: Establish policies for fairness, explainability, consent, and data retention. Monitor outcomes for bias and drift.
- Equip your team: Train recruiters and hiring managers on AI-assisted sourcing, structured interviews, and evidence-based selection. If you need practical upskilling, explore AI courses by job role.
- Measure what matters: Track time-to-hire, quality of hire, candidate experience (NPS), offer acceptance rate, and early performance/retention to prove impact.
- Partner with Finance and IT: Tie hiring plans to revenue and capacity models, and ensure data and integrations are built for scale.
Looking ahead
Talent acquisition is more than filling roles-it's building a resilient, skills-driven workforce ready for what's next. The combination of SAP SuccessFactors and SmartRecruiters aims to give HR leaders the flexibility and intelligence to do exactly that.
Want the latest on capabilities and roadmap? Join us virtually for SuccessConnect to learn more about the future of SAP SuccessFactors and SmartRecruiters.
