TalkPush founder Max Armbruster explains the technical evolution of his conversational recruiting software from IVR phone calls to messaging apps.
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“We started the company. It was actually an IVR, so it was all voice. We would make phone calls and collect the voice for candidates. And then two years ago when Facebook opened its API for chatbots, we were one of the first recruitment chatbots to build on, on the Facebook messenger platform.”
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