How Engel & Völkers scaled global hiring with AI interviews and reduced recruiter workload by 70% with lizzyAI

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Hiring at scale is hard. Hiring at scale across countries, languages, and markets is even harder.

For global brands like Engel & Völkers, hiring speed and candidate quality directly impact growth. When recruiting teams are stuck in manual screening, pipelines slow down, consistency drops, and great candidates get missed.

This case study shows how Engel & Völkers used AI Interviews with lizzyAI to streamline pre-screening, unify hiring across regions, and reduce recruiter workload by 70%—while accelerating global hiring.

Engel & Völkers at a Glance

Engel & Völkers is a leading global real estate brand, known for premium residential and commercial properties.

As their international footprint expanded, so did the need to recruit and onboard sales representatives across multiple countries.

Key hiring priorities:

• Hire high-performing sales talent fast
• Maintain consistent hiring standards globally
• Reduce manual effort for recruiting teams

The Situation: Scaling Sales Hiring Across Multiple Countries

Engel & Völkers needed to hire sales representatives across multiple regions at the same time. This meant managing parallel hiring pipelines across different markets—each with its own language, expectations, and hiring realities.

As application volume increased, the complexity of global hiring started to put pressure on the recruiting process.

In short:
Hiring demand was growing faster than recruiting capacity.

The Challenge: Manual Pre-Screening Was Slowing Down Growth

Like many high-growth organizations, Engel & Völkers ran into a familiar scaling problem:

Manual screening does not scale.

Recruiters were handling large-scale, multilingual hiring pipelines manually, including:

• High volumes of applications
• Resume reviews across regions
• Multilingual candidate evaluation
• Repetitive pre-screening steps
• Increasing coordination overhead

Over time, this created real friction:

1. Hiring speed slowed down

When recruiters are overloaded, response times increase—and top candidates move on.

2. Screening consistency became harder to maintain

With multiple countries and teams involved, fair and consistent evaluation became increasingly difficult.

3. Recruiter workload increased dramatically

Recruiters spent too much time screening and sorting—and too little time engaging top candidates and closing hires.

Why AI Interviews Became the Turning Point

Most hiring teams assume interviews are the biggest time investment.

In reality, the biggest bottleneck is everything before the interview:

• Reviewing resumes
• Running first-round screens
• Filtering for basic fit
• Aligning on evaluation standards
• Repeating the same questions across candidates

This is where AI Interviews create the biggest impact.

Instead of forcing recruiters to manually repeat the same screening work, AI Interviews standardize early-stage evaluation—without sacrificing quality.

The Solution: lizzyAI Streamlined Candidate Pre-Screening at Scale

Engel & Völkers partnered with lizzyAI to streamline candidate pre-screening and create a unified hiring process that worked across regions.

With AI Interviews, lizzyAI enabled the team to:

Streamline candidate pre-screening

Recruiters could quickly assess candidate fit and prioritize the strongest applicants earlier in the funnel.

Create a unified global hiring process

Fragmented workflows were replaced with standardized evaluation—supporting consistent hiring decisions across countries.

Support multilingual hiring pipelines

Managing multilingual hiring is complex and time-consuming. lizzyAI made it possible to run this process efficiently at scale.

The Results: Faster Hiring, Higher Consistency, 70% Less Recruiter Workload

By implementing AI Interviews with lizzyAI, Engel & Völkers achieved measurable improvements across their hiring process.

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Accelerated global hiring

Screening was streamlined, allowing teams to move faster and keep pace with business growth.

‍Improved consistency and quality at scale

A unified approach ensured candidates were evaluated more fairly and consistently across regions.

70% reduction in recruiter workload

The biggest operational win: recruiter workload dropped by 70%, freeing time for higher-value work such as:

• Engaging top candidates
• Collaborating with hiring managers
• Running final-stage interviews
• Improving the overall candidate experience

What Engel & Völkers Said About lizzyAI

Beyond efficiency gains, Engel & Völkers gained deeper insight into candidates earlier in the process.

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“Lizzy reveals the real person behind every resume. I’d trust Lizzy’s insight even without one.
A world where resumes are no longer needed has finally arrived – thanks to Lizzy.”
— Sonja Debus, Head of Agent Recruiting, Engel & Völkers

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This highlights what AI Interviews are really about:
moving beyond surface-level screening toward real candidate insight.

Why This Case Study Matters for Global Hiring Teams

If you’re hiring across multiple regions, you already know the challenges:

• High application volume
• Different market requirements
• Inconsistent screening standards
• Limited recruiter bandwidth
• Long time-to-hire

This case study shows how AI Interviews help teams scale without losing the human element.

With lizzyAI, recruiters don’t become less important—they become more effective.

They spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time on what drives results:

• Building relationships
• Evaluating real potential
• Making confident hiring decisions

Key Takeaways: Scale Hiring Without Scaling Chaos

Engel & Völkers needed to hire sales representatives globally—while keeping quality high and recruiter workload manageable.

With AI Interviews powered by lizzyAI, they achieved:

• Faster global hiring
• A unified pre-screening process across regions
• Consistency and quality at scale
• 70% reduction in recruiter workload

Ready to Scale Hiring with AI Interviews?

If your recruiting team is overwhelmed by manual screening, high-volume pipelines, or global hiring complexity, AI Interviews can help you hire faster and smarter.

lizzyAI makes it possible to:

• Streamline pre-screening
• Improve consistency
• Reduce recruiter workload
• Maintain high candidate quality

Hiring at scale doesn’t have to mean chaos.

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