Bengaluru, Karnataka, India – Business Wire India • IAMPHENOM India 2025 brought together CHROs, CIOs, industry leaders for keynotes, customer spotlights and roundtables on applied AI across hiring, onboarding, internal mobility and talent management • Phenom expands latest AI agents for hiring, work redesign, frontline scheduling and fraud-proof interviewing in India Phenom, the leader in applied AI that helps organisations hire faster, develop better and retain longer, today announced a suite of its advanced applied AI innovations for HR at IAMPHENOM India 2025 in Bengaluru. This marks a significant step in modernising how Indian enterprises attract, develop and retain talent across both knowledge and frontline roles. Built on Phenom X+ Ontologies, these products adapt to industry nuances, the distinct needs of knowledge workers and frontline teams, and regulatory requirements. Traditional talent approaches have created persistent gaps where strategic priorities do not translate into hiring plans, workforce data rarely turns into coordinated action, and promising talent remains stuck in silos. Key Applied AI Innovations Announced These capabilities enable Indian enterprises to connect business strategy with talent execution, automate complex workflows, improve hiring integrity and deliver more personalised candidate and employee experiences in real time. • Candidate Fraud Detection Agent – Industry’s first fraud detection AI agent that safeguards hiring integrity by identifying potential candidate deception without slowing decision-making. The agent analyzes candidate responses, verifies identities, detects resume falsification, and flags AI-assisted interview responses in real time. Post-interview analyses are also provided, compiling fraud indicators for interview team review. • Enterprise Talent Optimization & Work Redesign – Breakthrough capability that connects business strategy directly to workforce execution. AI analyses work at the task level, dynamically mapping the strategic initiative to required roles and skills — highlighting tasks that can be automated or AI-augmented, as well as employee development plans that link to measurable business outcomes. • Unified Orchestration Engine – An adaptive orchestration layer that keeps complex HR workflows running smoothly, handling exceptions in real time. The engine uses decision intelligence and simulations to identify operational bottlenecks, create alternate pathways when rules don’t fit, and ensure actions are policy-compliant and explainable, keeping a human in the loop. • Frontline Workforce Lifecycle & Shift Scheduling – End-to-end AI support for India’s frontline workforce, including compliant shift scheduling, internal mobility, referrals, communication and alumni engagement. AI agents optimize shifts based on skills, preferences and availability, enabling organisations to strengthen redeployment and rehiring for part-time or seasonal roles. • Voice Screening Agent – Always-on, conversational voice-based AI that orchestrates the entire candidate screening process across high-volume, frontline, knowledge, and executive-based roles. The agent conducts role-specific voice interviews, probes into qualifications, and assesses fit before advancing qualified candidates to the next step, boosting recruiter efficiency and candidate experience. “India’s talent landscape is evolving rapidly, and HR teams need applied AI that not only improves efficiency but closes the persistent gaps between workforce data, strategy and execution,” said Hari Bayireddi, President, COO & Co-founder, Phenom. “With these innovations, we’re enabling organisations in India to connect strategy, skills and execution – whether it’s accelerating hiring, redesigning work, or protecting the integrity of every hire.” Focus on Applied AI for HR Excellence Phenom’s applied AI differs from generic AI by leveraging HR-specific data models that understand how talent decisions connect to organisational outcomes. This ensures AI not only predicts but acts with purpose across recruiting, talent development and retention, helping enterprises in India adapt to rapid workforce shifts and skill disruptions. IAMPHENOM India 2025 Highlights • Anil Kumble, former Indian Cricket Team Captain & Coach was the special guest speaker who spoke about leadership and resilience, and how teams can excel, adapt, and thrive in a new world of AI and automation. • Innovation Keynote: Applied AI in the talent journey by Mahe Bayireddi, CEO & Co-founder, Phenom, outlined how applied AI and agents can connect workforce data, skills and business outcomes. • Product Deep Dives: Applied AI & automation keynotes showcased capabilities across fraud detection, voice-based screening, frontline lifecycle management and unified orchestration – with live demos on how X+ Agents turn talent strategies into real-time execution. • Strategic Leadership Session: A CHRO–CIO-focused discussion on building the “dream team” for HR transformation, covering data strategy, HR–IT alignment, change management and driving adoption of AI across large, distributed workforces. • Customer spotlights: Organisations including Quest Global, Thermo Fisher, WNS and Dr. Reddy’s showcased real-world impact across hiring, onboarding and talent management. • Roundtables: Focused discussions on high-volume hiring with X+ Agents, AI-powered employee development, skills-based hiring and retention, and elevating onboarding with intelligence and automation. • Phenom HR Awards - India 2025: Phenom recognized and celebrated the achievements of customers that go above and beyond when it comes to transforming talent experiences. With Phenom, candidates find and choose the right job faster, employees develop their skills and evolve, recruiters become wildly productive, talent marketers engage with extreme efficiency, talent leaders optimise hiring and onboarding processes, managers build stronger-performing teams, HR aligns employee development with company goals, and HRIT easily integrates existing HR tech to create a holistic infrastructure. Discover how Phenom Applied AI empowers organisations to hire faster, develop better and retain longer here. About Phenom Phenom is an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer. By uniquely combining proprietary industry-specific AI, agentic AI, automation and personalized experiences, its Intelligent Talent Experience platform helps companies fundamentally reshape their HR processes and strategies for scalable and sustainable transformation. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, Phenom takes a holistic approach that unifies the entire talent journey, augmenting human capabilities and creating a symbiotic relationship between technology and talent. Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (6 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (4 consecutive years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020). Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit www.phenom.com. Connect with Phenom on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. 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