Overview
Alex integrates with ADP Workforce Now Recruitment through Kombo, our unified integration provider. A single connection covers:- Jobs and applications sync into Alex. New job requisitions in ADP automatically appear in Alex, where your job workflow configures them into interviews; new applications enter your application workflow (for example, automatically inviting each applicant to an interview).
- Interview results sync back to ADP. Your workflows can attach the Alex interview report PDF to the application and add a link to the Alex report on the application.
ADP Workforce Now’s integration API does not support moving applications between recruiting stages, rejecting
applications, or posting notes. Recruiters act on Alex results inside ADP — the report link and attached PDF put
those results directly on the application.
Key Features
Automated Job Import
When a job requisition is created in ADP, Alex imports it and runs your job workflow — generating an interview template from the job’s title and description. Use the New Job from ATS trigger node in your job workflow to configure which ADP fields (including custom fields) populate the job title, description, and jobs-list columns, and use Filter by Job nodes to route different kinds of jobs to different interview templates.Manual Job Import
You can also import a single job on demand: when creating a job in Alex, choose Import from ATS and paste the ADP requisition ID. This option appears once the Kombo connection has finished its first sync.Automated Interview Invites
When a candidate applies in ADP, Alex picks up the application, creates the candidate, and fires the New Application trigger in your application workflow — typically inviting the candidate to an interview by email or SMS.Write-Backs to ADP
Workflow action nodes let Alex update ADP as candidates progress:
Filter by Application and Filter by Job nodes can branch on any standard or custom ADP field — including the application’s current stage — so write-backs run only when your conditions match.
ADP does not provide candidate resumes through the integration, so resume-fit scoring does not apply to
applications that arrive from ADP. Resume-fit works for candidates added in Alex through Upload Resumes, where
the resume is in place before the interview is set up. A resume supplied later — by the candidate on the pre-interview
screen, for example — arrives after the point where scoring runs, so it generally will not produce a score.
Before You Start
API access to ADP Workforce Now is a paid add-on from ADP, not part of a standard Workforce Now subscription. Purchasing it involves a statement of work with ADP and an assigned ADP representative. Until it is active on your account, the connection flow in Step 1 cannot complete — no Alex configuration works around this. Start with your ADP representative, and talk to your Alex account team if you are unsure whether your account already includes it.Step 1: Connect ADP via Kombo
- In Alex, go to Settings → Integrations and select ADP Workforce Now.
- Click Connect. A Kombo-hosted connection page opens in a new tab with step-by-step instructions for authorizing the connection against your ADP Workforce Now account.
- Back in Alex, the ADP card shows Syncing… while Kombo runs its first sync, then Connected. Job and application sync begins automatically once the first sync completes.
If the card shows Needs attention, the connection requires re-authorization — repeat the Connect flow or contact
your Alex account team.
Step 2: Configure Your Workflows
- Job workflow — add the New Job from ATS trigger. Its editor lets you choose which ADP fields populate the job title, description, and location columns, and which jobs to import.
- Application workflow — add the New Application trigger as the entry point. Every new ADP application enters the workflow here.
- Write-backs — add the ADP action nodes (attachment, report link) wherever your workflow should update ADP, e.g. after an interview completes.
Sync Behavior
- Kombo re-reads your full ADP account about every 5 minutes — ADP offers no incremental sync — and Alex polls Kombo’s synced copy, so a new requisition or application usually reaches Alex within roughly that window. Very large ADP accounts can run longer than the interval, which stretches the delay.
- Alex stores ADP’s own identifiers, so a job imported manually and the same job arriving via auto-import deduplicate to a single record.
- Stage changes made in ADP flow into Alex and can update interview decisions via your ATS sync mappings (Settings → ATS Sync), in the ADP → Alex direction.