Connect your AI Agents to UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding in minutes

What is a UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding MCP?

It's an MCP server that gives your agents access to recruitment and onboarding data in UKG Pro HCM via callable tools. Your agents can invoke these tools to pull job requisitions, retrieve candidate records, track application status, manage onboarding task assignments, and more.

UKG doesn't offer an MCP server purpose built for UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding, but you can use one from a third-party platform, like Merge Agent Handler.

How can I use the UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding MCP server?

The use cases naturally depend on the agent you've built, but here are a few common ones:

• Candidate pipeline status updates: When a recruiter requests an update in Slack, an agent queries UKG Pro HCM for the candidate's current application stage and interview feedback, then posts a concise summary to the thread, eliminating the need to log into the ATS for routine status checks

• Automated onboarding task provisioning: When a candidate's offer is accepted and their record moves to the onboarding stage in UKG Pro HCM, an agent retrieves the assigned tasks, creates corresponding tickets in a project management tool, and notifies the hiring team, so nothing falls through the cracks before day one

• Requisition backfill detection: When a position is vacated in an HRIS, an agent cross-references UKG Pro HCM for any existing open requisitions tied to that role, surfaces matching candidates already in the pipeline, and alerts the hiring manager, reducing time-to-fill on backfills

• Weekly hiring report for leadership: On a scheduled basis, an agent pulls requisition counts, application volumes, and stage-by-stage conversion data from UKG Pro HCM and delivers a structured digest to an HR leadership Slack channel, giving executives a current view without custom reporting runs

What are popular tools for UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding's MCP server?

Here are some of the most commonly used tools:

• list_job_requisitions: returns open and closed job requisitions including role, department, hiring manager, and status. Useful for agents that need to match candidates to open roles or report on hiring pipeline health across the organization

• list_candidates: retrieves candidate records with contact details, application history, and current stage. Call this when an agent needs a full view of who is in the pipeline before generating a recruiter summary or routing a follow-up action

• get_candidate: fetches a single candidate's complete profile, including application data, interview notes, and hiring status. Use this when an agent needs precise details about one candidate rather than a broad pipeline pull

• list_onboarding_tasks: returns the onboarding task checklist assigned to a new hire, including completion status and due dates. Helpful when an agent needs to surface outstanding items or trigger downstream provisioning steps in another system

• update_application_status: moves a candidate's application to a specified stage within the hiring workflow. Good for workflows that automate stage transitions after a defined event, such as a completed background check or a signed offer letter

• list_interview_schedules: pulls scheduled interviews tied to a candidate or requisition, including interviewers, times, and formats. Call this when an agent needs to send reminders, detect scheduling conflicts, or compile feedback collection prompts

What makes Merge Agent Handler's UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding MCP server better than alternative UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding MCP servers?

Choosing Merge Agent Handler for UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding gives you several advantages over building a custom integration or using a less structured alternative:

• Enterprise-grade security and DLP: Merge Agent Handler includes built-in data loss prevention controls that let you block or redact sensitive fields before they reach an agent. For UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding, this means you can prevent candidate personal information, background check results, or compensation offers from being exposed to agents that only need application stage data

• Managed authentication and credentials: Merge stores and refreshes your UKG Pro HCM credentials on your behalf. You never hand raw API keys or OAuth tokens to an agent or take on the burden of managing credential rotation as tokens expire

• Real-time observability and audit trail: Every tool call against UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding is logged with timestamp, tool name, input parameters, and response metadata. You can verify exactly which candidate records an agent read or which application statuses it updated, with no custom logging required

• Tool Packs and controlled access: Tool Packs let you combine specific UKG Pro HCM tools with tools from other connectors into a single scoped MCP endpoint. A recruiter-facing agent gets access to requisitions and candidate records. It has no path to compensation data or other fields outside its defined scope

How can I start using Merge Agent Handler's UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding MCP server?

You can take the following steps (assuming you use Claude Code):

1. Create or log into your Merge Agent Handler account.

2. Install the Merge CLI by running pipx install merge-api, then run merge configure to link the CLI to your Merge account and merge login to authenticate your session.

3. Register the Agent Handler MCP server with Claude Code by running claude mcp add --transport http agent-handler https://ah-api.merge.dev/mcp, then open Claude Code and run /mcp to confirm agent-handler appears with a connected status.

4. Select agent-handler from the MCP list. This opens a browser window where you select which integrations to authenticate. Choose UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding and complete the auth flow. Merge stores and manages the credentials going forward.

5. Open a Claude Code session and start querying UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding data directly. The first time you use a UKG Pro HCM tool, a Magic Link may appear to complete connector authentication.

If you want to connect Merge Agent Handler's UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding MCP with internal or customer-facing agentic products, you can follow the steps in our docs.

Can employees use Merge Agent Handler to connect their AI tools to UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding?

Yes, Agent Handler for Employees lets your employees connect Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible AI tools to UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding without bypassing IT governance.

Instead of setting up direct connections with personal credentials that IT can't monitor or revoke, each employee authenticates through Agent Handler and gets individual credentials tied to their identity. A recruiter can ask their AI to pull up a candidate's application history, check where they are in the pipeline, or surface upcoming interviews, all within the permissions IT has defined.

IT also provisions access by role or group via SCIM. A recruiter, for example, gets UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding access to manage candidates and requisitions, LinkedIn to source new applicants, and Slack to coordinate with hiring managers; while an HR onboarding specialist gets UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding access to track onboarding task completion, Workday to set up employee profiles, and Gmail to send new hire communications.

Every tool call an employee's AI makes to UKG Pro HCM Recruitment & Onboarding is also inspected against your DLP rules and logged to a searchable audit trail, giving security teams full visibility into what data was accessed and by whom.