Dreamforce 2025: The Staffing Sessions You Can’t Miss

Michael Stapp
Oct 3
4 min read

Dreamforce is almost here.

In just a couple of weeks, tens of thousands of Salesforce users, partners and customers will descend on San Francisco for three days of keynotes, product launches and more steps than your Apple Watch may have ever recorded.

Here’s the thing: Dreamforce is massive.

We’re talking 1,700+ sessions. Spread across multiple venues. With every vendor you may have ever met (plus 50 you haven’t yet) all vying for your attention.

If you’re in staffing, it’s easy to drown in the noise. Which is why we did the hard work for you. We combed through the agenda and pulled out the staffing sessions that are actually worth your time. These are the ones that will help recruiters make more placements, admins keep the wheels turning and leaders actually understand how to adopt AI without breaking everything.

This is your Helpstone Dreamforce 2025 Staffing Survival Guide:

🚀 Quick picks for everyone
🎯 Recruiter & sales must-sees
📘 Admin essentials
🤖 Staffing leader + AI strategy sessions
📂 And a full downloadable guide with every staffing-relevant session we could find

🚀 Quick Picks: The Sessions Everyone in Staffing Should Circle

If you only make it to a few, make it these. These are the ones you’ll want to brag about back at the office and maybe even post about on LinkedIn.

Eliassen Group’s AI Playbook (Tuesday, 2:30 PM) → A real staffing firm proving that AI isn’t just hype, it’s profit. And here’s why this one is an extra can’t-miss: Helpstone was closely involved in this project with Eliassen and Bullhorn for Salesforce. So yes, we’re a little biased, but also proud.

Agentforce Roundtable for Staffing & Recruiting (Tuesday, 3:00 PM) → Peer-to-peer wisdom. Real stories. The kind of “backstage pass” conversations you won’t hear in keynotes.

AI Recruiting Workflow: Source, Screen, Hire Faster (Tuesday, 4:15 PM) → The full recruiting funnel on display: sourcing, screening, hiring, all powered by Agentforce. Basically, the future of staffing automation.

Sales Keynote: Your Path to Growth Is Humans and Agents (Wednesday, 3:00 PM) → The marquee theme this year: humans + AI working side by side. And with Asymbl on stage, staffing gets a literal seat at the big table.

✅ Quick Pick Summary: If you’re pressed for time, don’t leave San Francisco without seeing these. Especially Eliassen’s, because we had a hand in shaping it.

🎯 Recruiters & Sales Teams: Sessions to Help You Place Faster and Sell Smarter

Recruiters and salespeople are under constant pressure to “do more with less.” These sessions show how Agentforce and AI can actually make that possible, more placements, less busywork and fewer late night data entry sessions.

AI Sales Agents: Your Secret to Smarter Selling → Imagine waking up to a pipeline of warm, qualified leads waiting in Salesforce. This is that.

Put Your Agents to Work with Slack Actions → Because many recruiters live in Slack. Why not let automation live there too? Fewer clicks, faster submittals, smoother follow ups.

3 Ways to Spend Less and Sell More with Sales Cloud → The nuts and bolts: how to stretch Sales Cloud further and still hit bigger targets.

How Salesforce Ramps AEs with Coaching + Next Best Actions → Swap “AEs” with “new recruiters.” This is how you cut ramp time and stop relying on “shadowing” as your only training tool.

👉 Bottom line: these sessions are cheat codes for placing faster and selling smarter.

📘 Admins & IT: The Real Heroes Behind the Scenes

Admins, you’re the ones keeping Salesforce upright while juggling every “just one quick request” from recruiters. Dreamforce has plenty that makes your life easier, too:

Intro to Agentforce for Admins & Developers → The nuts and bolts of configuring agents recruiters will actually use (and not abandon after a week).

Automate Processes with Slack + Salesforce (Workshop) → Roll up your sleeves, bring your laptop, and leave with workflows you can brag about.

Avoiding Data Cloud Pitfalls in Agentforce Rollouts → Because “garbage in, garbage out” is still the law of staffing tech.

Tools to Build, Test, and Release Agentforce → If you’re a one-person IT shop, this is the survival toolkit. No recruiter tantrums when something breaks in production.

👉 These aren’t “cool demos” sessions, these are the ones that make you walk back into the office with answers, not excuses.

🤖 Staffing Leaders: Where to Start with AI (Without the Overwhelm)

If you’re a staffing leader, the biggest question isn’t “what’s cool?” It’s “where do we start without breaking our business?” These sessions give you clarity:

Getting Started with AI: Use Cases, Data, and What’s First → A roadmap for adoption that actually makes sense.

Onboarding Digital Labor: A Proven Customer Playbook → The “how” of bringing AI agents into a staffing org, without creating panic.

Delivering Strategic Insights at Scale with Agentforce → Imagine every recruiter walking into client meetings with data-driven insights. This is how you make that real.

👉 These are less about flash, more about frameworks. The kind of sessions leaders leave with pages of notes circled “DO THIS FIRST.”

📂 The Full Session Guide

Want the entire breakdown by day, by audience, and with every detail? We built a master list with all the staffing-relevant sessions we could find. Times, dates, speakers and why it matters for staffing.

It’s organized by role, so recruiters don’t have to scroll through 50 admin sessions (and admins don’t have to sit through recruiter stuff).