Best Recruitment software for startups - Affordable & Easy to Use

Why do startups need Recruitment software?

Every rapidly growing business needs recruitment software, especially in the post COVID, let’s-all-do-it-remote era. In the early days, many founders or co-founders underestimate the importance of having dedicated recruitment software, unlike CRM or helpdesk software.

Without recruitment software:

You can’t create experiences that chisel an attractive employer brand.
It will take 10X more effort to attract the right candidates.
Hiring may fall apart when teams decide to scale.
The worst of all: you will have no solid database of candidates, just old, dusty, dinosaur excels.

How to evaluate recruitment software for startups?

Everyone could use some help, a little extra if it’s the first time. So here it is, some questions to ask yourself as you evaluate recruitment software:

Solve basic recruitment challenges

Yes, all the hiring challenges staring you in the face - the ones you have now, may have in the next few quarters, and the ones that may be very specific to your firm. If you don’t have the time to evaluate, request a demo, shoot your use cases, and see what comes back.

Easy-to-use interface

Or does it just claim to be easy-to-use? Try and test how easy the interface is for you and your teammates. Recruitment software is simple and should involve no learning curve. In addition, check out the knowledge base and see if you can navigate it.

Scalable and affordable pricing

Choose software that has straightforward pricing. It should have no hidden costs and require no algebra skills. Check all their plans and see if the software will stay affordable as you grow. If you are a company with less than 50 employees, you might even start off with a free version.

What are the benefits of using recruitment software?

Saves time: A good recruitment software will automate a lot of your repetitive recruiting tasks thus freeing up your time to focus on things that matter such as candidate attraction strategies, candidate experience and focusing on the quality of the candidates.
Speeds up hiring: With the hassle of routine tasks being taken out of your hand and with an overview of all the data related to all the hiring steps in one place, your entire recruitment process is streamlined. This helps speed up hiring and you would be able to reduce the time-to-hire ratios in your organization.
Easy communication and collaboration: With all the candidate-related information in one place, all the stakeholders involved in the hiring process right from sourcing to giving the final verdict on candidate selection and sharing the offer letter, it can all be done on the same page. No scope for miscommunication or missing emails or messages on a particular candidate.
Data and Analysis: You would be able to view all statistics related to the candidates at different hiring stages that will help you track recruiting metrics to assess aspects including where you’re getting the candidates from, which channels are performing the best/worst, cost to hire a candidate across channels and time to fill a particular position.

Why do startups love Freshteam's recruitment software?

The breeze-ease of managing open jobs

The hiring success of a startup depends heavily on the ability to attract top talent which requires reaching candidates on various jobs boards, social media channels, career sites, etc. Through Freshteam, recruiters can create, post, and manage jobs on multiple platforms through a single interface. And what’s more fantastic is, that all the candidates will automatically flow into the ATS as candidate profiles, waiting to be picked and processed.

Smart Candidate 360s

All information you ever collected on a candidate is presented in a one-page view, easy to consume - profile details, a timeline of communication, interviews scheduled, interview feedback, comments from panel members, and everything else. Whether it’s HR introducing a candidate, or an interviewer brushing up on the candidate information, or a hiring team discussing their final verdict, a candidate 360 is their go-to.

A talent pool that ups the game

All recruiters meet amazing candidates they can’t hire immediately but would love to save for later, right? The Freshteam talent pool enables them to tag candidates by certifications, education, skills, suggested jobs, years of experience, location, and more. They are hence organized in a useful and accessible way.

Friction-free interview scheduling

The calendar sync enables recruiters to check when interviewers are available and base the interviews on their calendars. No overlaps! No hiccups. To make the interviews more objective, you create and use scorecards for different hiring rounds. Interviewers can leave their comments, notes, and hiring verdicts based on which final decisions can be made.

They love us. You will too

“All our applicant information used to be on spreadsheets, color-coded and hard to understand or share with the team. Freshteam helped us organize all the information. Candidate information, the interview stages they are in, email threads, interviews are all visible to us in a single place. The team is able to easily collaborate with each other on decisions about candidates.”

Melissa B

HR Manager

Ultius

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“Freshteam was exactly what we were looking for: a cost-effective ATS. We previously used a different ATS, and Freshteam is literally 5% of the price. It covers everything that we need for tracking candidates, setting up interviews, and keeping us all organized.”

Caitlin B

People Operations Manager

Yonder

“We really like parsing resumes, pushing jobs to multiple job boards, and the ease of coordinating live job postings in Freshteam. The features within each candidate profile are robust in terms of recording comments and uploading documents. It makes managing multiple candidates easy.”

Lisa D

HR Manager

RedLine

“Our overall hiring process has become much more streamlined since we started using Freshteam. All the information about different stages for interviews can be seen in a single place and with smart features like submitting our feedback and sharing scores for each candidate.”