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HR recruitment software

Identify, attract and hire the best candidates with end-to-end HR recruitment software, and take a proactive approach to widening your talent pools.

Streamline and automate recruitment processes to save time and money, enhance your candidate experience and achieve maximum ROI. With a holistic suite of flexible tools, our in-house recruitment software helps you make smarter recruiting decisions aligned to your business strategy, while reducing recruitment admin.

Our Access People solutions are trusted by 18,000+ organisations in the UK and Ireland

End-to-end HR recruitment software

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COOK success story

COOK implemented Access PeopleXD to replace their outdated HR system with an integrated, streamlined solution that would automate processes for recruitment and onboarding.

"Everyone is happy with the new Access People systems because they are user-friendly and modern in appearance. End-user adoption is very strong."

Alison Payne, People Director at COOK.

HR recruitment is a part of our extensive HR suite

Our HR and payroll software consists of lots of different modules, from recruitment and onboarding to workforce management, pay, performance, learning and development and engagement. Choose the ideal HR solution tailored to your business size to get started.

HR software for small businesses

Access PeopleHR

Designed for businesses with up to 250 employees, including startups.

HR software for medium to large businesses

Access PeopleXD

Designed for businesses with 250 employees or more.

Benefits of using HR recruitment software

  • Reduce recruitment admin and save time with smart automation
  • Increase return on investment by finding, attracting and retaining top talent
  • Drive revenue and gain a strategic advantage, aligning recruitment processes with business goals
  • Create a winning candidate experience, building your employer brand through positive recruitment processes
  • Eliminate data re-entry as information flows seamlessly through the platform, following the hiring pipeline without any need for manual input
  • Empower managers to be fully involved in recruitment, all within pre-defined HR parameters to keep the process moving efficiently

HR recruitment software functionality

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Powerful reporting capabilities

Take an analytical look at your whole recruitment process and make unbiased hiring decisions based on facts and data.

Hiring manager self-service

Give hiring managers the ability to raise vacancies and manage recruitment processes, all within pre-set parameters controlled by HR.

Social recruiting tools

Access a comprehensive suite of tools to facilitate interview scheduling, assessment setting, information gathering and more.

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Recruitment agency and job board integration

Manage all recruitment activity from one central system: loop in agencies, advertise on job boards and post positions on social media.

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Fast-track shortlisting functionality

Set qualifying questions against each vacancy as required to ensure candidates meet minimum criteria, moving away from manual shortlisting.

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Secure data storage

Ensure all candidate details are stored securely and keep an audit trail of correspondence.

Integrate in-house recruitment with your HR software

The optional recruitment module can be included within your PeopleXD HR software suite alongside other essential integrated people management tools from onboarding, talent management, performance management and training and development, to integrate and streamline your people processes.

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HR recruitment software FAQs

What is HR recruitment software?

HR recruitment software is used by HR departments and hiring managers to optimise and manage the process of recruiting new employees. The entire process can be managed using this software, from finding suitable candidates, to setting up interviews and assessments, to making an offer.

How does HR recruitment software work?

HR recruitment software works by managing, tracking and automating the entire recruitment cycle, cutting the workload for HR professionals, reducing admin and avoiding human error. Various functions can be enabled to do everything from posting open positions, to managing CVs, to arranging interviews and collating feedback.

Why should businesses use HR recruitment software?

Businesses can save time by using HR recruitment software to increase efficiencies in their recruitment processes, as we all as enabling them to source the right candidates and manage applications more effectively. Recruitment management can be very time consuming for HR professionals – recruitment software automates these manual processes so employees can focus on strategic aspects of recruitment rather than admin.

Read our detailed guide to improving recruitment and selection for hiring teams.

Recruitment software is also used by agencies to help manage the entire recruitment process. Recruitment agency solutions are tailored to meet the needs of busy professionals looking to improve efficiencies and speed up effective candidate screening.

What are the key components of HR recruitment software?

Three key components of end-to-end HR recruitment software are:

1. Talent acquisition.

This can be tools to help advertise your job vacancies, enhance your employer brand and attract the right candidates.

2. Applicant tracking software.

This will help automate manual processes by tracking candidates through the recruitment process, and ensuring new hires are created as live records in your HR system.

3. Screening.

This helps automate new hire background checks, speeding up your time-to-hire whilst ensuring a compliant recruitment process.

Discover more HR solutions

Our  HR and payroll software solutions  are designed to support every aspect of your people strategy from recruitment and onboarding right through to training, talent management, payment and reward.

Speak to one of our experts to find out how our solutions can unite, integrate and optimise all of your people processes and maximise the success of your employees. 

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