For many years, we have deliberately avoided developing our own recruitment platform.
There are already several established recruitment and applicant tracking providers in the market, many of which do what they do well. Our preference has therefore always been to partner with them and integrate their services into HR Manage rather than compete unnecessarily.
There was another reason too: we had no interest in building yet another recruitment system based on the same concepts already available elsewhere.
When we develop something new for HR Manage, it must solve a problem differently, improve on what already exists or connect information in a way that creates lasting value for our clients.
With the upcoming release of HR Manage version 7, we are therefore excited to introduce our own integrated Recruitment and Applicant Tracking System: HR Manage – Recruit.
Why recruitment now?
The demand for a complete HR and recruitment platform within a single system has continued to grow.
Organisations increasingly want to manage the full employee journey in one place—from vacancy and application through to appointment, onboarding, development, performance and succession planning.
Recruitment is the natural starting point of that journey.
More importantly, we believe we have developed a genuinely different and innovative approach to recruitment.
And yes, we checked.
A more structured approach to matching
Modern recruitment platforms already offer increasingly sophisticated ways to search, screen and rank applicants. We therefore knew that simply adding CV searching or automated candidate scoring would not be enough to make HR Manage Recruit meaningfully different.
Our approach begins much earlier—when the vacancy and candidate profile are created.
Rather than relying only on information extracted from a job description or CV, HR Manage Recruit will help employers define the capabilities, experience, training and other requirements that are genuinely relevant to a position. Candidates will be able to build equally detailed profiles describing what they can do and the experience behind those capabilities.
Because both sides are working from the same structured foundation, the platform can identify meaningful relationships even where different job titles, abbreviations or terminology are used.
This will support advanced searching and matching in both directions:
- Employers can identify candidates whose capabilities align closely with a vacancy.
- Candidates can discover opportunities that match their skills, experience and development.
The result is not simply another way to search through CVs, but a more consistent and connected way to understand the relationship between a person and an opportunity.
Part of the wider recruitment ecosystem
We do not intend to compete directly with established job boards and recruitment providers.
In fact, we are exploring ways to publish vacancies to external platforms, receive applications from them and continue the recruitment process within HR Manage.
Our objective is to give clients a central recruitment platform while still allowing them to use the external channels that already work for them.
The module will also support employer-branded careers portals, allowing organisations to advertise vacancies and receive applications through their own websites.
Exclusively for HR Manage clients
HR Manage Recruit will be available as an optional additional module for both new and existing HR Manage clients.
It will not be sold as a standalone recruitment product and will require an active HR Manage subscription.
This is important because its real value lies in its connection to the rest of HR Manage. Information gathered during recruitment can continue into onboarding, training, compliance, performance management, career development and succession planning.
We are not ready to reveal everything just yet, but this is far more than an ATS feature added to complete a checklist.
It is a new recruitment platform built around thoughtful design, connected information and practical innovation.
HR Manage – Recruit is coming with HR Manage version 7.
