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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.

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Our Access People solutions are trusted by 19,000+ organisations in the UK and Ireland

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Applicant tracking software

Streamline the hiring process at every stage, automate recruitment tasks and accelerate time to hire with our ATS. Get automated vacancy creation, smart interview setup, pre-defined qualifying criteria, configurable workflows and applicant communication tools. Create a smoother and more joined-up candidate experience.

Applicant tracking software

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Careers website platform

An integrated, branded recruitment portal allows you to create a bespoke web presence for your candidates. Advertise job roles, reach external applicants, build your employer brand and simplify the application process.

Complete with self-serve content management system (CMS), SEO tools, compliant candidate portals and advanced reporting, our careers website functionality helps you attract top talent and enhance engagement at every touchpoint.

Careers website platform

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Candidate screening

Carry out fast, automated pre-employment background checking with our candidate screening tool. Increase your speed-to-hire by over 50% and ensure full compliance at all stages. Use candidate screening to hire the right candidates for your business.

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Employee onboarding software

With self-serve onboarding features you can ensure strong new hire engagement whilst shortening time-to-productivity, promoting a positive start to employment and a lasting impression of your business for new employees.

Employee onboarding software

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Talent acquisition tools and processes

Our HR recruitment software includes talent acquisition tools to support onboarding, engagement, skills-development and career growth. From social engagement tools, reward and recognition software, digital learning, career development solutions and employee benefits, you can tailor your package to support talent acquisition – and support future retention.

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Recruitment reporting

Real-time analytics and detailed reports enable hiring managers and recruiters to make more informed decisions based on data-driven insights. Our cutting-edge technology helps businesses to analyse candidate data and identify trends in recruitment metrics.

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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.

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HR software for small businesses

Access PeopleHR

Designed for businesses with up to 500 employees, including startups.

Small Business HR Software

HR software for medium to large businesses

Access PeopleXD

Designed for businesses with 500 employees or more.

Medium to large business HR software

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

Powerful reporting capabilities

Take an analytical look at your whole recruitment process and make unbiased hiring decisions based on facts and data. Learn more about what blind recruitment is and how it can help create a more inclusive hiring process.

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.

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.

Fast-track shortlisting functionality

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

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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Proud to be working with 19,000+ organisations in the UK and Ireland

“Although our principle driver for a move of HR and payroll software and services was a financial one, the results of this change have far surpassed simply a monetary value.”

"The support we received from the Access People Project Team throughout the entire project has been fantastic… It would be challenging enough under normal circumstances but to do this during the pandemic is a huge achievement."

“Access People was the only provider we spoke to that could give us an end-to-end, secure, cloud-based HR and Payroll solution that works on any device, allowing us to transact and transform all on one platform. We can now go from roster to time and attendance, pay deductions, payment and beyond in one system.”

“The feedback we have received so far has been very positive and employees generally feel happier that we have made a difference to their working day. Commercially we will achieve the return on investment in two years. However, in real terms the hours saved for each manager are significant.”

“The ability to centralise a number of siloed systems had a profound impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of our HR team - especially as a multinational conglomerate. After the project, we saw significant improvements in key areas of the business, like employee retention and GDPR compliance.”

Our HR recruitment solutions at a glance

Applicant tracking software

Careers website platform

Candidate screening solutions

HR onboarding software

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. Enhancing your employer brand can be achieved with an employee value proposition; take a look at our Employee Value Proposition template for best practice guidelines.

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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