Recruitment technology is promising and some of the tools have already been proven useful.

But many recruitment technology initiatives also fail, even from the big guys like Google. Hire by Google should have been a full fletch ATS and sourcing tool but was sunset in 2020 due to lack of differentiating potential in the market.

So what technology is left going into 2022 and how can you use it?

We have categorized the best software tools by stages in the recruitment cycle:

Good to mention is that some of the tools have functions across several stages in the recruitment cycle.

Here’s our extensive overview of the most popular software tools for sourcers and recruiters:

Tools for sourcing

Sourcing software helps to find, attract and engage candidates. The goal of sourcing software is to find candidates who qualify for a certain set of job criteria and to spark initial interest in the company and job.

Search

Talent search software is made for finding the best matching candidates for a particular job and company. Most talent searching software finds candidates across a variety of sources.

These are some of the most popular talent searching software tools:

• ‍Hiretual‍
• Entelo
• ‍HeroHunt.ai‍
• AmazingHiring‍
• Seekout‍
• Human Predictions
  

Attract

Talent attracting tools are used to distribute job posts and get candidates to apply for those jobs. Within the talent attraction domain, there are job boards where jobs can be posted directly on and there are job advertising platforms that distribute job posts on a variety of job boards.

These are some of the most popular job boards:

• ‍The Muse‍
• Hired By Startups
• Work in Startups‍
• Job Fluent‍
• MeetFrank‍
• Talent.io‍
• LinkedIn‍
• Indeed‍
• TalentPool‍
• Startup.Jobs‍
• Glassdoor‍
• Angellist‍
• Stack Overflow‍
• Honeypot‍
• Landing.Jobs‍
• Offerzen

These are some of the most popular job advertising platforms:

• ‍Yello‍
• Atomic Hire‍
• Wonderkind‍
• Arya‍
• Workable‍
• VONQ‍
• Join‍
• Smartdreamers‍
• Harver

Reach out

Outreach software is used to email, message or otherwise engage candidates. Most outreach tools are used to send, track and optimize the initial outreach message to talent by using standard messaging workflows and automation.

These are some of the most popular candidate outreach automation platforms:

• ‍SourceWhale‍
• Intersteller‍
• Gem‍
• Waalaxy‍
• Meet Alfred‍
• ContactOut (email list Canada for example)