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Applicant Tracking Software (UK)

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hireful overview

What is hireful?

hireful is a UK-based Applicant Tracking System (ATS) designed for businesses on a budget—especially those with small HR teams or standalone HR professionals. We simplify recruitment with smart features and expert support to help you hire smarter, faster, and fairer:

- Forever free diversity tools: Available on all plans, our D&I features include anonymised applicant data, enhanced diversity data capturing, diversity benchmarking and ratio dashboards, disability-confident application highlighting, an accessibility suite (AccessiBe), and careers site translation tools to support inclusive hiring.

- Right-to-work verifications: Automate compliance checks with TrustID integration to ensure you meet immigration requirements effortlessly.

- Insights dashboards: Monitor forgotten applicants, assess and compare agency performance, and analyse post-interview metrics to refine your hiring strategy.

- Custom careers site: Stand out with a tailored platform that reflects your employer brand.

- Onboarding portal: Simplify and personalise onboarding with a customisable, branded hub for HR teams and new hires. Assign workflows, track task completion in real-time, and deliver a seamless onboarding experience.

- Recruitment success programme: Unlock your recruitment performance with customised training modules, delivered by an expert team equipped to help you achieve your hiring goals.

- UK-based support team: Get expert, responsive help whenever you need it, with fast response times and dedicated support that you can count on.

hireful is perfect for businesses with limited resources, particularly those with small HR teams or standalone HR professionals.

Whether you’re a start-up, charity, or growing company, hireful helps businesses on a budget overcome recruitment challenges and streamline their hiring process.

With all-inclusive tools for diversity, compliance, and talent management, you can hire smarter and fairer without the extra cost. Our responsive, friendly UK-based support team ensures you're always supported throughout your recruitment journey.

Starting price

2450flat rate /
per year

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hireful’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

hireful pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
 
1-2(1)
3-4(13)
5(34)

What do users say about hireful?

Customer support is brilliant, value for money to use against credits for jobs boards makes it affordable for our small business, ease of use

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Who uses hireful?

Based on 48 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Financial Services
Non-Profit Organization Management
Hospital & Health Care
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Others

Use cases

Recruiting
Applicant Tracking
Job Board

hireful's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from hireful users:

Job management
Interview scheduling
Application management
Communication management
Resume storage
Resume parsing

All hireful features

Features rating:

Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Applicant tracking
Application management
Approval workflow
Assessment management
Background screening
Calendar management
Candidate management
Candidate profiles
Candidate sourcing
Candidate tracking
Careers page
Collaboration tools
Commenting/Notes
Communication management
Compliance management
Compliance tracking
Customizable branding
Customizable reports
Customizable templates
Data import/export
Discount management
Email management
Email templates
For small businesses
Full text search
GDPR compliance
Interview management
Interview scheduling
Job board
Job management
Job posting
Onboarding
Pipeline management
Process/Workflow automation
Real-Time reporting
Recruiting firms
Referral tracking
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & statistics
Resume database
Resume parsing
Resume search
Resume storage
Scoring
Searchable database
Search/Filter
Social media integration
Social recruiting
Tagging
Talent pool
Third-Party integrations
Workflow management

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hireful pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Go

2,450

Per year

Features included:

  • Publish to indeed / job centre etc.
  • Bespoke application form
  • Indeed easy apply
  • Publish to additional uk job boards
  • Careers page or RSS feed
  • Post to social media
  • Hiring manager portal
  • Recruitment agency portal
  • Job alerts
  • Candidate location and commute on Google Maps
  • SSO integration
  • Bespoke recruitment workflow
  • Candidate search
  • Advanced candidate search
  • MI reports
  • Recruitment skills centre
  • Accessibility suite for recruiters & hiring managers
  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
  • Job and candidate search
  • CV and application form anonymisation
  • Disability confident application highlighting
  • Applicant diversity benchmarking
  • Diversity dashboard
  • Disability confident scheme compliance
  • Enhanced diversity data capture
  • Technical support - phone and email
  • System training

Grow

6,125

Per year

Features included:

  • All the features in the Go plan
  • Internal recruitment module
  • Self service interviews
  • Applicant scoring
  • Microsoft Teams integration
  • Microsoft Outlook interview availability checker (coming soon)
  • Disability confident application highlighting
  • Recruitment success - 1 module per year
  • Technical support - live chat
  • Customer success support

Pro

7,355

Per year

Features included:

  • All features in Go and Grow
  • Up to 10 application forms
  • Vacancy approval module
  • Automatic talent pooling
  • Delayed auto emails
  • Recruitment success - 2 modules per year
  • Bespoke reports
  • Bespoke dashboards
  • Custom fields
  • Onsite system training

Hero

9,840

Per year

Features included:

  • All features in Go, Grow & Pro
  • Recruitment success - unlimited access
  • Recruitment audit
  • Candidate surveys
  • 'Candidate experience for hiring managers' workshop
  • Early access to new features
  • Multi-page bespoke careers site
  • Accessibility suite for candidate facing pages
  • HRIS integration
  • Digital RTW Checks
  • Document Signing

User opinions about hireful price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of hireful's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Customer service is amazing. Whenever I have a query, I can get an answer almost immediately via the support chat function.”
MR

Marianne R.

People and Well-being Officer

“Customer support is brilliant, value for money to use against credits for jobs boards makes it affordable for our small business, ease of use”
LR

Laura R.

Head of People

hireful integrations (34)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 48 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as hireful integrations and how users feel about them.

Integration rating: 3.5 (2)

From verbal offer the candidate is passed to web onboarding

JS

Jeanette S.

Recruitment Manager

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

The ATS is so simple to use and an integral part of the recruitment process.

NH

Nina H.

HR Manager

Integration rating: 3.0 (1)

hireful support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base
Phone Support
Email/Help Desk
Chat

Training options

Webinars
Videos
Live Online
In Person
Documentation

hireful FAQs

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