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Streamline hiring with recruitment software

Attract great talent and speed up hiring with smart, cloud‑based recruitment software for any size of business.
Sage HR and Sage People are driving recruitment and staff management for brands like:

What are the benefits of recruitment software?

End‑to‑end recruiting software automates applications, tracking, reviews, and scheduling - reducing admin and shortening time‑to‑hire.

Manage your recruitment pipeline

Keep every candidate organised across each stage of evaluation. A recruitment management system lets you track progress, plan interviews, coordinate assessments, and stay on top of follow‑ups to boost recruiter productivity.

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Engage applicants with a career portal

Make it easy for candidates to discover roles, apply quickly, and learn about your company - all in one intuitive, branded portal.

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Schedule interviews intuitively

Setting dates for interviews often involves inefficient back-and-forth messaging, wasting everyone's time. Use dynamic recruitment software to schedule interviews directly from the system and automatically sync with online calendars. This enhances the candidate experience, reducing no-shows and accelerating hiring.

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Score candidates objectively

Quickly match and rank applicants with hiring software that evaluates candidates consistently, reduces bias, and adapts to your hiring priorities.

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Recruiting software: key features

Sage recruitment software incorporates features that can help transform your hiring processes.

Applicant tracking

Track candidates through all hiring stages, with instant access to applicant information and communication tools.

Candidate scoring

Evaluate applicants based on predefined criteria, ranking by variables such as cultural fit or academic excellence.

Landing page designer

Make your business stand out and attract top talent with a unique landing page for specific campaigns.

Application form builder

Create bespoke application forms online, capturing all the information you need from your applicants.

Automated onboarding

Guide new hires through the necessary paperwork, training, and company orientation in their first few weeks.

Discover our HR recruitment software

Our online recruitment software is perfect for mid-sized and growing businesses. Start exploring Sage software for recruiters today.

Sage HR

For small to medium sized businesses that want a modular HR system that will simplify processes across the end-to-end employment journey.

  • Simplified end-to-end HR system that’s easy to administrate
  • Core HR and leave management with additional modules for performance, timesheets, shift scheduling, recruitment and expenses
  • Modular design, pricing and setup
  • Ready to go out of the box, no implementation required
  • Establish a single source of truth for all your employee data
  • Automate people processes to reduce admin and improve productivity
  • Easy to navigate employee self-serve for better employee experience

Sage People <font class="text-highlight-ai" style="white-space: nowrap;">with Ai</font>

For medium sized businesses with 500 - 5,000 employees. Manage global or multi-location teams from a single system, using powerful AI automation.
  • Highly configurable HR and people solution managed by your HR team
  • Core HR, attendance and leave, performance and talent management, compensation management with additional recruitment module available
  • Built on Salesforce, an enterprise grade platform
  • Team of implementation experts to get maximum value, followed by a dedicated Customer Success Manager
  • Meet multi-national, multi-currency and multi-locational employee requirements
  • Advanced workflows and configurable reporting to meet specific business requirements
  • Customisable branding and content per business area for personalised employee self-serve

"We were able to onboard 100 people in 18 months without having to increase staff to handle it. Plus, onboarding was three to four times faster with Sage HR"

Valdas Simas
CEO, Reiz Tech

Sage recruitment software FAQs

Hiring teams use a range of online recruitment software options to streamline the hiring process and develop staff, from application form builders and sourcing tools to application tracking, onboarding, and talent management solutions.

Ideally, all of these tools will be interconnected or hosted within a single platform to bring all of these capabilities together. This creates a powerful, integrated solution giving HR professionals online access to the full spectrum of recruitment tools/data at any time and from any location.

While many standalone solutions focus narrowly on applicant tracking or sourcing, Sage provides a broader, more integrated approach that brings recruitment, onboarding, performance, and core HR data together in a single system. This gives recruiters capabilities that typically require multiple tools elsewhere - including automated workflows, intuitive scheduling, candidate scoring, and seamless new-hire transitions. 

By consolidating key hiring functions that other providers often keep separate, Sage helps organisations reduce complexity, improve data accuracy, and create a more consistent experience for both recruiters and candidates.

Recruitment automation software is designed to perform repetitive tasks such as CV screening, candidate communication, interview scheduling, and new hire onboarding. Automation greatly enhances the HR team's ability to rapidly assess candidate qualifications and prioritise top talent. 
 
By reducing the team’s manual workload, recruitment software allows staff to focus on strategic aspects, such as candidate engagement and cultural fit, making the hiring process faster, more accurate, and more cost-effective.

With Sage, what you pay will depend on which HR solution you opt for, as well as the number of employees in your operation and your specific business needs.
 
Sage HR is a modular HR solution that can adapt to fit the needs of small and medium sized businesses. You can add more modules as your needs evolve and bring all the HR tools into one platform.
 
The recruitment module within Sage HR costs £170/month, but that's on top of £4.60 per employee per month for Sage HR's minimum functionality (Core HR and Leave Management modules). 
 
The basic solution includes smart performance management features, as well as onboarding, expense management, time management, scheduling, attendance tracking, and more.
 
Sage People is ideal for mid-sized, global, or multi-locational organisations. It enables businesses to transform the way they attract, manage, engage, and retain people, wherever they are. Sage People is highly flexible and pricing is dependent on the number of employees, as well as the apps or features you choose. To discuss pricing options, please fill in our demo form and we'll be in touch via phone within 24 hours.
 
You can use our solution finder to figure out which product will be the best fit for you, or explore our support hub for answers to questions around our software and services.

Sage recruitment software integrates seamlessly with your HR workflows, keeping all candidate and employee data connected in one place. With Sage HR, the recruitment module syncs directly with core HR, performance, scheduling, onboarding, and other modules, so new hire details flow automatically into employee records.

Sage People, built on Salesforce, provides deeper integration across global HR, talent, compensation, workflows, and reporting. This gives you a unified, accurate view of your workforce - without manual data entry or disconnected systems.

In a nutshell, recruitment software helps you with the immediate process or sourcing candidates for current positions and onboarding them, while talent acquisition tools typically support more long-term, ongoing strategies around finding the right talent and expertise for your business.
 
Recruitment is an important part of talent acquisition, and many HR software solutions include capabilities to facilitate and fuel both your recruitment and talent acquisition processes.

Yes. Sage’s recruitment software is well-suited for small businesses because it’s flexible, easy to use, and quick to get up and running. Sage HR offers a modular recruitment management system that requires minimal implementation time and includes intuitive tools that small teams can adopt without specialist training. 

You also get access to comprehensive support, including onboarding resources and expert guidance to help you maximise value as your business grows. Sage’s solutions are built to the highest security and compliance standards, ensuring that sensitive candidate and employee information is protected throughout the hiring process. 

With automated workflows, integrated HR data, and simple, self-serve features, Sage recruitment software helps small businesses save time, stay organised, and compete effectively for top talent.

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