4 Best Recruiting Apps for Small Businesses

With the Breezy HR app, you can:

• Coordinate and schedule candidate interviews
• Send and receive candidate email and text messages
• Discuss, score, and vet candidates with the hiring team
• Drag-and-drop candidates through the recruiting pipeline
• Receive real-time notifications for new applications, candidate messages, and hiring team responses

The app also has a 4.5 out of 5 rating on the App Store and a 3.5 out of 5 rating on Google Play (as of this writing). Reviewers like its user-friendly and intuitive interface. However, several users dislike the app’s login issues, adding that it runs slow and crashes at times.

• Simple candidate pipeline management: With a paid plan, Breezy HR lets users see where candidates are in the pipeline, how many are in the different stages, and the next actions they can take. It uses a Kanban board-style candidate pipeline, allowing you to drag and drop applicant profiles as they go through the hiring stages. Breezy HR also allows you to automate the next actions for your pipeline. For example, you can send automated SMSs or emails to new applicants. You can even create different pipelines with various automated actions for each open position. These pipelines are saved so that users can reuse them for similar job roles.
• Candidate scorecard: Starting with the Growth plan, users can customize their scorecard to help evaluate applicants based on predefined criteria for the position. This makes it possible for members of the hiring team to do a quantitative comparison of all the candidates for one position.
• Incognito applications: Available as a paid add-on, this solution removes the names, photos, and other identifiable data from applicant information at the first recruiting stage. This way, recruiting managers can avoid any hiring bias when evaluating candidates and make decisions based on the job requirements instead of depending on gut feeling or personal preference.
• Talent Sourcing: Users can communicate with applicants, review new applications, and look for candidates using the search functionality based on location, job title, skills, or background.

With the Workable app, you can:

• Post job ads to popular job boards (like ZipRecruiter and LinkedIn)
• Search applicant profiles to find candidates who best match your requirements
• Access candidate resumes, review interview scorecards, send messages, and gather feedback from hiring stakeholders
• Schedule applicant interviews and send candidate email/text messages
• Receive notifications for new applications, upcoming candidate interviews, and other actionable hiring alerts

However, the Workable app isn’t as highly-rated as the other recruitment apps on our list. As of this writing, it has a 3.2 out of 5 rating on the App Store and a 3.5 out of 5 rating on Google Play. While some reviewers like its easy-to-use features, many users complained of having experienced app glitches (such as login errors and slow-loading pages) and difficulties downloading candidate resumes.

• Candidate screening: You can view applicant cover letters, social media profiles, resumes, and application forms. If you think they’re a good fit for the position, you can send a personalized email telling them about the next steps.
• Collaboration and assessment tools: When you visit a candidate profile, you can send them a video interview invitation, self-scheduling link, email, or text message. The hiring team can also fill in interview scorecards, watch video interviews, and view assessment results. What makes Workable stand out is its ability to add an evaluation for each hiring stage, something that’s not offered by other providers on our list of best recruiting apps.
• AI recruiter tool: Workable’s AI tool provides a list of passive applicants and adds labels (either “Competency” or “Education” or both) to candidate profiles to highlight why each matched your active job posting. You can preview the profiles, add candidates to your pipeline, and contact them via email. Note, however, that there’s a limit to the number of AI-sourced candidate profiles you can view. The quantity depends on the Workable plan selected, but the minimum is 200 profile views monthly (as of this writing).

With the Recruitee app, you can:

• View active jobs and check the candidates’ progress as they move through the hiring pipeline
• Drag-and-drop applicants to the next recruiting stage
• Access notes and candidate evaluations from hiring stakeholders
• Communicate with candidates via one-click interviews, email messages, and their profile contact information
• Receive notifications for hiring task, candidate messages, and notes from the hiring team

At the time of publication, users rated the Recruitee app a 4.2 out of 5 rating on the App Store and a 3.8 out of 5 rating on Google Play. Reviewers are impressed with the app’s functionalities, but several users are unhappy with the occasional glitches, login issues, and candidate messaging errors.

• Move candidates in the pipeline: Recruitee uses a Kanban board like Breezy HR, which gives a visually pleasing and easy-to-understand candidate management experience. You can drag and drop the candidate’s name card to move it from one step of the workflow to the next.
• Communicate with applicants and team members: Both the main software and mobile app are designed for collaborative hiring. You can send candidates an email, rate them, or leave notes for the hiring team. Members of the recruiting team can also tag other hiring stakeholders to get their feedback about the candidate.
• Manage hiring to-do list and personnel requisitions: You can stay on track of your events, tasks, and evaluations straight from Recruitee’s mobile app and main software. It even has a requisition approvals solution for automating the entire personnel requisition process.

With the LinkedIn Recruiter app, you can:

• Search the LinkedIn talent pool using smart filters and keywords
• Access and edit recent candidate searches
• Attach and send hiring documents to candidates
• Compose and send InMail messages to applicants
• Receive real-time notifications for candidate responses

Note that the following app features require access to LinkedIn’s New Recruiter & Jobs solution. Call the provider to see whether your account can be upgraded.

• Get recommended matches for your open positions
• Review candidate profiles and save those that fit the requirements of your active jobs
• Collaborate with members of the hiring team by tagging them in Notes and in-app conversations
• Share candidate profiles with hiring stakeholders for feedback

In terms of user feedback, the LinkedIn Recruiter app has the highest ratings on our list, earning a 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store and a 4.2 out of 5 on Google Play (as of this writing). Reviewers like its candidate search tool and that they have access to a wide network of professionals. On the other hand, some users said that it has a lot of bugs and glitches that prevent them from logging into their accounts or accessing the app itself.

• InMail: Within Recruiter, you can reach out to any LinkedIn member using InMail, as well as send bulk messages and save templates for future use. However, unlike the other recruiting applications in this guide that allow users to connect with candidates anytime without limits, Recruiter Lite will only let you message any member (no matter if they are a connection) up to 30 times per month. With LinkedIn Recruiter, you can search and contact candidates using InMail (up to 150 per month). You can also save your searches and templates of the InMails you send most often.
• Smart candidate recommendations: LinkedIn will offer recommendations of possible candidates based on your search criteria and keywords for your open positions. It even learns from the candidates you opted to save, message, or hide, allowing it to provide better recommendations for similar job vacancies. Plus, like all of the providers on this list, it offers simple tools like screening questions and candidate ratings to help you find your next employees.
• Search filters: You will have access to 20+ search filters with smart suggestions with the Recruiter Lite and 40+ search filters for Recruiter. This will allow you to narrow down your searches to qualified candidates for your positions.