Tellent Recruitee ATS is not only robust, but also affordable and scalable. 181,000 users from companies like Taco Bell, and M&S have used Tellent Recruitee to find and hire the best talent. You can try it for free for 18 days before making any commitments.
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PROS
- Tellent Recruitee is highly rated for ease of use and quick implementation.
- It offers a customizable, kanban-style recruiting pipeline with adjustable stages.
- The software also helps reduce hiring bias by allowing permission level adjustments for interviewers, preventing them from seeing each other's candidate scores.
- Quarterly product updates based on users’ feedback.
CONS
- Some features (skill assessments, onboarding, video interviewing, e-signatures) are only available via third-party integrations.
- Anonymous candidates’ resume screening still in development.
- No monthly contract option. Price has trended up over the last three years.
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Tellent Recruitee is a collaborative ATS that enables companies to source, screen, and recruit candidates for a variety of jobs. You can use it to post jobs to several job boards simultaneously to reach a wide pool of candidates. You can also promote those job posts with ads for maximum visibility. Candidates who want to apply are directed to your custom-branded career site, buildable within Tellent Recruitee without writing any code.
We like that Tellent Recruitee features a kanban-like recruiting pipeline, fully customizable to reflect the different stages in your recruitment process. To move candidates from one stage to another, you simply drag and drop the relevant candidate’s card. We also like Tellent Recruitee's overdue candidate reminders that automatically notify you when a candidate sits for too long at a particular stage in your pipeline without updates.
To speed up certain processes, you can make use of Tellent Recruitee’s automation triggers and templates. For example, you can set up triggers to automatically publish job posts at specific times, send disqualification emails to candidates that don’t meet your criteria, and share evaluation requests with interviewers. You can also choose from several existing templates to quickly create pipelines, emails, and more.
When it comes to candidate screening, Tellent Recruitee integrates with several video conferencing platforms including Google Meet, MS Teams, and Zoom to facilitate video interviews. It also integrates with skill assessment platforms that help you filter out unqualified candidates. Once interviews are done, interviewers can submit their evaluations within Tellent Recruitee through customizable scorecards and evaluation forms. To reduce unconscious hiring bias, we recommend that you limit interviewers’ access rights to each other's evaluations, which can be done from Tellent Recruitee’s settings.
Overall, we think that small and medium-sized businesses can derive the most value out of Tellent Recruitee’s offering.
I use Tellent Recruitee for the following tasks:
- Job Posting – Create and manage multiple postings across job boards.
- Candidate Tracking – Automate actions such as moving candidates between stages and sending notifications. Pre-built templates help accelerate closures.
- Collaboration – Share notes, evaluations, and tasks for each candidate.
- Automation – Use automated workflows for repetitive tasks such as email communications and interview scheduling.
- Talent Pool – Maintain talent pools of prequalified candidates for future openings.
- Reporting and Analytics – Use customizable dashboards to track time-to-hire and recruiter efficiency.
- Blacklisting – Flag and blacklist fake candidate profiles to inform future recruitment efforts.
- The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, making it simple to manage recruitment workflows.
- Automation of repetitive tasks like emails, interview scheduling, and pipeline management saves significant time.
- Collaboration tools such as shared notes, interview templates, and tagging improve teamwork and streamline the process.
We followed a manual process for recruiting and needed a tool that could integrate with Workday, improve agility, enhance recruiter capabilities, and streamline interview scheduling and ATS optimization for faster candidate reviews. I have used the tool for over two years.
Benefits observed:
- Automated job posting to multiple job boards, including LinkedIn.
- Candidate tracking and management.
- Collaboration features such as shared notes, evaluation forms, and reviews.
- Automation tools like email templates and scheduling links.
- Integration with Workday.
- It’s difficult to post the same job in multiple locations; we’ve had to duplicate postings manually.
- Integration with Workday was problematic, leading us to use it as a separate tool.
- Onboarding features such as offer rollout options are missing and would be a valuable addition.
- Ease of Use – The interface is intuitive and has a shorter learning curve than other platforms.
- Customization – Offers customizable hiring workflows and careers page builders; Workable offers similar features but to a lesser extent.
- Automation – Supports automated job postings, email templates, scheduling tools, and HR tool integrations; Zoho Recruit and Workable offer fewer integrations or restrict features in tiered plans.
- Target Audience – Best suited for growing companies with moderate hiring volumes (3–7 positions at a time), with a focus on collaborative hiring and employer branding—not ideal for mass hiring needs.
What I prefer:
- Strong collaboration features, including shared notes, evaluation forms, and feedback tools.
- Branded career pages enhance employer visibility.
- Automated workflows save time and effort in repetitive tasks.
- Hiring Needs – Evaluate whether the tool fits the type and volume of hiring; it’s better for niche or limited hiring (under 10 roles), not for high-volume needs.
- Cost – May be expensive for smaller companies.
- Integration – Ensure it integrates well with your existing systems.
- Scalability – Assess whether the platform can scale with growing hiring demands.
- Training Time – Consider the time needed to train recruiters and hiring managers.
Tellent Recruitee has made several updates to meet evolving user needs:
- AI-generated job descriptions and bulk actions for candidate management have been added.
- The Power Search feature allows quicker access to specific candidates or communication history.
- Support for remote hiring, including video interviews, has been implemented.
Mid-sized organizations with under 1,000 employees and annual hiring of around 200–300 positions max will find Tellent Recruitee useful.
Tellent Recruitee is not well-suited for mass hiring or large enterprises.
I use Tellent Recruitee every day, the whole day! It's such a great system to track candidates and it's all in one place. I can contact candidates and it's all recorded. Each candidate has a profile, I can upload documents (offer letters, employment applications, etc.) I can text candidates using another system called JustCall, everything in one place! I can create a website through Tellent Recruitee! I can directly share open jobs via Rectuitee on platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
I like how easy it is to understand and use the system. I love the live support they use, they are fast to get back to you. I like how modern the UI is and how updated it is in terms of the latest features and functionalities.
Great question, we have been using Tellent Recruitee for almost a year now, and it has been the best decision ever. We get to track candidates and offer a smooth hiring process. Before having Tellent Recruitee in the house, we were using spreadsheets, which was painful and extremely time-consuming, we couldn't track well without many integrations and automation, and the manual efforts were not productive. This ATS is the best!
Something I hope they can work out better is to get the text messages incorporated faster. They claim to have been working on it for a while, but we don’t really know until it is rolled out. I wish they had more integrations as Paylocity, I believe they are expanding their list. The last thing, I wish they give you more options to change the theme color of the screen and other customization options.
Yes, pricing-wise. Modern and easy to use. I have used other ATSs that are not that easy to use. The integrations at Tellent Recruitee are great!
They should think about how this ATS offers everything! They are very open to feedback and willing to work on the ideas you might have. This ATS is complete.
Tellent Recruitee has helped the company tremendously, it has helped me as a Recruiter and also the Managers. Everyone I know who has used this ATS loves it!
Recruiting, onboarding, background check. Medium to large-sized organizations can maximize their use cases.
It wouldn't work for a small company that is not hiring much. This system is only good for a company that is looking to hire constantly, with respect to the costs and advanced functionalities it has.
I use Tellent Recruitee daily, as our primary recruitment lead my role involves creating our recruitment strategy and being involved in the end-end process/recruitment cycle.
Having a system that I can trust, that allows candidates to quickly and easily upload their resumes and apply with us has been integral in our ability to continue to scale the company and grow our teams.
We use Tellent Recruitee not only to house candidates for current/open positions, but to categorize, sort, and save profiles of those who we believe may be a good fit for roles later down the line. Being able to use Tellent Recruitee to build and foster long-standing relationships allows us to continue to grow our organization and visibility in the tech talent market.
1. Ease of use - UI/UX: everything is extremely intuitive, as a recruiter things are where they should be and I don't have to spend a lot of time searching for settings or information
2. Customer service/transparency: the team at Tellent Recruitee has always provided us with top-notch customer service, and has always been great about answering any questions or concerns we have. The ability to vote on and suggest product improvements makes you feel that they care - and the number of improvements/suggestions they implement is fantastic. Being able to know what's upcoming on the roadmap is also really useful for us.
3. Integrations: being able to integrate with our other systems and tools is extremely important to us so that all of our candidate data can be housed in one place.
4. Analytics: being able to actually track your time to hire, number of applicants/role, and many, many more are critical for understanding your recruitment process and cycle, as well as being able to implement improvements.
5. KANBAN visibility: once you recruit in KANBAN you'll never go back to having a list view of your candidate pipeline. Being able to quickly view a role and visually see the health/number of applicants in each stage is probably my favorite feature.
We bought Tellent Recruitee because our previous ATS was hindering our recruitment process. It was time-consuming for us as the employer and for the candidates applying and interviewing with us. I strongly believe our previous ATS was causing us to lose potential candidates.
As a company, we've been using Tellent Recruitee since November 2022. However, I was a customer at my previous organization so I began using their system back in 2020.
I was determined to bring in a new ATS within my first week of joining RBR and received positive support from the entire company. I vetted out and demoed several other options as I wanted to ensure I wasn't being biased in my selection of an ATS, however, Tellent Recruitee was the clear winner for us due to its ease of use, time-saving capabilities, and overall customer support/service from their teams.
Setting up Tellent Recruitee was a breeze, we had a team assist us with implementation and training our managers, and because of their ability to create such an intuitive system, it's taken little to no time for our managers to understand how the system works.
1. Better integration with LinkedIn (I've chatted with the team and know this is in the works)
2. Continue to build out the scheduling feature (again, chatted with the team about this)
3. More automation for sorting candidates - for example, if a candidate applies and selects certain answers to screening questions being able to tag/filter candidates based on those answers
Tellent Recruitee is far superior to many of its competitors. Coming from using a LARGE system that was primarily for payroll, having a system that is focused on recruitment is extremely important if you really want to have a strong recruitment process.
Again, their customer service and support is something that just can't be beaten. And the speed at which they review customer feedback and integrate new solutions is incredible.
Our must-haves when looking at an ATS were:
1. Ease of use (both internally and externally): simple to use, training for managers, and candidates having the ability to easily and quickly apply
2. Search ability: need to be able to search in our own ATS for candidates, easily and using Boolean search
3. Kanban board style of view/dashboard - click and drag option
4. Easy Implementation- Integration Specialist or team to assist
5. Enhance/Encourage Collaboration: the ability to tag team members in candidates' profiles and collaborate within the ATS
What I would recommend to those looking for a new ATS is to start with your current pain points (if applicable) then build out your must-haves and nice-to-haves. Do some demos of different ATSs and make sure to actually test them for yourself. We found a lot of demos seemed interesting but once we were in the system it was clunky and difficult to use. Tellent Recruitee was by far the most intuitive.
Since I initially started using Tellent Recruitee there have been countless new features, integrations, and options made available to their customers. It is clear that they listen to the feedback they receive as they understand those using the product on a day-to-day basis will likely share the best ideas/feature requests that will actually be used/appreciated by their customers.
When I think back to when I first started using Tellent Recruitee to now, it's incredible to see all of the new features such as the referral portal, scheduling features, req approvals, and more that have been added to their features list!
I think Tellent Recruitee is great for organizations that are agile and need to operate very quickly. Those who are looking to hire and scale their organizations and who are looking for an ATS that can scale with them are the ideal customer for Tellent Recruitee.
I think slow-paced organizations, those that thrive on outdated systems/tools, or those that don't necessarily have the desire to update their recruitment processes would not be a good fit.
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Tellent Recruitee isn’t really built for enterprises and recruiting agencies that hire more than 100 employees a year.
Tellent Recruitee has been used by over 5,000 companies, including Semrush, Mark and Spencer, Transcom, Taco Bell, Toyota, Asus, Livestorm, and Rakuten.
- Employer branding: Create a custom career site to showcase your employer brand. You can also create job promotion campaigns with custom landing pages that send candidates back to your careers page.
- Customizable pipelines: Create custom pipelines that reflect all the stages in your recruiting process. Enable overdue candidate reminders for the system to automatically notify you when a candidate sits at a particular stage for too long without updates.
- Candidate sourcing: Post jobs to multiple free and paid job boards simultaneously. You can also allow employees to send referrals your way and build a talent pool of candidates you’d like to reconsider for future roles.
- Candidate screening: Tellent Recruitee integrates with video conferencing platforms including Google Meet, MS Teams, and Zoom to facilitate video interviews. You can also create meeting rooms and use the scheduling feature to find suitable times for everyone.
- Candidate evaluation: Customize candidate scorecards and evaluation templates. You can also reduce hiring bias by limiting interviewers’ access rights to each other's evaluations.
- E-signature and HRIS integration: Proceed beyond the interview stage by integrating Tellent Recruitee with offer management, E-signature, onboarding tools, and more.
- Automation and templates: Set up automations for several tasks such as timed job posting, sending disqualification emails, and evaluation requests. Make use of Tellent Recruitee’s existing templates for pipelines, emails, and more to speed up your recruiting process.
- Reporting: Create custom dashboards and reports to track the performance of your job posts and other metrics. You can export reports and share them with relevant team members.
- Mobile app: Receive notifications of candidate interactions and perform several tasks on your Android/iOS devices.
Tellent Recruitee has a marketplace full of pre-built integrations with tools such as BambooHR, Bob, SAP SuccessFactors, DocuSign, Slack, and more. They also offer API and webhook access so users are able to connect various custom solutions.
Tellent Recruitee has three pricing plans, all of which accommodate an unlimited number of users and can be trialed for free for up to 18 days. Applicant tracking system pricing is not always easy to find, but we've got the details for you here. When billed annually, Tellent Recruitee’s plans cost as follows:
- Start starts at €301 per month for 5 job slots and access to basic recruitment features such job post distribution, candidate video chatting, calendar sync, and career site editor.
- Advance starts at €384 per month for unlimited job slots and adds workflow automation and permission settings to Launch's feature set.
- Optimize starts at €416 per month. It includes everything in Scale, along with exclusive API access and premium services such as dedicated customer success and guided onboarding.
Though companies of different sizes (outside of large enterprises) can find value in Tellent Recruitee’s offering, we feel that it is capable of supporting medium-sized businesses best with its current feature set.
Tellent Recruitee’s latest Q2 2025 updates showcase a push into automation, pre-onboarding, agency collaboration, global sourcing, and mobile productivity. Highlights include improved Automated Actions, expanded Journeys functionality, AgencyHub, integrations, time tracking flexibility, and employee list customization. These additions mark a steady evolution toward becoming a fully integrated people platform under Tellent.
- Improved Automated Actions: Recruiters and hiring managers can now assign actions by role, create follow-up tasks for whoever moved a candidate forward, and set up automated emails to candidates or team members.
- Journeys (Pre-Onboarding and Reusable Steps): The new pre-onboarding access allows employees to get started with personal email before their first day, uploading documents, and completing profiles securely. HR teams can also build repeatable, reusable steps into Journeys to cut down on repetitive setup.
- New Job Board Integrations: The platform expanded its sourcing reach with Tivy (DEI-focused), Karriere.at, XING, Trimoji, SourceGeek, and Jobup.ch.
- AgencyHub: A centralized workspace for collaborating with external recruiters.
- WhatsApp Hiring: An AI-powered integration enabling instant candidate communication.
- Mobile App Enhancements: A faster quick search and “recents” widget help recruiters and managers pick up exactly where they left off.
- DATEV Payroll Integration: Direct sync with DATEV makes payroll in Germany more accurate, automated, and compliant with tax and labor rules.
- Time Tracking Flexibility: Companies can choose manual entry, live tracking, or clock-in stations, or combine all three, to fit different working models.
- Employee List Customization and Export: HR teams can filter and tailor employee data views, then export them instantly for reporting or analysis.
- Additional Management Tools: Customizable event visibility, prorated time-off allowances, and exportable custom module data.
To get started with Tellent Recruitee, head over to their website and click the Try for free button at the top right corner. This will take you to a page where you can enter your company details and do the basic account configuration. While doing so, we recommend checking out Tellent Recruitee's Beginner’s guide that’s available on their help center page. This guide breaks down several processes, including how to create your first job, import candidates, screen them, and more.
Tellent Recruitee has a help center that’s accessible 24/7 for self-serve. They also offer live chat support should customers need further help. Customers on Tellent Recruitee’s Lead plan get extra support perks, including a dedicated customer success representative that assists with onboarding, rollout strategy, and more.
Tellent Recruitee was founded in 2015 by Perry Oostdam and Paul Smoczyk. Frustrated by how traditional recruiting processes are slow and inefficient, Perry and Paul set out to build a solution that supports teams with their hiring needs and reduces manual labor.
Even though Tellent Recruitee is less than a decade old, their success can easily be measured in numbers. The company has over 118,000 users from over 4,000 companies, including well-known brands like Taco Bell and Marks and Spencer. They’ve also expanded beyond their Netherlands headquarters to have offices in Poznań, Poland, and New York, US.
Company HQ
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Number of Employees
200+
Year Founded
2015
Amount Raised
Undisclosed
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