Recruiting
Candidate Portal
Provide a seamless, branded experience for candidates with a personalised self-service portal.
Today's top candidates expect a professional, digital-first experience from recruitment agencies. Recruitly's Candidate Portal transforms how you engage with talent by providing a branded, self-service platform that enhances the candidate experience while saving your team valuable time.
personalised Candidate Experience
Give candidates their own secure, personalised dashboard where they can update their profiles, view matched jobs, track application status, and communicate with your team. This self-service approach empowers candidates while reducing administrative workload for your recruiters.
Branded Portal Design
Create a professional, fully branded candidate experience that reinforces your agency's identity and value proposition. Customize colors, logos, images and content to create a seamless extension of your website and reinforce your market positioning.
CV and Document Management
Enable candidates to upload, update and manage their CV and supporting documents directly through the portal. The system automatically parses new uploads to update candidate profiles, ensuring your database always contains the most current information.
Job Matching and Recommendations
Showcase relevant job opportunities to candidates based on their skills, experience, and preferences. AI-powered matching ensures candidates see positions that truly fit their profile, increasing application quality and placement potential.
Application Tracking
Give candidates complete visibility into their application status with real-time updates on each stage of the recruitment process. This transparency reduces follow-up queries and creates a more engaging, professional experience.
Secure Two-way Communication
Facilitate direct, secure messaging between candidates and recruiters within the portal. This centralized communication creates a documented history of all interactions while eliminating email overload for your team.
Use cases
High-Volume Recruitment
Streamline candidate management for high-volume roles by shifting administrative tasks to the self-service portal, allowing recruiters to focus on assessment and selection.
Executive Search
Provide senior candidates with a premium, discreet platform for confidential job exploration, document sharing, and communication with executive recruiters.
Contractor Management
Support the unique needs of contractors with document management, availability updates, and seamless application to multiple contract opportunities.
Technical Recruitment
Allow technical professionals to showcase detailed skills, certifications, and portfolio items through specialised profile sections and document uploads.
Return-to-Work Programs
Support candidates re-entering the workforce with guided profile building, skill assessments, and tailored job matching sensitive to employment gaps.
Integrations
Questions
The Candidate Portal can be integrated with your website in multiple ways: as a subdomain (candidates.youragency.com), through direct link integration in your navigation, or as an embedded experience within your existing site structure. All options maintain your branding and provide a seamless transition for candidates.
Yes, you have complete control over which profile elements candidates can view and edit. You can allow full self-service for certain fields while limiting others to recruiter-only access. This flexibility lets you balance candidate convenience with data quality control based on your specific needs.
Absolutely. The Candidate Portal is fully responsive and optimised for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. Candidates can access all functionality, update their profiles, apply to jobs, and communicate with recruiters directly from their smartphones, providing true on-the-go convenience.
Recruitly implements enterprise-grade security for the Candidate Portal, including end-to-end encryption, secure authentication, regular security audits, and GDPR-compliant data handling. All candidate information and communications are protected by industry-leading safeguards to ensure complete confidentiality.
Yes, the Candidate Portal includes integrated scheduling functionality that allows candidates to select interview slots based on recruiter availability. This integrates with popular calendar systems like Google Calendar and Outlook, and can incorporate video interviewing through Zoom, Teams, or other platforms.
Key benefits
Enhance candidate experience with a professional, branded portal
Reduce administrative workload through candidate self-service
Keep candidate data updated automatically without recruiter intervention
Increase application quality through personalised job matching
Minimize email and phone traffic with centralized communications
Reinforce your agency brand and market positioning
Improve candidate engagement through transparency and regular updates
Create a competitive advantage against agencies without digital portals
Demonstrate technological sophistication to clients and candidates
Generate valuable data on candidate preferences and behaviors
How it works
Branded Candidate Dashboard
Provide candidates with a personalised, branded dashboard showing their profile, matched jobs, application status, and communication history.
Self-service Profile Management
Enable candidates to update their information, skills, experience, and preferences without recruiter intervention, keeping your database current.
Document Upload & Management
Allow candidates to upload, manage, and update their CV and supporting documents with automatic parsing and profile updating.
AI-Powered Job Matching
Show candidates personalised job recommendations based on their skills, experience, location preferences, and career goals.
Application Status Tracking
Provide real-time visibility into application progress with status updates, next steps, and timeline information for each position.
Secure Messaging Center
Facilitate direct communication between candidates and recruiters with threaded conversations, document sharing, and notification alerts.
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Best Value & Best Ease of Use · Capterra 2026