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HR · Recruitment (ATS)Recruitment software for small businesses without an HR team
Post the role to a hosted careers page, let the AI draft the ad and screen every CV against it, move candidates through a pipeline, and hire in one click straight into onboarding. The process of a company with an HR department, for a business where hiring lands on the founder or the office manager.
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Part of OpSemble HR: £6 per user per month on top of the £29/month platform fee. 14 days free, no card required.
What you get
Applicant tracking system
Post roles to a hosted careers page and receive applications straight into a drag-and-drop pipeline with CVs, ratings, notes and interview dates.
AI job-ad writer
Give it a few bullet points about the role and it drafts the posting. Edit, publish, done, without a blank page or a recruiter’s fee.
AI CV screening
Every CV is reviewed against the job requirements: a fit score, strengths, gaps and suggested interview questions. You still decide; you just start from a shortlist.
Candidate management
Every applicant, CV, rating and email in one place with role-based access, so a hiring manager sees their vacancy and nobody is forwarding CVs around the office.
Hire in one click
A hired candidate becomes an employee record and their onboarding checklist starts automatically: right-to-work documents, contract for e-signature, policy sign-offs, induction training.
GDPR without the spreadsheet
Candidate data lives in one UK-hosted system with role-based access, so retention rules can actually be applied and a subject access request is an export, not a hunt.
Recruitment that ends in onboarding, not a handover
A standalone ATS stops at the offer letter. In OpSemble the hire creates the employee record, the contract goes out for a legally recorded e-signature, the onboarding checklist assigns itself with owners and due dates, and the induction course lands in the new starter’s training queue before day one.
That is the difference between recruitment software and recruitment inside an HR system: nothing depends on someone remembering to send the welcome email.
How it works
Write the ad
A few bullet points in, a job posting out. Publish it to your careers page.
Screen the applicants
The AI reads each CV against the role and scores the fit. You review the shortlist, not the pile.
Run the pipeline
Drag candidates from applied to interview to offer, with notes, ratings and dates on each card.
Hire and onboard
One click creates the employee record, sends the contract for e-signature and starts the induction checklist.
Small business recruitment software: what you actually need
This is recruitment software for employers hiring their own staff. If you run a recruitment agency placing candidates with clients, a dedicated agency ATS will suit placements better. Agencies do use OpSemble for the rest of their business: CRM for client development, HR for internal staff, invoicing for placements.
Most small business recruitment happens in an inbox. The ad goes on a job board, forty CVs arrive as attachments, someone forwards the promising ones to the manager, interviews are arranged by reply-all, and three weeks later nobody can find the CV of the person who came second. When a candidate asks what happened to their data, the honest answer is that it’s in eleven places.
The enterprise answer is an applicant tracking system priced per recruiter seat, built for a talent team that runs fifty vacancies at once. A business hiring six people a year doesn’t need that. It needs the ad written quickly, the CVs screened fairly, a pipeline the manager can see, and a hire that flows into onboarding without a handover.
That is what OpSemble HR does. The AI job-ad writer and AI CV screening give a business with no HR department the structure of one: every CV assessed against the same requirements, with strengths, gaps and interview questions written down rather than remembered. The pipeline is a board, not a spreadsheet. The hire is one click, and onboarding, e-signed contracts, induction training and payroll are already in the same system.
Recruitment is part of the HR module at £6 per user per month on top of a £29 platform fee, and only the people who hire need a seat. Candidates don’t. A twelve-person business paying for three hiring managers is £47 a month, with AI screening included. See the full recruitment-to-retention walkthrough or the hiring guide for small UK businesses.
Frequently asked questions
Is this an applicant tracking system (ATS)?
Yes. Job postings on a hosted careers page, a candidate pipeline with CVs, ratings and interview dates, AI CV screening, offers, and one-click conversion of a hired candidate into an employee record with onboarding started.
How does the AI CV screening work?
Each CV is compared with the job requirements you wrote in the ad. You get a fit score, the candidate’s strengths and gaps against the role, and suggested interview questions. It produces a shortlist for a person to judge; it does not make the hiring decision.
Do I need an HR team to use it?
No. It is built for businesses where hiring falls to the owner, a director or the office manager. The AI drafts the ad and screens the CVs, the pipeline keeps the process visible, and the hire starts onboarding automatically.
Where do applications come from?
From your hosted careers page, which you can link from job boards, your website and social posts. Applications land in the pipeline with the CV attached.
How is candidate data handled under UK GDPR?
Candidate records are held in one system hosted on Microsoft Azure with UK data residency for the database. Access is role-based, so hiring managers see their own vacancies, and retention and subject access requests are handled from the record rather than an inbox.
What does it cost?
Recruitment is part of the HR module at £6 per user per month, on top of the £29/month platform fee. Only people who hire need a seat; candidates do not. 14-day free trial, no card required.
Post your next role in the free trial
HR is one switch in your OpSemble tenant. Write the ad with the AI, publish it to your careers page, and screen the first CVs before the trial ends.
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