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TE Recruit by Top Echelon is a recruiting ATS and CRM designed to help staffing agencies and direct-hire recruiters manage the full placement workflow from one platform. The software builds on the legacy of Big Biller, a recruitment system trusted by agencies for more than 25 years, while adding a modern interface, expanded automation, and AI-powered functionality. Recruiters can use TE Recruit to organize candidates, clients, job orders, communications, pipelines, and placements in a single workspace. Its automation and workflow capabilities help reduce manual tasks so recruiters can focus more time on sourcing, relationship building, and closing searches. The platform is designed for boutique recruiting firms, SMB staffing agencies, healthcare recruiters, financial services recruiters, and other placement-focused teams. TE Recruit emphasizes ease of use, flexible customization, and strong support to help firms adopt the system quickly. Free onboarding and training help agencies get started without a long implementation process. The platform can also work alongside TE Network, Top Echelon’s recruiter network, to support collaboration and additional placement opportunities. TE Recruit gives recruiting teams the tools to improve productivity, manage relationships, and scale their placement business more efficiently.

Crelate is an advanced recruitment platform offering an integrated Applicant Tracking System and Recruitment CRM, designed for both in-house corporate recruiters and staffing and recruiting firms. With AI-powered Co-Pilot and Real Recruiter Intelligence, it streamlines hiring workflows, enhancing recruiters' ability to connect talent with opportunities through intelligent analytics and comprehensive management tools.

At ZipRecruiter, our mission is to actively connect people to their next great opportunity. ZipRecruiter's smart matching technology finds candidates with the right skills and experience and prompts them to apply. It uses ZipRecruiter AI to analyze the keywords, skills, experience, and location details in your job description. It then compares this information with the profiles and resumes of millions of job seekers in our database. The system then presents you with candidates whose qualifications are the strongest match, helping you quickly identify top talent. It also sends jobs to 100+ job boards with one click. ZipRecruiter is the #1-rated hiring site according to G2. ZipRecruiter provides 24/7 customer support rated highest for quality among major hiring platforms. You can contact us via: Phone, Live Chat or Email. ZipRecruiter delivers quality candidates to 80% of employers within the first day. ZipRecruiter serves both small businesses and enterprise employers.

Humanly is the AI hiring platform for hourly, frontline, and high-volume recruiting teams. Most frontline hiring teams don't struggle with a lack of applicants — they struggle with speed, staffing continuity, and keeping qualified candidates engaged long enough to hire them. Humanly solves that by automating candidate engagement, screening, scheduling, and interviewing across chat, phone, and video — so a candidate who applies at 9pm is on your calendar by morning. The platform combines an AI Recruiter, AI Interviewer, Talent CRM, and ATS into a single connected hiring system designed to keep a continuous flow of ready-to-work candidates moving through the funnel. Recruiting teams can engage every applicant, conduct structured interviews at scale, and reduce manual work while maintaining fast, consistent hiring operations. Humanly engages more than 250,000 candidates each month and has conducted over five million interviews. Customers report up to 8× faster time-to-hire, 20+ hours saved per recruiter each week, and candidate experience scores averaging 4.8 out of 5. Key capabilities include AI candidate engagement across chat, SMS, voice, and video; structured AI screening and interviewing with objective scoring; automated scheduling across calendars and hiring events; Talent CRM for sourcing, rediscovery, and re-engagement; and centralized analytics for pipeline health and compliance. Humanly integrates with leading ATS systems and is designed with fairness and transparency in mind, working with external experts to audit and mitigate bias. Purpose-built for healthcare, hospitality, retail, logistics, and other industries where staffing continuity isn't optional.

Greenhouse is more than an ATS – they’re a true hiring partner that gives companies of all sizes everything they’ll ever need to get measurably better at hiring. With Greenhouse, organizations can cut recruiting costs and ensure every hire is the right hire. Their industry-leading, AI-powered software supports every stage of the hiring process, from sourcing to onboarding, empowering companies to hire top talent quickly, consistently and fairly – today and as their business grows. With a structured hiring approach at its core, Greenhouse makes it easy to define the role, requirements and attributes of a successful candidate before a job is posted, enabling internal alignment and more confident, data-driven decisions. Greenhouse Real Talent™ enhances this process by helping teams identify and prioritize real, qualified candidates while detecting fraud, spam and impersonation attempts. They’ve helped over 7,500 companies across diverse industry verticals and scaling goals turn talent into a strategic advantage, so they can be ready to hire for what’s next. Some of the most successful companies, like Hubspot, Block, NFL, Lyft, Trivago and HelloFresh, use Greenhouse for data and guidance on the behaviors and capabilities they need to improve their overall hiring performance.

Skillfully transforms the hiring process through AI-powered simulations of skills that show you how candidates perform in real life before you hire them. Our platform helps companies to cut through AI-generated CVs and rehearsed interview by validating real abilities in action. Companies like Bloomberg and McKinsey, who use dynamic job specific simulations and skill assessments to reduce screening time by half while improving hiring quality, have seen their screening times cut by 50%. Key Features: Job simulations that simulate real-life situations AI-powered skill verification across technical and soft skills Automated screening to identify top performers early Seamless ATS Integration Performance-based Interview Guides Candidate insights and analytics Bias-free, objective evaluation process Results include 74% lower hiring cost, 50% faster hiring process and 10x improvement of candidate conversion rates.

Workable stands as the world's foremost recruitment and human resources management platform. We equip internal recruiters, hiring teams, and HR experts with a plethora of avenues to discover highly qualified candidates, facilitating seamless collaboration in the quest to identify, recruit, onboard, and oversee top-tier talent. Businesses that employ Workable experience accelerated transitions from requisition to offer letter thanks to our array of automated and AI-driven tools that streamline candidate sourcing, simplify decision-making, optimize the hiring workflow, and elevate employee management. Established in 2012, Workable has made substantial contributions to the hiring efforts of over 27,000 companies, aiding in the selection of 1.5 million candidates. Our global team of over 250 professionals spans locations in Greece, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, serving a diverse clientele, including esteemed organizations like Starling Bank, JOEY Restaurants, RyanAir, among others.

Folks replaces spreadsheets and disconnected HR tools with a single platform built for Canadian SMBs. Centralize employee records, automate onboarding workflows, track absences and PTO, and manage performance reviews — all from one dashboard. With Folks ATS, post to major Canadian job boards (Indeed, LinkedIn, Jobillico, Talent.com), parse resumes with AI-powered matching, and move candidates through your hiring pipeline in clicks. Applications from your career page flow directly into the system, and your team can communicate with candidates using customizable email templates — no switching between tools. Folks Payroll handles CRA remittances, T4/RL-1 generation, ROE filing, and multi-province tax calculations natively. SOC 2 Type 2 certified, with all data hosted in Canada. Trusted by 1,200+ Canadian organizations.

Transformify (TFY): Hire Globally, Pay Instantly, Stay Compliant Hiring internationally? Managing independent contractors across the globe? We’ve got you covered. Transformify (TFY) brings global hiring, compliance, and contractor payments together in one smart platform, no tool juggling required. Talent acquisition is a breeze with TFY’s AI-powered ATS. Need ChatGPT-assisted job descriptions? Done. Want AI-driven candidate matching and predictive hiring insights? You can bet on it. Found the right hire? Onboard them in one click. Identity verification, contract, e-signature, all-in-one. Worried about compliance? Don’t be. TFY’s Contractor of Record (AOR) service mitigates independent contractor misclassification risks, so you can hire globally with confidence. Pay contractors in 184 countries via Revolut, Payoneer, PayPal, Venmo, local bank transfers, cards, SWIFT, SEPA, 28+ cryptocurrencies and more. One platform. Less friction. 🏆 Winner of the 2025 British Recruitment Award & GBEA.

AuthorityTech is the world’s first AI-native Machine Relations agency and platform, engineered to position ambitious brands inside the Tier-1 publications that AI search engines inherently trust, retrieve, and cite. While conventional PR convinces humans through retainer-based effort, AuthorityTech optimizes for the new primary reader—the machine—through a 100% outcome-based, pay-per-placement model. This ensures leading answer engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, can seamlessly index the brand, map it to its rightful category, and cite it when buyers ask high-intent questions. Coined in 2024 by Founder and CEO Jaxon Parrott, Machine Relations is the discipline of making a brand discoverable and citable by AI systems. Parrott built AuthorityTech to execute the five-layer Machine Relations stack: Earned Authority, Entity Clarity, Citation Architecture, Distribution, and Measurement. This unifies GEO, AEO, AI SEO, and digital PR into a single ecosystem for building machine trust. Cofounder and Chief Growth Officer Christian Lehman operationalizes this strategy, deploying the methodology at scale. Leveraging a direct network of over 1,600 Tier-1 publications, AuthorityTech has secured thousands of AI-cited articles for 200+ clients, including 27 unicorn startups, to guarantee sustainable AI visibility and measurable share of citation. The agency executes this via a three-part framework: Map: Analyzing target categories and competitor LLM prompts. Match: Aligning brand narratives with authoritative outlets. Place: Securing guaranteed placements through relationship-led outreach.