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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.

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.