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From applied to hired. Faster.

An AI-powered applicant tracking system with an always-on sourcing agent and verification built in. Cara finds and contacts candidates, October ranks every application against your role, culture and requirements, screens out bad hires with a reason, and October Verified checks identity, employment, social record and background before the offer.

Open roleSenior HR ManagerJohannesburg · Hybrid · 21 applicants
Ranked by October
TK
Thabo K.HR Business Partner · 6 yrs
61
Good match
NM
Naledi M.Senior HR Manager · 10 yrs
94
Excellent match
PS
Priya S.People Operations Lead · 8 yrs
88
Verified
JC
Jordan C.HR Generalist · 3 yrs
42
Employment dates don’t verify
AO
Amara O.Talent Manager · 7 yrs
79
Culture fit strong
Every ranking explained · recruiter can overrideUpdated just now
CaraAI sourcing agent · overnight
  • 1,248profiles searched against the role context
  • 14scored as strong matches and contacted
  • 6replied · 3 applications in the pipeline
October VerifiedNaledi M. · 5 of 5 checks
  • Identity & right to work
  • Employment history
  • Qualifications
  • Social record
  • Background check
All checks passed · ready for offer
13+
job boards posted to with a single click
45%+
reply rates on Cara outreach
70%
less sourcing time with Cara
Verified
identity, employment, social and background checks before offer
Why it mattersIndustry research
$4,700average cost per hire, with 44 days to fill a role

69% of employers struggle to find qualified candidates. Winning the talent war means working smarter, not harder.

Automated intelligenceGoverned AI · every decision explained

Bad hires out.
Great hires to the top.
Automatically.

October reads everything you know about a candidate and everything it knows about your company, then does the sorting a recruiter would do with a week and perfect memory. It happens the moment an application lands.

Applications · Cara · referrals · job boards
October intelligencerole · culture · requirements · verified record
Shortlist · ranked by fit
Screened out · with a reason
What it reads

Every signal. One score.

  • CV & experienceParsed against the role, not keywords.
  • Assessments & work-fitPersonality and skills tests scored on the record.
  • AI voice interviewStructured answers, transcribed and rated.
  • Interview scorecardsEvery interviewer’s evidence, calibrated.
  • October VerifiedIdentity, employment, social and background.
  • Your contextCulture, values, must-haves and the team they’ll join.
What it removes

Bad hires, before they cost you.

Candidates whose claims don’t verify, who miss a must-have, or who show the patterns that ended badly last time are screened out automatically, each with a written reason. Nothing disappears silently: recruiters see every exclusion and can restore anyone with one click.

  • Unverifiable employment
  • Missing must-have
  • Duplicate or fraudulent profile
  • Failed background check
What it promotes

Excellent fits, pushed to the top.

The shortlist is ranked by fit to the role, your culture, your requirements and the team the person will join, using what your own best hires had in common. Each candidate carries a plain-English explanation of why they are where they are, so a hiring manager can trust it without reading a single CV.

  • Role fit
  • Culture and values
  • Must-haves met
  • Verified record
October VerifiedConsent-led · jurisdiction-aware · on the record

Every claim checked.
Before the offer.

October Verified runs identity, employment, qualification, social and background checks inside the pipeline, with the candidate’s consent captured in the flow. Results land on the candidate record, feed the ranking, and follow the person into onboarding so nobody has to ask twice.

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Verification reportNaledi M. · Senior HR Manager
Passed
  • Identity & right to workMatched · SA ID · liveness passed
  • Employment history3 of 3 employers confirmed
  • QualificationsBCom Hons · confirmed with issuer
  • Social recordNo concerns · 2 professional profiles
  • Background checkCriminal · credit · sanctions clear
  • References2 of 2 returned · avg 4.7 / 5
Consent captured 12 Feb · report shared with hiring managerCompleted in 2 days

Identity & right to work

Government ID, liveness and right-to-work status confirmed before an interview is booked.

Employment verification

Employers, titles and dates on the CV confirmed against the source, with gaps and overlaps flagged.

Qualifications

Degrees, certifications and professional registrations checked with the issuing body.

Social record

Public professional and social presence reviewed for the things you would want to know, and nothing you are not allowed to consider.

Background checks

Criminal, credit, sanctions and adverse-media checks where the role and jurisdiction permit them.

References

Structured reference requests sent, chased and scored automatically, with the answers on the candidate record.

Inside Recruitment & ATS4 capabilities

Recruitment & ATS.
Piece by piece.

Every capability below reads from and writes to the same employee record, so nothing has to be reconciled afterwards.

01 · Cara AI sourcing agent

Your always-on recruiter.

Cara searches millions of profiles, scores each candidate against the role requirements and initiates outreach. Real-time tracking follows every candidate from first message to application. Set the AI context once per role and Cara sources and screens against it.

  • Millions of profiles searched
  • Candidates scored against requirements
  • Automated, personalised outreach
  • Sourcing sessions with targets and results
October PeopleRecruitment & ATS
Live record · updated now
RECRUITMENT

Cara AI sourcing agent

  • Millions of profiles searchedLive
  • Candidates scored against requirementsConnected
  • Automated, personalised outreachReady
  • Sourcing sessions with targets and resultsReady
Connected to the employee record
Everything inside20 sub-features

Hiring

  • Recruitment dashboard
  • My dashboard
  • Job postings and templates
  • Candidates
  • Talent pools
  • Scorecards
  • Referrals
  • Hiring analytics

Talent sourcing

  • Sourcing suite
  • Sourcing sessions
  • Email templates
  • Sourcing analytics
  • Cara agent

October Verified

  • Identity and right to work
  • Employment verification
  • Qualification checks
  • Social record
  • Background checks
  • Automated references
  • Candidate consent
AI in this moduleGoverned · named purpose · human oversight

Built into everything.
Not bolted on.

AI Powered Insights helps teams review data, answer questions and follow up across October People. Here is what it does inside Recruitment & ATS.

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Cara agent

Autonomous candidate discovery, scoring and outreach.

Automated ranking

Every application scored against role, culture, must-haves and the verified record, with bad fits screened out and a written reason.

AI context per role

Tune sourcing and screening behaviour for each job.

Job description drafting

Generate postings from the position and your tone of voice.

Stand-alone or enhancedWorks alone · better together

Stand-alone.
Or connected.

Recruitment & ATS works powerfully on its own. Connect it with the modules below and every workflow starts with the same people, roles, history and evidence.

Recruitment & ATS · FAQ5 answers

Questions,
answered.

Which job boards does October post to?

October posts to 13+ boards from one job record, with tracking links so you can measure which source produces the best hires.

How does Cara find candidates?

Cara searches external profiles against the role's AI context, scores candidates and sends personalised outreach. Recruiters see replies, scores and progress in one sourcing session.

Can hiring managers use it without training?

Yes. Hiring managers see their own dashboard, complete structured scorecards and approve offers. Recruiters keep the full pipeline and analytics.

What does October Verified check?

Identity and right to work, employment history, qualifications, social record, background checks such as criminal, credit and sanctions where the role and jurisdiction allow, and structured references. Candidate consent is captured in the flow and results sit on the candidate record.

Can we see why a candidate was screened out?

Always. Every automated exclusion carries a written reason, is visible to recruiters, and can be reversed with one click. Rankings are explained the same way, and a person makes the final call.

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