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October Recruitment · AI from the startGreat people.
Great people.
Moving your way.
From an open role to
the person who moves you forward.
Cara finds and engages the right people. AI helps you screen, interview and verify them. One connected ATS keeps every conversation, decision and next step together.
Northstar · Product team
Search activeSenior Product Designer
Cape Town · Hybrid · Hiring manager: Alex
Every application has a starting point.
The evidence, ready for your team.
A conversation with your next hire.
Source & engageScreen & interviewVerify & decideOffer & onboard
The entire hiring journeyOne recruitment platform.
One recruitment platform.
Intelligence at every step.
Go deeper into the work that gets you from a hiring brief to a great hire.
Find & engage
AI sourcing with Cara
From a role brief to a personal introduction and a booked interview. Cara handles the conversation.
Explore Cara sourcingFind the fit
AI screening & matching
Score candidates against the role. See the evidence behind the match, and the gaps worth exploring.
Explore AI screeningHear the evidence
AI interviews & assessments
Live AI conversations, recorded responses and interviewer-led screening. One structured way to evaluate.
Explore AI interviewsSee the real work
Take-home & technical assessments
Cara-built take-home exercises, blind team scoring and technical assessments that check the candidate understands their own work.
Explore AssessmentsKeep work moving
Recruitment automation
Candidate emails, internal tasks and team notifications triggered by progress through your pipeline.
Explore AutomationCheck the evidence
October Verified
Look behind the CV with employment cross-checks, professional evidence, references and verification findings.
Explore October VerifiedBring it together
Applicant tracking & hiring insights
A shared ATS with talent pools, job distribution, team scorecards, offers and hiring analytics.
Explore Pipeline & insightsThe details that add upSmall things.
Small things.
Big difference.
The parts of the ATS your recruiters and hiring managers notice every day.
Free interviewer accounts
In ATS-only workspaces, bring a founder, advisor or board member onto the panel. They see only the candidates they interview, submit scorecards and get reminders, at no extra cost.
Decide from Slack
New-application cards show Reject on weak matches and Advance on strong ones. Once someone decides, everyone else’s copy updates.
Switch without starting over
Self-serve imports from Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, plus Workday and BambooHR. Review a snapshot before anything is imported.
One rubric everywhere
Cara builds a weighted Role Spiderweb of four to eight competencies that drives screening, AI interviews, interview kits and ranking.
A careers site that’s yours
A branded careers site with an embed widget and job feeds, plus one-click posting to 13 boards including LinkedIn, Indeed and Google Jobs.
Your first conversation is already happeningYou’re hiring.
You’re hiring.
Cara’s on it.
Profiles build themselves. Introductions feel personal. Questions get answered. And high-scoring candidates find their way onto the hiring manager’s calendar.
Meet Cara, your AI sourcing agentTo Naledi · Senior Product Designer
“Your work building a shared design system stood out. We’re looking for someone to shape exactly that kind of practice at Northstar.”
NM
Sounds interesting. Is the team open to hybrid working?
Cara has the role context
“Yes — two days in Cape Town, with the rest remote. Would Thursday at 10 work to meet Alex?”
A focused starting point. Room to grow.Start with recruitment.
Start with recruitment.
Stay connected to People.
Use the recruitment capabilities your team needs today. Connect hiring with core HR and onboarding as your organisation grows, with the same person’s record carrying through the employee lifecycle.
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The whole employee journey.
RecruitmentOnboardingCore HR
Then performance, learning, careers and everything that helps your people grow.
Build your People business caseMake the investment concrete
A hiring case you can explain.
Start with your hiring volume, agency fees and time to fill. Explore the value of a more connected recruitment workflow.
Calculate your hiring opportunityOctober Recruitment · Part of October PeopleBuild your next team.
Build your next team.
With a little more intelligence.
Bring a role you’re hiring for. Follow the whole journey in a demo.
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