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
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
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
NMN. Mokoena94
JCJ. Cole41
PSP. Singh88
AOA. Okafor79
RDR. Daniels36
LvWL. van Wyk83
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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