Join

Join, the all-in-one ATS for SMB hiring

Join is an applicant tracking system (ATS) designed for small and medium-sized businesses. According to its presentation, the tool centralizes job posting, application management, and interview scheduling in a single workflow. The company states that more than 20,000 companies worldwide use its service.

Job posting and distribution

The platform lets you post a job once and distribute it automatically to more than 10 organic job boards and over 250 paid job boards. Join handles per-board formatting and field mapping, so edits to the original ad update across all live postings. The company states that paid placements purchased through Join have no markup and that, on many regional boards, the cost is up to 50% lower than going direct. It also notes that its Quick Apply feature generates up to three times more applications per board. Its declared partnerships include Indeed as a Platinum partner, LinkedIn as a Silver partner, and StepStone as a Preferred partner.

Application management and pipeline

Every candidate, regardless of source, is consolidated into a single profile that brings together their CV, contact details, and work history. Users can add candidates to talent pools, send emails, and track consent, including for profiles captured directly from LinkedIn using a Chrome extension. The system lets you move candidates through stages, leave structured notes, and make decisions as a team. The shared inbox centralizes candidate communication, keeping templates, history, and context on the candidate profile. Roles and permissions are set once and enforced uniformly: hiring managers see their pipeline, and everyone else sees only the jobs they're on.

Interviews and evaluation

Join makes interview scheduling easy with a booking link that works across every interviewer's calendar. The candidate picks an available slot, the invitation goes out automatically with the video call link, and the slot is blocked to prevent double-booking. The tool syncs bidirectionally with Google Calendar and Outlook. For evaluation, the platform lets you define criteria by role and have each interviewer rate the same attributes on the same scale; panel scores are aggregated on the candidate profile.

Automation and analytics

The platform automates routine tasks such as status updates and follow-up emails. It also offers a live dashboard for every active job and lets you analyze metrics such as applications, interview pass rate, and hires per board, in order to identify which channels bring in quality talent.

Security and regulatory compliance

Join states that it complies with GDPR, with candidate rights built into every profile and primary hosting in the EU. It also holds ISO 27001:2022 certification for information security management.

Use cases and results

The company targets its product at hiring teams across various industries: startups, hospitality, professional services, healthcare, and retail. Among the cases it presents, the Swiss Startup Association built its entire team with this tool and reduced cost per hire by 90%; MARTENS & PRAHL replaced email-based hiring across more than 90 offices and cut job posting time from a week to five minutes; and Bling more than tripled its team in four months. Join also states that its customers are able to reduce time to hire by up to three times.

Access model

The platform offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card, which includes five job postings and full access. It also lets you request a demo.

Location and contact

Eichenstrasse 2, Pfäffikon, Schwyz, CH