Use WhatsApp and other Messengers as recruiting channel

Text recruiting by softgarden

Simplify and speed up the application process

Attract more candidates in the shortest possible time

Save costs thanks to new recruiting channels

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Attract more candidates through WhatsApp recruiting

Key benefits for your mobile recruiting

Offer applications via WhatsApp and others

Candidates apply directly in the selected messenger. If required, they can also upload documents such as photos, references or CVs.

Candidates can choose between the messengers WhatsApp and Telegram when applying via text message

Save costs

Text recruiting means that more candidates get in touch faster – and you can evaluate them more easily.

Thanks to text message recruiting, you attract more candidates in less time

Lower application barriers

Candidates are more likely to start an application – and up to 95% of them complete it. For candidates from blue-collar sectors in particular, applying by text message is a convenient alternative to applying via traditional application forms.

Thanks to its ease of use, text recruiting reduces application barriers

Screen candidates faster

Thanks to the collected answers to the structured questions, you can compare candidates more easily and make your pre-selection more quickly.

You can qualify and evaluate candidates more quickly by asking specific questions

Integrate your recruiting

The application channel is seamlessly integrated into your softgarden career site and the candidates’ responses are sent directly to the applicant tracking system. This means you have all your data in one central location.

The data from the interface flows seamlessly into the softgarden applicant tracking system

Put questions together individually

The content and number of questions used are freely selectable.

In addition to open questions, you can also use other question types, such as single-choice questions or file uploads

Benefit from multilingualism

The solution can be used with all 18 languages that are stored in softgarden.

Recruiting by short message is available in German, French, English, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian and other languages

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“Since we started offering WhatsApp as an application channel, we have been much more successful in recruiting. Talents prefer to apply via Messenger because everything is so straightforward. The number of applications has multiplied in a very short time.”
Claudia Wahler

Head of Personnel Development and Recruiting, Gebr. Zobel & Co. Speditions GmbH

On par with the candidates

Present yourself as a modern employer

Do your candidates a favor: with Text Recruiting you lower application barriers and accommodate your candidates.

Make the application process more human. Applications via chat are like a personal conversation between friends or acquaintances. This increases the chance that the talent you are courting will apply to you.

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Chat instead of forms

Speed up your application process

Ask exactly the questions you need answers to in the chat. This will give you a quick first impression – and you can quickly decide whether a candidate should be shortlisted.

The easier it is to apply, the more likely you are to do so. Applying via Messenger also makes life easier for candidates – which means you receive more applications faster. The data is fed directly into the applicant management system, where you can process it effortlessly.

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Messengers are the recruiting trend

Use new recruiting channels

Communication behavior is changing. More and more Germans are using text messages to exchange information – such as WhatsApp or Telegram.

Use this dynamic to your advantage. With softgarden, you enable candidates to apply to you directly via text recruiting – at the touch of a button on your career page. It’s that easy.

Find out how you can accelerate your recruiting with softgarden

Maximum security for a good feeling

Ongoing quality assurance

We are ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified. DEKRA has thus recognised us for our high product and service quality. The continuous improvement of quality is our top priority

Certified safety standards

Our servers are hosted in ISO/IEC 27001-certified data centres in Germany. They offer the highest security standards for the storage and availability of your data – and the data of your applicants.

Working in compliance with the GDPR

softgarden offers you the opportunity to map your recruiting processes in compliance with GDPR – confirmed by an external data protection assessment.

Learn more about data protection at softgarden

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Dekra certified quality management and security management. ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001

certified product, approved security, tested on 10, 2023

softgarden is part of the cloud services made in germany initiative

Excellent customer service

Free support via telephone, chat or e-mail

Personal Customer Success Agent

No hidden costs

Unlimited users

About softgarden

Leading recruiting software provider

Founded in 2003, softgarden has established itself as a leading recruiting software provider. We have made it our mission to help companies digitize their recruiting – and we are successful in doing so, as evidenced by the growing number of satisfied customers and multiple awards.

softgarden is headquartered in Germany and is also represented in the following countries: Austria, France and Switzerland.

Our software offering is complemented by a comprehensive media offering: thanks to high booking volumes, we offer job ads at particularly advantageous prices. Our portfolio includes over 1,200 job platforms, Google and social media – bookable individually or as a package with multiposting.

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