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Save time writing job descriptions with our starter templates. Choose from our library and customize as needed. You’ll have an attractive and professional job posting ready in minutes.
Don’t have a careers page to publish to? No problem. Create a branded careers page with your logo, company pictures, and links to social media. And with our mobile-friendly application forms, your future employees can apply easily from their phone.
Stop publishing to multiple job boards manually. With CareerPlug, you can automatically distribute jobs to all the major sites and instantly promote open positions to potential candidates.
“CareerPlug has allowed me to cast a net that is 2-3x larger into the job posting arena… In one month, I had over 325 applicants.”
– Rally Deleon, Chick-fil-A Operator
CareerPlug and ZipRecruiter have partnered to offer 30 days of free sponsored distribution after you become a CareerPlug customer.
Save hours reviewing the resumes of unqualified applicants. With customizable prescreen questions, CareerPlug helps introduce you to candidates that meet your requirements and weed out unqualified applicants.
We’ll also immediately notify you by text or email when a great candidate applies, so you don’t lose top talent to competitors!
“The prescreen questions and scores has substantially reduced the time it takes my managers to go through resumes, call candidates and make job offers!”
– Ana Ortiz, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
A structured and well-organized interview process helps companies make better hiring decisions. CareerPlug makes this easier with pre-built questions and scorecards, providing a consistent experience for your hiring team and candidates.
Of course you can still add and modify questions, to ensure candidates meet the unique requirements of your open positions.
“CareerPlug helped us create a system around our hiring process. Being able to post jobs and move candidates through the process in one location really helps make finding and hiring good people much easier.”
– Travis Reed, The Grounds Guys of League City
2020 Recruiting Benchmark Report – CareerPlug analyzed hiring activity from over 10,000 companies and 10 million job applications to establish recruiting benchmarks for 10 different industries (e.g. education, healthcare, and retail). Some of the key findings from our research include the following:
To learn more about hiring benchmarks, download the full report or read our summary at 2020 Recruiting Metrics: Benchmark Data by Industry.
No. CareerPlug is built for owner-operators and general managers who hire as part of their job, not for full-time HR professionals. Most first-time users are posting a job and taking applications the same day they sign up. The workflows are deliberately linear — post, screen, interview, offer, onboard — no approval trees or complex permissioning to configure up front. You're not reading a 200-page manual before you can use the tool.
It's an ATS plus everything around it. Traditional enterprise ATSs are built for large HR teams with complex approval workflows, multi-stage compliance reviews, and recruiter-specific features you don't need. CareerPlug strips that complexity and adds job distribution, screening tools, text recruiting, and onboarding in one tool. You're not stitching together Greenhouse plus Indeed Sponsored plus DocuSign plus your payroll system — it's one login for the whole hire.
Yes, and that's where it shines. Restaurants, retail, home services, and cleaning companies are some of the heaviest users for exactly this reason. Bulk candidate text outreach, reusable pre-qualified candidate pools, and rehire workflows for past applicants are built for operators who are always hiring. The platform assumes you're running a constant, low-effort hiring motion rather than doing one big search a year.
Most owners and managers are running their first hire inside a day. Initial setup (careers page, first job template, pre-screen questions) takes a couple of hours. After that, new jobs are a few minutes each. Support is available when you get stuck, not required to get started — and more than 10 years of refining the product for exactly this audience means the sharp edges have been filed down.
The same tool that posts your first job runs a 50-location operation. When you grow, you add locations, invite more hiring managers, set up PartnerHub for multi-location visibility — you don't migrate to a different platform. The architecture is built around the growth stages we see in real businesses: I Do Everything → I Manage Everyone → I Manage Managers → Business Runs Without Me. Same platform, different features unlock as you need them.