Recruitment faces a tough period, with hiring slowdowns, team and budget cuts, and disruption from AI impacting hiring processes. Consequently, many teams ask what the future of recruitment looks like and how to do more with less. According to BCG and the Financial Times, the future relies on AI and automation, with 51% of UK business leaders planning to invest in AI instead of hiring, and 57% planning to hire fewer people in 2025.
Therefore, hiring professionals must adopt AI-enabled tools and integrate them into daily processes. However, this approach carries risks. For example, the recent Workday lawsuit demonstrated the commercial consequences and brand damage caused by unclear AI usage in ATS software.
As a result, hiring leaders must select tools carefully, prioritising cost, ease of implementation, and adequate configuration support to implement technology responsibly and ethically. While Teamtailor provides AI tools through its platform and marketplace, mid-market businesses often rely on knowledge base articles and manage configuration themselves, navigating a less transparent pricing structure.
For those aiming to implement an ATS without stretching budgets or handling complex configurations alone, several market options exist. To help, we have summarised these options below for easy reference.
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Occy
Who’s it best for?
Occy suits UK mid-market businesses looking to onboard an ATS with a powerful feature set and highly customisable automation builder.
The platform is easy to use, has a minimal learning curve, and offers an extensive integrated feature set.
Additionally, Occy provides people-led customer support, keeping users supported throughout their hiring process.
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Why choose Occy over Teamtailor?
As a Teamtailor alternative, Occy covers most of Teamtailor’s features, but we build them directly into the platform rather than offering them through a marketplace or expensive add-ons.
For hiring teams, this means Occy’s price includes all features, with no hidden costs or extra subscriptions that stretch budgets or block strategies.
Occy also prioritises customer service and implementation. While Teamtailor promotes customer success, businesses under 5,000 employees often configure the platform themselves using knowledge base articles.
Self-serve configuration typically takes about four months. In contrast, Occy fully configures and trains teams within four weeks, guided by people, not articles.
Key Features
- Fully customisable and automated workflows that can be built in a few clicks and don’t require weeks of effort to get up and running
- Ethically implemented AI features that support the hiring process and reduce manual workload without compromising explainability or introducing unwanted bias
- Customer service that’s people-first, with the same gold standard of service for all customers regardless of their company size or contract value
How does Teamtailor’s pricing work?
Teamtailor does not list pricing tiers on its website. Reviews indicate the model is unclear and includes many hidden costs.
Their website advertises a deep feature set, but many features require add-ons or the integrated marketplace. Core functions like data import and calendar connections come at extra cost.
The number of integrations is impressive and provides access to a wide feature base. However, additional annual subscriptions add up, making ROI justification harder for budget-conscious hiring leaders.
At Occy, we provide a similar feature set at a fixed cost, aligned with Teamtailor’s basic package price.
We believe teams should not have hiring strategies limited by price or access to critical features locked behind add-ons, especially when budgets are tight.
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Talos360
Who’s it best for?
Talos 360 suits larger businesses with complex hiring processes that require a fully configured ATS, including broad features and HRIS integrations.
It also works well for the public sector, where its G-Cloud 14 accreditation can simplify procurement processes.
However, the modular pricing structure increases costs significantly. Desirable features like video profiling and career site builds are priced in four figures on top of the standard subscription.
Mid-market teams that are budget-conscious or need a platform configured quickly will find better options with similar features at lower costs.
Key Features
- Configurable platform with a broad feature set supporting varied hiring processes
- Agency portals and PSL provide an integrated way to work with external parties
- Strong analytics capabilities, providing teams with granular reporting into performance
Key Considerations
- AI implementation is shifting into an ethically grey area, where algorithms and models look to replace many core responsibilities of hiring managers
- Modular platform structure provides flexibility, but also significant complexity causing configuration projects to take roughly 4 months before value is realised
- Customer service is tiered, and as Talos 360 begins to focus on the enterprise segment, mid-market customers may find the service level inadequate for their needs
Pricing
Talos360 uses a modular pricing structure. While a highly configured package sounds appealing, contract values often rise sharply when desired features are added.
Talos360 also allows users to buy media instead of going directly to job boards. However, packages remain relatively expensive. Occy saves teams significant costs on media compared to Talos360’s quoted prices.
Overall, Talos360 provides a highly configurable and connected ATS. Yet, this comes at a significant premium compared to other market options, especially for teams supporting candidate attraction with media advertising.
Greenhouse
Who’s it best for?
Greenhouse is the benchmark ATS for enterprise customers seeking a consistent, robust hiring process across international teams with complex implementations.
With a deep feature set, strong analytics, and a wide integration ecosystem, Greenhouse appeals to larger businesses needing a structured global hiring process.
Key Features
- Broad feature set and structured hiring processes improve governance
- Largest integration network with over 500 apps and an open API
- Robust analytics package with highly customisable dashboards and reports
Key Considerations
- Implementation is heavier than most options, with configuration and training often taking a few months (extending further with additional tech stack integrations)
- Many features are locked behind the higher tier platform packages, meaning that teams opting for lower tier pricing don’t get access to the newest ATS features
- Customer service is limited to knowledge base articles and text support without paying for the highest product tiers, leaving many users to fend for themselves
Pricing
Greenhouse does not publish pricing on its website. Reports suggest packages sit at the higher end of typical ATS costs.
Lower-tier pricing can match other platforms but offers fewer features and less support than many alternatives on the market.
Pricing also depends on company size. Mid-market businesses with a few hundred employees may see contracts rise into mid-five figures.
Additional costs, such as advertising media, are not included in standard pricing.
Pinpoint
Who’s it best for?
Like Teamtailor, Pinpoint suits internal hiring teams that prioritise employer branding or want to build bespoke hiring processes across functions.
Pinpoint uses automation to support candidate communication, team notifications, and basic candidate management. However, teams seeking AI integration or faster implementation may want to consider other options.
Key Features
- Best in class career site builder and employer branding toolkit
- Automation builder that supports function specific workflows
- Equality reporting is a larger focus in Pinpoint compared to other ATS platforms
Key Considerations
- Implementation heavily varies based on the complexity of the organisation, with some complex projects taking up to 6 months before the platform is completely configured
- Whilst the automation builder is effective, it takes a significant amount of time to get up and running and workflows built to support the hiring process
- Pinpoint’s AI features don’t extend to generative AI, meaning that email templates and communications still need to be written manually, making automation less scalable
Pricing
Pinpoint does not publish pricing on its website and requires a meeting to provide a quote.
Reported pricing sits at the higher end of the ATS market, with some features locked behind an Enterprise tier starting at five figures per year.
Although pricing is high, the system lacks customisation, suggesting teams with larger budgets may get better value elsewhere.
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Cezanne Recruitment (formerly Occupop)
Who’s it best for?
With Cezanne’s recent acquisition of Occupop, the platform has now been rebranded as Cezanne Recruitment. Their ATS focuses on catering to small businesses, offering a simple platform that can be implemented quickly (within 24 hours according to their website).
Cezanne recruitment is a great fit for small businesses and organisations that are looking for a simple solution to help quickly organise their hiring process, without the deep feature set or automation workflows that help ATS platforms provide scalability and customisation.
Key Features
- Fast implementation time supported by onboarding and support teams
- Simple and intuitive UX that doesn’t require much training to use
- Practical, yet basic feature set that doesn’t require complex set up to get started
Key Considerations
- Automation and nurture campaigns are under-developed, making the platform less scalable for businesses that are growing, or have larger hiring demands
- Integrations are weak, with most of the available connections related to general productivity platforms such as Microsoft Teams, or employee benefit platforms
- For teams that aren’t using Cezanne’s HRIS, the platform may feel less future-proof given the lack of available integrations with other common HRTech.
Pricing
Given the recent acquisition, pricing is difficult to gauge and isn’t published on Cezanne Recruitment’s website. Previous customers have indicated that Occupop’s basic package was in the mid four figures per year, and given that the platform mostly targets small businesses, this may still be correct.
For small businesses who are looking to purchase their first ATS or teams that are already using Cezanne’s HRIS, Cezanne Recruitment is an attractive option. However, for teams that have more complex hiring processes or are purchasing an ATS with the future in mind, there are likely better options.
SeeMeHired
Who’s it best for?
SeeMeHired is a basic platform that’s best suited for small businesses who are looking to onboard their first ATS, particularly in industries such as hospitality and healthcare where compliance is a greater concern.
For internal teams who are only looking for the basic functionality of an ATS; the ability to post to job boards, collect CVs and schedule video interviews, SeeMeHired can perform adequately, However, for teams that are looking to scale their hiring process through automation and through the usage of AI, there are better options on the market.
Key Features
- Clean interface that’s easy to use and mobile friendly
- Integrated video tool allows teams to use the ATS for end-to-end hiring
- Candidate portal brings transparency to the hiring process
Key Considerations
- The platform is missing automation within its functionality, limiting the ability to create scalable processes using SeeMeHired
- There’s a lack of customisation for teams who have complexity in their hiring process, making it unsuitable for mature hiring functions
- SeeMeHired doesn’t integrate with other software outside of job boards, preventing it from becoming a core part of a connected tech stack and ecosystem
Pricing
SeeMeHired doesn’t publish pricing on its website, and there are a lack of reviews or customers who have given an indication into what pricing model the platform uses. It’s worth noting that implementation isn’t included in the subscription price, and reportedly costs roughly 25 – 33% of an annual subscription as a one off fee
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Whilst there’s speculation that the UK job market will rebound in 2025, the latest data from KPMG and Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has shown the opposite, with recruitment at one of the lowest points it’s been in the last two years.