From first contact to fully onboarded in one platform

Eli is a multi-award-winning candidate experience, pre-boarding and onboarding platform, used by organisations of all sizes to manage the complete talent experience from first contact to fully onboarded. Fully customisable, device-agnostic and backed by an expert implementation and support team, Eli reduces application overload, prevents offer reneges, reduces early attrition (by as much as 5% in the first year) and sets people up for success from day one.

Pre-boarding is everything that happens between a candidate accepting an offer and their first day – the critical window where engagement is high but support is often low. Onboarding is the structured experience from day one onwards that helps a new hire become a confident, productive member of your team. Both matter, and Eli handles them both on one platform, with one consistent experience and one continuous data set.

Yes. Eli's pre-boarding experience keeps candidates engaged, informed and connected from the moment they accept an offer. Eli Insights™ tracks their engagement in real time and flags early warning signs of disengagement – so you can offer additional support to those most at risk, well before they drop out.

Yes. Eli's pre-boarding and onboarding experience keeps new hires engaged from the moment they accept an offer. It also ensures everyone else involved in the process, such as line managers, deliver a consistently great experience every time, so nothing is left to chance, new people feel like they belong and perform sooner. Eli Insights™ adds an extra layer of security. It tracks new hire engagement in real time, before and after day one, and flags early warning signs of disengagement – so you can offer additional support to those most at risk, well before they drop out.

Eli's candidate experience capability allows organisations to engage with candidates before or at the point of application through a personalised portal. Rather than relying on volume applications alone, candidates can demonstrate genuine interest through content engagement and activity – helping hiring teams shortlist more effectively and reduce irrelevant application volumes. Eli Insights™ tracks this engagement in real time, giving recruiters visibility of where each candidate is in the process and how committed they are. It's particularly valuable for organisations with high application volumes – graduate and early careers programmes, apprenticeships, and seasonal or volume hiring.

Yes. Eli is built to work across all the different people joining your organisation – experienced professional hires, graduates, apprentices and school leavers, contractors and temporary workers, returners and career changers. Every person gets the same Eli technology, but with a tailored journey built around their role, level and circumstances. One platform. Many different experiences.

Eli gives managers everything they need to play their part in onboarding, without having to figure it out for themselves. A dedicated manager portal lays out exactly what they need to do, when to do it and how – with automated nudges keeping them on track throughout. The result is a consistent experience for every new hire, regardless of which team they join or who their manager is. Poor or inconsistent manager engagement is one of the most common causes of a poor onboarding experience. Eli fixes that. USS saw 100% engagement across new hires, managers and buddies – that's what's possible when everyone is properly supported.

Eli's dedicated implementation team guides you through every step of configuration and sets up your experience from scratch. Most clients go live in as little as eight weeks. In our 2026 Global Client Survey, 100% of new clients rated the implementation process 5 out of 5 stars.

Yes. Eli integrates with a wide range of HRIS and ATS platforms. Our team will review your existing technology stack during discovery and confirm compatibility before implementation begins. Visit our integrations page for full details.

Yes, in the right circumstances. Beyond its core candidate experience, pre-boarding and onboarding capability, Eli can also support employees moving into new internal roles, individuals going through offboarding or alumni engagement programmes, and people navigating organisational change or M&A activity. These use cases draw on the same platform logic – personalised, structured, data-driven – applied at different points in the employee lifecycle. If you have a specific requirement in one of these areas, speak to our team and we'll give you an honest picture of where Eli can add the most value.

Eli Insights™ is the intelligence engine built into the Eli platform. It tracks millions of data points – task completions, content engagement, wellbeing indicators and more – to give each person in your programme a unique, real-time engagement score. At an organisational level, it gives HR and talent teams the MI dashboard visibility they need to identify who's thriving, who's at risk, and where to focus their attention – so they can manage by insight, not by instinct.