Award-winning candidate experience software. Build commitment, reduce applications

Candidate experience is the overall impression a candidate forms of your organisation throughout the hiring process – from first awareness through to offer acceptance and beyond. It covers every touchpoint: the careers content they consume, the people they interact with, the communications they receive and the ease of the application and assessment process. A strong candidate experience builds genuine commitment, improves conversion rates and reduces dropout. A poor one costs you candidates you already had.

AI tools have made it dramatically easier for candidates to generate and submit applications with minimal effort. For early careers and volume hiring particularly, this has led to a sharp rise in application numbers – without a corresponding rise in genuine intent or quality. The practical impact is significant: hiring teams spend more time screening larger volumes of lower-quality applications, while the candidates who are genuinely committed get harder to identify. Employers who engage candidates meaningfully before they apply – giving them a real view of the organisation and tracking their engagement – find that volume drops and quality improves.

Eli Insights™ gives you a real-time engagement score for every candidate, based on the depth and consistency of their interaction with your content, community and tasks from their very first touchpoint. You can see who is actively engaging, who has started to disengage and who has gone quiet entirely – before anyone has submitted an application and long before day one. That intelligence allows you to reach out to the most committed candidates at the right moment, identify potential drop-outs early and focus your team's time where it will have the most impact.

Most candidate experience platforms are built for the attraction and application stage. Once a candidate accepts an offer, they typically move to a different system for pre-boarding and onboarding – which means a break in the experience, a loss of data and a drop in momentum at exactly the moment you want candidates to feel most connected. Eli is designed to support the whole journey: from first interest through pre-boarding and into onboarding, all on one platform. No handover. No gap. The engagement you build with a candidate before they apply carries all the way through to their first day and beyond.

Eli can support candidates at every stage of the hiring journey – pre-application, application, assessment and beyond. Before a candidate applies, Eli helps you build genuine interest, track engagement and connect prospective applicants with mentors or hiring managers who can give personal insight into the role. Through application and assessment, Eli keeps candidates informed, supported and confident. It can also give line managers the tools and content to support the interview experience itself. Once an offer is accepted, pre-boarding begins immediately – no platform switch, no loss of momentum.

Yes. Eli is particularly well-suited to high-volume and early careers hiring, where the gap between application numbers and genuine intent is most acute. Eli helps these employers cut through inflated volumes by engaging candidates meaningfully before they apply, giving serious applicants a reason to commit and making it easy for poor-fit candidates to self-select out. The result is a smaller, higher-quality, more committed pipeline – and a hiring process that is significantly easier for your team to manage.

Yes – through Noggin, Eli's built-in AI layer. Noggin analyses your programme data and gives your team practical guidance on how to build better experiences over time. It works in the background, helping the people running your programme make smarter decisions. The experience your new hires receive remains personal and human-led – Noggin supports the team delivering it, not the new hires going through it.

Eli integrates with a wide range of ATS and HRIS systems – including Workday, SAP, Oracle and iCIMS – so candidate data moves cleanly between your existing tools and Eli throughout the hiring journey. Our team works with you to make integration straightforward for your IT team.

Eli is designed to reflect your employer brand throughout the candidate journey – not to replace it. Every touchpoint, from the content candidates consume to the communications they receive and the community they join, is fully branded to your organisation. You control the message. Eli makes sure every candidate experiences it consistently, at every stage.