Meet Rippling Recruiting: Where all-in-one meets best-in-class

Today, I’m thrilled to share all of the exciting new features we’ve built for Rippling Recruiting this year. With these releases, Rippling is the first and only HR platform to build an applicant tracking system as powerful as a specialized recruiting solution—so talent teams can finally have the all-in-one dream without sacrificing the features they need to hire top talent, faster. 

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Powerful features vs. a unified system: the tradeoff you don’t need to make

There is nothing recruiters and candidates hate more than the applicant tracking systems offered by HR all-in-one platforms – I know this from the hundreds of recruiters I’ve spoken to over the years. The loathing runs so deep that many applicants refuse to apply to companies that use them, which means missing out on potential top talent.

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Having an applicant tracking system (ATS) in the same platform as HR should be a dream: after all, once candidates are hired, they become employees, and once employees leave your company, they become candidates again. Shouldn’t one system encompass the entire lifecycle? Talent leaders are under pressure to consolidate their tech stack, and using an all-in-one system would result in streamlined workflows between recruiting and HR teams in addition to cost savings. So why doesn’t it work? 

The problem is that these legacy HR systems only offer “check-the-box” applicant tracking systems to meet buyers’ surface-level requirements. This barebones functionality isn't nearly as powerful as specialized recruiting solutions. 

Talent teams deserve better, which is why many instead turn to specialized dedicated recruiting solutions like Greenhouse, Ashby, and countless others. Before I joined Rippling to lead the development of our talent products, I spent most of the last decade building purpose-built solutions for world-class recruiting teams, from Fortune 500 companies to today’s fastest-growing tech companies. My team and I lived and breathed recruiting, and our customers loved us for the expertise and depth we brought to our products. 

However, I’d still hear over and over from customers how much they wished for  the all-in-one dream. With an  ATS that’s siloed from the rest of the HR system,  onboarding new hires means duplicative data entry and missed handoffs, gleaning actionable data  requires manual data pulls and joins across disparate  systems and incongruous data models, and aligning on a source of truth for approved headcount is nearly  impossible. 

At Rippling, we believe you shouldn’t have to choose. 

We built Rippling Recruiting to be the best of both worlds

Today, I’m excited to share all of the exciting new features we’ve built for Rippling Recruiting this year because for the first time ever, it means talent teams can finally have the best of both worlds: an applicant tracking system with the power you expect from a point solution, built right inside your core HR platform.

We’ve built innovative, AI-powered features like Application Review and Interview Assistant to help you identify and hire top talent faster than ever. Rippling’s own team of over a hundred recruiters uses Rippling Recruiting daily as their applicant tracking system, which is rapidly  evolving week-over-week thanks to their feedback, our dedicated R&D team, and thousands of customers like Chess.com.

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How Chess.com automates global onboarding at scale

With 700+ employees across 60+ countries and no large IT team, Chess.com used Rippling to automate every setup step—accounts, app access, permissions, and offboarding. What used to require manual coordination across dozens of tools now runs end-to-end on its own.

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See Chess.com’s story

Here’s a glimpse of some of the exciting ways our new AI-powered features can help you hire better: 

Accelerate hiring with Application Review

Surface top candidates instantly using criteria that you define so that you can skip the manual resume sifting and reach top talent before your competitors snatch them up. Understand exactly why a candidate did or didn’t meet the criteria with transparent profile summaries, and help protect against potential biases with built-in checks that flag problematic criteria before they’re applied.

Improve hiring outcomes with Interview Assistant

Give more thorough feedback, faster by using AI to automatically record and transcribe interviews. Easily identify takeaways from interviews with interview summaries based on transcripts and leverage data-driven insights from recordings to train and coach interviewers, keeping your hiring bar consistent and high. 

Make better hiring decisions with candidate feedback summaries

Synthesize each interviewer’s feedback form using AI to create a digestible summary of a candidate’s strengths and areas of improvement. This gives hiring teams a helpful snapshot of a candidate’s performance, making it easier to align on a decision quickly, reducing time-to-hire,and expediting the time it takes to extend an offer. 

Save time and improve the candidate experience with smart scheduling 

Quickly identify the best times to schedule interviews by analyzing all of your interviewers’ calendars to generate a range of options. Candidates can then choose their ideal option, streamlining and simplifying the whole interview process. For simple 1:1 interviews, candidates can also schedule their own interviews from available slots. Rippling even books meeting rooms and automatically adds a video conference link if applicable. 

Post jobs faster without the manual work

Leverage AI to instantly create job descriptions based on inputs like job title, employment type, and years of experience. Automatically remove potentially biased or exclusionary language to help you maintain compliance and fairness. Once the job description is ready, you can then post it in seconds to your external or internal job boards. 

Screen candidates at scale with AI Video Screens [Coming soon]

Save hours of recruiter time by adding asynchronous video screens to your hiring process. Create custom questionnaire templates with configurable response times, then invite candidates to record their answers at their convenience without the burden of scheduling. Reviewers can watch candidate responses in batches (even at 2x speed!) and leave feedback directly, helping you identify top talent faster while giving candidates a flexible experience. AI-generated transcripts and summaries make it easy to quickly assess responses.

Protect your pipeline with applicant fraud detection [Coming soon]

Automatically identify suspicious applications before they waste your team's time. Rippling analyzes each application in real-time, checking for signals like VPN usage, disposable email addresses, location mismatches, and newly-created contact information. Each applicant receives a fraud risk score, giving recruiters a heads-up when something doesn't add up so you can focus on legitimate candidates and keep your pipeline clean.

In addition to innovative AI features, we’ve also released a series of exciting improvements to our ATS, including: 

• Bi-directional Candidate Texting: The hiring team can message candidates directly in Rippling’s ATS for faster, more personal communication.

• Custom Fields: Whether you need to collect industry certifications, specific qualifications, or any other unique data points, you can now add custom fields to capture the information that matters most to your organization. Plus, if candidates become employees, these custom fields seamlessly transfer to their employee profiles.

• Interactive offer letters: Bring offers to life for candidates with interactive views of potential job earnings over time—base pay and equity included. 

• Agency Portal: Collaborate confidently with external recruiters with job-specific permissions to protect your data, streamlined submissions directly into your ATS, and automated sourcing attribution to clearly track which agencies deliver results. 

• Job templates: Define role details like location or title once with job templates, and automatically apply that information during the hiring process. This saves time, reduces errors, and ensures consistency across all your hiring

• Onboarding tracker: The onboarding tracker gives you a single, consolidated view of every new hire’s progress, from at-a-glance summaries for your whole team to detailed, step-by-step logs for any individual.

Finally, a platform both recruiters and HR can love 

Beyond the features you’d expect from a specialized solution, Rippling Recruiting unlocks benefits only possible because the ATS is natively integrated into our best-in-class HR platform and powered by Rippling’s Employee Graph. That means: 

• Job requisitions open instantly when headcount is approved

• Backfill roles auto-create when employees offboard

• Onboarding launches automatically when offers are signed

Because HR and talent data lives in a unified system, you can also capture insights no other ATS can deliver. Instead of just tracking pipeline metrics, you can optimize your talent strategy based on insights like which interviewers consistently hire top performers, which sourcing channels lead to employees with the longest tenure, and how performance and retention vary by role, team, and hiring manager. 

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