20 Best Recruiting Agency Software of 2025

Manatal is an award-winning recruitment solution suitable for internal hiring teams and recruiting agencies and headhunters.

Why I picked Manatal: It comes with a range of features to help secure top talent across diverse roles using advanced sourcing capabilities and AI-driven candidate recommendations.

This includes ability to share roles across 2,500+ free and premium channels, import profiles directly from LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter, and access to an external database of over 600 million professionals.

Manatal Standout Features & Integrations:

Standout features for Manatal include their intelligent candidate sourcing and AI-powered recommendations. These features work in tandem to help you sift through your stacks of candidate data, with the system automatically picking out candidates who check the most boxes.

It's also possible to retrieve verified email addresses and phone numbers directly from candidate profiles and their Vendor Management System, VM, empowers hiring teams and recruitment agencies to work together more efficiently.

Integrations are available with Facebook, Gmail, G Suite, Line, LinkedIn, Microsoft Outlook, Office 365, Wechat, and WhatsApp. Zapier integration and API access are available on their custom plan subscription.

Boon is a recruiting automation platform built to help recruiters and companies hire faster through referral-based sourcing. It connects employers with potential candidates by turning existing networks into a dynamic recruiting engine. 

Why I picked Boon: I chose Boon because it’s centered on automating and incentivizing referrals. It allows you to crowdsource referrals from employees, alumni, and your broader network, then automatically engages those contacts with pre-set campaigns. This makes it especially effective for teams looking to tap into their existing relationships instead of only sourcing externally. You can set bounties for each job, giving people a reason to recommend candidates, which expands your reach without a traditional sourcing team.

Boon Standout Features and Integrations

Features include a referral leaderboard that gamifies participation by showing who brings in the most candidates, helping boost engagement. The tracking dashboard also shows how many referrals are coming in, what stage they’re at, and who made them, so your team can measure impact and accountability.

Integrations include NetSuite, Lever, Workday, Greenhouse, Google Workspace, Okta, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Facebook, LinkedIn, QuickBooks, Xero, and SmartRecruiters.

Recruit CRM combines the functionalities of a CRM with an ATS, making it an excellent choice for high-volume recruiters or recruitment agencies.

Why I picked Recruit CRM: Their user interface is intuitive and includes a Kanban style view that visually organizes all the prospective candidates in your hiring pipeline with separate columns for whichever recruitment phase they’re in. Moving them along in the pipeline is also straightforward, with just a click.

To increase your productivity, you can set up triggers for automated emails and other tasks to occur once you move a candidate from one phase to the next.

Recruit CRM Standout Features and Integrations:

Features include a Chrome browser extension that simplifies candidate sourcing through LinkedIn. You can use it to tag promising candidates and add them to your general database, or to one of your active hot lists, which function as individual talent pools for each position. Once flagged, Recruit CRM automatically scans the candidate’s profile details and transfers their personal details into your system for future use.

Their suite of built-in reports is what makes Recruit CRM stand out as an asset for recruiting teams or staffing firms.

You can run custom reports on all types of common recruiting metrics, or use one of their built-in reports, such as their Recruiter KPI Report, their Candidate Lifecycle Report, a Job Statistics Report, or a Client Performance Report.

Within each report, the data is visualized graphically, as well as in a table format that can be exported as a CSV file. Managers can even compare the output of recruiters side-by-side or click into the individual graph points to drill down into more nitty-gritty details.

Integrations for this software are entirely based on Zapier's offering. RecruitCRM has a Zapier connector that lets you integrate the software with thousands of apps like Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, and Typeform. Keep in mind that you will need to have a paid account with Zapier to be able to connect external apps.

Zoho Recruit is a powerful recruitment solution offering scalability, customization, and remote hiring tools.

Why I picked Zoho Recruit: Used by large multinationals such as Deloitte and PWC, Zoho Recruit has many useful features to help optimize processes and juggle large numbers of applications and clients. A highly customizable tool, it's easy to create automations with no coding experience.

Zoho Recruit Standout Features and Integrations

Features include a drag-and-drop recruitment process builder that helps you identify any bottlenecks; automations that show users what actions they need to take at what time; AI smart matching to recommend candidates for roles and vice versa; a dedicated client portal so clients can submit job requests, shortlist candidates, and collaborate with their fellow peers; and over 75 pre-built reports and dashboards.

Integrations include all Zoho tools, communication solutions, and social media platforms, such as Twilio, Screen Magic, Slack, Google Suite, Microsoft Outlook, MailChimp, DocuSign, Adobe Sign, Indeed, Monster, CareerBuilder, and LinkedIn. 

Crelate is a recruiting agency recruiting tool built by recruiters with plenty of useful ATS and CRM features.

Why I picked Crelate: I selected Crelate due the tool's ease of use, customizability, and extensive feature list.

For example, you can easily drag and drop applicant records as candidates move through your recruitment process.

You can also tag applicants with skills, experience, source, or any other information that can be surfaced when searching.

It's the same with the CRM too, which is full customizable to adapt to your sales workflow. The customization filter allows you to search jobs by placements, companies, opportunities.

Crelate Standout Features and Integrations:

Standout features include resume parsing and automated candidate profile creation. Crelate pulls the information from your candidate’s resumes and uses it to create detailed profiles, complete with each job seeker’s social media information.

Also useful is their client portal allowing recruiters to communicate with clients via automated real-time alerts and record all client interactions and feedback regarding candidates in one centralized, easily accessible location.

Integrations include communication and analytics tools, and ATS solutions, such as ZoomInfo, hireEZ, CareerBuilder, Seekout, Glassdoor, Monster, JobInventory, Dice, CareerJet, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Outlook. 

Bullhorn aims to offer a single source of truth for busy staffing agencies and even acts as the central hub for the wider tech stack.

Why I picked Bullhorn: Bullhorn understands how busy recruitment teams are but also the need to balance efficiency (read, automation) with the human touch. As such, they're careful to implement automation with caution and use it to improve the experience for teams and candidates.

They're also generous with knowledge, providing playbooks to help organizations engage with candidates and differentiate their offering.

Bullhorn Standout Features and Integrations

Standout features include their AI tool, built on a sea of recruitment data, to help source and screen candidates and craft relevant communications, as well as advanced analytics features such as real-time dashboards and custom reporting.

Additionally, the platform allows you to create custom recruitment flows using omnichannel communication. This enables you to attract candidates on social media, engage them via SMS, and nurture them through personalized emails.

Integrations include applicant tracking systems (ATS), communication tools, background checkers, and customer relationship management (CRM) tools, such as Accurate Background, ADP, Checkr, First Advantage, hireEZ, Indeed, Arya, SkillCheck, LinkedIn, and Sterling.  

TalentReef's cloud-based recruitment and hiring platform purpose-built for location-based, high-volume recruiting.

Why I picked TalentReef: I included TalentReef in this list because of their unique focus on sourcing candidates to fill hourly positions. This makes their software particularly well-suited for sourcing talent for businesses in the service industry, such as restaurants, retail stores, and other hourly employers that frequently hire new staff in bulk.

TalentReef Standout Features and Integrations

Standout features include their conversational AI chatbot, a text-to-apply feature, two-way texting abilities, and social recruiting tools. Recruiters can also save a lot of time by using their campaign communication features to create templated email and SMS communications for candidate interactions, allowing them to stay in touch with high volumes of candidates at scale.

Another plus worth highlighting is their interview scheduling automation. By allowing candidates to pick a time that works for them, you'll reduce the likelihood of no-shows or last-minute cancellations, and eliminate the need for back-and-forth phone tag to find a time that works.

Integrations are available with payroll systems, candidate assessment tools, background check providers, and learning management systems, though individual platforms are not specified.

TargetRecruit is a recruiting agency software targeted at commercial, healthcare, and professional staffing.

Why I picked TargetRecruit: The platform helps you quickly source candidates through accurately searching your own database, external sources, job boards or posting to your own career pages.

Regarding the latter, the software offers a variety of templates to start with, but you can also build your own careers pages from scratch. These allow your candidates to search your open positions by title, skills, or location.

They can also create and update profiles, submit resumes, activate notifications so they receive alerts when you open a job that matches their profile, and complete onboarding and compliance docs. 

From a sales perspective, their CRM provides a 360-degree view of your customer and candidate relationships and can also auto-convert new business to job orders to ensure the fastest possible placements.

TargetRecruit Standout Features and Integrations:

Standout features include Boolean search, automated lead scoring and routing for a quicker outreach, and a timesheet portal making it easy for contractors to record work hours and expenses and client hiring managers to accept and pay or reject requests as necessary.

I’m also a fan of TargetRecruit’s reporting features. The platform enables all your users to create custom reports and dashboards using only the data accessible with their permission levels, and they can also export reports to clients via email. 

Integrations include CRMs, accounting and invoicing tools, and job posting solutions, such as QuickBooks, PayChex, ADP, ZoomInfo, Quip, DocuSign, Salesforce, CloudCall, Relias, and DataTrim.

Arya is a candidate sourcing tool with a focus on automated sourcing and engagement to free up recruiters' time for building client relationships.

Why I picked Arya: Arya provides access to the largest propriety candidate database in the industry of 850M+ candidate profiles sourced across 80+ channels.

When you post a new role, the system uses predictive analytics, hundreds of attributes, and 7 multidimensional data points, to deliver compatible candidates in a single, consolidated scored and ranked list, increasing candidate quality up to 70% over time.

The platform retains knowledge of successful search parameters and using AI prompts to improve subsequent searches.

Arya Standout Features and Integrations:

Standout features include the aforementioned automated sourcing function as well as AI-powered outreach message drafting and email integrations for automated responses and simplified interview scheduling.

When candidates are in your process, the platform can integrate with 60+ ATS/CRM/VMS.

Integrations include applicant tracking software, job boards, and CRMs, such as ADP, Greenhouse, Jobvite, SmartRecruiters, Oracle, Workable, JobDiva, Workday, Monster, and Cornerstone. 

Vincere is a recruiting agency software aimed at helping temp, contract and permanent recruiters.

Why I picked Vincere: Their core product integrates an ATS and CRM that helps you automate time consuming tasks, identify your top candidates instantly, spot trends in the recruitment data, manage your sales pipeline, and communicate internally and with clients.

Vincere Standout Features and Integrations:

Standout features I enjoy Vincere’s wildcard search feature. When you activate this feature, the software shows you results for different variations of the root words in your search. This helps you include candidates who have not optimized their resumes but are still talented in your shortlists. 

Other cool features include the ability to geo locate and visualize candidates close to job locations in a unique map view, 50 best practice analytics dashboards, and a database health checker.

Integrations include e-signature tools, marketing software, and candidate evaluation platforms, such as Broadbean, Idibu, Referoo, WaveTrackR, Indeed, TalentTicker, Sense, Elay, MailChimp, SendGrid, Twilio, and Zoom.