Recruiting and HR software that keeps talent data connected.

Recruiting

• Applicant tracking
• Skills-based candidate screening
• Candidate ranking and filtering
• Hiring-team collaboration
• Candidate messaging
• Interview scheduling
• Asynchronous video screening
• Recruitment history and analytics

Sourcing

• Opted-in talent network
• Search by skills
• Match the talent pool against open jobs
• Applicant and network talent in one view
• Sourcing pipeline

HR

• Employee records and documents
• Organization chart
• Onboarding programs and tasks
• Time, projects and utilization
• Leave policies and approvals
• Performance goals and review cycles
• Workspace administration

Applicant tracking

Create jobs, publish application links, receive candidates and manage each hiring process on a shared Kanban board. Typical stages include New, Screening, optional Video Interview, Interview 1, Interview 2, Final Round, Offer and Declined.

Skills-based candidate screening

Spark extracts candidate skills and compares them with the skills associated with the role. Recruiters can also create their own skill filters and change the lens through which they review the applicant pool.

• Percentage alignment
• Direct skill matches
• Related skill matches
• Skills not currently evidenced
• A concise explanation of fit
• Comparative candidate views

Hiring collaboration

Organization administrators, recruiters, hiring managers and read-only executives can participate with different access levels. Keep candidate notes, comments, messages, video responses and stage history connected to the candidate.

Candidate communication and interviews

Send individual or stage-based bulk messages. Schedule interviews from the workflow and include your preferred meeting link. Use optional asynchronous video screening where candidates record responses to recruiter-defined questions. Spark does not automatically evaluate the video.

The Talent Pool combines

• Direct applicants
• Previous applicants
• Discoverable SparkCareers network talent

Then act on it

Review overall match, direct skills, related skills and gaps, then contact relevant candidates through Spark.

Core HR

Create employees directly or convert successful applicants from the recruitment workflow. Support employee profiles, supervisor access, controlled change requests and an organization chart.

• Employee identity and job information
• Work email and phone
• Employment type
• Start date
• Manager
• Department
• Documents
• Employee status
• Organization structure

Onboarding

Build reusable onboarding programs and assign them by hire, role or department. Track tasks and completion through onboarding progress views.

Time & Absence

Create projects and assign employees. Employees can log time, submit timesheets and see their utilization. Supervisors can approve timesheets and review time reports. Organizations can configure leave types, annual allowances, carryover and paid or unpaid status.

Performance

Create performance templates and launch review cycles. Spark currently focuses on performance tracking and review workflows rather than 360-degree review, compensation planning or succession planning.

• Goal setting
• Self-assessment
• Manager review
• Sign-off
• Performance history

Growing businesses

Useful when recruitment has created enough repetition, delay or coordination work that email and spreadsheets are slowing the process down. A straightforward small-team workspace can be ready for its first role in approximately five minutes.

Recruitment and search firms

Create clients, create jobs for those clients, manage candidates and run sourcing and recruiting workflows inside your own Spark Enterprise workspace.

Internal recruiting and HR teams

Use shared pipelines, role-based access, candidate history and connected HR workflows to keep information from fragmenting across departments.