Text Recruiting Software
Reach candidates on the channel they actually reply to, keep every text on the candidate record your whole team can see, and stop chasing unanswered emails by hand.
Your best candidates are not ignoring you, they are ignoring email
Industry data on candidate outreach is lopsided: text messages are read within minutes and have open rates near 98 percent, while a large share of candidates never open the recruiting email at all.
Hourly and deskless workers often do not check work email during the day, so an email-only process loses them before the first call.
So recruiters improvise. They text candidates from their personal phone, with numbers copied off a LinkedIn profile or a resume.
Those texts are invisible to the rest of the team, never land on the candidate record, cannot be measured, and sidestep any consent or opt-out trail. The conversation that moved the hire lives on one person's phone and leaves with them.
Text recruiting software fixes that by moving candidate texting into the system you already hire in.
100Hires sends SMS as a step inside automated recruiting sequences, captures every reply on the candidate, and runs it through your own registered work number instead of a personal cell.
Run texts, email, and voicemail from one hiring workflow
SMS in 100Hires is a step type in Nurture campaigns, alongside email and ringless voicemail, so candidate texting runs on the same engine as the rest of your recruitment automation.
You build one sequence, the platform sends each step on schedule, and replies flow back into the pipeline where the whole hiring team can see them.
Texting is one channel in the broader candidate engagement software inside 100Hires, which also handles email and voicemail follow-ups.
Stop chasing unanswered emails by hand
Add an SMS step to a Nurture campaign and 100Hires sends the text on its own schedule, then follows up only if the candidate has not replied. Each step has its own delay and send window, and the whole sequence runs in the candidate's time zone so a text never lands at 3am. Mix SMS, email, and voicemail in the same campaign to reach people on the channel they answer.
- SMS, email, and voicemail steps in one sequence
- Per-step delay and send window, in the candidate's time zone
- Follow-up fires only when a candidate stays silent
Every reply lands on the candidate record, not someone's phone
When a candidate texts back, 100Hires records the message on their Discussion timeline next to their resume, emails, calls, and notes, so anyone on the team picks up the thread without asking who owns the conversation. Turn on the reply rule and the sequence pauses and moves the candidate to the stage you choose the moment they answer, so a warm reply gets picked up instead of going cold.
- Inbound texts saved on the candidate's profile
- Whole team sees the thread, not a personal phone
- A reply can auto-move the candidate to the next stage
Send texts that feel personal without retyping them
Save your screening, scheduling, and follow-up texts as SMS templates in Settings, then drop in candidate and job variables so each message reads like you wrote it for that person. Inside a Nurture campaign the right template goes out at each step, so the team reuses approved wording instead of every recruiter writing their own version.
- Reusable SMS templates, saved once in Settings
- Candidate and job variables for real personalization
- One approved set of wording for the whole team
Get recruiters off their personal phones
100Hires texts, calls, and voicemail drops go through your connected Twilio work number, not anyone's personal cell, so every message is logged and your team keeps one shared number. For US texting the integration supports A2P 10DLC registration, and you control consent and opt-out on your own carrier account. Our support team helps you get the number set up.
- One registered Twilio work number for texts, calls, and voicemail
- Supports A2P 10DLC registration for US texting
- You control consent and opt-out on your carrier account
How 100Hires compares to a typical ATS
Most applicant tracking systems still send email only, or treat SMS as a paid add-on bolted on through a separate tool.
100Hires builds texting into the same automated sequences, the same candidate record, and the same pipeline you already work in, so a dedicated text recruiting platform is not a second subscription you have to buy and wire up.
100Hires
It solved all of my recruitment problems and offered all of the features I was looking for. It can automate most of my recruitment processes.
I'd happily recommend it to my industry peers. I'm able to use the platform with ease and don't have to think twice what function to use.
The system is very user-friendly. Even people with no experience will find it easy to understand its functionality.
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