HOW ATS ENGINE WORKS · UK & US

Tell it about a job. It remembers everything else.

One record per role, kept current: the posting, the CV beside it, the application it became, and the paperwork behind it. This page is how that actually works, end to end.

TWO SIDES. ONE PLATFORM. BETTER OUTCOMES.

The real value is on both sides.

Whether you are looking for your next opportunity or hiring great people, ATS Engine helps you save time, make better decisions, and get better results.

The problem

Spreadsheets don’t ask questions.

A spreadsheet will store anything you type into it and notice nothing. It does not know that rows 14 and 87 are the same role at two agencies, that the status in column F stopped being true in March, or that the CV you sent was the wrong version. None of that is a spreadsheet failing. It is a spreadsheet doing exactly what it is for.

Everything below is the same four steps a recruiter or a jobseeker already does by hand. The only difference is that the record survives them.

A spreadsheet ringed with questions - duplicate entries, out of date status, wrong CV version, same role different name - beside the same applications held in ATS Engine as one organised, accurate, up to date list.
How it works

One record. The whole journey.

Four stages, and the point of all four is that nothing is retyped between them. What you capture in the first is still there, still current, in the fourth.

Stage one · Discover

Capture the role, not a browser tab.

A job you are interested in arrives as a link, an email, a screenshot from a friend, or a posting you found at eleven at night. It goes in once, with the description, the company and the source attached — instead of living in a tab you will close by accident.

Search eight UK job boards from one field. One title, one location, and Find Jobs builds the pre-filled search for each — because retyping the same two words into eight sites is the part that quietly wears people down.
The ATS Engine job search screen: results gathered in one list, showing which have full descriptions attached and which are still awaiting detail.
Job search — in the live demo account.
Stage two · Analyse

Put the posting and the CV side by side.

The analysis reads what the job actually asks for, in the order it asks for it, and scores each requirement against the history already on file. You get to see where you are strong and where you are light — before you commit an evening to the application rather than after.

Every analysis you want, for fourteen days. Enough to judge whether the scoring is worth anything before you pay for it.
The ATS Engine job analysis screen: a job posting broken into its individual requirements, each scored against the candidate's own history, strong and light areas separated.
Job analysis — in the live demo account.
Stage three · Apply

Move into the application without losing the context.

The tailored CV is built only from experience already on file, and every claim in it is checked back against the text of your own CV. Anything it cannot find is flagged rather than quietly handed to you — and that check does not use AI, so it does not depend on the thing it is checking.

Every generated line traces back to a line you wrote. A model marking its own homework tells you what you want to hear.
The ATS Engine document generator: a tailored CV built from stored experience, with each claim checked against the source CV and any unverifiable line flagged.
The document generator — in the live demo account.
Stage four · Track

One status per role, still true next month.

Not a new row every time something happens. One continuously updated record for the role, with the duplicate caught before you create it — because applying twice through two agencies is not enthusiasm, it is the thing that gets your CV binned by both.

Nothing depends on you remembering to look. Anything falling due inside thirty days becomes a task on somebody’s list on its own.
The ATS Engine application tracker: one row per role carrying a single continuously updated status, with dates and the duplicate check that runs before a new application is created.
The application tracker — in the live demo account.
Why it’s different

It doesn’t forget over the weekend.

Continuously updated context

Once a role is in ATS Engine, its application history stays useful instead of becoming another disconnected spreadsheet row. The record is the thing that survives — not your memory of it, and not a note in a file called notes final v3.

An application record for a Software Developer role listing job details, application submitted, interview and notes, each dated and ticked, with a note reading still here tomorrow.

Built around real workflows

Every screen above is one you can open yourself in the demo, right now, without giving anybody an email address. Explore the live-product walkthroughs and screens to see how far the ideas actually go.

The ATS Engine dashboard on a laptop showing application counts and recent applications by stage, beside the same account on a phone, captioned try it yourself in the demo.
EXPLORE BEFORE YOU COMMIT

See what you’re actually getting.

Two walkthrough paths and a full screen gallery are ready to explore — no sign-up on any of them.

FROM FIRST LOOK TO NEXT STEP

Less administration. Better decisions. A clearer recruitment journey.

ATS Engine is designed to reduce the gaps between finding an opportunity, understanding the fit, applying and tracking what happens next. Explore the screens and walkthroughs to see how that idea translates into the product.

What it costs you

One day’s pay in the right job is worth more than a year of this.

Job Seeker is £5.99 a month — about 20p a day. Fourteen days of it cost nothing, and there is no card to hand over.

That is the whole year for less than most people spend getting to a single interview. And it is not really what you are buying: you are buying the gap between the role you settle for and the role you were right for — a difference that is paid to you every month, for as long as you hold the job. Weigh 20p a day against another six months of applying into silence.

Fourteen days free, then £5.99 a month. Cancel inside the fortnight and you pay nothing. Job Seeker Pro — the tailored CV and cover letter for each application — is another 20p a day.

£5.99a monthThat’s about20p a day
Why it makes a difference

Small checks. Big opportunities.

Simple tools that help you apply smarter, avoid mistakes, and present the real you with confidence.

  • Know before you spend the evening

    The posting is read and scored against you first, so the applications you write are the ones worth writing.

  • Never apply twice by accident

    The duplicate is caught before it exists — two agencies putting you forward for one role is how both submissions get binned.

  • Walk in able to defend every line

    Everything written about you is traced back to your own CV, and anything it cannot find there is flagged rather than quietly invented.

For job seekers & recruiters

One platform. Two sides of better hiring.

Everything ATS Engine does is built to help people find the right work — and help recruiters find the right people.

  • 14 days free
  • No card needed
  • Cancel whenever you want
Job seekerFrom application to opportunity
  1. 1Analyse the jobPaste the job posting and get a clear breakdown.
  2. 2See your matchKnow where you are strong and what to improve.
  3. 3Strengthen & applyGet tailored suggestions and build a better application.
  4. 4Prepare for interviewsTurn insights into confidence with targeted preparation.
Better hiring, clearer decisions.
RecruiterFrom talent to successful hires
  1. 1Source candidatesSearch across your own bench, not just a keyword box.
  2. 2See the matchEvery candidate scored against the live role.
  3. 3Manage your pipelineOne board for the desk, with only the legal moves at each stage.
  4. 4Stay compliantDocuments, expiry dates and candidate packs, all in one place.
IF YOU ARE FILLING THE JOB, NOT LOOKING FOR ONE

The rest of this page is the hiring side.

Sectors and their paperwork, hiring across borders, shift work, and moving an existing candidate database in. If you are job hunting you have seen the part that matters — the demo at the foot of the page is open to you either way.

Regulated and ticketed work

Every sector checks paperwork. No two check the same paperwork.

A CSCS card is not a DBS. An OEUK medical is not a Driver CPC. An FCA register entry is not a teaching qualification. The only thing they have in common is that the client asks for them, and the consultant is the one who has to remember which. ATS Engine ships a starting set for eight sectors — 44 credential types between them — and every one is yours to edit.

Compliance

Apply a set in a click. Then change whatever does not fit.

Every document type carries its own expiry, its own re-check cadence, and whether that expiry may raise a task at all — because a DBS runs out and a degree does not. Add “Asbestos Awareness” or “CA-EBS” in a minute, with no release and no waiting on us.

A desk covering two sectors applies two sets, and nothing is hidden from anybody.

See exactly what installs before you sign anything — the full list, sector by sector, for the UK and the US.
ATS Engine settings: the compliance document types for an organisation, each with its own expiry, re-check cadence and whether it is mandatory.
Compliance document types — in the live recruiter demo.

Healthcare & social care

DBS and the Update Service, professional registration, occupational health, mandatory training.

A nurse in blue scrubs with a stethoscope, smiling with an older woman she is caring for.

Education

Enhanced DBS, the barred list, prohibition checks, safer-recruitment references.

A teacher leaning over a desk in a classroom, helping two primary school children with their work.

Early years

Paediatric first aid, Ofsted suitability, the disqualification declaration.

A nursery practitioner sitting on the floor with two toddlers, building a tower of coloured blocks.

Construction

CSCS cards, CPCS and NPORS plant tickets, supervisor training, asbestos awareness.

A site worker in a white hard hat and high-visibility vest, seen from behind, looking up at a building under construction with tower cranes above it.

Energy & offshore

BOSIET or FOET survival, the OEUK medical, MIST, CA-EBS, Vantage.

An offshore worker in an orange survival suit and hard hat, seen from behind, facing an oil platform out at sea at sunset.

Driving & logistics

Vocational categories, Driver CPC, digital tachograph card, ADR.

A white articulated lorry on a dual carriageway at dusk — the driving and logistics starter set: vocational categories, Driver CPC, digital tachograph card and ADR.

Financial services

FCA register entry, fitness and propriety, the regulatory reference regime.

Glass office towers in the City of London financial district, lit by low evening sun.

Security cleared

BS 7858 screening, SIA licensing, and the clearance level the contract needs.

A security officer in a dark jacket marked SECURITY, seen from behind, on duty in front of a government building.

Apply one in a click, then edit it. Apply more than one if your desk covers more than one — nothing is hidden from anybody. These are a place to begin, not a statement of what the law requires of you.

Wherever you recruit

Every country hires.
Only the paperwork changes.

The eight sets above are British because that is where this was built, not because the product knows what a border is. Recruitment is the same job everywhere there is an economy: find the people, check they are who they say they are, put them in front of the employer who needs them. Only the middle step is local.

What travels

Fit scoring reads the posting and the CV, not a country. The pipeline enforces its stages the same way in any time zone. Expiry dates, re-check cadences, per-client requirements and the thirty-day task all behave identically whatever the certificate is called.

A job posting and a CV above a globe ringed with location pins, captioned same process anywhere in the world.

What you supply

The names. A desk in Texas enters I‑9 and a state nursing licence; a desk in Sydney enters a White Card and a Working with Children Check. Both take a minute and neither needs a release from us — which is the only reason one product can serve more than one country honestly.

Four document cards - I-9, a state nursing licence, a White Card and a Working with Children Check - captioned quick to enter, works across countries.

Charged through PayPal from anywhere in the world — in pounds sterling or US dollars, each a real price rather than a converted one. See how the eight regimes map outside the UK.

Permanent and temporary

A permanent role is filled once. A shift is filled every day.

A temporary vacancy is not one role — it is a pattern of shifts, each covered or not covered on its own day. ATS Engine treats it as what it is.

Availability and booking

Who is free, and who is already out.

Candidates say which days and which shifts they can work. Ask who is free on Tuesday night and get a list you can actually ring — then book somebody from it and they come off it, so the consultant at the next desk does not phone a person who is already working.

A clash is refused, not warned about. Somebody who offered the whole day counts as working the whole day, so an early shift blocks the night as well.

Try to break it in the demo: book the same person onto two shifts on one day. It will not let you. Six more things perm software gets wrong.
The ATS Engine talent pool: candidates filtered by availability, each showing compliance status and the shifts they are already booked onto.
The talent pool — in the live recruiter demo.

Shift names are your own words — early, late, night, long day, AM, PM, days, rotation. No two of these sectors call them the same thing, so the product does not pick one sector’s vocabulary for everybody.

Bring your own database

Already have a thousand candidates? Bring them.

We migrate your existing candidate database into ATS Engine free of charge - CSV, a folder of CVs, or an export from the system you are leaving. It is your data, and it lands in your ATS Engine as a working desk, not an archive.

Value before the invitation

Every migrated record is read, indexed and scored against your live roles straight away. The candidate only hears from ATS Engine when you choose to invite them, and the invitation is into your organisation rather than onto a shared platform - the shortlists arrive well before that.

Three CVs scored against live roles at ninety-two, eighty-six, seventy-eight and sixty-four per cent inside ATS Engine, with an invite step after them.

Your data, your ATS Engine

Your candidates, your notes, your history. Held in your own organisation, where no other agency on ATS Engine can search them, see them, or know they exist. Your account owner can export the whole desk from Settings at any time - every record as a CSV, every CV as the original file, in one zip. Free to move in, and just as free to move out.

Candidates, notes and history held in one organisation on ATS Engine, beside an export button producing a single zip.
YOUR DATA. YOUR CONTROL.

Send us the export. We will do the rest.

No charge, no per-record fee, and nothing to retype.

Jobseeker value

Your CV should do more than sit in a folder.

Build multiple CVs for different career directions, use your own CV and profile information to understand your fit with opportunities, keep applications organised and follow the journey through interviews and documents.

See Jobseeker Plans → Explore the Screens →

My CVs
  • Software Engineer
  • Product Manager
  • Data Analyst
  • Marketing Specialist
Create another CV
  • Find opportunities
  • Track applications
  • Prepare for interviews
  • Keep documents in one place
More options. A clearer path.
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Two live demo accounts, no sign-up needed. Log straight into the real application as either side of the platform — every screenshot on this page was taken from them.

Job seeker demo — the candidate side: CV library, job analysis, application tracker and LinkedIn Optimizer. Explore the CV library, run job analysis, track your applications and optimise for LinkedIn.
Email
demo-candidate@ats-engine.demo
Password
DemoCandidate2026!
Recruiter demo — the recruiter side: talent pool, pipeline, client submission packs and team management. Explore the talent pool, create submission packs, manage your pipeline and collaborate with your team.
Email
demo-recruiter@ats-engine.demo
Password
DemoRecruiter2026!