How Risenoow compares

Risenoow versus applicant tracking systems.

An applicant tracking system stores applications and ranks them, so somebody still has to read the pile to find out who is worth an hour. Risenoow interviews every applicant first, hands you a report where every score carries their own words, and keeps the pipeline too.

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The Risenoow hiring dashboard: what needs attention, open roles, applications, top candidates and the application pipeline
Side by side

Storing and ranking, or interviewing everybody.

The left column describes applicant tracking systems as a category. We name no product, and where the category does something well we say so.

TopicApplicant tracking systemRisenoow
What happens to an application
Applicant tracking systemStored, parsed and ranked against keywords, then queued for a person to read.
RisenoowEvery applicant is interviewed in a live spoken conversation in the language of the role, with follow ups from what they just said.A rank tells you the order to read in. A conversation tells you what somebody can do.
Who does the first read
Applicant tracking systemYour team, on the pile, after hours.
RisenoowThe interview does it and the report shows its working rather than asking to be trusted.The first read quietly decides the shortlist and nobody has time for it.
Requirements
Applicant tracking systemA knockout question read afterwards, or a filter on the list.
RisenoowAsked before the spoken interview, so nobody sits through an interview a rule has already decided.It is not kinder to interview somebody a rule was always going to turn away.
What a decline sends
Applicant tracking systemA template, or nothing at all.
RisenoowAn email naming the requirement in the words recorded on the application, as a fact about the role.What the candidate reads and what you read are the same sentence.
The shortlist you can explain
Applicant tracking systemA rank, a match percentage and a note.
RisenoowFive dimensions with quotes underneath, claims checked against the CV, a question to ask next and a chart with two reference lines.One line is the role average, the other the lowest score your team actually shortlisted.
Almost nothing to judge
Applicant tracking systemA sparse application is ranked like any other.
RisenoowNo score at all. The report says so and states how much there was.A number over an empty application is the one that gets quoted back at you.
Second stage
Applicant tracking systemA calendar link, or an integration somebody maintains.
RisenoowSet your windows once. The candidate books in their own timezone, gets reminders, and the interview runs on camera with the background blurred.Scheduling is where a fast process usually loses a week.
The pipeline
Applicant tracking systemThe whole product, and usually a good one.
RisenoowKept: stage tabs with counts, shared notes that cannot overwrite each other, recruiters scoped to their roles, a thirty day chart.You should not give up the tracking to get the interviewing.
Setting a role up
Applicant tracking systemA configuration project, then a template to maintain.
RisenoowDescribe the role once. The advert, screening questions and both interview scripts are written in one pass, with anything assumed listed for you.Nothing is invented into the advert and the title you typed never gains a word.
Where your role is seen
Applicant tracking systemWherever you pay to post it.
RisenoowOn the public Risenoow job board, with job alerts that bring candidates back.A role is live in one place rather than two.
Price
Applicant tracking systemPer seat, usually per year.
RisenoowBy the interviews you run each month, with seats included on every plan: Starter $79, Growth $249, Scale $599, after fourteen days free.An interview price tracks the work actually done.

Everything in the Risenoow column ships in the workspace, with nothing to integrate.

Every applicant, ranked

A shortlist that already did the talking.

Each applicant arrives interviewed and scored, so the list opens in the order you would want to read it, with the stage of every one beside the score.

  • Every applicant with a CV fit and an interview score
  • Sort by score, stage or fit, filter by role
  • The pipeline for each role at a glance
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All candidates in Risenoow, sorted by match score, each with stage, CV fit and the date they applied
Top candidates to decide on and the application pipeline for 300 candidates
From a demo hiring workspace. Every name and score in it is invented.
Nothing is given up

The tracking you rely on, still there.

Adding the interview does not mean losing the list. All of this is in the workspace on the first day of the trial.

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  • Stages and countsTabs whose counts always agree with the list underneath.
  • One record per candidateAssessment, interviews, profile, cover letter, answers, status and notes together.
  • Shared notes that do not collideA save is refused with an explanation if a colleague wrote in the meantime.
  • Access that matches the org chartRecruiters see the roles they created; administrators see everything.
  • A dashboard for the weekOpen roles, applications, awaiting review, shortlisted and the average score.
  • Email activity in one placeEvery message the platform sends is logged, including the refused ones.
A tall stack of paper CVs beside a row of interview report cards flowing from the interviewer, shown as a glowing voice
Try it on one role

Put one role through it before you decide.

Fourteen days, no card, ten interviews, one seat and one open role. Nothing to integrate and nothing to migrate. Your first role can be live in minutes.

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Written into the code

The answer for legal, the board and the candidate.

Enforced by the product rather than a policy document, which is what keeps a shortlist explainable in the week nobody has time.

Unfair questions removed on save.Relocation, right to work, age, marriage, gender and nationality are stripped from a script, with the category named.
Accent, grammar and mood never scored.Communication is judged on substance and Composure on whether an answer held up.
Nothing invented into the advert.A pay figure you never gave is stripped out and a title you typed never gains a word.
Low confidence over guessing.Anything the material does not evidence is reported as unclear, never flattered into a score.
Decisions are frozen.What the role required and what the candidate sent are recorded as they stood on the day.
Retention promised once and kept.Seven to three hundred and sixty five days, told to the candidate before consent and deleted on the day.
Applicant tracking and AI interviews

Straight answers.

Anything else, ask us and a person replies.

Is Risenoow an applicant tracking system?

Risenoow does the tracking an applicant tracking system does and adds the part that usually sits in front of it: every applicant is interviewed before anybody opens the list, and the list carries stages, counts, shared notes and scoped access.

Do we have to replace the system we already use?

No and there is nothing to integrate either. A role published on Risenoow is worked in the Risenoow workspace, appears on the public job board and the reports can be read there by the people you invite.

How long does it take to get a first role live?

Minutes. You describe the role once and the advert, the screening questions and both interview scripts are written in one pass, with anything assumed listed for you to check before you publish.

What does a recruiter see compared with an administrator?

Administrators see the whole workspace. Recruiters are scoped to the roles they created and anything belonging to a colleague's role is refused outright.

Is Risenoow priced per seat or per interview?

By the interviews you run each month, with seats included on every plan. The free trial is fourteen days with ten interviews, one seat and one role; Starter is $79, Growth $249 and Scale $599, each with a stated rate for extra interviews.

What happens to a candidate a requirement declines?

They are told which requirement, in the words recorded on the application, and that they may apply again after a cooling period. No interview is run and a person on your team can undo it from the record.

Your next role, interviewed properly by tomorrow morning.

Fourteen days free, no card and a shortlist where every score shows the words behind it.

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