Join vs Sourcing Square

Join is an applicant tracking and recruiting platform for small and mid-sized businesses. It supports the hiring process from job advertising through application tracking, candidate screening, interview scheduling, feedback, and offers. Organic multiposting reaches 10+ boards; paid multiposting to 250+ boards is an add-on. Candidate tools include profiles, talent pools, structured scorecards, messaging, and role-based permissions. Job Studio provides AI suggestions and market research to help structure job ads. Interview scheduling syncs both ways with Google Calendar and Outlook. Its browser extension saves LinkedIn profiles to a pipeline or talent pool and works with Chrome, Edge, Brave, and other Chromium browsers. Join is available on the web, through an API, and as an extension. Standard costs €17.00 per month billed annually; Advanced costs €34.00 per month billed annually. Both allow up to 15 active jobs and unlimited users. The 14-day Advanced trial includes up to five active jobs, requires no credit card, and ends automatically unless a paid plan is chosen. Join states it is GDPR compliant, ISO 27001:2022 certified, and uses EU-primary hosting.

Sourcing Square is a web-based platform for programmatic job advertising and recruitment marketing. It distributes jobs to more than 100 job boards, social platforms and recruitment channels through a single integration. Teams can import jobs from an ATS or create campaigns manually, then set budgets, targeting criteria and recruitment KPIs. Campaigns can use cost-per-click or cost-per-application models, while machine learning adjusts bids, targeting and budget allocation in real time. Dashboards track campaign performance, ROI, source effectiveness and candidate quality across channels. Job feed tools include XML integration and tag mapping, filtering, scraping, and conversion to XML, CSV or database formats. Other listed services include AI-powered CV screening, recruiter shortlisting, candidate outreach by email, SMS and social media, and interview coordination. Its virtual career event platform supports up to 50,000 attendees and real-time interaction. The company claims SOC 2 Type II certification, GDPR and CCPA compliance, 256-bit encryption and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Pricing is on request.