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Hiring teams and candidates
love First
Net Promoter Score
+100
World-class NPS
Candidate Satisfaction
4.6/5
6,000+ reviews
NPS
+100
World-class
CX
4.6/5
6k+ reviews
Testimonials
What people are saying
“We had 400 applicants for some roles. First made it possible to review them all efficiently, make great hires, and save time and costs — with zero talent team, just hiring managers.”
“FirstStage is easy to use, with excellent onboarding and support that goes above and beyond. It's streamlined our shortlisting process, saving hours of productive time. The personalised service and caring team deliver an efficient, effective product that helps us maximise their technology.”
“First allowed us, as a business and as consultants, to do more, in the same space of time. Using First has allowed us to make sure that every CV has been reviewed consistently.”
“It's been great for the new apprenticeship and helped reduce the impact of hiring on our billable staff. We even built a talent pipeline of candidates for future roles. We need more tools like this.”
“Thank you! Pretty impressed by the recruiting system Luke! Our team has already used it to make two hires from hundreds of applications. It's amazing 🤩”
“First has greatly improved our candidate flow and helped expand our client market by saving us significant time. The support is outstanding—Danny and Luke are always available to help. Highly recommend!”
Candidate feedback
“The best job application experience ever, I like this one-page-one-question design!”
Marketing Associate
“Most unique, interesting and fun interview I have ever done. Simple, but nice.”
ML Engineer
“First time being interviewed by AI. It's been trained really well, I felt like I was being interviewed by a real person.”
Principal Software Engineer
“This is one of the amazing job application processes I have experienced in the recent times. Kudos to the team!”
Vehicle Safety Operator
“It was really good to communicate with the chat bot, its questions are professional”
Purchase Ledger Clerk
Even More Candidate feedback
Was very user friendly
it was smooth and interactive
Unusual but definitely better than a lot of other applications that I have completed!
it was easy to use
Nice, friendly and good interface
Great experience
It's quite accessible and user friendly. Great job from your tech team.
Nice and smooth
Nice experience working with an AI assistant in the application submission process itself.
good
The experience was great and the interview bot was very responsive to my answers
Great website, easy to navigate.
It’s good
Ease of navigation.
AI chat about the work experience is something new and amazing.
Whoever made Fred well done!
Not a tedious application process post having submitted a CV already. I particularly enjoyed answering the question on streamlining an operational process and making an impact.
I felt like a real person taking my Interview. It was great experience. Thank you.
Easy to use, smooth process
It was easy and straightforward
Wonderful chat
First time being interviewed by AI. It was a pleasant experience.
The application website is user-friendly
Nice use of ai!
Loved the UI used for the application process, had never come across such a user-friendly one. Nice one
Very good
Good
nice tool
Great experience, streamlined with an insightful question to answer
The AI assistant is fantastic.
Nice ux
clear and concisely
Very interactive process
very friendly, easy going
Very creative questionnaire
best experience so far in application process. loved it
The application process was quite straightforward
Chatbot was humanized 😊
Very prompt but interactive
easy application process.
Absolutely love technology and the questions answered here would normally be the first 15 minutes of an interview. Liking this!!!
This was the first time I had an interview with AI and it was so nice to attend like this type of interview this was a nice experience I had the interview with AI
perfect
Looking forward to hearing from you soon
wonderful
Really easy
good
Love how easy it is to
Smooth and Relevant
GREAT
New and different
Seamless process and the use of chat bots is cool.
That was one of the easiest applications I've ever come across. The process was seamless, intuitive, and surprisingly quick. Honestly, it's phenomenal—far beyond what I expected. It not only saves time but also sets a new standard for how simple applications should be.
Very user friendly and easy to understand and use
great
Love the automated system. Quite interesting and brilliant.
I enjoyed the AI questions
First ever experience with a personal assistant as part of the interview phase. Can see greater use cases with this! Thank you.
Great Experience. Smooth process
Easy to operate, simple and to the point
The use of live chat and micro-moment is top-notch. The image of the hiring manager gives me a kind of assurance that my application would be accessed and reviewed because they can see me apply.
good
I like it
It was an innovative way of interviewing, and allowed me to express my thoughts and answers to the questions in a way I wouldn't have been able to in a traditional interview.
A nice & easy form.
Able to add more relevant detail
It was easy completing the steps
good
Quick and easy to use
Excellent
User friendly.
Effective way to process an application
Very Enjoyable
Enjoyed the interaction.
Easy to submit details and enjoyed the AI question experience.
Excellent
Excellent
nice to chat with AI
I Love the Chat
On time prompt responses with a lot of details in questions.
Perfect!
Great way to do interviews 🙂
It was nice experience
I liked the UX. It was well thought out and guided me well. I liked the stage guide so I knew where I was in the process.
Good
Quite thorough, I hope it was useful however sometimes these conversations may be easier over the phone. Although I can appreciate if it helps compile a shortlist of candidates
simple and straight forward
AI
Lovely
Very nice
I love this. Easy and simple.
Insightful application process.
quick and painless
Very interesting with AI
I've never really wrote about myself in that way before so found it really useful—and think it might be a introductory tool for both parties. Thanks a lot—Sam
very smooth process
it was fun!
Swift and straight to the point. Relevant information sought in a concise manner
Its a good opportunity
Great and interactive way to gather information.
Its a good opportunity, because developers will get some experience
it was alright, not too tedious and straight forward
Even though I love AI and chat I still prefer speaking directly with individuals as I do not believe ones passion and full experience can be understood in this format.
Excellent
Love this as I'm a bit of a data and technology nerd. My kind of round 1 interview
It went easy and smooth
Makes the experience of applying for a new role good because it is interactive making it feel more engaging rather than just clicking on upload and apply on multiple job boards.
It was indeed great talking to Fred and looking forward to starting my apprentice ASAP!
Great and Seamless
A clean and smooth process.
Excellent - I had never taken part in an AI interview before but I have to say it was a great learning experience. I thought the questions and single word prompts were really helpful.
Nice chat with AI
It was interactive. I felt like I'm having a conversation with someone
Really good UI
Its a wonderful experience to AI and technology involved recruitment process.
An interesting interview
Really clear form and instructions thanks
It is well designed, concise, user-friendly and to the point
wow its very good, thanks for this opportunity MRJ.
A very innovative way to structure a phase of an interview
Awesome!
Very engaging
Comfortable to answers.
It was amazing! keep it up.
It was very wise to use AI agents in the application process!
Great
Good
Was good, but if questions have to be repeated in an interview, it could be annoying...
Awesome
Very cool and concise application process.
good
it was okay
The best job application experience ever, I like this one-page-one-question design!
very good user approach
it was great
I enjoyed it very much.
Excellent
My experience doing this application was very smooth, convenient and hassle-free
It was a straight, straightforward, good-form experience
Really enjoyed the Ai questions, very refreshing!!
Loved the experience but would have liked to be told upfront how many questions so I could have set time aside
User experience is top-notch
Great!
Lovely
It was nice to have an immediate interview to brief about me and my experience.
Great
I like these kind of preliminary questions before proceeding to the next step. I am more relaxed to answer in a way which is the best of me.
This was an amazing experience.
Easy to navigate interface, with clear call to actions
was pretty straight forward and direct
good
Easy to understand instructions
Awesome
Great, transparent, simplified, direct. Love it.
great
Simple to use
It was amazing
easy and well laid out
Good
great
Good experience.
Interesting with the AI feedback
Simple and efficient
Simple
The process was without a teething issue as a user. Thanks
very good, very different, very easy!
Great
I was able to give an in-depth answer to the questions asked.
Really straight forward process, love the fact that the Assistant probed further on responses provided. I was able to give more details, I was concerned there would be a word restriction on my responses.
easy going, self-paced AI interview
Nice. Easy to apply
Some information was already on my CV, but good to see some practical questions asked
Very interactive and easy
Impressed with the toolset
First time being interviewed by AI. It's been trained really well, I felt like I was being interviewed by a real person. Hope more companies implement this.
This process of using AI chat is impressive. It enables the candidate to complete the application in their own time.
Unique experience
I like it, it's different.
Awesome
Easy
Most unique, interesting and fun interview I have ever done. Simple, but nice.
Good
The chat-based interview process was fantastic and seamless!
This was a nice experience
very user friendly
It was a splendid flow
It was a refreshing way to apply
This is one of the amazing job application processes I have experienced in the recent times. Kudos to the team !!! Looking forward to be part of this amazing team!
Good user experience and easy to navigate the screens.
it was great
I am impressed with the introduction of AI based interview for faster candidate shortlisting instead of an ATS based shortlisting.
not bad
It's very pleasant
Great
Good
Interactive and straightforward. I look forward to the prospects of the role
Good
It was really good to communicate with the chat bot, its questions are professional so I hope it will help you know me better
I love the process
Better than I thought it would be
I liked the interactive application.
Pretty easy and efficient, thanks!
Smooth and didn't attempt to bore you with repetitive questions