Qandidate.com, the European provider of free recruitment software, celebrates its very first anniversary. Today, exactly one year ago, the team released its current public beta release and a lot has happened since then.
“It’s been a blast”, stated Remy Verhoeven, CEO and co-founder of Qandidate.com. “Thinking about this period last year, I really couldn’t imagine how positive the market would respond to our concept of free recruitment software. The response on the launch was overwhelming”, Verhoeven continued. “In the first few weeks after the launch, we were still busy queuing customers to get access to our service.”
As of today more than 3,000 companies have signed-up for our free recruitment software and on average we welcome between 80 and 100 new companies a week. So far our customers have processed more than 110,000 candidates with the support of Qandidate.com.
“Although our free recruitment system is currently only available in English and Dutch - with more languages to come over time - we see a wide variety of companies from all over the world within our customer base”, Verhoeven added. “From the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency to high-end retail brands in the UK and the Netherlands.”
The team released a number of new versions of Qandidate.com over the last 12 months. A media web shop - which empowers users to set-up and launch their own external recruitment campaign, additional vacancy reporting capabilities and an in-system support service, are examples of some of the major enhancements. “We are expecting to ship another new release shortly,” Verhoeven says. “With the upcoming release we’ll bring our customers a far more flexible login facility. After this release we’ll continue to build a recruitment reporting and analytics dashboard, alongside some other enhancements which are nominated by our customers.”
Besides the growth of Qandidate.com’s customer base and enhanced free recruitment functionality, a lot has happened with the company as well. We received a number of nominations and even ended up in the semi-final of the Accenture Innovation Awards. We hired a marketing guy and completed our board of advisors with Michiel Muller, Simon Guild, Quintin Schevernels and Marc Duijndam.
“I’m really proud of what we have achieved over the last 12 months, especially when you consider it has all been done with a small, but talented and highly motivated group of people, and without the big budgets other ATS vendors have”, says Verhoeven. “Customers signup for our free recruitment software because they are looking for an alternative to the complex and over-expensive systems out there. But it’s the intuitive and fresh way we design our software, which in the end makes our customers love our free recruitment software. We’re looking forward to another year full of excitement and fun.”
About Qandidate.com
Qandidate.com is the free online recruitment software for the companies that want to maximize their recruitment efforts. Designed for in-house recruitment, Qandidate.com offers customers an alternative to Outlook and Excel or existing – often complex – systems by providing a refreshingly easy-to-use online recruitment system. Qandidate.com provides all the information and tools companies need to create an effortless recruiting process. Customers can track and manage their applicants anytime, anywhere. All for free! Qandidate.com is one of the initiatives born in the labs of VONQ and supports more than 3,000 businesses.
Qandidate.com – designed for happy recruiting