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Manatal

Score9.6 out of 10

28 Reviews and Ratings

What is Manatal?

Manatal is a recruitment software (ATS) and recruitment CRM built to help recruitment agencies and corporate HR teams source, engage, and hire top talent faster. Manatal uses AI into each step of the recruitment lifecycle, to eliminate repetitive tasks and provides data-driven insights to make hiring more efficient and strategic.

The platform's AI engine also supports sourcing and screening. It automates the most time-consuming tasks by providing intelligent candidate matching and ranking, which surfaces the most qualified profiles for any job description. The system automatically parses resumes and enriches candidate profiles with data from social media and public sources, building a comprehensive view of every individual. Recruiters can further accelerate their efforts with the People-Match AI browser extension for sourcing talent from LinkedIn and other platforms with a single click.

Beyond sourcing, Manatal also automates the hiring workflow. The platform offers an AI Interviewer, which deploys automated, asynchronous video interviews for efficient and unbiased initial screenings that candidates can complete on their own schedule. To ensure no critical detail is ever missed, an AI Note-Taker automatically transcribes and summarizes virtual interviews and calls, allowing the hiring team to remain fully engaged in the conversation. These advanced tools are complemented by fully customizable pipelines and workflow automation, which handle routine tasks like sending emails and updating candidate statuses.

Manatal also offers an MCP, which lets users connect with LLMs like Chat GPT and interact with Manatal directly using AI prompts. This feature provides new possibilities and is complemented by integrations with tools, including native email and calendar sync, assessment platforms, HRIS systems, and document signing. This creates a central hub for all hiring activity, where teams can manage communications, post jobs to thousands of boards with a single click, and build branded career pages that enhance the candidate experience.

Manatal also provides customizable analytics and reporting to help teams track KPIs and optimize their hiring strategy while supporting compliance with GDPR and other local data privacy standards. Users are supported by a dedicated team of real people available via live support, ensuring a smooth experience from day one. Manatal scales to support companies of any size, from fast-growing startups to global enterprises. It can be tried free for 14 days.

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the Manatal home screen
Manatal's recommendation engine
a Manatal jobs list
a custom career portal
Manatal's dashboard.
an applicant in Manatal, which is automatically received after connecting to a job portal.
Manatal's AI recommendation engine.
the Manatal mobile app.
the interface to track and manage candidates within each job.

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Top Performing Features

  • Job Requisition Management

    Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily

    Category average: 8.3

  • Company Website Posting

    Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website

    Category average: 8.5

  • Publish to Social Media

    Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Email Templates

    Software allows creation of standard email templates for communication with candidates

    Category average: 8.2

  • Reporting

    Standard reports on key recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill

    Category average: 7.1

  • Customized Application Form

    Application form for applicants allowing capture of required information

    Category average: 8.2

Manatal helped us launch our agency

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Overall Manatal has hugely facilitated the launch of our agency, we could have done everything it does in Sheets but it would have required 10x the time and ultimately cost more than the subscription we pay. I think it's a no-brainer for any agency looking for an ATS to simply try it through their trial.

Pros

  • Sales pipeline streamline our workflow
  • AI assisted candidate profile creation
  • Candidate scoring for each job

Cons

  • Local Thai Language option
  • Customization of the Theme

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact on ROI due to streamlined recruitment process

Usability

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Premium Business

Affordable Reliable all in one software for headhunting

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Manatal has been a game-changer for our recruitment workflow. We use it to manage both client relationships and candidate pipelines, and the CRM and ATS features are incredibly intuitive. Sharing job openings with recruiters is seamless, and tracking progress across roles is easy. It’s solved issues we had with team coordination and visibility. Overall, it’s streamlined our operations and made our business development efforts much more efficient. Highly recommended.

Pros

  • Pipeline Management is easy and efficient
  • Job Posting to multiple platforms effortless

Cons

  • UI could be a bit better.

Return on Investment

  • Turnaround times for headhunting are lower.
  • Software is quite affordable even for the small org like us.
  • Less human error due to systemized pipeline management!

Usability

Other Software Used

Notion

Disappointed prospect

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ATS software that we evaluate to move out from Jobadder. We were attracted by their cheap price point and features. After an initial discussion we realise customer support was not answering our questions, not willing to share customer referees mentioning privacy rules and not even willing to make a call to check.

Manatal also has a 1000 email limitation per month which is a big limitation and lest that 15 integrations which are major functionalities limitation.

Overall even if the pricing is good the product doesn't seem to be a finished product and support is not up to scratch

Pros

  • pricing

Cons

  • customer support
  • email limitation
  • providing referee for prospect
  • integration

Return on Investment

  • pricing
  • integration limited
  • customer support need improvement

Alternatives Considered

JobAdder

Other Software Used

JobAdder, Bigin by Zoho CRM

The easiest ATS = Manatal

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Through a mix of LinkedIn outreach and posting job ads, we have significantly increased our sourcing efficiency. This is made possible by Manatal's ability to streamline the posting of job ads and the sourcing of qualified candidates.

Pros

  • It is possible to generate one or more candidates using a variety of methods, such as dragging and dropping resumes or CVs or collecting information directly from a LinkedIn profile. Extremely simple to employ and put into effect.

Cons

  • It is possible to generate one or more candidates using a variety of methods, such as dragging and dropping resumes or CVs or collecting information directly from a LinkedIn profile. Extremely simple to employ and put into effect.

Return on Investment

  • With full candidate profiles in hand, leveraging is super easy with the help of candidate scoring and powerful search capabilities.

Completely digitized our HR processes in a single day

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Because of Manatal's robust feature set, including AI candidate scoring, ease of use, and reasonable pricing, we decided to adopt it as our applicant tracking system.

Pros

  • The system is designed to be easy to use and comes complete with everything that is necessary for the recruiting process.

Cons

  • Although we would like more say in how the career page appears, we must acknowledge its remarkably straightforward design. Now that we are managing our career page in-house, rather than outsourcing the work to a freelancer, we are able to save costs.

Return on Investment

  • Results so far have exceeded our expectations, and the implementation within the team went perfectly.