UK Recruitment · Candidate Response
Your best candidate applied at 8pm.
By 9am they're interviewing elsewhere.
Handler24 deploys a fully managed digital employee that responds to every application and candidate reply instantly, evenings, weekends, whenever candidates actually job hunt, runs your first round vetting, and books strong candidates straight into consultants' calendars.
Request a System BuildFirst round vetting on your criteria · UK GDPR compliant · 4 firms/month
Application · Tue 8:11pm
Senior DevOps, 4 weeks notice
Vetted 8:12pmCandidate reply · Sun 7:45pm
Rate confirmed, right to work clear
Interview booked 7:47pmClient brief · Sat 10:20am
Perm role, finance desk
Qualified 10:21amCandidates accept whoever
replies first. Every time.
Applications peak in the evening, exactly when your consultants have gone home.
42 hrs
Average business response time to a new enquiry, an eternity for an in demand candidate fielding three agencies.
Harvard Business Review
5 min
The window before an engaged candidate moves on to the next listing and the next recruiter.
InsideSales.com
90 sec
Handler24's typical response on every application, 10pm on a Tuesday included. Contractual sub 180 second SLA.
Handler24 SLA
What your digital employee
handles while consultants sleep.
Response
Every application, answered instantly
Inbound applications and candidate replies across email and WhatsApp get a substantive response the moment they land, keeping the candidate engaged with your agency instead of drifting to the next listing.
Vetting
First round screening, done
Availability, notice period, rate expectations, right to work, key credentials, your exact first round questions run on first contact, so consultants only spend time on candidates who clear the bar.
Booking
Interviews, in the diary
Strong candidates book directly into the right consultant's calendar with the vetting summary attached. No phone tag through a three day window while the candidate cools.
Your Desk
Client side covered too
The same system qualifies inbound client briefs and vacancy enquiries out of hours. Built on infrastructure running stateless, Make.com, Airtable, WhatsApp Business API, connected to your ATS via custom webhooks.
First round vettingNotice period screeningRight to work checksRate qualificationInterview schedulingGoogle CalendarWhatsApp Business APICustom ATS webhooksUK GDPR compliant
Asked by every agency
before they deploy.
Candidates hate bots and forms, won't this put them off?
Candidates hate silence, forms that go nowhere, and being screened by someone who hasn't read their CV. What they experience here is a fast, substantive conversation that asks relevant questions and ends with a confirmed interview slot, because it's running your best consultant's actual screening approach from the Context Vault, not a generic script.
Can it screen against different criteria per desk or client?
Yes, vetting frameworks are configured per desk, sector or client during the build. An IT contract desk and a finance perm desk can run entirely different question sets, rate logic and disqualifiers under one deployment.
Does it connect to our ATS?
Vetted candidate records and interview bookings flow into your ATS via custom webhooks configured during your five day build week, alongside Google Calendar and the WhatsApp Business API. The pipeline runs in a stateless environment.
What does it cost?
Every deployment is scoped and priced to the agency during the diagnostic session, desk count, application volume and integrations all differ. Build, integration, monitoring and refinement are always included, with the sub 180 second SLA in your contract, and the system runs stateless, with no client data retained.
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Operational in 5 business days · 4 firms onboarded per month