What people are saying
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
AI
I love the process
good
A clean and smooth process.
Loved the UI used for the application process, had never come across such a user-friendly one. Nice one
Easy to use, smooth process
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.
Good
Great experience, streamlined with an insightful question to answer
Really enjoyed the Ai questions, very refreshing!!
Really easy
It was easy and straightforward
Better than I thought it would be
A very innovative way to structure a phase of an interview
Wonderful chat
Great way to do interviews 🙂
I felt like a real person taking my Interview. It was great experience. Thank you.
Unusual but definitely better than a lot of other applications that I have completed!
Was very user friendly
good
I was able to give an in-depth answer to the questions asked.
It was nice experience
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.
Excellent
nice tool
Smooth and didn't attempt to bore you with repetitive questions
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.
GREAT
Insightful application process.
Great
Perfect!
The chat-based interview process was fantastic and seamless!
Really good UI
Good
An interesting interview
It’s good
It was a splendid flow
was pretty straight forward and direct
easy going, self-paced AI interview
Nice, friendly and good interface
Easy
Easy to operate, simple and to the point
Very Enjoyable
Enjoyed the interaction.
Very nice
Quick and easy to use
Great
Awesome
It was a straight, straightforward, good-form experience
Awesome!
Simple to use
It's quite accessible and user friendly. Great job from your tech team.
I like it, it's different.
First ever experience with a personal assistant as part of the interview phase. Can see greater use cases with this! Thank you.
Very good
My experience doing this application was very smooth, convenient and hassle-free
Nice ux
AI chat about the work experience is something new and amazing.
It is well designed, concise, user-friendly and to the point
Good
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.
it was alright, not too tedious and straight forward
Good
Very prompt but interactive
Unique experience
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.
It was amazing! keep it up.
Able to add more relevant detail
The best job application experience ever, I like this one-page-one-question design!
The process was without a teething issue as a user. Thanks
It was really good to communicate with the chat bot, its questions are professional so I hope it will help you know me better
good
Effective way to process an application
Awesome
Easy to submit details and enjoyed the AI question experience.
Great website, easy to navigate.
Good experience.
Great and interactive way to gather information.
The AI assistant is fantastic.
Nice use of ai!
Looking forward to hearing from you soon
it was great
Chatbot was humanized 😊
It went easy and smooth
Excellent
Most unique, interesting and fun interview I have ever done. Simple, but nice.
Was good, but if questions have to be repeated in an interview, it could be annoying...
it was fun!
quick and painless
Lovely
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
simple and straight forward
Really clear form and instructions thanks
It was a refreshing way to apply
First time being interviewed by AI. It was a pleasant experience.
it was smooth and interactive
I Love the Chat
The application process was quite straightforward
Pretty easy and efficient, thanks!
Smooth and Relevant
Great
Very cool and concise application process.
Excellent
I love this. Easy and simple.
best experience so far in application process. loved it
Great
I like it
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.
Great!
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.
It was easy completing the steps
Great and Seamless
perfect
very smooth process
Ease of navigation.
very good user approach
Good
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.
I liked the interactive application.
The experience was great and the interview bot was very responsive to my answers
Awesome
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.
Its a good opportunity, because developers will get some experience
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
Swift and straight to the point. Relevant information sought in a concise manner
Excellent
nice to chat with AI
Love the automated system. Quite interesting and brilliant.
Very interactive and easy
Simple
Great Experience. Smooth process
it was okay
Very interactive process
Seamless process and the use of chat bots is cool.
Love how easy it is to
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.
easy application process.
Good
very good, very different, very easy!
Comfortable to answers.
Some information was already on my CV, but good to see some practical questions asked
This was a nice experience
Interactive and straightforward. I look forward to the prospects of the role
Very user friendly and easy to understand and use
Very creative questionnaire
great
It was indeed great talking to Fred and looking forward to starting my apprentice ASAP!
not bad
Loved the experience but would have liked to be told upfront how many questions so I could have set time aside
Its a wonderful experience to AI and technology involved recruitment process.
It was interactive. I felt like I'm having a conversation with someone
Love this as I'm a bit of a data and technology nerd. My kind of round 1 interview
New and different
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
Easy to understand instructions
Impressed with the toolset
This process of using AI chat is impressive. It enables the candidate to complete the application in their own time.
It was very wise to use AI agents in the application process!
I enjoyed the AI questions
User experience is top-notch
good
The application website is user-friendly
Excellent
Nice experience working with an AI assistant in the application submission process itself.
A nice & easy form.
good
Great, transparent, simplified, direct. Love it.
User friendly.
Lovely
great
I enjoyed it very much.
very user friendly
it was great
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!
Simple and efficient
Interesting with the AI feedback
Whoever made Fred well done!
This was an amazing experience.
It was nice to have an immediate interview to brief about me and my experience.
On time prompt responses with a lot of details in questions.
good
Great experience
Its a good opportunity
wow its very good, thanks for this opportunity MRJ.
It was amazing
Nice. Easy to apply
Very interesting with AI
Good
Nice and smooth
easy and well laid out
It's very pleasant
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.
it was easy to use
Absolutely love technology and the questions answered here would normally be the first 15 minutes of an interview. Liking this!!!
I am impressed with the introduction of AI based interview for faster candidate shortlisting instead of an ATS based shortlisting.
Easy to navigate interface, with clear call to actions
Nice chat with AI
Very engaging
clear and concisely
very friendly, easy going
great
Good user experience and easy to navigate the screens.
wonderful