What people are saying
Hiring teams and candidates
love First
Net Promoter Score
+100
World-class NPS
Candidate Satisfaction
4.6/5
8,156+ reviews
NPS
+100
World-class
CX
4.6/5
8k+ 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
Interactive and straightforward. I look forward to the prospects of the role
easy application process.
perfect
GREAT
Great and interactive way to gather information.
Very nice
very smooth process
Easy
Simple
Its a good opportunity
Wonderful chat
The application website is user-friendly
First ever experience with a personal assistant as part of the interview phase. Can see greater use cases with this! Thank you.
Simple and efficient
This process of using AI chat is impressive. It enables the candidate to complete the application in their own time.
The AI assistant is fantastic.
User experience is top-notch
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.
Very user friendly and easy to understand and use
Great website, easy to navigate.
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
AI
It's very pleasant
Great Experience. Smooth process
Good user experience and easy to navigate the screens.
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
I felt like a real person taking my Interview. It was great experience. Thank you.
Absolutely love technology and the questions answered here would normally be the first 15 minutes of an interview. Liking this!!!
good
I love this. Easy and simple.
Impressed with the toolset
Excellent
Good
Awesome
great
Quick and easy to use
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.
It was amazing
The experience was great and the interview bot was very responsive to my answers
easy and well laid out
Swift and straight to the point. Relevant information sought in a concise manner
Very interactive and easy
good
Looking forward to hearing from you soon
New and different
Very prompt but interactive
Lovely
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.
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 good user approach
Really easy
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 okay
The process was without a teething issue as a user. Thanks
Easy to navigate interface, with clear call to actions
easy going, self-paced AI interview
Good
Great
Excellent
Nice and smooth
Very interactive process
AI chat about the work experience is something new and amazing.
I am impressed with the introduction of AI based interview for faster candidate shortlisting instead of an ATS based shortlisting.
good
Easy to use, smooth process
good
It was easy completing the steps
Pretty easy and efficient, thanks!
It was interactive. I felt like I'm having a conversation with someone
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.
Effective way to process an application
First time being interviewed by AI. It was a pleasant experience.
Love the automated system. Quite interesting and brilliant.
Excellent
Loved the experience but would have liked to be told upfront how many questions so I could have set time aside
Simple to use
It was a straight, straightforward, good-form experience
Its a wonderful experience to AI and technology involved recruitment process.
It was nice to have an immediate interview to brief about me and my experience.
It went easy and smooth
it was great
it was easy to use
I enjoyed it very much.
Lovely
It was a splendid flow
Its a good opportunity, because developers will get some experience
It was very wise to use AI agents in the application process!
I was able to give an in-depth answer to the questions asked.
Great way to do interviews 🙂
it was great
Excellent
great
Great, transparent, simplified, direct. Love it.
I like it
Love this as I'm a bit of a data and technology nerd. My kind of round 1 interview
it was fun!
very friendly, easy going
nice tool
It was a refreshing way to apply
Very good
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.
Great!
A very innovative way to structure a phase of an interview
Great
Awesome
Whoever made Fred well done!
Smooth and didn't attempt to bore you with repetitive questions
not bad
Easy to submit details and enjoyed the AI question experience.
great
Good
Really good UI
Easy to understand instructions
Love how easy it is to
Very Enjoyable
Very engaging
it was alright, not too tedious and straight forward
it was smooth and interactive
Unique experience
The best job application experience ever, I like this one-page-one-question design!
wow its very good, thanks for this opportunity MRJ.
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.
I love the process
Good experience.
Insightful application process.
simple and straight forward
Nice. Easy to apply
very good, very different, very easy!
Really clear form and instructions thanks
A clean and smooth process.
Nice ux
was pretty straight forward and direct
I Love the Chat
On time prompt responses with a lot of details in questions.
Good
User friendly.
It was nice experience
It was easy and straightforward
Really enjoyed the Ai questions, very refreshing!!
I enjoyed the AI questions
Very creative questionnaire
Was very user friendly
It was indeed great talking to Fred and looking forward to starting my apprentice ASAP!
Nice use of ai!
The application process was quite straightforward
Very interesting with AI
clear and concisely
Great experience
Seamless process and the use of chat bots is cool.
It's quite accessible and user friendly. Great job from your tech team.
Perfect!
Better than I thought it would be
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.
nice to chat with AI
Great and Seamless
Nice chat with AI
Great experience, streamlined with an insightful question to answer
It’s good
wonderful
Some information was already on my CV, but good to see some practical questions asked
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.
quick and painless
Nice experience working with an AI assistant in the application submission process itself.
Great
Easy to operate, simple and to the point
It is well designed, concise, user-friendly and to the point
A nice & easy form.
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!
Smooth and Relevant
Ease of navigation.
It was really good to communicate with the chat bot, its questions are professional so I hope it will help you know me better
Enjoyed the interaction.
Good
Chatbot was humanized 😊
Most unique, interesting and fun interview I have ever done. Simple, but nice.
Great
It was amazing! keep it up.
The chat-based interview process was fantastic and seamless!
Very cool and concise application process.
Good
Awesome!
Nice, friendly and good interface
Good
Interesting with the AI feedback
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.
Loved the UI used for the application process, had never come across such a user-friendly one. Nice one
I liked the interactive application.
best experience so far in application process. loved it
Excellent
This was an amazing experience.
This was a nice experience
very user friendly
My experience doing this application was very smooth, convenient and hassle-free
Awesome
I like it, it's different.
Able to add more relevant detail
Unusual but definitely better than a lot of other applications that I have completed!
good
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
good
Comfortable to answers.
An interesting interview
Was good, but if questions have to be repeated in an interview, it could be annoying...