Sarah manages HR for a growing tech company in Lagos. Last month, she posted a job opening for a senior developer. Within 48 hours, 247 applications flooded her company email inbox.
She spent the next two weeks opening emails one by one, downloading CVs, trying to remember which candidates she'd already reviewed, and struggling with a spreadsheet that kept crashing. Important client emails got buried. Her inbox became unusable.
Months later, the real problem emerged. Sarah's email address was now in the records of 247 candidates. She started receiving spam, unsolicited applications for completely different roles, and messages from candidates who found her email long after the position was filled.
Sarah's story isn't unique. Across African businesses, HR teams are managing recruitment, onboarding, performance reviews, and employee data using spreadsheets, email, and WhatsApp. It's inefficient, error-prone, and doesn't scale.
Careersome, a talent management platform built specifically for African businesses, aims to change that. The platform consolidates recruitment, onboarding, performance management, compensation, time-off, employee engagement, and analytics into one system.
The core problem Careersome solves: candidates apply directly through the platform, keeping your email completely private. AI automatically ranks candidates based on qualifications, so you see the best matches first. All applications live in one organized place with complete pipeline visibility.
The platform includes pipeline management with custom interview stages. You can move candidates between stages with drag-and-drop, assign specific interviewers, and each interviewer can grade candidates with structured pros, cons, and scores. The system automatically calculates average scores across all evaluations.
Email communication happens directly from the platform without exposing your company email. When candidates reply, their responses automatically appear in the platform's email history with full thread tracking. Candidates get live status updates, and you get insights on why candidates drop off.
According to the company, businesses using Careersome see 67% fewer unqualified applications and fill positions in an average of 21 days.
When a new employee joins, most HR teams spend about four hours manually setting up each new hire. Documents are scattered across email threads, shared drives, and physical folders. There's no visibility into who's struggling with onboarding or who's falling behind.
With Careersome, when a candidate is hired, they automatically transition into onboarding. Reusable templates organized by department and role ensure consistency. Employees automatically receive email notifications with their tasks and materials when you assign onboarding templates.
The system tracks every stage, monitors all onboarding activities, identifies employees who need help, shows completion percentages, and sends automated email reminders. All onboarding activities are logged and visible in real-time dashboards.
The platform automatically identifies at-risk employees based on progress, time in phase, and task completion. You get alerts for employees who need intervention, allowing you to provide support before issues escalate.
The company claims HR teams save 95% of the time they used to spend on manual setup. New employees become productive faster, and managers can instantly see who needs support.
Lost requests, no audit trail, no visibility into who's taking leave when. Conflicts surface when it's too late. Manual balance tracking is always out of date.
Careersome handles this systematically. Multiple leave types are configured once. The system automatically calculates days, checks balances in real-time, and detects conflicts before they happen. Hierarchical approval workflows ensure requests go to the right people. Managers can approve in 30 seconds from their mobile, everyone gets automated notifications, and there's a complete audit trail for compliance.
Excel spreadsheets for salary planning, manual calculations prone to errors, no visibility into pay equity, budgets that spiral out of control.
Careersome brings structure to compensation management. Salary bands with min/median/max by role, level, and location ensure consistency. Pay equity analytics reveal disparities by gender, role, location, and tenure. Budget management tracks spending in real-time per unit. Multi-stage approval workflows keep everything organized. Performance-linked compensation connects reviews to rewards. Market data integration ensures competitiveness, and seamless payroll integration means 2-click exports.
Annual reviews that feel like a formality. Feedback scattered across different systems. No templates, so every review is different. No visibility into who needs help or who's excelling.
Careersome creates structure where chaos existed. Performance templates can be assigned to entire departments or all employees, ensuring consistency. When you create and assign performance reviews, employees automatically receive email notifications with their review tasks and deadlines.
The platform supports 360° reviews that capture self-appraisal, manager feedback, peer input, and colleague perspectives. Structured probation reviews at 30, 60, and 90 days with custom criteria. Goal tracking with weighted scoring and custom competency frameworks.
All performance review activities are tracked and logged. Real-time dashboards identify at-risk employees who need support and high performers who are excelling. You can see who has completed reviews, who's behind, and track progress across all performance cycles.
Most managers have no visibility into how their team actually works. Productivity is a guess. Bottlenecks are discovered only after they cause problems.
Careersome provides complete transparency. Automatic activity logging captures work patterns without manual input. Real-time dashboards show productivity metrics and trends. Team activity comparison reveals performance differences. Bottleneck identification spots issues early. Historical tracking shows patterns over time, and integration with other modules creates a complete picture.
Annual surveys deliver results months later. By then, issues have escalated. There's no real-time pulse on employee sentiment, no way to track trends or see department-level insights.
Careersome enables continuous listening. Regular pulse surveys at configurable frequencies keep you connected to your team. Real-time engagement dashboards show sentiment immediately. Sentiment analysis identifies issues early. Department and team-level insights reveal where action is needed. Trend tracking shows whether engagement is improving or declining. Action item tracking ensures feedback leads to change, and anonymous options encourage honest feedback.
Development plans exist only in conversations. Training records are scattered. Skill gaps are invisible. Learning paths aren't tracked.
Careersome structures career growth. Individual development plans (IDPs) create clear paths. When you create and assign development goals, employees automatically receive email notifications with their development tasks and milestones.
The platform includes skill gap analysis that identifies development needs. Learning path creation and tracking ensure progress. Training record management keeps everything organized. Development budget allocation and tracking optimize spending. Competency mapping connects skills to roles, and progress tracking with milestones shows advancement.
All development activities are tracked and logged. The system identifies employees who are falling behind on their development goals and alerts you to those at risk. Integration with performance reviews creates a complete development picture.
Your data lives in spreadsheets across different departments. Reports take days to compile. Insights are always historical, never real-time.
Careersome creates intelligence. A unified analytics dashboard brings everything together. Real-time data visualization shows what's happening now. Cross-module reporting connects recruitment, performance, compensation, and engagement. Predictive analytics forecast trends. Custom report builder lets you create exactly what you need. Automated report scheduling delivers insights regularly. Role-based dashboards show each person what matters to them, and key metrics tracking monitors time-to-fill, turnover, engagement scores, and more.
Managers jump between different systems to see an employee's activities, performance, time-off, and development. There's no single view. Information is scattered.
Careersome unifies the view. A unified employee profile shows everything in one place. An all-in-one dashboard integrates activities, time-off, performance, development, and profile. Team member overview with integrated tabs makes navigation seamless. Complete employee lifecycle visibility shows the full journey. Role-based access control ensures the right people see the right information. Team directory with search and filters makes finding people instant.
Careersome isn't just another HR tool. It's a unified platform that replaces the chaos of spreadsheets, email overload, and scattered systems with one intelligent solution.
Each module solves real problems with measurable results: 67% fewer junk applications, 21-day time-to-fill, 95% time saved in onboarding, and complete visibility across your entire workforce.
Built specifically for African businesses, Careersome delivers the structure, visibility, and analytics needed to manage people, teams, and performance with precision and purpose.
Careersome is proudly developed by Wik Immersive, a Nigerian-registered innovation company dedicated to building world-class software solutions for African businesses.