One platform. Unified intelligence across the entire employee lifecycle.

From recruitment to onboarding, performance, engagement, compensation, analytics, and Stories. Each module delivers measurable results, and Stories connects them all with AI-powered insights that reveal how projects, teams, and individuals are truly performing.

Why It Works

Each feature solves a specific problem with measurable results. Here's what makes each module valuable:

AI-Powered Workforce Stories

The system continuously analyzes data from all modules—activities, performance reviews, compensation, time-off, and engagement—to generate AI-powered narratives. Employees receive personalized stories about their performance and career development. Managers see team stories with performance trends and capacity analysis. Executives access organizational stories revealing company-wide health metrics and strategic insights. Stories update automatically as new data flows in.

Key Benefit:

Help employees, teams, and organizations be better. Employees get self-awareness and growth opportunities. Teams get proactive support and improved performance. Organizations get strategic intelligence and better outcomes.

My Stories • Team Stories • Organizational Stories • Project Stories • AI powered insights • Predictive analytics • Visual data stories • Actionable recommendations

AI-Powered Recruitment Management

Create and publish job postings with customizable application forms. Candidates apply directly through your Careersome page. The system automatically ranks candidates using AI that analyzes skills, experience, education, and location. Review candidates in your visual pipeline, move them through custom hiring stages with drag-and-drop, schedule interviews, and make hiring decisions with complete candidate information at your fingertips.

Key Benefit:

All applications in one place, ranked by AI. Know exactly where candidates drop off and why. Enables faster hiring with better candidate quality.

AI-powered candidate matching • Centralized application collection • Candidate ranking visibility • Pipeline management • Interview scheduling • Evaluation workflows

Performance Management Across Three Levels

Create 360° review cycles with custom competency frameworks and schedule them organization-wide. Employees and managers complete structured questionnaires with ratings and feedback. Conduct probation reviews for new hires and create Performance Improvement Plans for employees needing support. The system tracks goals with weighted scoring, monitors team performance, and AI analyzes data to predict retention risks and identify at-risk employees.

Key Benefit:

Data-driven performance management that drives employee growth. Know who needs help and who's excelling.

360° feedback • Self/Manager/Peer/Colleague reviews • Probation reviews • Goal tracking • At-risk identification • Analytics

Compensation Management

Create compensation cycles and define salary bands by role, level, and location. Managers propose salary increases and bonuses for their team members within approved bands. Proposals flow through multi-stage approval workflows (Manager → HR → Finance). The system automatically flags pay equity issues, calculates budget impact, and shows compa-ratios before final approval. Approved compensation syncs with payroll systems.

Key Benefit:

Ensure pay equity while linking performance to strategic rewards. Control budgets, maintain market competitiveness, and make data driven compensation decisions.

Pay equity dashboards • Budget control • Performance-linked rewards • Compa-ratios • Market benchmarking • Payroll integration

Structured Employee Onboarding

When you move a candidate to 'Hired', the system automatically assigns an onboarding template and generates personalized tasks. New hires complete pre-boarding tasks and upload documents before day one, then continue with onboarding tasks after joining. You track progress in real time, see who's stuck, and ensure consistent experiences across all new hires using reusable templates.

Key Benefit:

Get new hires productive faster. Know exactly who needs help and where they are in the process.

Automated task generation • Stage tracking • At-risk identification • Department-categorized materials • Email reminders • Progress monitoring

Structured Employee Offboarding

When an employee's departure is initiated, assign an offboarding template that automatically generates tasks for access revocation, asset recovery, knowledge transfer, and documentation. Track completion of each task in real time, conduct exit interviews, and ensure all required documents are collected. The system maintains a complete audit trail and ensures nothing is missed during the transition.

Key Benefit:

Ensure smooth employee transitions. Maintain security and compliance. Preserve organizational knowledge.

Automated workflows • Access revocation • Asset recovery • Exit interviews • Knowledge transfer • Compliance tracking

Leadership Continuity Planning

Identify critical roles and develop internal talent to step into future leadership positions. Track readiness, identify gaps, and create development plans. When someone resigns, retires, or gets promoted, you have capable replacements ready. Reduce business disruption and strengthen long-term organizational stability.

Key Benefit:

Ensure leadership continuity. Develop internal talent. Reduce business disruption when key employees leave.

Critical role identification • Readiness assessment • Development planning • Talent pipeline • Risk analytics • Leadership continuity

Employee Engagement Management

Send pulse surveys to your team, and responses flow into real time dashboards. You see engagement scores by department, track trends over time, and get alerts when sentiment drops. Know which teams need attention before turnover becomes a problem.

Key Benefit:

Foster positive culture and reduce turnover. Know which departments need attention and track engagement trends over time.

Pulse surveys • NPS/CSAT/Engagement Index • Department breakdowns • Anonymous feedback • Response tracking • AI insights

Employee Development and Career Growth

Managers set development goals for their team members, and employees get clear tasks and milestones. You see progress in real time, track which skills are being developed, and measure the ROI of your learning investments. Know which training platforms work best and where to invest your development budget.

Key Benefit:

Support career development with clear pathways. Track learning investment and ROI. Know which skills are being developed and which platforms are most effective.

Manager-created goals • Learning requests • Skills analytics • Budget management • Platform tracking • Evidence upload • Progress tracking

Time-Off Management

Employees request time off, and the system automatically checks balances and detects conflicts. Managers approve in seconds from their phone. You see team availability at a glance, replacing WhatsApp messages and lost requests. Everyone knows who's out and when.

Key Benefit:

Replace WhatsApp messages and lost requests with instant approvals. Know team availability at a glance. Automatic conflict detection prevents scheduling issues.

30-second approvals • Conflict detection • Real-time balances • Team calendars • Hierarchical workflow • Audit trail

Activity and Productivity Tracking

Employees log their work activities, and the system automatically organizes them by project and category. Activities automatically populate weekly timesheets for easy submission and manager approval. You see where time is spent across your organization, identify bottlenecks before they become problems, and get AI powered recommendations to optimize team productivity. Managers gain complete visibility into team activities and can approve timesheets without micromanaging.

Key Benefit:

Gain visibility into team productivity and project progress. Know which projects consume the most time and identify productivity patterns. Streamlined timesheet submission and approval workflow.

Manual logging • Project tracking • Weekly timesheets • Manager approval • Calendar views • Productivity metrics • Team monitoring • AI insights • Data export

Workforce Analytics and Reporting

All your workforce data flows into one dashboard. See recruitment metrics, onboarding progress, performance trends, engagement scores, and time off patterns in real time. Compare periods, drill down by department or role, and get AI powered insights that tell you what to focus on next.

Key Benefit:

Turn workforce data into actionable business intelligence. Make data driven decisions with real time insights across all functions.

Real-time dashboards • Comprehensive reports • Trend analysis • Multi-dimensional filtering • AI insights • Data export

Feature Highlights

FeatureThe ProblemOur SolutionThe Value
StoriesData scattered across modules. No unified view of employee lifecycle. Can't see how different functions connect. Insights are reactive, not predictive.AI powered stories connect activities, performance, compensation, and every workflow into clear narratives. Employees see personalized stories about their performance, work patterns, and career development. Managers receive team stories showing performance trends, engagement patterns, and capacity analysis. Executives access organizational stories that reveal company-wide health metrics and strategic insights.Unified intelligence. Predictive insights. Clear narratives. Actionable recommendations. Complete visibility across employee lifecycle.
RecruitmentApplications flood your email inbox. No way to rank candidates. No visibility into your pipeline. Candidates never hear back.Create and publish job postings with customizable application forms. All applications come through Careersome where candidates are automatically ranked by AI fit scores analyzing skills, experience, education, and location. Create custom recruitment stages and move candidates through hiring stages visually with drag-and-drop pipeline management. Track each candidate's complete information including application details, AI match scores, evaluations, comments, and interview history. Communication happens directly through the platform, and everything is tracked in one centralized dashboard.AI-powered candidate matching identifies best-fit candidates automatically. Complete visibility into hiring pipeline from application to offer. Structured evaluation processes with interview management and scoring. Better hiring decisions through data-driven insights.
PerformanceAnnual reviews feel like a formality. Feedback scattered. No templates. No visibility into who needs help or who's excelling.Run 360° review cycles with multi-source feedback from employees, managers, and peers. Conduct probation reviews for new hires with manager-centered assessments. Create Performance Improvement Plans for employees needing support with measurable goals and timelines. Track performance goals with weighted scoring. Monitor team performance with hierarchical management support. AI processes performance data to predict retention risks and identify at-risk employees before issues escalate.Complete visibility into team performance. Automatic identification of high performers and employees at risk. Organization-wide analytics with department breakdowns. Data-driven talent decisions.
CompensationExcel spreadsheets for salary planning. No visibility into pay equity. Budgets spiral out of control. No link to performance.Salary bands by role, level, and location. Pay equity analytics. Real-time budget tracking. Performance-linked compensation. Market data integration. Payroll integration. Multi-stage approval workflows for compensation proposals.Fair compensation. Strategic planning. Budget control. Pay equity visibility. Market competitiveness. Performance-linked rewards.
OnboardingManual setup takes hours per new hire. Documents scattered everywhere. No visibility into who's struggling. Inconsistent experiences across teams.Automated transition from hiring to pre-onboarding. Candidates complete tasks and upload documents before day one, and continue with onboarding tasks after they join. Reusable templates for consistency. Real-time progress tracking across all phases.Significant time saved on setup. Faster time-to-productivity. Know who needs help. Consistent experiences across teams.
OffboardingChaotic manual processes when employees leave. Access not revoked on time. Assets lost. Knowledge walks out the door. No compliance tracking.Automated offboarding checklists with customizable templates. Automatic access revocation workflows. Asset recovery tracking. Exit interview management. Knowledge transfer documentation. Compliance tracking and reporting.Smooth transitions. Security maintained. Knowledge preserved. Compliance ensured. Organized exits.
Succession PlanningNo plan when key employees leave. Critical roles have no backups. Talent gaps discovered too late. Business disruption when leaders depart.Identify critical roles and potential successors. Track readiness levels and development gaps. Create development plans for high-potential employees. Monitor succession depth and risk. Ensure leadership continuity and reduce business disruption.Leadership continuity. Reduced disruption. Internal talent development. Risk mitigation. Strategic planning.
Employee EngagementAnnual surveys deliver results months later. No real time pulse on sentiment. No way to track trends or see department-level insights. No system to track improvement actions.Regular pulse surveys at configurable frequencies. Real-time engagement dashboards. Sentiment analysis. Department and team-level insights. Engagement trend tracking. Action item tracking with assignment and follow-up.Real-time employee sentiment. Identify issues early. Data-driven culture improvements. Track engagement trends. Actionable insights with follow-up tracking.
Development ManagementNo structured development plans. Training records scattered. Skill gaps invisible. No way to track progress or identify who needs development.Individual development plans. Development goals with automatic notifications. Skill gap analysis. Learning path tracking. Development budget tracking. Progress tracking with milestones.Structured employee growth. Identify skill gaps. Track development progress. Optimize training budgets. Data-driven career development.
Time-OffRequests get lost in WhatsApp. No visibility into who's taking leave when. Conflicts discovered too late. Manual balance tracking.Employees submit time-off requests through a self-service portal. The system automatically checks leave balances, detects scheduling conflicts, and routes requests through approval workflows based on organizational hierarchy. Managers can view team time-off schedules, approve or reject requests, and track leave usage patterns.Complete visibility into team availability. Automatic conflict detection. Real-time balance tracking. Streamlined approval workflows.
Activity TrackingNo visibility into what your team is working on. No idea how long projects take. Can't identify bottlenecks until it's too late. Manual timesheet creation is time-consuming and error-prone.Employees log work activities with start and end times, assign activities to projects and categories, and submit weekly timesheets for manager approval. The system tracks productivity patterns, identifies peak performance times, and provides insights into how work gets done across teams and projects.Complete visibility into work patterns. Identify productivity trends. Spot bottlenecks early. Data-driven team management. Streamlined timesheet submission and approval.
Analytics & ReportingData scattered across spreadsheets. Reports take days to compile. Insights are always historical, never real time.Unified analytics dashboard. Real-time data visualization. Cross-module reporting. Predictive analytics. Custom report builder. Automated report scheduling.Single source of truth. Real-time insights. Data-driven decisions. Time saved on reporting. Predictive workforce planning.

What Makes Careersome Powerful?

Unified Intelligence

AI powered insights and predictions connect all modules into clear, actionable stories. Get predictive analytics for retention risk, performance trends, and workforce planning. Make strategic decisions with data driven predictions.

Real-Time Data Integration

Performance data informs compensation decisions across all modules. Engagement insights drive retention strategies. Recruitment analytics guide hiring decisions. All modules share data for complete visibility. Make decisions faster with live data.

Predictive Analytics & Intelligence

Get predictive analytics for retention risk, performance trends, and workforce planning. Track capacity, progress, and organizational health with real-time intelligence. Same powerful analytics platform works for 15-employee startups and 3,200-employee enterprises.

Built for African Businesses

Designed to meet the unique needs of African businesses, supporting local currencies, compliance, and diverse workforces.

Enterprise Security & Scales with You

Enterprise Security

SOC 2 Type I compliant with enterprise-grade security measures. Your data is protected with industry-standard safeguards. Have specific compliance requirements? Let's discuss.

Scales with You

Same instance runs 15-employee startups and 3,200-employee banks. No migration needed as you grow.

SOC 2 Type I CompliantEnterprise-grade security standards

Integrations

Integrations

Connect with your existing tools and workflows through our comprehensive integration ecosystem.

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