- Welcome to the Jungle has launched the Welcome Hiring Suite, a full-cycle recruitment platform that puts people first in the era of AI in recruitment
- The Suite embodies the organisation’s ‘find your people’ mission, helping candidates find a sense of belonging at work and employers uncover the right fit for their team
- It comes at a time when the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) in the UK is rising, edging closer to one million
15th April 2026: Welcome to the Jungle, the global job seeking and employer branding platform, launches the Welcome Hiring Suite, a redesigned end-to-end job platform that saves hiring managers up to six hours per vacancy.
Both candidates and companies are navigating an increasingly challenging recruitment landscape that’s built on the principles of volume, visibility, and highly transactional processes. With a surge in the volume of applications for open positions, driven at least in part by the use of AI, and increasing pressure to make the right hire on tighter budgets, this current model has reached its limits for the modern workplace.
Welcome to the Jungle has helped more than 50,000 hiring managers recruit more than 500,000 people and has drawn on this expertise to redesign the recruitment process from end-to-end. The Welcome Hiring Suite is the first all-in-one recruitment platform that has been purpose-built for today’s hiring market, keeping humans at the centre of recruitment in the era of AI. With this new platform, Welcome to the Jungle aims to put meaningful matches between talent and employers back at the heart of recruitment.
The Welcome Hiring Suite brings together four tools in one platform: employer branding; job matching; sourcing and access to over 20 million candidates, including two million who are exclusive to Welcome to the Jungle; and an AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS).
Rethinking recruitment in the age of AI
Most companies use several tools to recruit: job boards, ATS platforms, CRM systems, sourcing tools and employer branding platforms. This fragmentation leads to lost time, rising costs, operational complexity and a candidate experience that is often inconsistent.
At the same time, the rise of artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the market: automated applications, the mass production of ‘optimised’ CVs, and soaring application volumes without any corresponding improvement in quality. Welcome to the Jungle’s data shows that recruiters process 5,300 applications each year on average, yet 77% do not match the role they are trying to fill.
To better understand these challenges and shape its new platform around real-world needs, Welcome to the Jungle surveyed more than 500 companies of different sizes and profiles across France and the UK.
An all-in-one platform to simplify recruitment in the age of AI
The Welcome Hiring Suite has been designed to address this dual shift: fragmented recruitment tools and an explosion in application volumes. Built from the outset as an AI-native platform, it embeds artificial intelligence at every key stage of the hiring process to improve the quality of matches and automate repetitive tasks. This allows recruiters and candidates alike to focus on what matters most: relevant, long-lasting hires.
Within a single integrated platform, the Welcome Hiring Suite brings together all the tools needed to attract, identify and select the talent most likely to thrive within an organisation:
- Welcome Employer Brand, Welcome to the Jungle’s flagship offering, enables companies to showcase what makes them unique, introduce their teams and attract candidates whose values align with their own.
- Welcome Sourcing allows employers to search for and engage talent from a pool of 20 million candidates, including 2 million exclusive to Welcome to the Jungle.
- Welcome ATS centralises communication and streamlines every stage of the recruitment process. By automating pre-screening, CV filtering and repetitive administrative tasks, the platform can save up to six hours per vacancy.
- Welcome Job Matching connects vacancies with the most relevant candidates through intelligent, AI-powered scoring based on skills, aspirations and cultural alignment.
The technology has also been designed to identify high-potential candidates with non-traditional career paths - including career changers, atypical profiles and recent graduates - and to prevent those backgrounds from being overlooked by automated filters, going beyond simple keyword-based screening.
The suite also adapts to different HR recruitment methods - inbound, outbound and active sourcing - giving recruiters the flexibility to hire in their own way within a single unified technology environment.
It operates on a new simple, annual pricing model designed to reflect companies’ real needs. While the wider market often prices each solution separately, all functionalities are combined within the one suite, giving HR teams access to a complete and consistent environment. The platform remains free for job seekers.
From volume to relevance: surfacing the right matches
Today, the challenge is no longer attracting ever more CVs, but receiving the right ones.
Thanks to its intelligent matching algorithm and the alignment between candidate data and employer brand content, the Welcome Hiring Suite prioritises quality over quantity. Roles are shown to the most relevant candidates, and only qualified applications make their way into the ATS.
Performance is no longer measured by the sheer volume of applications, but by the proportion of applications that lead to an interview – a metric focused on the true quality of the match.
A candidate experience redesigned to tackle fatigue and ghosting
This transformation is not only about recruiters. In a market shaped by candidate fatigue, ghosting and the rise of automated applications, the Welcome Hiring Suite aims to reduce noise and improve the quality of interactions by offering:
- fewer job ads and less unnecessary scrolling, but more relevant opportunities
- smoother updates throughout the process to help eliminate ghosting
- a richer understanding of companies, their culture and their values, supported by more than 20,000 photo and video shoots produced since Welcome to the Jungle was founded
According to the company, 82% of users say the platform has influenced their choice of employer. In time, the platform aims to evolve into a genuine career assistant, able to guide each person towards the environments where they are most likely to thrive.
Responsible use of AI
The Welcome Hiring Suite has been developed as part of a responsible and sovereign approach to AI. It aligns with the data protection obligations, transparency requirements and regulatory framework of Europe and France, where Welcome to the Jungle is headquartered. The models are deployed with particular attention to compliance, explainability of recommendations, and the protection of both candidate and company data.
AI automates repetitive and time-consuming tasks; the final decision remains human.
Jérémy Clédat, CEO and Founder at Welcome to the Jungle, says: “The recruitment landscape is in the middle of a seismic shift. Hiring managers are under pressure to make the right hire with fewer resources, while at the same time, the number of applications to an open role is rising exponentially – fuelled at least in part by AI. But we know hiring managers aren’t just looking for someone who can do the role, they’re looking for someone who belongs in it. It’s not about hiring faster, it’s about hiring the right person for the role.
“Our expertise in the recruitment industry means we’ve been able to create a new platform that’s built from the ground up with AI at its core to help recruiters cut through the noise. It saves time and money so they can focus on finding their people, making the Welcome Hiring Suite the shortest path to connecting with talent that truly fits.”
The Welcome Hiring Suite will be rolled out from 27th April 2026 and will be standard for all businesses and candidates using Welcome to the Jungle.
