
Transform Your Recruiting With Our Smart Applicant Tracking System
Find top candidates quicker. Our all-in-one recruiting platform handles everything from posting jobs to hiring new employees and features the option to use AI assistance to speed up your search.
The Benefits of Intelligent Recruiting and a Powerful ATS System
Keep Candidates Moving Forward
- Allow candidates to select the time that works best for them with self-scheduling interview tools.
- Keep candidates informed and engaged with status updates.
- Deliver digital offer letters to candidates for quick review and acceptance.

Job Posting to Payroll in Record Time
- Build job posts, schedule interviews, and draft offer letters in just a few clicks with our simple step-by-step process.
- Eliminate manual data entry with new hire data that flows directly to your payroll and HR system.
- Resume parsing speeds up applications by pulling key details directly from resumes into the application fields.

Unite Your Hiring Team on One Platform
- Recruiters, hiring managers, and HR can collaborate effectively on our all-in-one HCM platform with shared access to candidate pipelines, ratings, and real-time updates.
- Workflows can be tailored to your business's specific hiring process and roles.

Application Accessibility That Converts
- Improve engagement with a consistent, easy-to-follow hiring journey designed for candidates.
- Instant updates and mobile notifications allow for a smooth transition from interviewing to onboarding.
- Candidates can easily apply to jobs from any device (phone/tablet/computer) reducing application drop-off rates.

Streamline Recruitment and Hiring in One Place
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One Complete Recruitment Platform
One Complete Recruitment Platform
From posting jobs to managing candidates, Paychex Flex® Hiring offers integrations, workflow automation, and analytics to help you find and hire the best candidates.
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Streamlined Candidate Management
Streamlined Candidate Management
Move candidates along easily, search and rank to find the best people, and notify everyone so nothing falls through the cracks.
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Professional Recruiting & Hiring Tools
Professional Recruiting & Hiring Tools
Stand out with a job page designed to match your brand. Post jobs anywhere and make it easy for people to apply from whatever device they're using.
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Insider Hiring Data
Insider Hiring Data
Know how your hiring is going with reports that show you what's working and what isn't. Keep your team productive with mobile access so they can hire on the go.
The Ways Flex Hiring Helps
Stop Managing Multiple Hiring Processes
Your business deserves consistency, not chaos. Imagine having the same professional, efficient hiring experience whether you're recruiting across departments or locations.
End Time Draining Manual Recruiting Tasks
You're spending too much time on paperwork and not enough time finding great people. Automate the tedious parts of hiring and focus on what really matters — connecting with top candidates.
One Platform for All Hiring Needs
Juggling multiple tools, spreadsheets, and email threads to manage recruiting is exhausting. Streamline everything from your first job post to your final hiring decision in a single easy-to-use system.
The Simple Solution to Hiring Effectively
Add Paychex Flex Hiring to any Payroll or HR package of your choosing and begin optimizing your recruitment and hiring process.

Ease Your Workload With Automated Solutions
Grow your team the right way. Our hiring system simplifies your talent search, and our AI-assisted hiring tool does the heavy lifting to help you find great potential candidates.

Success Story Spotlight
“As our business grew, we needed to find more innovative ways to find people, manage our people, and ways for us to communicate. When we looked at this situation with Paychex, we looked at a system that not only encompasses what we needed, but also where we wanted to go.”
Shiloh Jones, CEO, HYPE Counseling Services

Complete Your Hiring Toolkit
We provide all the tools you need to streamline and improve your hiring process, so you can focus on what matters most — running and growing your business.

Employee Handbooks
Create compliant employee handbooks that set clear expectations from day one.

Safety Program
Protect your workforce and reduce liability with comprehensive workplace safety programs and training.

Onboarding Software
Transform new hire paperwork chaos into a seamless digital onboarding experience.

HR Consulting
Get expert HR guidance to navigate complex employment laws.

Screening & Background Checks
Make confident hiring decisions with thorough background screening and verification services.
Additional Recruiting Resources
Recruiting and Applicant Tracking Systems Frequently Asked Questions
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What Is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
What Is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is software that automates the hiring process from job posting to candidate selection. It centralizes recruitment activities, allowing HR teams and hiring managers to post jobs, collect applications, screen candidates, schedule interviews, and track progress through each hiring stage in one unified platform.
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What Does an Applicant Tracking System Do?
What Does an Applicant Tracking System Do?
An ATS manages the recruitment workflow often by posting jobs to multiple job boards simultaneously, collecting and organizing candidate applications, parsing resumes to extract key information automatically, enabling collaborative candidate evaluation and feedback, scheduling interviews and sending automated communications, and maintaining detailed candidate records throughout the hiring process.
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Why Do Companies Need an Applicant Tracking System?
Why Do Companies Need an Applicant Tracking System?
Companies use ATS to streamline hiring operations, improve candidate experience, ensure consistent recruitment processes, reduce time-to-hire through automation, enhance collaboration between hiring team members, maintain compliance with employment regulations, and build talent pipelines for future openings while managing high application volumes efficiently.
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Which ATS Tool Is Best?
Which ATS Tool Is Best?
The best ATS matches your specific hiring needs and includes essential features like intuitive user interface, customizable workflows, mobile-friendly candidate experience, robust reporting and analytics, scalable architecture for business growth, and reliable customer support.
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How Do Recruiters Track Candidates Using an ATS?
How Do Recruiters Track Candidates Using an ATS?
Recruiters use ATS to monitor candidates through workflow stages, update candidate status in real-time, add notes and ratings after interviews, collaborate with hiring managers through shared candidate profiles, and generate reports on recruitment metrics and candidate progress.
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What Is Recruiting Software?
What Is Recruiting Software?
Recruiting software encompasses all tools used in talent acquisition, including candidate sourcing, relationship management, and employer branding.
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How Do You Use an ATS in Recruitment?
How Do You Use an ATS in Recruitment?
To use an ATS effectively, create detailed job postings with relevant keywords, set up customized hiring workflows for different roles, establish evaluation criteria and rating, train hiring team members on the system, and regularly review analytics to optimize your recruitment process.
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What Are ATS Tools?
What Are ATS Tools?
ATS tools are specialized software applications that include resume parsing and keyword matching, job posting distribution to multiple boards, candidate database and search functionality, interview scheduling and calendar integration, collaborative evaluation tools, automated workflow management, and reporting dashboards for recruitment insights.
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What Role Does ATS Play in Recruiting?
What Role Does ATS Play in Recruiting?
ATS serves as the central hub for recruitment operations, enabling data-driven hiring decisions, ensuring consistent candidate evaluation processes, facilitating remote collaboration among hiring teams, maintaining organized candidate records, supporting compliance with hiring regulations, and providing insights to continuously improve recruitment strategies and outcomes.