Applicant tracking system for specialist hiring

Hire one person and make it count

With specialist and niche roles, the stakes are higher, the process is longer, and the margin for error is small. Pinpoint helps you get it right, without compromising the rest of your hiring.

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Chosen by leading talent acquisition and HR teams

Win scarce talent before someone else does

The best specialist candidates have options. They're evaluating you as much as you're evaluating them. Pinpoint helps you make the right impression at every touchpoint.

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Disorganized panels, slow decisions, and generic communications all send a signal. Pinpoint helps every part of your process, from first outreach to final offer, reflect well on your organization.

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Specialist hiring involves more people than almost any other type of hiring. Pinpoint keeps hiring managers, panelists, and approvers connected without everything routing through a recruiter's inbox.

pinpoint ats platform how pinpoint works for specialist and professional hiring

When you're hiring one person, consistent and structured evaluation across every candidate matters. Pinpoint makes sure every decision is documented, comparable, and defensible.

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A well-run process moves fast enough to keep the people you want engaged. Pinpoint reduces the delays, the gaps in communication, and the administrative friction that cause good candidates to drift away.

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“We want to be the employer of choice, and having Pinpoint on board is helping us achieve that.”

Sophie Brown
Talent Acquisition Manager, Twinings

Structure every search without losing flexibility

Talent Pools

Build and maintain segmented pipelines of specialist talent over months or years. Organize by function, seniority, skills, or past engagement. Automated touchpoints, whether that's a relevant article, a role update, or a check-in message, keep your organization visible on a candidate's radar without requiring manual outreach for every interaction.

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LinkedIn and inMail integration

Add candidates directly from LinkedIn profiles into the platform with a single click. From that point, every InMail, message, and interaction is logged automatically against the candidate record. Your team gets one complete, chronological view of every touchpoint from first contact to offer.

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Structured scorecards

Define the competencies and criteria that matter for each role before the process starts. Every interviewer captures structured feedback against the same framework, giving you a clear, comparable, and documented record of how each candidate was evaluated.

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 Flexible hiring workflows

Handle multi-stage processes with different interview formats, multiple stakeholders, custom approval chains, and non-linear progressions. You configure each search around what the role requires: a two-stage technical assessment for an engineering lead looks nothing like a six-stage panel process for a CFO, and Pinpoint accommodates both without forcing compromise.

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AI Hiring Copilot

AI Hiring Copilot works alongside your recruiters throughout the process. It drafts personalized outreach for passive candidates, suggests questions to probe based on gaps in a candidate's profile, and helps you think through the reasons a strong candidate might not accept your offer before you extend it.

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Everything specialist hiring teams need in one ATS

Talent pools with automated long-term nurture
LinkedIn sourcing extension and InMail sync
AI Hiring Copilot for communications and candidate insight
Structured competency scorecards for panel alignment
Flexible multi-stage hiring workflows
Self-serve interview scheduling for busy professionals
Reference checks with structured collection
Background checks inside Pinpoint
 Anonymous shortlisting for fairer initial screening
Niche and specialist job board integrations
Source-of-hire tracking for specialist channels
Candidate communication management and stage automation
Offer management with complex compensation support
GDPR-compliant candidate records
Hospitality

65%  

reduction in time to hire

Streamlined

casting day coordination

Increased

candidate communication

“With these new tools, we’ve set a good foundation to scale our hiring while maintaining our culture and delivering a really great candidate and employee experience.”
Michael Easton
Head of Employee Value Proposition, citizenM
Nonprofit

Strengthened

candidate engagement

Increased

candidate trust

Reduced

reliance on paid ads

“Pinpoint has completely changed how we work. We're more efficient, more consistent, and better equipped to give every candidate a great experience.”
Emma Bishop
Resourcing Manager, Blue Cross
Professional Services

Lower

risk of candidates stalling

Improved

visibility for TA leaders and stakeholders

3,500

employees supported in the states

“I just love that I can manage everything and every role in one place without having to jump between systems.”
Liz Mellor
Head of Talent Acquisition for North America, Davies Group
Retail

Centralized

visibility on all candidates

100+

locations supported

Strengthened

hiring manager adoption

“It’s been really lovely using Pinpoint to align things a bit more. Across the board now, all of our candidates are getting a more similar experience, and the communication they’re getting is much stronger.”
Adam Barnes
UK&I Retailer, Lush

Plan your next specialist hire with Pinpoint

Book a demo, to find out how Pinpoint runs a specialist hiring process that attracts, engages, and closes the right candidate.
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Love for Pinpoint
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Rachel Todd
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, Icario
“An ATS that doesn't feel like an ATS. Pinpoint is so much more because it goes the extra mile in everything that it offers.”
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Chris Dodds
Head of Talent Acquisition, LOCALiQ
“You guys are ahead of the curve of what other ATSs are doing. And we want to partner up.”
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Nitin Rajput
Senior Talent Acquisition, DAC Beachcroft
“Our organisation is around 3,000 and we recently made the move to Pinpoint Applicant Tracking System and haven't looked back!”
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Charlotte W.
“Highly customisable — processes like requisitions are seamless and easy to monitor.”
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Rachel Todd
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, Icario
“I get it. It's nerve-wracking to change software. But it's a smart risk worth taking. You won't regret it.”
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Samy Hamza
HRIS Technical Lead, Kempinski Hotels
“Our hiring managers were really excited to have something central and very easy to use that covers all their needs.”
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Yes. Pinpoint's workflow engine supports processes of any length and complexity, including multiple interview rounds, stakeholder approvals, assessment stages, and custom sign-off requirements. You configure the process to match how you hire for each role type.

Yes. Pinpoint's LinkedIn sourcing extension lets you add candidates directly from LinkedIn profiles into the platform with a single click. InMail activity is synced to the candidate record, giving your team one complete view of every touchpoint from first contact to offer.

Yes. Pinpoint handles both in the same system without either interfering with the other. Your specialist search for a CFO and your volume hiring for warehouse operatives each have entirely separate pipelines, stages, and communication templates, running simultaneously at their own pace.

Pinpoint's talent pools let you segment specialist candidates by function, seniority, and skills, and stay warm with automated touchpoints over months or years. When a role opens, you surface the right candidates immediately rather than restarting a cold search from scratch under time pressure.

Automated communications keep candidates updated at every stage without requiring manual outreach for every touchpoint. The AI Hiring Copilot helps you draft personalized messages that feel considered. Candidates in long processes stay warm because they feel like they're being actively managed.

The AI Hiring Copilot can help you think through why a candidate might not take your offer, surface gaps to address in final conversations, and draft personalized closing communications. Offer management handles the complexity of senior compensation packages. The goal is to get to yes, and to keep strong candidates from accepting elsewhere while you deliberate.