SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lever, the recruiting software platform for more than 1,000 fast-growing companies around the world including Netflix, Lyft, Eventbrite and Shopify, today announces the launch of Lever Nurture, a new product that provides recruiters with a simple yet effective way to scale relationship development with potential hires.

Recognizing that the best talent may not always be actively applying to jobs, Lever Nurture equips recruiting teams with powerful workflow automation technology to deliver consistent, timely, and personalized communications to passive candidates.  With Lever Nurture, companies will improve sourcing effectiveness, track results and stay on top of their talent pipeline - all in one platform offering fully integrated CRM with ATS. For the first time, Lever’s recruiting software platform will give companies a seamless view of candidates from sourced all the way to hired.

“Talent Acquisition is quickly rising to be as strategic as Sales or Marketing, but has lacked the technological advantage until now,” said Sarah Nahm, CEO of Lever.  “We developed Lever Nurture to offer scaled reach to companies at every stage of growth. With simple, effective CRM tools to help them grow genuine relationships with quality candidates, recruiters can focus less on tedious data entry and more on exceptional candidate experiences.” 

Lever Nurture provides businesses with the ability to: 

• Simplify hundreds of touchpoints across many candidates in one powerful sequence via Nurture Workflows, which enable recruiters to get the timing right, every time.
  
• Improve messaging quality and effectiveness with personalization tools and the ability to reach out from the most impactful voice, whether the recruiter, hiring manager, or CEO.
  
• Automate the most mundane and administrative aspects of candidate outreach including stage progression and timed follow ups, so that recruiters can focus on the important business of building candidate rapport without fear of dropping the ball.
  
• Track opens, clicks and replies to see what’s working and improve their recruitment strategy over time.
  
  

“Lever Nurture takes many of the secrets to being a successful recruiter in competitive talent markets, and conveniently packages them with a full-blown ATS for widespread adoption,” said Lever customer Chris Shaw, Director of Talent at Meteor Development Group and former recruiter for Twitter and Google. “I’m excited to see Lever continue its push toward CRM for candidates, without compromising its signature simple, beautifully designed interface. By merely being more consistent and measured in their follow-up to target candidates, talent teams should be able to at least double their sourcing effectiveness.”

Lever Nurture, unveiled today at Lever’s inaugural Talent Innovation Summit, will be launching this summer. Companies wishing to be notified of release dates can sign up at https://lp.lever.co/nurture/

Recognized by RecruitingDaily as one of the top 10 HR Technology and Recruiting Tools of 2015, Lever’s applicant tracking system (ATS) helps companies of all sizes source, interview, and hire top talent in a fundamentally more human way.
  
About Lever
Built from the conviction that recruiting is the responsibility of everyone at the company, Lever’s applicant tracking and sourcing technology draws the entire team together to collaborate more efficiently in sourcing, engaging, interviewing, and hiring top talent. Lever was founded in 2012 in San Francisco. The company has raised more than $32 million in funding from Scale Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, Redpoint Ventures, and Correlation Venture among others. Lever supports the hiring needs of hundreds of companies around the globe including the teams at Netflix, Yelp, Lyft, and Quora. For more information, visit https://www.lever.co or the company press page at https://www.lever.co/press.