Dover is an all-in-one recruiting solution for startups, primarily offering two core parts: a free AI-powered applicant tracking system (ATS) and a recruiting marketplace for connecting with fractional recruiters. According to official information, more than 600 companies have recruited through Dover, and the average cost per hire when hiring a fractional recruiter through the marketplace is $4,800.
In terms of use, Dover helps startups quickly set up their recruiting process and connect with external recruiting experts. Its recruiting marketplace provides independent fractional recruiters who can be paid hourly, by retainer, or on a success-fee basis, with recruiters setting their own rates. The company states that traditional recruiting agencies typically charge 15%–25% of first-year salary, while Dover publishes the fee schedule for each marketplace hire (50 hires shown out of 1,442 total hires), with fees calculated as hours multiplied by the recruiter's hourly rate.
Main capabilities include:
- Free ATS: unlimited users, jobs, and candidates, with no credit card required. You can start recruiting in minutes, invite your team, get AI-generated recruiting pages and job descriptions, and post jobs to 50+ job boards.
- AI features: AI resume scoring, which centralizes applicants from all sources in one place and automatically surfaces the best candidates; support for scheduling interviews or rejecting candidates using default templates; and an AI notetaker (a Premium feature).
- Collaboration and process management: kanban view overview, built-in scheduling and communication, collaborative notes, and @mentions.
- Free recruiting toolkit: LinkedIn sourcing extension (quickly connect with talent and send personalized emails), multi-board job posting, employee referral submission and tracking, and recruiting agency transparency management.
How to use it: users can sign up for free, invite their team, use AI to generate recruiting pages and job descriptions, post jobs, and manage candidates through the ATS. If they need a recruiter, they can find and hire a fractional recruiter in the marketplace, who can handle sourcing, screening, scheduling, and closing candidates, or the full recruiting process.
Use cases: primarily aimed at startups, with cases ranging from seed stage to later stage, including hiring senior backend software engineers, senior demand generation managers, VPs of sales, senior frontend software engineers (North America), enterprise customer success managers, developer relations engineers, and more.
Limitations: the company does not provide detailed information on AI model capabilities, data security, third-party tool integrations, supported countries, or languages. Paid Premium pricing is $199 per month, and the specific feature comparison must be checked on its pricing page. All recruiting costs and feesare publicly disclosed by the company, but other details are not yet available.
