1
Post
Career portal + African job boards (BrighterMonday, MyJobMag, Jobberman) + LinkedIn + social — one click.
Career portal · ATS · interviews · offer letters · onboarding
From Job Posting to
First Payslip.
Without a Spreadsheet.
A career portal candidates can actually use on their phone. CVs parsed automatically. WhatsApp interview invites that actually get opened. Offer letters generated to the country's labour law. New hires arrive with their first payslip already configured.
Mobile-first apply
African job boards
WhatsApp candidate comms
Pipeline · Senior Project Officer
🇰🇪 Nairobi · 87 applicants
Applied
87
100%
Shortlisted
24
28%
Interview 1
12
14%
Interview 2
5
6%
Offer
2
2%
Hired
1
1%
Avg time-to-hire
17 days
Sound familiar?
Recruitment, the way it usually goes.
CVs in someone's Gmail
You posted on LinkedIn. CVs land in jobs@yourcompany.com. The recruiter copies the names into a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has 6 versions. Two are right.
Candidates ghosted because of a leave week
Your best candidate emailed twice during the recruiter's annual leave. Nobody picked up the thread. They've since accepted at the competitor.
Offer letter typed by hand
HR opens last month's offer letter, finds-and-replaces the name, salary, role, date. Sends it. Realises they sent the wrong salary. Apologises. Re-sends. Candidate already had doubts.
First day, no laptop, no PIN
New hire arrives Monday. IT didn't know. Finance didn't know their KRA PIN. They sit at reception for two hours.
The end-to-end pipeline
Six stages. One system. Zero spreadsheets.
From first job ad to first payslip — every step in one place, with the right notification at the right time to the right person.
2
Apply
Mobile-first form. CV parsed. WhatsApp confirmation. Auto-deduplication of repeat applicants.
3
Screen
AI-assisted shortlist suggestions. Filter by skills, language, location, salary expectation. Bulk reject with personalised messages.
4
Interview
Calendar booking link, panel scheduling, WhatsApp reminders, scorecards captured by every interviewer.
5
Offer
Country-correct offer letter, e-signed in minutes. Counter-offers tracked. Probation period set per country.
6
Onboard
Statutory IDs collected, first-day checklist activated across IT/HR/Finance/Manager. First payslip configured before Day 1.
Sourcing where Africans actually job-hunt
Career portal + the job boards that actually work in Africa.
LinkedIn is fine for senior roles. But for the bulk of African hiring — early-career, technical, frontline, regional — you need BrighterMonday, MyJobMag, Jobberman, Fuzu, Careers24. SmartHR posts to all of them in one click.
BrighterMonday
East Africa
MyJobMag
Nigeria · Ghana
Jobberman
Nigeria · Ghana
Fuzu
East Africa
Careers24
South Africa
LinkedIn
Global
Indeed
Global
+ your boards
Custom
Don't see a board you use? Tell us — new integrations added on customer request.
careers.yourcompany.com
Open roles · 12
Senior Project Officer
🇰🇪 Nairobi · Full-time · Operations
Field Sales Executive
🇳🇬 Lagos · Full-time · Sales
M&E Manager
🇺🇬 Kampala · Full-time · Programmes
Junior Software Engineer
🇰🇪 Nairobi · Full-time · Tech
Branded · mobile-first · multilingual
Interview · Round 2
Mary Kimani · Senior Project Officer
When
Wed 15 May · 14:00 EAT
Where
Google Meet · link sent
Panel
3 interviewers
Scorecard · Project Mgmt
Stakeholder mgmt
Donor reporting
Field experience
Communication
Cultural fit
Interviews & scorecards
Schedule once. Score consistently. Decide together.
Calendar invites that actually arrive, WhatsApp reminders the day before, and a structured scorecard every interviewer fills in. No more "what did the panel think?" — see all five scores side-by-side.
- Google & Microsoft 365 calendar integration with availability lookup.
- Public booking links candidates pick from — no email tennis.
- WhatsApp interview reminder sent 24h and 2h before.
- Pre-defined competency scorecards per role family.
- Bias-flag features highlight outlier scores for panel discussion.
The magic bit
Offer signed → first payslip configured.
Most ATS products end at the offer letter. SmartHR pushes the new hire straight into People Management and Payroll, so their first payslip is already configured before they walk in on Day 1.
Offer accepted
Candidate e-signs the country-correct offer letter.
Statutory IDs collected
NSSF, NHIF/SHIF, KRA PIN, bank — through onboarding form.
Documents uploaded
ID copy, passport, certificates — straight into People.
Payroll configured
Salary, deductions, benefits set up before Day 1.
Day 1
First-day checklist active. Equipment ready. PIN registered.
Funnel metrics your CFO actually wants.
Time-to-hire, source-of-hire, cost-per-hire, drop-off stage, diversity metrics — by country, by role family, by recruiter.
Time to hire
17 days
avg across roles
Cost per hire
$310
incl. job-board spend
Source winner
Referral
42% of hires
Offer accept
88%
of offers extended
Common questions about recruitment & onboarding
Don't see yours? Ask the team →
Yes — and they should. The application form is designed mobile-first and submits in under 60 seconds. Candidates can attach a CV from Google Drive, WhatsApp, or their phone's storage. WhatsApp confirmation is sent automatically.
BrighterMonday (East Africa), MyJobMag (Nigeria/Ghana), Jobberman (Nigeria/Ghana), Fuzu (East Africa), Careers24 (South Africa) plus LinkedIn and Indeed. New integrations added on customer request.
Yes. A branded careers page on your domain (or a SmartHR-hosted subdomain) lists current openings with filters by country, function, and seniority. Custom branding, your colours, your tone.
Yes. Calendar integration with Google and Microsoft 365. Candidates pick a slot from your team's availability via a public link; everyone gets calendar invites and WhatsApp reminders. Panel interviews and multiple rounds supported.
Each interviewer fills in a scorecard against pre-defined competencies — on the mobile app, web, or right from the calendar invite. Scores aggregate across panels; bias-flag features highlight outlier scores for the panel to discuss.
Yes. Country-specific offer-letter templates per role family. Variables auto-fill (salary, role, start date, manager, statutory clauses). Multi-language (English, French, Portuguese, Arabic). E-signature out of the box.
Once an offer is accepted, the candidate becomes an employee record. Their statutory IDs (NSSF, NHIF/SHIF, KRA PIN, etc.) are collected via the onboarding workflow. Their first payslip is configured before their first day — payroll is ready when they walk in.
Yes. The same role can be posted in multiple countries with country-specific salary bands, contract terms, and statutory clauses. Pipelines stay separate per country; a regional view shows the global pipeline for senior roles.
Hire faster. Onboard cleaner.
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