“By implementing inploi’s technology we’ve been able to keep our existing HR systems in place and provide our prospective employees with an engaging experience that gives us full visibility of the process.”
Conversational apply
The application that adapts to the role
Built in Studio, with conditional logic, deliberate friction where a role needs it, and every answer landing in your ATS.
Apply · Fitness Coach00:58
Fitness CoachIllustrative role
Basic details
What’s your first name?
Maya
Do you have the right to work in the UK?
Yes
For this role
Do you hold a Level 3 PT qualification?
Yes, Level 3
Thanks, that’s everything. Application complete.
The conversation becomes the application.
Basic details start the application; five minutes later, Maya answers the role-specific questions without leaving the thread.
Careers site
Apply
Fitness Coach
Illustrative roleBasic details
What’s your first name?
Sam
Do you have the right to work in the UK?
Yes
For this role
Do you hold a Level 3 PT qualification?
No
No Level 3 yet, so the application asks the next question
Are you working towards it?
Yes
Application complete.
Basic details
What’s your first name?
Sam
Do you have the right to work in the UK?
Yes
For this role
Do you hold a Level 3 PT qualification?
No
No Level 3 yet, so the application asks the next question
Are you working towards it?
Yes
Thanks, that’s everything. Application complete.
The same application, built once in Studio, renders as a conversation or as a form. Here the candidate has no Level 3 yet, so it takes the other branch from the phone above.
Built so candidates can finish
Fewer questions for everyone. The right questions for each role.
- ApplyFitness Coach
For this role
Do you hold a Level 3 PT qualification?
Yes, Level 3
Application complete.
- ApplyKitchen Team Member
For this role
Do you hold a food hygiene certificate?
Yes, Level 2
Application complete.
- ApplyFront of House Team Lead
For this role
Can you work evenings?
Yes
Application complete.
Conditional logic
Every answer shapes the next question. A candidate who already holds the qualification skips the questions about working towards it; one who does not is shown roles that may suit them better, and can still apply.
Basic requirements first
Questions about a role's basic requirements, such as a certificate, the right to work or the hours, come first, so a candidate knows early whether the role fits. They are set by your team, the same for every applicant, and a candidate can apply whatever they answer.
Every answer lands in your ATS
When the candidate finishes, the completed application is posted to your ATS with every answer in its field. Nothing is re-keyed; your ATS stays the system of record.
Measured and tested
Studio shows where candidates drop off, step by step, so the questions that lose people are visible and fixable. Two versions of an application can run side by side to find out which one finishes more often.
Proof
What changed when Compass Group rebuilt the application.
42%
Conversational apply is the application. The Candidate Agent answers and finds.
The Candidate Agent answers a candidate's questions and finds roles that fit them, from your policies and your job data. Conversational apply is the application itself: the questions a job needs answered, in the order it needs them, ending in your ATS. The agent can start an application; conversational apply completes it. They share one thread and one candidate record, and they are two different things.
The alternative
A link to the ATS form is not an application experience.
Most careers site vendors stop at the job page: the apply button opens the ATS's own form, built for the recruiter's data model rather than the candidate's evening. Long, identical for every role, and unforgiving on a phone. inploi keeps the candidate in one thread from the first question to the confirmation, asks only what the role needs, and posts the finished application into the same ATS, so your team loses nothing and the candidate finishes.
FAQ
Both. The same application, built once in Studio, renders as a conversation or as a form. Your team chooses per site or per role; the questions, the logic and the ATS submission are identical either way.
Yes. Each job is mapped to an application during setup, by role type, brand, business unit or category, so an hourly role can run a short application and a salaried role a fuller one. Within an application, conditional logic adapts the questions to the candidate's answers.
Not unless the role needs one. Applications can be short and CV-free for hourly roles, and can ask for a CV where a role warrants it. Either way the candidate answers in one thread and finishes in minutes, not evenings.
Into your ATS. When a candidate completes the application, inploi posts it to your connected ATS with every answer in its field, and, where the integration allows, the application carries its source so you can see which channel brought the candidate. Your ATS stays the system of record.
The Candidate Agent answers questions and finds roles; conversational apply is the application itself. The agent can hand a candidate into an application, and both share the same thread and candidate record, but only conversational apply asks the questions a job needs and posts the result to your ATS.
Agents do the admin. Humans do the hiring.
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