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Hire Smarter with Day One's Platform

The Day One platform integrates seamlessly into your hiring process. It delivers fast, fair recruitment for UK startups, SMEs and enterprises. It's not complicated or tech heavy- it's simple, and allows your business to access verified early career talent in minutes.

Why choose Day One?

Our lightweight platform complements your existing hiring process, requiring no complex setup. From startups with no IT team to enterprises with robust ATS, we make early career recruitment simple, fair, and impactful.

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Save Time & Money

Save 14 days per hire and up to 70% vs. agency fees with instant matching and transparent pricing.

2
Fair & Equitable
Anonymised, skills-based hiring opens diverse talent pools, aligning with Gen Z and ESG priorities.
3
Low Risk, High Impact
Pre-vetted candidates reduce bad hire costs (up to 3x salary) with verified skills and strengths.
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We Source, We Verify, You Hire

We do the heavy lifting so you can focus on hiring top early career talent

We Source: We partner with training providers and universities to source diverse talent, from grassroots to graduates, giving all businesses access to dynamic hires.

We Verify: We assess candidates upfront with AI interviews, skills tests and Strengthscope analysis, ensuring you get role-ready talent.

You Hire: You make the final call, while we streamline the process for your company or HR team, integrating with your HR workflows.

How It Works

Our platform's “Source, Engage, Hire” process is effortless.
  1. Create Your Profile: Share your startup, SME, or enterprise story. What is it that sets your company apart?
  2. Define Your Opportunity: Specify the role (e.g., sales, cyber, tech) and required skills talent will need.
  3. Get Matched Instantly: Our algorithm delivers pre-vetted talent, ready for to enter your hiring process.

“A UK SME, backfilled a cyber role in 48 hours, saving 60% vs. recruiters.”


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Platform Features

  • Instant Matching: Access pre-vetted talent in minutes via our platform, from grassroots to graduates.
  • AI Interview Screening: Save 30 minutes per candidate with unbiased scoring.
  • Skills-Based Assessments: Verify skills (e.g., Microsoft, cybersecurity) to save £75/candidate.
  • Strengths Analysis: Our collaboration with Strengthscope allows you to see talent's top 7 strengths.
  • Fair Hiring: Anonymised matching ensures diverse, inclusive candidates.
  • ATS Integration: Works with your HR tools without replacing them.


Less risk, more results

Avoid costs up to
3x salary

With verified candidates, you can avoid the costly impact of a bad hire. Our talent are productive and committed, ready to hit the ground running. Within their profiles, candidates show their strengths and skills upfront to prevent workplace pollution and increase employee engagement. We're here to support you every step of the way. It's hiring, without the hiccups.

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Demo - Excel Activity

Skills based hiring

Save £75 and 2 hours per candidate in assessment centres

It's time to focus on something other than experience- skills. We verify what talent can do, from their Microsoft proficiency to role specific requirements. With us, you know a candidate can add value, from Day One, taking the guesswork out of your process and saving you time assessing skills.

Fair and equitable hiring

Opening talent pools- priceless

Want to open your talent pools but don't know where to begin? We're all about fair and equitable hiring practices, and you can join us, all at the click of a button. We don't believe bias be anywhere near the hiring process and are committed to providing you with talent from everywhere, allowing you to focus on what sets them apart- who they are and what they can do.

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Demo - AI Interview

AI interview screening

Save £1.50 and 30 minutes per candidate

Streamline your recruitment process with our AI interview. Unbiased scoring, an insightful viewpoint and realistic avatars all form this innovative solution. Let us ask the general questions, leaving you time to focus on what matters most in your first interview with a candidate- saving you time and effort.

Soft skills and strength analysis

Save £12k a year

Employers value soft skills as being a top priority- but how do you know what strengths a new hire has? Enter our collab with Strengthscope. Now you can see a candidate's top seven strengths, so you can hire talent that fit seamlessly into your organisation.

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Our Partnerships

Explore our partnerships with industry leaders. From Occupop's seamless recruitment software, to Alchemy Films's unique EVP videos- check out our partnership to find out more.

Some FAQs

What happens after I shortlist Talent?

Once shortlisted, you will be able to send a connection request to anyone who you want to talk to or interview.

Can I pay monthly?

You cannot purchase Day One for just one month, an annual subscription is required. However, you can pay on a monthly payment plan.

What does Day One ready mean?

We've told you that the talent you get matched with are Day One ready, but what does that mean? Well, candidates have to complete a strengths analysis task, an AI interview and show they have all the productivity skills they would need to operate efficiently in a digital role.

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