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Occupop
Applicant tracking built for small and mid-sized European employers that hire without a dedicated recruiter
As of 31 August 2026, Occupop's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. An Irish hiring platform aimed at companies where the hiring manager is also the recruiter, with one-click posting to the Irish and UK job boards that matter locally. Softwr lists it under Recruitment. Occupop is available on Web.
Overview
What Occupop does
Occupop is a Dublin-based applicant tracking system founded in 2016 for organisations that hire steadily but have no recruitment team. It covers job posting, a branded careers page, candidate scoring, interview scheduling, offer management and reporting, with automated multi-posting to the boards its customers use rather than a long tail of global integrations. What distinguishes it commercially is regional distribution and hosting. Multi-posting reaches IrishJobs, Jobs.ie, Indeed and LinkedIn out of the box, which matters because generic ATS products often make Irish and UK board posting a paid add-on or a manual step. Employee data stays within the European Union, which removes the data transfer argument that stalls procurement at healthcare, education and public sector buyers in Ireland and the UK. That regional fit is the whole case for choosing Occupop over a larger vendor with more features. Buyers are typically Irish and UK organisations of 20 to 500 people in hospitality, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and the not-for-profit sector, often replacing a shared inbox and a spreadsheet. The trade-off is ceiling: there is no serious candidate sourcing, no recruitment CRM for pipelining passive talent, and the reporting will not satisfy a talent team that wants funnel analytics by source and stage across dozens of requisitions. Companies grow out of it rather than hitting a wall with it.
What people use it for
- An Irish employer that needs applications tracked in one place and posted to Irish boards without manual re-keying
- A hospitality or care group hiring the same roles repeatedly across multiple sites
- A public sector or charity buyer that requires candidate data to stay inside the European Union
- A company where line managers do the hiring and will abandon anything that needs training
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Occupop.
- There is no outbound sourcing or passive candidate search, so any role that will not fill from applications has to be worked in LinkedIn Recruiter or an agency and tracked back manually.
- Integration coverage is thin outside the Irish and UK ecosystem, so a company running a US payroll or a major HRIS will usually be exporting CSV files rather than syncing new hires.
- Reporting answers time to hire and source questions but does not support the cohort or funnel analysis a talent team needs once it runs dozens of requisitions at once.
- The vendor is small, which means the roadmap moves slowly and there is no realistic pressure a mid-market customer can apply to get a feature built.
- Pricing is quoted rather than published and is structured around plan tiers and hiring volume, so seasonal employers can find the annual cost jumps in the year they run a peak recruitment campaign.
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What people choose instead of Occupop
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- OccupopvsTeamtailor
Teamtailor: Stronger employer branding and careers site if attraction rather than administration is the problem
- OccupopvsPinpoint
Pinpoint: A UK-based alternative with better reporting and structured hiring for organisations with an internal talent team
Pricing
What Occupop costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Occupop
On request
- Unlimited users on most plans
- Multi-board job posting
- Branded careers page
- Candidate scoring and talent pools
- Priced by plan tier and job volume rather than per recruiter seat
Capabilities
Features
Multi-board posting
One publish action pushes to IrishJobs, Jobs.ie, Indeed, LinkedIn and free aggregators
Branded careers page
A hosted careers site that matches company branding without developer work
Candidate scoring
Rules and screening questions rank applicants automatically as they apply
Interview scheduling
Calendar sync with self-service slot booking for candidates
Talent pools
Reusable candidate pools for repeat and seasonal roles
Hiring manager collaboration
Scorecards and comment threads so managers review inside the system
Offer management
Offer letter generation with electronic signature
Reporting
Time to hire, source effectiveness and stage conversion dashboards
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Where is candidate data stored?
Inside the European Union, which is the reason many Irish public sector and healthcare buyers shortlist it over larger non-EU vendors.
Does it do candidate sourcing?
No. It manages inbound applications and talent pools. Sourcing passive candidates happens elsewhere.
Is it priced per recruiter?
No. Plans are sold on tier and hiring volume with unlimited users on most tiers, which suits companies where many managers need access.
Will it scale past a few hundred employees?
It handles the hiring volume, but companies with a dedicated talent function usually move to a system with sourcing, CRM and deeper analytics.
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