Eploy ATS: how to get your application through

Who uses Eploy in the UK?

Eploy is a UK-built ATS used by in-house recruitment teams across UK mid-market employers — construction firms (Barratt Developments is a published customer), retailers, universities and colleges, housing associations, councils and charities. It's G-Cloud listed, so public sector bodies procure it too. You'll usually meet it as a branded careers site with a candidate portal.

What happens to your application

Eploy applications typically combine three elements: a CV upload (parsed into a searchable candidate database), screening questions set by the recruiter, and a candidate-portal account where you track progress.

The screening questions do the heavy lifting. UK in-house teams use them for the non-negotiables — right to work, qualifications, licences, location, salary expectations — and applications failing a required answer are filtered before a human reads the CV.

How to prepare your CV for Eploy

• Treat screening questions as the first interview. Answer fully and honestly — a half-completed question set reads as low effort to the recruiter reviewing borderline candidates.
• Single-column, standard-heading CV so the parse into Eploy's candidate database is clean — recruiters keyword-search that database for future roles, not just the one you applied to.
• Match the advert's terminology — UK in-house recruiters search their Eploy talent pool by the job titles and skills they wrote in the advert.
• Complete your candidate portal profile — a fuller profile surfaces better in talent-pool searches when new roles open.

Frequently asked questions