// for candidates

What happensafter you apply.

Kairos HR is a job board. Employers pay to post their roles and use our software, so you never pay anything. When you apply, you are applying to that employer. This page is the whole of it: what happens to your application, who reads it, and what you can see.

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// what to expect

Six things,said plainly.

You are never charged: Not for applying, not for a CV review, not for a place on a list. If anybody asks you for money in the name of Kairos HR, it is not us. Report it to us.
You find out who the employer is before you meet them: Most roles name the company. A confidential one does not, usually because they are replacing somebody who still works there. The employer tells you who they are before any interview, and you can withdraw at that point with no hard feelings.
Some employers review blind: If they have switched it on, they see your experience and the platform's summary without your name or contact details until they move you forward.
The form asks the things that waste an interview: Notice period, salary expectation, whether you can legally work where the job is. Answer honestly and you will not be booked for an interview that was never going to work.
Your CV goes to the employer you applied to: And to job alerts, if you asked for them. Not a list to sell, and not kept forever. Ask what we hold and we will tell you; ask us to delete it and we will.
We cannot promise you a job: The platform promises you an answer. Employers cannot close a role without every applicant being told.

// after you press send

Six steps,and you can see all of them.

Applying takes about five minutes and you can do the whole thing on a phone. At the end you are offered an account, and it is worth taking: the stage of every application you have made is in it, and it is faster than emailing anybody. Skip it and you have still applied. You can set a password later from the sign-in page.

Application received

It reaches the employer the moment you press send. If you took the account, it is listed there already.

Under review

Your CV is read against the rubric the employer signed off, not against a keyword list. Then a person on their team decides whether to move you forward.

Assessment

Only on roles that have one, and your account does not show the step if yours does not. Where there is one it comes with a deadline and you do it in your own time.

First interview

You pick a time that suits you out of the ones the employer opened. You see who you are meeting before you meet them.

Second interview

Some roles have one, some have three, some have none. Whichever it is, the interview you are on is on your account, not only in an email you have to go and find.

Decision

An offer, or a no. The employer cannot close the role without telling you.

// timings

How longeach part takes.

Each employer sets its own pace. This is what the platform guarantees and what it does not.

Application, to a first readWithin the hour: The platform reads every application as it arrives, however late you applied.
Shortlist, to a first interviewThe employer sets the pace: When it goes quiet it is almost always a diary rather than a decision. Your account shows which stage you are at.
Offer, to a start dateUsually two to four weeks: Mostly notice periods. That part is between you and the employer.

What we will not put a number on

How quickly you hear back from the employer after applying. We would rather say nothing than publish a target an employer misses in a busy week. What we will say is that every application gets an answer from the employer, and that the stage yours is at is visible to you the whole time.

// why apply here

Why apply hererather than somewhere else.

Every application is read: Not the first forty. Applying on Sunday night at number 210 does not mean nobody opens it.
You always hear back: Employers cannot close a role on Kairos HR without everyone who applied being told.
You can see where you are: Every application you have made, and its stage, in one account.
What you are judged on is written down: Age, gender, nationality, religion, marital status and disability are never counted. You can ask the employer for your score and the reasoning.
Job alerts that match →: Tell us what you do and we email you when a matching role is posted. Nothing else.

Have a look at what is open.

Applying is free and takes about five minutes.

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