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PeopleZep Unveils AI-Powered ATS to Help India’s Growth-Stage Companies Hire 3x Faster

• ByStartupStory     |    December 1, 2025

As India’s business ecosystem continues to expand, hiring has emerged as one of the biggest operational challenges for mid-sized and growth-stage companies. In a market where skilled talent is scarce and recruitment cycles often stretch for weeks, the ability to hire quickly and accurately is becoming a decisive competitive advantage. Addressing this urgent need, PeopleZep, a next-generation HR technology startup, has launched its AI-driven Applicant Tracking System (ATS) designed to automate and streamline hiring from end to end.

The newly launched platform promises to reduce hiring time by up to 70%, while helping companies scale their recruitment processes without proportionally increasing recruiter headcount. For businesses with 50 to 2,000 employees—often the most aggressive scaling stage—PeopleZep introduces a new level of efficiency, intelligence, and structure to the hiring lifecycle.

Closing the Hiring Gap for India’s Mid-Sized Companies

India’s growth-stage companies face a unique challenge: while they are scaling rapidly, their hiring processes often remain manual, fragmented, or heavily reliant on individual recruiters. This leads to delays, lost candidates, inconsistent assessments, and high operational overhead.

PeopleZep’s Founder & CEO, Ashish Khare, highlights the pain point clearly:

“Hiring is one of the biggest growth constraints for India’s emerging companies. Our mission is to give every business access to enterprise-grade hiring technology that’s affordable, efficient, and built for Indian realities. With PeopleZep, companies can hire three times faster without increasing recruiter headcount.”

This vision has shaped the platform’s design—prioritizing usability, automation, and real-time insights that simplify decision-making for HR managers and founders.

AI at the Core: Smarter Screening, Better Fits

A standout strength of PeopleZep’s ATS is its AI-driven matching engine. One of the most time-consuming recruitment tasks—shortlisting resumes—is now automated with precision.

The system:

• Analyzes job descriptions

• Evaluates candidate CVs

• Generates JD-to-CV match scores

• Automatically ranks candidates based on relevance

This ensures that hiring teams instantly see the most suitable applicants, saving hours otherwise spent manually screening resumes. Early users across IT services, BFSI, and consulting sectors have reported a 40–70% reduction in screening time, along with noticeable improvements in candidate quality.

PeopleZep also integrates AI-powered assessments and interview workflows, eliminating administrative bottlenecks that typically slow down recruitment. From automated interview scheduling to structured evaluations, the system ensures that hiring moves forward consistently—even across distributed teams.

An End-to-End Hiring Ecosystem in One Platform

Unlike traditional applicant tracking systems that focus only on resume management, PeopleZep takes a holistic approach. The platform supports the complete hiring journey, including:

• Job description creation

• Automated resume screening

• AI-led candidate ranking

• Interview scheduling

• Assessment workflows

• Communication via integrated messaging tools

• Offer letter rollouts

• Candidate onboarding

This single-window structure replaces multiple tools and spreadsheets, giving companies a unified view of all recruitment activities.

The platform also features real-time analytics dashboards, enabling HR leaders to track hiring progress, recruiter performance, bottlenecks, time-to-fill metrics, and conversion rates. These insights empower organizations to optimize their hiring processes and make data-backed decisions.

Built for India’s Scaling Businesses

India’s mid-sized enterprises often lack large HR teams or technical support resources—making ease of use an essential factor. PeopleZep’s ATS is intentionally built to be simple to configure, easy to deploy, and accessible directly on the web.

The platform supports multi-role access, allowing recruiters, hiring managers, and HR heads to collaborate seamlessly. Whether a company is adding five roles or fifty, PeopleZep’s automation layer ensures hiring does not slow down.

This focus on India’s growing businesses sets PeopleZep apart from traditional enterprise-heavy recruitment systems that are often too complex or too costly for smaller teams.

Redefining What Hiring Should Look Like

Today, the hiring landscape is shifting globally. Recruiters no longer have the time—or the bandwidth—to manually sort hundreds of resumes for every job opening. Companies need tools that enable smarter decision-making, not just data storage.

Ashish Khare echoes this future-facing perspective:

“Hiring should no longer be about chasing resumes. It should be about insights, automation, and meaningful human judgment—that’s what PeopleZep enables.”

PeopleZep aims to ensure that businesses focus on evaluating the right candidates, rather than struggling with repetitive tasks or administrative overload.

The Road Ahead

As mid-sized companies continue to form the backbone of India’s economic growth, tools like PeopleZep’s ATS will play a critical role in helping them scale efficiently. By combining automation, AI-powered insights, and an intuitive user experience, PeopleZep is positioning itself as a catalyst in transforming how Indian businesses hire.

With hiring cycles becoming faster, smarter, and more structured, PeopleZep is not just launching a product—it is introducing a new standard for recruitment in the Indian market.

For more details, visit www.peoplezep.ai

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