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Dover is a recruiting platform built for startups that combines an applicant tracking system with automated candidate sourcing, interview scheduling, and offer management. It reduces the manual coordination overhead that typically slows down small hiring teams.
What is Dover?
Dover is a recruiting platform founded in 2019 that was designed specifically for early-stage and growth-stage startups rather than enterprise HR departments. It combines applicant tracking, outbound candidate sourcing, interview scheduling, scorecards, and offer letter generation in a single product. The goal is to let small teams that do not have a dedicated recruiter run a structured hiring process without stitching together multiple tools.
The automated sourcing feature searches LinkedIn and job boards to surface candidates matching defined criteria, then drafts personalized outreach messages for recruiters to review before sending. This reduces the time spent on top-of-funnel sourcing without removing human judgment from the process. Interview scheduling integrates with calendar tools and allows candidates to self-select time slots based on the interviewers' availability, eliminating back-and-forth coordination.
Pricing is tiered to match startup growth stages. The free tier provides access to the ATS and basic functionality. Growth costs $500 per month, which adds sourcing and automation features. Scale is $1,500 per month and is designed for companies with multiple active roles and hiring managers.
How to get started with Dover
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Create an account and set up your company profile
Sign up at dover.com and fill in your company details, including size, stage, and the types of roles you typically hire. This context helps Dover's sourcing model identify relevant candidates.
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Create your first job
Navigate to Jobs and create a new role. Define the job title, required experience, location preferences, and key skills. Dover will use these criteria for both sourcing and for generating the job posting.
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Configure your interview process and scorecards
Set up the interview stages for the role, such as recruiter screen, technical interview, and final round. Create scorecards for each stage with specific evaluation criteria so all interviewers use a consistent framework.
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Set your interview scheduling preferences
Connect your calendar and define your scheduling preferences, including available hours, buffer time between interviews, and which interviewers are assigned to each stage. This enables the automated scheduling links to surface accurate availability.
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Review and approve sourced candidates
Check the sourcing queue regularly to review candidates Dover has identified. Approve candidates you want to reach out to, edit the draft outreach messages as needed, and track responses directly in the platform's pipeline view.
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Who is Dover most useful for?
Dover works best for startups in the Series A to Series B range that are hiring across multiple roles but cannot yet justify a full-time internal recruiter or an expensive staffing agency relationship. Founders and hiring managers who need to close engineering, sales, or operations roles quickly find value in having sourcing automation paired with structured interview coordination in one place. The scorecard feature makes it easier to standardize feedback when multiple people are involved in evaluating a candidate.
Operations and people ops generalists at startups use Dover to keep hiring organized during periods of rapid headcount growth. When you are managing five open roles simultaneously as one person, having a single system for pipeline tracking, outreach history, and scheduling prevents candidates from falling through the gaps. The offer letter generation feature reduces the time between verbal offer and signed paperwork.
For recruiting teams that want to present Dover's capabilities to founders or hiring managers, Supademo allows you to create interactive demos of the hiring workflow that stakeholders can explore at their own pace. This is more effective than scheduling a live walkthrough for a process that can be documented once and shared repeatedly across an organization.
Dover competes with applicant tracking systems and full-cycle recruiting platforms that vary widely in their level of automation and target company size.
Greenhouse is a mature applicant tracking system with deep structured hiring workflows, advanced reporting, and an extensive integration marketplace. It is best suited for companies with dedicated recruiting operations teams who need to standardize processes at scale.
Lever combines an ATS with candidate relationship management tools, making it suited for companies that invest in building talent pipelines over time rather than just managing active requisitions. Its interface tends to appeal to recruiting teams that think in terms of long-term candidate nurture.
Ashby differentiates on recruiting analytics, providing detailed funnel metrics and conversion data that help teams identify where candidates are dropping off. It targets growth-stage companies that have a dedicated recruiter or small recruiting team managing multiple roles.
Workable provides job posting, candidate sourcing, ATS, and interview scheduling under one roof with a per-job pricing model that keeps costs variable. Its AI-powered candidate suggestions and one-click job board distribution reduce early-funnel setup time.
FAQs on Dover
Commonly asked questions about Dover. Have more? Reach out and our team will be happy to help.
What does Dover's automated sourcing actually do?
Dover's automated sourcing searches LinkedIn profiles and job board data to identify candidates who match your role criteria, then drafts personalized outreach messages. Recruiters review and approve messages before they send, so automation handles the research while humans control the actual communication.
Is Dover free to use?
Dover has a free tier that includes the applicant tracking system and basic hiring pipeline features. The sourcing automation, advanced scheduling, and offer management features require the Growth plan at $500 per month or the Scale plan at $1,500 per month.
How does Dover handle interview scheduling?
Dover handles interview scheduling by integrating with Google Calendar and Outlook to read real-time availability across all interviewers. Candidates receive a self-scheduling link to pick a time that works for all participants, which removes the need for coordinators to manually check calendars and send back-and-forth emails.
Does Dover include an ATS?
Dover includes a full applicant tracking system as a core component of the platform. The ATS handles candidate pipeline stages, notes, scorecard submission, and communication history. It is designed to work alongside the sourcing and scheduling features rather than as a standalone module. See the Dover interactive demo to see the pipeline view.
How does Dover compare to Greenhouse?
Dover compared to Greenhouse is lighter-weight and designed for companies that need to move fast without extensive configuration. Greenhouse is a more mature enterprise ATS with deep customization and a larger integration ecosystem, but its implementation takes more time and its pricing targets companies with larger HR teams. Dover's sourcing automation is more built-in than Greenhouse's, which relies on separate integrations.
Can Dover source candidates from LinkedIn?
Dover sources candidates from LinkedIn as one of its primary channels, identifying profiles that match defined role criteria and generating draft outreach messages. The platform also pulls from job board data. Recruiters review all outreach before it sends, keeping human judgment in the loop for candidate evaluation. Learn more in the Dover interactive demo.