Why Harbor?
Built by recruiters, for recruiters.
Our Principal Recruiter, Kelly Burke, spent over a decade feeling frustrated by the tools available in the industry. Eventually, she decided to build her own. She and her team of senior recruiters and engineers spent two years refining Harbor privately—making sure it solved their own daily headaches before finally opening it up to everyone else.
When I started my recruiting agency - Work In Biotech - I had to piece together 5+ clunky software tools to create my recruiting workflow. So I decided to build my own! After spending a decade in this industry, I know how important it is to have a tool you can trust to deliver and last. We’ve built Harbor to be a tool you can rely on as a permanent part of your stack for years to come. We also guarantee you’ll always talk to a real person, not a bot.
Principal Recruiter, PhD
Email Sequences
You can send from your own address, or even on behalf of a client or teammate. Automate your outreach without losing the personal touch. Your email sequences stop automatically the moment a candidate replies, and you can trigger them just by updating a candidate’s status.
Before Harbor, we used a 3rd party application to send email drip campaigns. With Harbor sequence feature, we can now have our candidate management and outreach in one place! I love that Harbor can send sequences from any number of email addresses across our team.
PhD & Scientific Recruiter
Browser extension
Unlike other extensions where you’re stuck doing the manual sourcing, Harbor handles the sourcing for you. Auto-source candidate’s email address within the extension with one click. You can add candidates to jobs or add contacts to clients right from LinkedIn or GitHub. You can even update a candidate’s status and kick off an email sequence without ever leaving the page you’re on.
The Harbor Chrome extension makes sourcing on LinkedIn and GitHub so smooth. It gathers all information about candidates, including email addresses, and even allows me to send outreach directly from the extension, saving tons of time.
PhD, Scientific Recruiter
Booking links
Eliminate scheduling headaches with booking links built right into your workflow. There’s no need for external tools like Calendly - Harbor has you covered. Simply set your availability, share your link. Let the tool sync events between your calendar and your clients’ - no need for CalendarBridge. Harbor records, transcribes, and summarizes your interviews automatically - no need for Metaview.
I love that Harbor creates booking links for me for phone, Google Meet, or Zoom calls. No more tedious back-and-forth scheduling for candidates and clients.
PhD Investigator, Recruiter
Candidates
Track every touchpoint with a full communication history for every candidate. Find the right talent instantly with blazing-fast advanced search and AI-powered matching using similar resumes or job descriptions. Tailor your workflow with custom fields and statuses built for your unique hiring process.
Managing our huge database of candidates has been seamless with Harbor. We can set up all the custom stages we need, and we can trigger candidate communication whenever we change a stage. Harbor saves every activity in the candidate history, so we never forget our interactions with a candidate.
Executive Assistant
Jobs
Build a custom pipeline that fits your workflow, collect referrals effortlessly, and gather instant feedback from hiring managers. With a branded portal for applicants and one-click reporting for clients, you can manage the entire journey—from job posting to the final hire—all in one place.
I love how I can create jobs instantly from a URL or a template—it’s a massive time-saver compared to manual entry. The "External Observer" feature is also great; it makes sharing candidates with my clients incredibly easy.
Biotech Recruitment, PhD
Clients
Nurture your client relationships with a comprehensive interaction history and automated monitoring of client news and job openings. Organize your way with custom data fields and visual pipelines, then close deals faster by managing and signing contracts directly within the platform. Source new client leads effortlessly using our browser extension.
Habor has made client management so much more efficient. I can save notes and documents about a client and share it with the rest of my recruiting team. Harbor also picks up the latest news articles about our current clients and prospective clients! We know the best times to follow up with clients, and we always have the most up-to-date information to share with candidates.
PhD, Scientific Recruiter
Advanced features
Streamline every workflow with a suite of robust customizations. Tailor your workspace with custom candidate layouts and custom views (tables, modals, and advanced forms). Enjoy ergonomic interview forms for easy note-taking. Employ feedback forms for hiring managers, candidate referral forms, and observer links to share your progress with your clients. Keep your team unblocked with templates, drafts, clones, notes, tags, reusable prompts, and practical-first AI features.
I have tested numerous ATS products for my recruiting business, and Harbor is the best! I work with multiple clients - often simultaneously - and Harbor has everything I need. Quick global search for all of my candidates, jobs, and clients; email outreach through multiple accounts; ability for admins to email on my behalf; customizable candidate workflows; phone call transcription and summaries; document signing, and more. I can operate all of my recruiting business needs through Harbor.
Principal Recruiter, PhD
Pricing
No Multiple Tiers
No confusion and no paywalled features
Simple Monthly Plan
Great fit for small recruiting agencies
$100/seat/month
All Features
Browser Extension
Uptime Guarantee
Human Only Support Guarantee
Response Time Guarantee (Mon-Fri 24-hour)
Onboarding Help
Data Import Help
Data Export Help
No annual plan
Predictable billing with no surprises
All features
| Feature | Harbor | Popular Product A |
|---|---|---|
Candidates | ||
| Candidate database with advanced search and filtering | ||
| Candidate search using resume matching | ||
| Resume storage and organization | ||
| Resume parsing and search via keywords (PDF, DOCX) | ||
| Duplicate candidate detection and merge functionality | ||
| Seamless interview note taking | ||
| Application tracking through hiring stages | ||
| Candidate reminders and task management | ||
| Candidate ratings and feedback collection | ||
| Feedback form for hiring managers | ||
| Email sequences management | ||
| Customizable candidate statuses | ||
| Bulk candidate status updates | ||
| Candidate merge functionality | ||
| Bulk download candidate lists into CSV | ||
| Bulk upload candidates lists from CSV | ||
| Automated workflows based on candidate status | ||
Jobs | ||
| Create jobs and post to public portal | ||
| Visual pipeline for jobs | ||
| Job analytics and reporting | ||
| Job status management and custom statuses | ||
| Job observer links for external viewing | ||
| Job referral links | ||
| Create jobs from public URLs | ||
| Job merge functionality | ||
| Download candidates by job | ||
| Job activity logs | ||
| Public job portal | ||
| Customize job portal | ||
| Job portal visitor analytics | ||
| Job applications | ||
| Candidate referral system | ||
Clients | ||
| Clients management | ||
| Contacts management | ||
| Automatic news monitoring for clients | ||
| Visual CRM board to manage current and prospective clients | ||
| Client interaction history | ||
| Client activity logs | ||
| Client merge functionality | ||
| Extract client details automatically from URLs | ||
| Client attachments management | ||
| Client status customization | ||
| New client job posting notifications | ||
| Client contract signing and management | ||
Email and communication | ||
| Automated email sequences (drip) | ||
| Email sequence templates | ||
| Email templates with placeholders for personalization | ||
| Email tracking and analytics | ||
| Send from unlimited number of email accounts | ||
| Email account verification and DNS verification | ||
| Save email replies and threads to Harbor | ||
| Email warmup for improved deliverability | ||
| Bounced email detection and tracking | ||
| Complaints detection and tracking | ||
| Email list suppression | ||
| Email scheduling | ||
| Email cancellation | ||
| Unsubscribe link | ||
| Email subject and body quality checking | ||
| Automatic email sequence stop when candidates reply | ||
| Sequence analytics (opens, clicks, replies) | ||
| Sequence analytics per candidate | ||
| Test email sending | ||
Advanced features | ||
| Overview page for recruiters | ||
| Reminders for recruiters | ||
| Send emails on behalf of your team member | ||
| AI assistant for text editor | ||
| Call transcription | ||
| Custom summary of call transcript | ||
| Global search (candidates, jobs, clients/contacts) | ||
| Recently viewed items (candidates, jobs, clients/contacts) | ||
| Changelog system for new features and updates | ||
| AI prompt management and sharing | ||
| Status page for all Harbor services | ||
| Signing and management of contracts with recruiters | ||
Scheduling and booking | ||
| Shareable booking links for interviews | ||
| Calendar sync (Google, Outlook, ICS) | ||
| Automated interview reminders | ||
| Google Meet integration. Zoom integration | ||
| Automatic sync of candidate interviews on candidate profiles | ||
| Connect multiple calendars to Harbor | ||
| Sync events within multiple calendar | ||
Chrome extension | ||
| Source candidates directly from LinkedIn and GitHub | ||
| Source profile info without manual data entry | ||
| One-click candidate data extraction and import | ||
| Upload resumes from extension | ||
| Add candidates to jobs | ||
| Add candidates to email sequences | ||
| Update candidate profiles | ||
| Find personal and work email addresses (ContactOut/Apollo/RocketReach) | ||
| Get email templates | ||
| Change job status for candidates | ||
| Update contact information | ||
Data management | ||
| Bulk candidate imports (CSV) | ||
| Self-service migration from other ATS | ||
| Field mapping for imports | ||
| Import preview and validation | ||
| Paid-service migration from other ATS | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Custom statuses | ||
| Duplicate detection | ||
| File storage and management | ||
| Data exports | ||
Contracts and documents | ||
| Contract creation and management | ||
| Contract templates | ||
| E-signature integration | ||
| Contract review and editing | ||
| Contract expiration notifications | ||
Integrations | ||
| Google Signup/Login integration | ||
| Google Calendar integration | ||
| Microsoft Calendar integration | ||
| ICS calendar integration | ||
| Twilio phone integration | ||
| Zoom meeting integration | ||
| Calendar event sync and management | ||
| ContactOut, Apollo, RocketReach integrations | ||
| DocuSign integration | ||
| OnlyOffice integration | ||
| Multiple AI/LLM integrations | ||
Activity and logging | ||
| Comprehensive activity logs | ||
| Event creation and management | ||
| Candidate activity tracking | ||
| Job activity tracking | ||
| Client activity tracking | ||
| Client history and replies | ||
| Candidate history and replies | ||
Account and user management | ||
| Up to 100 team members per account | ||
| Team members management | ||
| Multiple permission levels for users | ||
| Feature flags | ||
| Easy-to-follow onboarding guides | ||
| Authentication (Google OAuth, password) | ||
| Two-factor authentication (TOTP) | ||
| User preferences (time format, date format) | ||
| Table display preferences | ||
| Account backup | ||
| Account deletion | ||
| EEO compliance settings | ||
| Unique subdomain per business account | ||
| Session tracking and management | ||
| Light/Dark theme | ||
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