Tellent Recruitee + The Cognitive Integration
The Cognitive integrates with Tellent Recruitee so AI interviewing and sourcing run alongside the workflow European SMB and mid-market hiring teams already use: you import active candidates from the Tellent Recruitee stage you choose, invite them to a live AI interview, and write each score, summary and report link back to the candidate as a note. Of The Cognitive's 60+ ATS integrations, Tellent Recruitee is one, connected from the dashboard through one unified integration. Stage moves and decisions stay in Tellent Recruitee; the integration only reads candidates and writes notes.
What does the Tellent Recruitee integration do?
- Stage-based import: you choose which Tellent Recruitee stage feeds The Cognitive, and a sync brings those active candidates in for interview invites.
- Note write-back: for imported candidates who have interviewed, the score, a summary and the report link are written back to Tellent Recruitee as a note, where Tellent Recruitee accepts notes through the integration.
- Stages untouched: nothing in Tellent Recruitee moves or gets rejected by the integration; your team makes every call.
- Outbound too: AI sourcing searches ~900M public profiles for people who never applied, so the pool is not limited to who is already in Tellent Recruitee.
- Manager-ready evidence: the note on the Recruitee candidate links to a report with scores per criterion, overall written feedback and the recording.
- Tellent Recruitee remains the system of record - The Cognitive layers interviews and evidence on top, never a second database to reconcile.
The Cognitive in a Tellent Recruitee workflow
Tellent Recruitee describes itself as "a customizable, easy-to-use Applicant Tracking System" (recruitee.com, read on 3 October 2026), and it is built for hiring managers to join a pipeline alongside the recruiter. Its AI Screening and Matching Assistants work on your applicants and the database you already hold. The Cognitive adds a live AI interview and a search of people who never applied.
Recruitee teams usually import from the screening stage of a job pipeline and invite that week's applicants in one batch.
When hiring managers sit in the Recruitee pipeline themselves, the AI interview gives them something concrete to read before they book a call: a 1 to 5 score per criterion, overall written feedback, the transcript and the recording. Interviews run in 9 languages, which suits teams hiring across several European countries from one Recruitee account. The decision to move someone forward stays in Recruitee.
How does candidate sourcing get into Tellent Recruitee?
That is the gap The Cognitive's AI sourcing fills. A search brief written in plain English runs across ~900M public profiles with contact details enriched from 30+ sources; the role becomes a durable role pool that keeps everyone each search finds. Each candidate a search returns costs 1 credit, an email reveal 5 and a phone number 10, charged only on a successful reveal, so browsing a search result is cheap and only the shortlist you act on is not. People you source stay in The Cognitive's role pool and are not written into Tellent Recruitee automatically; you decide who to interview and who to add to Tellent Recruitee yourself.
Recruitee's Matching Assistant turns your existing database into a talent pool, and The Cognitive reaches the ~900M public profiles that never entered it. A recruiter adds the sourced people they want to pursue to Recruitee, and nothing is pushed there automatically.
How does setup work?
- 1. Connect: from The Cognitive dashboard, pick Tellent Recruitee in the integration window and authorize it with your Tellent Recruitee admin credentials.
- 2. Pick the source stage: tell The Cognitive which Tellent Recruitee stage to import active candidates from.
- 3. Run it: sync to import, invite candidates to interview, then send each result back to Tellent Recruitee as a note with the score and report link.
- Tellent Recruitee stays in charge of stages and decisions; The Cognitive adds the interview and the note.
Why teams add The Cognitive to their ATS
Tracking candidates is what Tellent Recruitee does; finding and evaluating them is the gap The Cognitive fills. Search ~900M public profiles from a plain-English brief, then invite the people you pick, or the applicants you import from Tellent Recruitee, to a live AI interview that books itself into their calendar. AI Sourcing starts at $49/month and AI Interview at $99/month.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Tellent Recruitee have AI interviews?
Tellent Recruitee's site does not describe an AI interviewer. It offers candidate self-scheduling, structured evaluation forms and integrations with Zoom, Teams and Google Meet for interviews your team runs. The Cognitive adds a live, two-way AI video interview of 10 or 20 minutes in 9 languages for candidates you import from Recruitee and invite, and writes the score, summary and report link back as a note.
Does Tellent Recruitee source candidates outside your applicants?
Not with its AI. Recruitee's Matching Assistant aims to "turn your ATS database into an active talent pool" by surfacing people you already hold, and its site lists employee referrals and agency management alongside job posting. The Cognitive searches ~900M public profiles for people who never applied. They stay in The Cognitive's role pool, and nothing reaches Recruitee until a recruiter adds them.
What do Recruitee's AI Screening and Matching Assistants do?
Both work on applicants and records already in Recruitee. The pricing page says the Screening Assistant helps move promising candidates forward with "clear, explainable results and full human control", and the Matching Assistant surfaces past candidates for new roles, each with a monthly allowance set by plan. The Cognitive adds a step neither covers: a live AI interview scored 1 to 5 per criterion, with overall written feedback.
Does The Cognitive integrate with Tellent Recruitee?
Yes, it is one of The Cognitive's 60+ ATS integrations. A sync imports candidates from the Tellent Recruitee stage you pick, they take a live AI interview when you invite them, and each result is written back to Tellent Recruitee as a note with the score and report link.
Can The Cognitive source candidates into Tellent Recruitee?
The Cognitive sources candidates alongside Tellent Recruitee: it searches ~900M public profiles from a plain-English brief and enriches contact details from 30+ sources. Sourced people stay in The Cognitive's role pool and are not written into Tellent Recruitee automatically. Search results cost 1 credit per candidate returned; an email reveal costs 5 credits and a phone number 10, charged only on a successful reveal.
Which Tellent Recruitee stage should feed AI interviews?
Recruitee teams usually import from the screening stage of a job pipeline and invite that week's applicants in one batch. You choose the source stage in The Cognitive, each role can use its own rubric, and every decision after the interview stays with your team in Tellent Recruitee.
Do I need engineering help to connect Tellent Recruitee?
Not for the connection itself. An Tellent Recruitee admin signs in through The Cognitive's integration window and chooses the stage to import candidates from.
Which plans include ATS integration?
ATS integration is included on the Scale and Pro interview plans, which are billed monthly and can be cancelled anytime.
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