About softgarden
Attract. Convert. Hire.
We offer the software to turn job seekers into applicants. We apply highly efficient principles of e-commerce to recruiting and thus optimally attract interested parties.
With our software, employers create more reach and thus attract the attention of more job seekers. Through better employer branding and employee recommendations, even passive candidates become applicants. Our unique Feedback Solution encourages applicants and employees to make evaluations about their employer publicly available. This creates an authentic overall picture of your company and strengthens the employer brand. With the help of the applicant tracking system, personnel can express appreciation for applications by reacting quickly. Thanks to the mobile application, managers are brought on board and decisions are made faster and more reliably.
This is how, day by day, softgarden creates an advantage for over 1000 companies in the competition for the best candidates.
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Founding
softgarden was founded by Stefan Schüffler and Dominik Faber.
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Employees
work at three locations in Berlin, Saarbrücken and Krakow.
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Customers
overall use our software and media consultancy.
Our Management-Team
Mathias Heese
Chief Executive Officer
Drawing from 17 years of experience in digital business, e-commerce, sales and marketing as well as his time as Vice President at ImmobilienScout24, Mathias has been CEO of softgarden since 2017.
Stefan Schüffler
Chief Technical Officer
As a co-founder Stefan planted the seeds for softgarden and is still CTO today. He heads the software development in the Saarbrücken office.
Martin Behrend
Chief Financial Officer
Martin joined softgarden in 2014 and brings 18 years of experience in finance and financial management at Groupon, Acrolinx and Flaconi to the team.
Our Team
Interested in the future of recruiting and want to become part of a young, diverse team in the field of HR software?
Our History
2003
softgarden is founded
Stefan Schüffler and Dominik Faber founded softgarden in Saarbrücken to develop websites. From 2003 onwards, they fully concentrate on the development of applicant management software.
2005
First big ticket
With O2 Germany, they win their first big ticket. Within one year, more than 1,000 new team members are hired using the applicant tracking software from softgarden.
2014
softgarden merges with job portal 1000jobboersen.de
This enables our customers to post the right job ads on over 300 job portals.
2016
Unique Feedback Solution published
Get ahead with employer branding: our Feedback Solution automatically requests feedback on application processes and the work environment from employees and applicants. This feedback can then be integrated with careers pages, Google rankings and on kununu.com. Thus, our customers create trust and transparency with job seekers.
2017
Mobile app for decision makers developed
Managers from the specialist departments are thus also involved in the decision-making process on a mobile basis. Since then, our customers have reduced their time-to-hire by up to 60 percent.
2019
Career Site Pro launched
Create careers pages according to the modular principle: best practices from online marketing, independent of developers, optimised for search engines. Thanks to the seamless integration of ratings and candidate management, the career site becomes the heart of the candidate journey.
November 2019
softgarden wins HR Excellence Awards 2019 and is named Best HR Software
December 2019
softgarden has grown this year by 33 percent to 112 employees in order to prepare for the future
2020
softgarden is growing
softgarden has cracked the thousand mark and is one of the top innovation leaders in talent acquisition and candidate management with more than 1,000 customers (+300 in 2020) across Europe.
With remote teams based in various locations such as Berlin, Saarbrücken, Krakow, Nice and Spain, softgarden digitises, innovates recruiting and provides numerous new features such as the free video interview or the Smart Calendar.
