Automate the busywork,
focus on people.
Recruiters spend up to 14 hours per week on manual tasks that could be automated — moving candidates between stages, sending rejection emails, chasing hiring managers for feedback, copying job settings from the last opening. Treegarden eliminates the repetitive work with stage-based triggers, workflow rules, bulk operations and job templates so your team can focus on evaluating talent and building relationships.
The manual work that slows every hiring team down
These are not minor annoyances. They are systemic time drains that multiply with every open role and every candidate in your pipeline.
Manual stage moves eat hours every week
Every time a candidate passes a phone screen, someone has to drag them to the next column, update the notes and notify the hiring manager. Multiply that by forty candidates across six open roles and your recruiter is spending Monday afternoon on admin instead of sourcing.
Repetitive rejection emails, one at a time
You have sixty applicants who did not make the shortlist. Each one deserves a respectful rejection. But sending sixty individual emails — even from a template — takes the better part of an hour. So they sit in limbo, and your employer brand suffers in silence.
Forgotten follow-ups and candidate ghosting
A strong candidate completed their technical assessment nine days ago. Nobody moved them forward because the hiring manager forgot to submit feedback and nobody reminded them. The candidate accepted another offer yesterday. You find out from LinkedIn.
No bulk operations for volume hiring
You received 200 applications for a warehouse associate role. Screening them is one thing. But moving the top fifty to the next stage, rejecting the bottom hundred and emailing the shortlisted twenty — all of that is click-by-click, candidate-by-candidate manual labour.
Six automation capabilities that give your team hours back every week.
Every feature is built into the ATS pipeline — no third-party workflow tools, no Zapier workarounds, no code required.
Stage-based email automation
Configure email templates that fire automatically when a candidate enters or leaves a pipeline stage. Rejection emails, interview invitations, offer letters, onboarding instructions — all sent at the right moment without a recruiter clicking send. Every email is personalised with candidate and job merge fields.
Workflow engine with if/then rules
Define conditional automation rules: if the AI match score exceeds 75%, auto-advance to phone screen. If a candidate has been idle in a stage for five days, send a nudge to the hiring manager. If a rejection email bounces, flag for manual review. Rules can be set per job or applied globally through templates.
Bulk operations
Select multiple candidates and execute actions in batch: bulk move to a stage, bulk email with a template, bulk reject with a personalised message, bulk export to CSV or bulk upload CVs from a folder. All bulk actions are logged in each candidate's activity history for complete auditability.
Job templates and duplication
Create reusable job templates with pre-configured pipeline stages, email templates, scoring criteria, screening questions and automation rules. When you open a new position, duplicate the template in one click. All settings carry over instantly — reducing job setup from 30 minutes to under 2 minutes.
Job alerts for candidates
Let candidates subscribe to job alerts from your career page by selecting preferred categories, locations and employment types. When a matching job is published, Treegarden automatically sends a personalised notification. Alerts respect GDPR consent preferences and include one-click unsubscribe.
Scheduled commands and automated tasks
Treegarden runs background jobs on configurable schedules: daily job alert distribution, stage-based email dispatch, candidate inactivity reminders and recruitment report generation. All scheduled tasks are monitored, logged and can be configured from the admin panel without developer involvement.
Every automation capability, included as standard.
Fourteen workflow automation features built into every Treegarden plan — no add-ons, no premium tiers, no per-automation pricing.
What recruitment teams say
We were hiring for twelve warehouse positions at once and received over 300 applications in the first week. Before Treegarden, my recruiter would have spent two full days just sending rejections and moving shortlisted candidates forward. With the bulk operations and stage-based email triggers, she processed the entire batch in about forty minutes. The job template feature is equally valuable — we open the same roles every quarter and now setup takes two minutes instead of half an hour.
Every automation feature, included in every plan.
Treegarden does not charge extra for workflow automation. Stage-based triggers, bulk operations, job templates, AI auto-advance and scheduled tasks are all included as standard — because automation should not be a premium add-on when it is the foundation of an efficient hiring process.
Book a demoCommon questions about workflow automation
Everything you need to know before automating your hiring pipeline.
What types of hiring tasks can Treegarden automate?
Treegarden automates stage-based email notifications (rejection, interview invite, offer), candidate auto-advance and auto-decline based on AI match scores, bulk operations (move, email, reject, CV upload), job alert distribution to subscribed candidates, scheduled reporting tasks and job template duplication. All automation rules are configurable per job or globally.
Can I set up custom if/then workflow rules?
Yes. Treegarden's workflow engine lets you define conditional rules such as: if a candidate reaches the 'Interview' stage, send an interview preparation email; if AI match score is below 40%, auto-decline with a personalised rejection; if a candidate has been in a stage for more than 7 days, send a follow-up reminder to the hiring manager. Rules can be created per job or applied as templates across all jobs.
How do bulk operations work in Treegarden?
Select multiple candidates from any pipeline view using checkboxes, then choose a bulk action: move to a different stage, send a templated email, reject with a personalised message, export to CSV or upload CVs in batch. Bulk operations support up to hundreds of candidates at once and all actions are logged in the candidate's activity timeline.
Does automation replace human decision-making?
No. Treegarden's automation handles repetitive administrative tasks — sending emails, moving candidates between stages, flagging overdue items — so recruiters can focus on evaluation, interviews and relationship-building. AI-assisted decisions like auto-advance always include human oversight options, and GDPR Article 22 compliance is built in with manual review triggers.
Can I use job templates to standardise hiring workflows?
Yes. Create a job template with pre-configured pipeline stages, email templates, scoring criteria and automation rules. When opening a new position, duplicate the template in one click — all settings, stage configurations and automation rules carry over. This ensures consistency across teams and reduces job setup time from 30 minutes to under 2 minutes.
How do job alerts work for candidates?
Candidates can subscribe to job alerts from your career page by selecting preferred job categories, locations and employment types. When a matching job is published, Treegarden automatically sends a personalised email notification. Job alerts run on a scheduled basis and respect candidate communication preferences and GDPR consent.
Stop doing manually what your ATS should handle automatically.
Treegarden gives recruitment teams the automation infrastructure to eliminate repetitive tasks, respond to candidates faster, maintain consistency across hiring workflows and reclaim hours every week — all from a single platform with no add-on pricing.