JOIN vs softgarden

JOIN

Scorecards, interview scheduling with two-way Google and Outlook sync, roles and permissions, and automated candidate messages are all confirmed, which covers the daily hiring work. The pages do not show pipelines configurable per job or hiring managers limited to their own vacancies, and I found no public information on approval workflows or a record of who moved a candidate and why.

softgarden

An application overview with team communication, dashboards reporting time-to-hire and time-to-interview, and a system history logging access attempts and changes to records take this above a bare inbox. We found no public information on pipeline stages per job, structured scorecards, interview scheduling, or hiring-manager access limited to their own vacancies, so decisions beyond the change log are not documented on the captured pages.

JOIN

Multiposting to 250+ paid and 15 free boards with StepStone, Indeed and LinkedIn partner status, a career-site builder, mobile-first applications and a source board stored on every application give me most of a channel manager's wishlist. I found no public information on a Bundesagentur für Arbeit feed, Google for Jobs markup, budget tracking per board, cost per applicant per channel, or a career page in several languages.

softgarden

Multiposting to more than 1,200 job boards plus social media and Google Ads, a career page in both packages, and per-ad analysis of conversion rates and entry channels give me a real channel view rather than pure broadcast. The captured pages name no individual German boards, and we found no public information on mobile application without an account, an accessibility statement, or booking and budget tracking per board from inside the system.

JOIN

The privacy policy states deletion or complete anonymisation once a storage period lapses, but the period itself is not stated and configurability is not mentioned; candidate profiles carry built-in GDPR rights, which helps with access requests. The talent pool is sold on the pricing page and I found no public information on a recorded consent step, access logging or deletion reports.

softgarden

Automatic deletion of applicant data configured by the employer to its own requirements, a recommended six-month retention period, a four-week SLA for data-subject requests, and a log of access attempts and changes to records form a defensible baseline. We found no public information on talent-pool consent or its expiry, retention rules per country, or candidate self-service for their own data.

JOIN

The homepage advertises screening with KI and the pricing page a KI generator for job ads. I found no public information on what the screening evaluates, where the models run, who the provider is, whether features can be switched off, or any EU AI Act position — nothing a works council could base an agreement on.

softgarden

AI features are named — a screening assistant, an interview assistant, job-ad text creation and candidate matching — and sold with the assurance 'Transparent und ohne Blackbox'. That is a benefit description with a transparency slogan: we found no public information on the inputs each feature evaluates, a switch per feature, whether a human acts before any rejection, or the model provider used.

JOIN

API access and Zapier and Make come with Advanced and above, two-way calendar sync with Google and Outlook is confirmed, and Enterprise offers custom integrations on request. The captured pages show no named HR or payroll system for handing a hire over, and I found no public information on SSO, e-signature, webhooks or published API limits.

softgarden

The hire is carried forward by softgarden's own onboarding module through pre-boarding, re-boarding and offboarding, and a scheduling provider appears among the named subcontractors. We found no public information on a documented API, SSO, e-signature, or handover to any named HR or payroll system, so how a hire reaches an HR system like Personio or DATEV is not shown.

JOIN

A Swiss parent with German and Spanish subsidiaries, Swiss governing law and exclusive Swiss venue, hosting described as primarily in the EU, ISO 27001:2022 certification and a published data-processing agreement paint a European picture. Subprocessors appear only as categories such as job portals, and I found no public information on the hosting infrastructure or where the KI features process CVs.

softgarden

Applicant data is stated to be hosted in German data centres at named providers — WIIT, formerly myLoc, and Equinix in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf — under a Berlin contracting entity with a published register number, alongside a subcontractor list naming the parsing provider Textkernel, a downloadable and digitally signable data-processing agreement, ISO 27001/27017/27018 certification, and the statement that no third-country transfer of applicant data occurs. Ownership could not be confirmed in the independently sourced attributes, and a US Cloud Act caveat is flagged around the support tool Intercom — engaged via its Irish entity, with softgarden arguing it is not a subcontractor — which keeps this a notch below the top.

JOIN

17 € pro Job/Monat for Standard and 34 € for Advanced, annual billing, up to 15 active jobs each, two months free, VAT treatment and 30-day annual notice are all public, so I can budget the software itself. What I cannot compute is the job-board spend: paid multiposting across 250+ boards is an add-on with no price list, only a claim of up to 50 % savings versus direct purchase, and Enterprise is volume prices on request.

softgarden

The Core package is publicly priced 'ab 199 € / Monat' with five included jobs, unlimited users, and VAT treatment given as 'Alle Preise zzgl. MwSt.' — more than a mere starting price. But the All-in-One package is 'Individuelle Preisgestaltung', and we found no public information on job-board posting costs, prices for the AI modules, or the minimum term, so a real annual invoice is not computable from the public pages; a brochure with all packages and prices is offered for download, but its contents are not shown on the captured pages.