Email-to-ATS Application Capture
Catch applicants from the inbox. Candidate and job-board emails are parsed automatically — resumes extracted and routed to the right job — so nothing is lost in email.
Every candidate email becomes a tracked application the second it lands.
Email-to-ATS Application Capture turns your inbound email into a live application pipeline. Candidate replies and job-board notifications are parsed automatically, resumes are pulled straight from attachments, and each application is routed to the right job posting and its own per-job inbox. It's the email channel complement to your branded apply pages, so no candidate slips through the cracks no matter how they reach you.
Why recruiters care
- Stop copy-pasting resumes out of your inbox. Attachments are extracted and the candidate lands in the ATS, ready to work.
- Every email maps to a job. Applications route to the correct posting and its per-job inbox, so your pipeline stays clean.
- Job-board emails get parsed too. The leads buried in notification floods become structured applications you can act on.
- One place for every candidate, whether they applied through your branded page or just hit reply.
Why HR leaders care
- Close the leak. Candidates who arrive by email are captured with the same rigor as your apply pages, end to end.
- Standardize the intake. Automated parsing and routing means consistent data on every application, no matter the source.
- Scale without adding headcount. The inbox triage that used to eat recruiter hours runs on its own.
- One white-label system owns the whole funnel, and every touchpoint still carries your brand.
From busywork to a hiring engine.
The old way
- Resumes sit in inboxes, manually downloaded and re-keyed one at a time.
- Job-board notifications pile up and the best candidates get buried.
- Email applicants live outside the ATS, invisible to your pipeline reporting.
With ATS Mako
- Attachments are parsed and the candidate is in the ATS automatically.
- Every inbound email routes to the right job and its per-job inbox.
- Email and apply-page candidates sit side by side in one tracked pipeline.
Everything in Email-to-ATS Application Capture.
Automatic resume extraction
Inbound emails are parsed on arrival and resumes are pulled straight from the attachments, no manual download or re-keying.
Smart job routing
Each application is matched to the correct job posting automatically, so candidates land where they belong without a recruiter sorting the inbox.
Per-job inboxes
Every posting gets its own inbox. Conversations and applications for a role stay together, clean and easy to work.
Job-board email parsing
Notification emails from job boards are parsed into structured applications, turning a noisy feed into a working pipeline.
The email channel complement
Branded apply pages and email capture run as one funnel, so candidates are tracked the same way no matter how they reach you.
Built on your brand
Inbound capture lives inside your white-label platform. Every candidate touchpoint reinforces your brand, not ours.
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Email-to-ATS Application Capture FAQ
What does email-to-ATS actually do?
It parses inbound candidate and job-board emails automatically, extracts resumes from attachments, and routes each application to the correct job posting and its per-job inbox, so email candidates enter your ATS without manual work.
Does it handle emails from job boards?
Yes. Job-board notification emails are parsed into structured applications, so the leads inside those feeds become candidates you can act on instead of noise you have to sift.
How does this work with branded apply pages?
It's the email channel complement to your apply pages. Whether a candidate applies through your branded page or simply replies by email, they land in the same tracked pipeline.
Where do parsed applications end up?
Each application is routed to the correct job posting and that job's dedicated inbox, keeping conversations and candidates for a role together in one place.
Are resumes pulled out of attachments automatically?
Yes. Resumes are extracted from email attachments on arrival, so recruiters skip the download-and-re-key step and start working the candidate right away.
What happens to an email that doesn't match an open job?
It still becomes a tracked application so nothing gets lost. When routing can't confidently match a posting, the candidate is captured and surfaced for a recruiter to assign to the right job, rather than left buried in an inbox.
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