HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between LiveHire and Recruit CRM & ATS. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Recruit CRM & ATS.
LiveHire
Source
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 12
objects map 1:1 between LiveHire and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Moving from LiveHire to Recruit CRM is a migration from a premium enterprise Total Talent platform to a mid-market ATS and CRM built for small and growing recruitment agencies. LiveHire organizes talent into Talent Pools and supports both permanent and contingent workforce hiring under one branded system; Recruit CRM uses a simpler Candidate-to-Job application model with tags for segmentation. We extract Candidate profiles, job requisitions, application histories, and offer records, but we separate contingent worker exports from permanent candidate exports because LiveHire's VMS integration paths store external vendor IDs that do not map to Recruit CRM's standard candidate schema. Talent Pool membership lists migrate as Recruit CRM tags; automated pool refresh rules do not carry over and must be rebuilt manually post-migration. LiveHire's rebranding to Humanforce Talent requires us to verify the customer's current legal entity and subscription status before any data extraction begins, to avoid authentication failures against legacy system references. Workflows, branded career site configurations, and Talent Community visual assets are outside migration scope; we deliver a written inventory of each for your team to reconstruct in Recruit CRM.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a LiveHire object lands in Recruit CRM & ATS, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
LiveHire
Candidate
Recruit CRM & ATS
Contact
1:1LiveHire Candidate records migrate to Recruit CRM Contact records. The primary contact fields (name, email, phone, location, current title, work history, skills) map directly. We preserve the candidate's source channel and engagement status as custom fields in Recruit CRM. Any candidate rating or star score migrates to a Recruit CRM custom rating field.
LiveHire
Talent Community Member
Recruit CRM & ATS
Contact (tagged)
1:1LiveHire Talent Community members are distinct from active applicants, representing passive talent who have expressed brand interest but are not in an active hiring process. We migrate these as Recruit CRM Contacts with a 'Talent Community' tag applied. The original interest date and opt-in status migrate to corresponding Recruit CRM custom fields.
LiveHire
Job / Job Posting
Recruit CRM & ATS
Job
1:1LiveHire Job records map directly to Recruit CRM Jobs. We preserve job title, description, location, employment type (permanent or contingent), department, and status. Approved job templates used for recurring positions migrate as reusable job drafts in Recruit CRM. Active versus archived status is preserved; closed jobs are migrated as archived records.
LiveHire
Application
Recruit CRM & ATS
Application
1:1The Application record linking a Candidate to a Job migrates to Recruit CRM's Application object. Application date, source channel, current pipeline stage, and stage transition timestamps preserve. Stage names from LiveHire's configurable hiring pipelines are mapped to Recruit CRM pipeline stages, with any non-matching stages flagged for configuration during the sandbox phase.
LiveHire
Talent Pool
Recruit CRM & ATS
Tag / Audience Segment
lossyLiveHire Talent Pools are recruiter-curated candidate segments with automated membership criteria. Pool membership lists migrate as Recruit CRM tags on the corresponding Contact records. The automated criteria and re-pooling rules that govern LiveHire Talent Pool membership do not export as structured data; we deliver a Talent Pool inventory document listing each pool name, its member count, and the membership criteria for manual reconstruction in Recruit CRM.
LiveHire
Contingent Worker Record
Recruit CRM & ATS
Contact (separate import stream)
1:manyLiveHire manages contingent and contractor records through VMS integration paths that attach external vendor IDs to candidate profiles. These external IDs have no Recruit CRM equivalent and must be stripped before import to prevent ID collision. We run permanent and contingent worker exports as separate extraction streams, strip vendor IDs from the contingent stream, and tag contingent records with a 'Contingent' tag in Recruit CRM. Customers using VMS integrations in Recruit CRM re-establish those connections post-migration.
LiveHire
Workflow / Hiring Pipeline
Recruit CRM & ATS
Pipeline / Stage
lossyLiveHire configurable stage sequences define the hiring process for different job types. We map each LiveHire pipeline name and its stage sequence to a Recruit CRM Pipeline with corresponding stages. Custom stage names, required approval gates, and automation rules require manual setup in Recruit CRM post-migration; we provide a written pipeline inventory listing each pipeline, its stages, and any conditional logic for the customer's admin to rebuild.
LiveHire
Offer
Recruit CRM & ATS
Offer
1:1LiveHire Offer records including proposed compensation, start date, and acceptance status migrate to Recruit CRM Offers attached to the relevant Application. Offer history preserving compensation negotiation records migrates as offer version records. We flag any LiveHire offer templates for the customer's team to re-create as Recruit CRM offer templates.
LiveHire
Notes and Feedback
Recruit CRM & ATS
Note / Activity
1:1Recruiter and hiring manager notes attached to candidates and applications, including ratings and interview scores, migrate as Recruit CRM Notes linked to the corresponding Contact or Application. Formatting and embedded media may simplify during migration; we document any formatting loss so the customer can supplement during post-migration review.
LiveHire
Communication History
Recruit CRM & ATS
Activity / Note
1:1LiveHire email, SMS, and in-platform messaging history migrates to Recruit CRM Activities or Notes attached to the Contact record. 2-way text messaging threads migrate as Activity records with the message content preserved. We flag any communication threads that exceed typical volume for the customer's admin to review for data quality before migration.
LiveHire
Document and Attachment
Recruit CRM & ATS
File (linked to Contact or Job)
1:1Resumes, cover letters, portfolio files, and signed agreements attached to candidate profiles migrate as Files linked to the corresponding Recruit CRM Contact or Job record. Binary file migration runs separately from structured record migration. We map file associations from LiveHire to the correct Recruit CRM record and provide a file inventory listing filename, file type, associated record, and upload timestamp.
LiveHire
Custom Field
Recruit CRM & ATS
Custom Field
1:1LiveHire organization-specific custom fields on Candidates, Jobs, and Applications vary significantly between tenants and require explicit field-level mapping. We extract the full custom field schema during discovery, map each field to a Recruit CRM custom field of the matching type (text, number, date, picklist, checkbox, or multi-select), and create the fields in Recruit CRM before the main migration batch begins.
| LiveHire | Recruit CRM & ATS | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Community Member | Contact (tagged)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Job / Job Posting | Job1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Application | Application1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Pool | Tag / Audience Segmentlossy | Fully supported | |
| Contingent Worker Record | Contact (separate import stream)1:many | Fully supported | |
| Workflow / Hiring Pipeline | Pipeline / Stagelossy | Fully supported | |
| Offer | Offer1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Notes and Feedback | Note / Activity1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Communication History | Activity / Note1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Document and Attachment | File (linked to Contact or Job)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Field | Custom Field1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
LiveHire gotchas
LiveHire-to-Humanforce rebrand creates data continuity risk
Premium-only pricing hides volume and tier limits
Talent Pool segmentation logic requires manual reconstruction
Contingent worker and contractor records have distinct data paths
Branded career site content and Talent Community branding are not portable
Recruit CRM & ATS gotchas
API rate limits are license-scaled and can throttle bulk migration
Custom field schemas vary per organization and require field-level mapping
Files and email attachments require separate extraction and re-upload
Email sequences and automation logic do not transfer between platforms
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and entity verification
We audit the LiveHire instance across current legal entity name (verifying against both LiveHire and Humanforce Talent references), active subscription tier, record volumes by object type (Candidates, Talent Community members, Jobs, Applications, Talent Pools), custom field schemas, and workflow configurations. We specifically identify whether the account has contingent worker records and separate VMS integration paths. The discovery output is a written migration scope, a record count by object, and a confirmed export sequence based on the verified entity name and API access points.
Data extraction in dependency order
We extract LiveHire data in the following order: Jobs first (parent records for Applications), then Candidates and Talent Community members (resolved separately), then Applications (linked to extracted Jobs and Candidates), then Offers, Notes, Communication history, and Documents. Contingent worker records extract as a parallel stream with vendor ID fields excluded. Talent Pools extract as membership lists only, without the automated criteria. We extract to CSV or JSON according to what LiveHire's export functionality supports, flagging any records that require manual export via the UI due to API limitations.
Schema mapping and Recruit CRM pre-configuration
We create the destination schema in Recruit CRM before any data import begins. This includes provisioning custom fields on Contact and Job to receive migrated LiveHire data, configuring pipeline stages to match the extracted LiveHire workflow stages, creating tags for each Talent Pool name, and setting up the contingent worker tag. We resolve the mapping for every extracted custom field and validate that Recruit CRM field types are compatible before the main migration batch. Any stage name mismatches between LiveHire pipelines and Recruit CRM pipeline stages are documented for configuration during the sandbox phase.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into a Recruit CRM sandbox or staging environment using production data volume. The customer's team reconciles record counts (Contacts in, Jobs in, Applications in, Offers in), spot-checks 25-50 candidate records against the LiveHire source, and reviews the Talent Pool tag assignments. Any mapping corrections, stage name adjustments, or missing custom fields are resolved here before production migration begins.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Jobs first, then Contacts (with permanent and contingent streams merged via tags), then Applications (with Job and Contact lookups resolved), then Offers, Notes, Activities, and Documents. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report. We run permanent and contingent worker streams as separate import jobs with a merge step for any Contact records that appear in both streams due to dual-role candidates.
Cutover, validation, and content inventory handoff
We freeze LiveHire write access during the cutover window, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then enable Recruit CRM as the system of record. We deliver the Talent Pool inventory document, the pipeline and workflow rebuild guide, and the branded content inventory for the customer's team to re-create career site assets in Recruit CRM. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild LiveHire workflows, automations, or VMS integrations inside the migration scope.
Platform deep dives
LiveHire
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard HRMS migration. 1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across LiveHire and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Object compatibility
1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
7-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
LiveHire: Not publicly documented..
Data volume sensitivity
LiveHire doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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