Driving an efficient recruitment process requires you need to use the best recruitment software, one that covers all your needs by allowing you to write great job descriptions and post them to multiple job boards and social media networks with just a few clicks to attract top talent. An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is the perfect tool to help you with all those tasks and manage great volumes of incoming applications, keeping all the candidates’ information centralised and organised.
In fact, an ATS that includes the right features can offer you a lot more than just a way of keeping good track of your candidates. More than ever it is crucial for your company to leverage recruitment technology, so that the hiring process is more efficient for the recruiters and also candidates have the best experience. In today’s article we give you some tips about how to assess and choose the right ATS for your company.
Step 1: Assess Your Recruitment Needs
Given the multiple ATS solutions in the market, it’s of the utmost importance that you assess your recruitment needs before looking into any option. Having a clear knowledge of the issues you want to fix or improvements you wish to make in your recruitment process will help you evaluate more wisely the characteristics and costs of every software you decide to analyse and test.
Step 2: Look for a Tool that Improves Your Recruitment Process
Don’t look for an Applicant Tracking System to simply manage your incoming applications. To drive a successful recruitment process you must look for innovation and agility in your future recruitment tool. So, to find the the best ATS for your company you must look for a software that:
- Fits your company size and recruitment needs
If you have a small company, your recruitment needs will definitely be different from those of a corporate company. Most probably your small company doesn’t need all of the same features as a larger company does. This goes the other way round, too, and it’s a very important topic when assessing an ATS. You need a solution that fits your business needs. Nothing more and nothing less.
- Provides an awesome user-experience
You want a software that is intuitive and easy to use on a daily basis. The goal of implementing an ATS is to simplify and streamline the recruitment process. That will save you time and make you more productive. But a great user-experience is also mandatory in order to create the best candidate experience. So, when assessing an ATS you have to make sure that you also test the applicant side to see if it meets your ideal experience standards. Is it mobile-friendly? Does it offer useful features that expedite the application process? These are just some of the important aspects you must take into consideration.
- Has a great analytics tool
Not every ATS solution includes an analytics tool. But measuring recruiting activities is key to know how the recruitment process is performing and to get insightful data to help continuously assess and improve it. Hence, having a powerful analytics tool is mandatory. Choose an Applicant Tracking System that offers a custom, interactive and real-time reports to have easy access to your numbers and deliver a first-class recruitment process.
- Is scalable and flexible
A good Applicant Tracking System must allow new functionalities and improvements, so it has to be designed to scale seamlessly as your organization grows. The ideal ATS must be flexible and adapt to your company’s future needs. The best solutions offer modular plans that allow you to add features or make package upgrades as you go.
- Offers the right features
It’s important that you have a clear idea of which features you need to improve your recruitment process. Most ATS solutions offer you basic features for automation of candidate categorising and communication. But there are advanced features that only some softwares include that can really make the difference and take your recruitment process to the next level: Automated Candidate Screening, AI-powered Ranking, Personality Assessments and Pre-Recorded Video Interviews, Custom Recruiting Workflows, Collaboration tools, Job Posting to Multiple Job boards, among many others.
Step 3: Instead of Choosing a Provider, Choose a Partner
When choosing an Applicant Tracking System you must also take into consideration the relationship you’ll develop with its provider. It’s important to choose a company that will be there for you every step of the way, so that you know how to use and take full advantage of your ATS. Therefore, there are a few important questions regarding support and training you also should ask when researching the best ATS for your company:
- Will my company get training sessions throughout the implementation phase?
- Does the software include FAQs or other documentation to help me use it?
- How does the technical or customer support work?
- Will my company have a dedicated Account Manager at the ATS company?
We know that looking at Applicant Tracking Systems can be a bit overwhelming. So the best thing to do is: search and check 3 to 5 ATS that have good reviews and offer features you value; reach out to those providers and make your inquiries; choose those you want to test and sign up for demo accounts; get feedback from recruiters, hiring managers and IT; compare usability, features and pricing.
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Thanks for reading and see you next time!
Your team here at skeeled
