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What Are the Must Have Features for Any Applicant Tracking Software?

Did you know that many applicant tracking software offerings boast more than 200 features? But not everyone needs them all. So what features are essential for everyone? Not nearly as many, but these are some of the most essential. https://www.applicanttrackingsystems.net/ats/

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What Are the Must Have Features for Any Applicant Tracking Software?

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  1. What Are the Must Have Features for Any Applicant Tracking Software? Did you know that many applicant tracking software offerings boast more than 200 features? But not everyone needs them all. So what features are essential for everyone? Not nearly as many, but these are some of the most essential Features for Attracting Candidates: The foundation of successful recruiting starts with the quality and quantity of your candidates. For this reason, your applicant tracking software features checklist should start with functionality that: Help get your jobs in front of quality candidates Creates a great candidate experience that drives applicants to apply Makes it easy to establish initial communication with candidates With this in mind, make sure the applicant tracking software you are considering offers all of the following: Easy Posting to Job Boards Free and premium job postings to leading careers sites like Indeed, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor – all at the click of a button. Fully-Customizable Careers Pages and Online Job Application: Fully-branded, fully-customizable careers pages and online job applications that integrate seamlessly with your website to create a great candidate experience and employer brand. Mobile Apply: 9 in 10 job seekers search for jobs on their mobile devices. To get mobile job seekers to apply to your positions, features like fully-responsive career pages, resume parsing, and mobile apply are now essential.

  2. Employee Referral Platform: Employee referrals can be one of the best (and cheapest) sources of high quality candidates. Capitalize on this and keep your team actively involved in the hiring process by making sure to include an employee referral program on your feature checklist. Interview and Collaborate: Okay, so we’ve got the features that will get you candidates –that’s the easy part. Now comes features for communicating with them, managing them, and driving them through your interview stages – all while keeping your hiring team involved in the process! Email Templates & Automation: Automated, fully-customizable email templates that are triggered by specific stages in your hiring process. Advanced Candidate Search: Advanced search that allows you to identify candidates based on resume, job title, location, salary, experience, job applied, team notes, interview feedback, and more. Outlook & Gmail Interview Scheduling: Interview scheduling that integrates with your calendar application so you can see your team’s calendars and schedule interviews directly from the ATS. Interview Scorecards: Customizable interview scorecards that allow you to automate and standardize the collection of interview feedback from your hiring managers. Advanced Workflows: Recruiting workflows that help you drive candidates through your hiring process. Tools for Hiring Managers: The success of recruiting software boils down to hiring manager adoption. If an ATS doesn’t offer easy- to-use features for your hiring managers it won’t be of much help to you. Recruiting Dashboards: Recruiting dashboards that give you “at a glance” insights into all of your jobs and candidates and immediately provide answers to the most frequently asked questions. Great Closing Features: Even with the world’s best interview process, if you can’t effectively close candidates at the job offer stage and get them on boarded efficiently, you are doomed to fail. For this reason, choose applicant

  3. tracking software that gives you the tools for creating a consistent, efficient approach to closing candidates and on boarding them. Approval Processes: Job and offer processes that promote and control visibility while eliminating bottlenecks. Integrated Background Checks: Shift the collection of sensitive data from your company to the experts. Look for an ATS that seamlessly integrates with NAPBS certified background check providers. Digital Offer Letters: Look for tools that allow for the safe and easy creating, sending, receiving, reviewing, signing, and returning of digital offer letters. New Hire On Boarding: Digital employee on boarding that allows you to engage new hires early on and reduce the manual administrative work of completing new hire paperwork. EEOC and OFCCP Compliance: Built in EEOC and OFCCP compliance tracking and reporting. This includes things like reasons for non- selection, applicant flow logs, and minimum qualification questions. Analytics and Reporting: A robust analytics engine with pre-built and customizable reports that help you identify where you are winning and where improvements can be made. Original Source: http://www.yeartearm.com/what-are-the-must-have- features-for-any-applicant-tracking-software/

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