Top Applicant Tracking Systems of 2016
Top Applicant Tracking Systems of 2016
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In last week’s article, I explained How To Use Google Forms to Hire Your Next Team Member to help grow your startup.
In the article, I discussed what is an applicant tracking system and an alternative version that you can start for free.
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How To: Use Google Forms To Hire Your Next Team Member
With that being said, I’m going to share a list of the top applicant tracking systems of 2016 that you can compare today in no particular order.
Workable
Founded in 2012, Workable is affordable, usable hiring software. It replaces email and spreadsheets with an applicant tracking system that your team will actually enjoy using. From building a branded careers site, to posting ads to multiple free and premium job boards, Workable makes it simple. Browse rich profiles of your candidates and work effectively with your hiring team on a platform that keeps your notes, communication, schedule, comments and analytics in one place. It’s everything you need to hire better.
Features Checklist:
- Background Screening
- Candidate Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Internal HR
- Interview Management
- Job Requisition & Posting
- Jobs Board Integration
- Recruiting Firms
- Automatic Resume Parsing
- Resume Search
- Self Service Portal
- Social Media Integration
- Gmail and Outlook Integration
- mobile-friendly branded career site
In-depth, you can customize job application forms, have ready to use job description templates, one-click apply for candidates, chrome extension for recruiting applicants, widget auto-updates, seamless Gmail integration, calendar integration, reporting suite and exportable data.
Pricing starts at $39 per month for one active job listing. Start a 15-day free trialtoday to test drive all the features mentioned above.
Jazz
Since 2009, Jazz (formerly Resumator) has raised the bar in the recruiting software industry, with many of their innovations becoming industry-standard. Jazz is the first company to put powerful, yet easy-to-use recruiting software in the hands of startups, growing companies, and even presidential campaigns.
Features Checklist:
- Assessments
- Background Screening
- Candidate Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Internal HR
- Interview Management
- Job Requisition & Posting
- Jobs Board Integration
- Onboarding
- Reference Checking
- Resume Parsing
- Resume Search
- Social Media Integration
In-depth, you can gain powerful insights with their Big Data Recruiting Analytics. Rank, track, and discuss candidates as a team, Post jobs to dozens of popular, free job boards with a single click, create and managed a company-wide referral program fast, easy, and super efficient, create a unique, mobile-ready, applicant experience, candidate scorecards, evaluation templates and Offers and eSignatures (Create and send offer letters in minutes + electronic signatures).
Pricing Plus Plan starts at $249 per month to track applicants and manage interviews. Start a 30-day free trial today to test drive all the features mentioned above.
Lever
Lever is the only ATS built to nurture top-tier talent. We’ve designed completely new features — like one-click sourcing, two-way email sync, and @-mentions — that make it easy for your entire team to strategically source, interview, and hire top talent. Three years in, we’re proud to support the amazing teams at Lyft, Quora, Reddit, and more in streamlining their recruitment process and hiring the best people out there.
Features Checklist
- Assessments
- Candidate Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Interview Management
- Job Requisition & Posting
- Resume Parsing
- Resume Search
- Self Service Portal
- Social Media Integration
In-depth, you can create a mobile-responsive company-branded career page, candidate sourcing with chrome extension for one-click import, referrals, e-mail synchronization, schedule complex interview panels in minutes, create custom feedback forms and set automatic reminders, and measure every recruiting metric.
Test drive all features today with a free demo.
Jobvite
With a decade-long focus on recruiting software, Jobvite is leading the industry with a comprehensive and analytics-driven recruiting platform that increases recruiting velocity for thousands of customers in 160 countries. Also, they have innovation in their DNA; they were the first to deliver on social recruiting, native video interviewing, advanced scheduling, and a recruiting CRM. Their job seeker database–with data from over 49+M candidate–fuels insights and informs best practices.
Features Checklist
- Candidate Management
- Collaboration Tools
- CRM
- Internal HR
- Interview Management
- Job Requisition & Posting
- Lead & Sales Management
- Resume Parsing
- Resume Search
- Self Service Portal
- Social Media Integration
In-depth, you can build high-impact, configurable career sites that promote, view real-time candidate source metrics, integration for Microsoft Outlook and Gmail, automated and configurable hiring workflows automatically feeds current openings to free job search engines Indeed and SimplyHired and automatically distributes them on Jobvite Twitter channels, and lets you and your employees automatically share jobs to all your social networks.
Want to browse and utilize Jobvite features? Start a free trial today.
Greenhouse
Founded in 2012, Greenhouse is the world’s first recruiting optimization platform. Companies like Airbnb, Booking.com and TripAdvisor use Greenhouse to optimize how they find, interview and hire the best talent. From strategic sourcing to customizable interview kits, Greenhouse provides a technology platform that helps organizations of all sizes improve their recruiting performance. Find better candidates, conduct more focused interviews, and make data-driven hiring decisions using Greenhouse.
Features Checklist
- Assessments
- Background Screening
- Candidate Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Internal HR
- Interview Management
- Job Requisition & Posting
- Jobs Board Integration
- Onboarding
- Reference Checking
- Resume Parsing
- Resume Search
- Self Service Portal
- Social Media Integration
In-depth, you can greenlight jobs and job offers within Greenhouse, send candidates skills tests through Greenhouse, custom application questions for every job, fully-hosted, partial integration or API-driven custom job board, easily accept candidates from recruiting agencies, automatically publish to free job boards, publish to many premium job boards at once, auto-post to social networks, social media reporting, background referral information for every referral, robust candidate profile view to keep track where applicants are at in the hiring process, utilize any calendar to schedule interviews, score candidates based on key takeaways, overall recommendations, and generate offer letters from Word templates.
Request a free demo to test drive some of the highlighted features mentioned above.
Recruitee
Founded in 2012, Recruitee is a fast, easy, collaborative hiring platform. Named ‘best ATS of 2015’ by RecruitingDaily and becoming an industry standard for fast-growing SMEs. With Recruitee you can manage the hiring process from creating beautiful career pages and posting (discounted) jobs, to screening candidates and conducting interviews- all in one place: fast and fun. Recruitee helps fast-growing companies eliminate the hassle of hiring and focus on what is important.
Features Checklist
- Background Screening
- Candidate Management
- Collaboration Tools
- CRM
- Internal HR
- Job Requisition & Posting
- Jobs Board Integration
- Recruiting Firms
- Resume Parsing
- Resume Search
- Social Media Integration
In-depth, you can automatically post your job openings to free job boards, mobile-friendly, employer branded careers site shows all your open positions, optimized for mobile recruiting, Targeted Social Media campaigns, easy-sharing on Social Media, free promotion advice per job active in over 47 countries, one-click sourcing extension, smart analytics reporting, talent pipeline, bulk emailing, team Communication, custom Screening, and drag and drop feature to manage applicants in the hiring process.
Pricing starts at $19 per month for one active job listing. Start your 18-day free trial today to test drive on the features mentioned above.
JobScore
Founded in 2004, JobScore gives in-house recruiters the tools they need to get the job done — a hosted careers page, one-click job posting, referral campaigns, resume parsing and scoring, interview scheduling, reports — the works. JobScore is also the first direct employer-to-employer resume sharing network. Employers in our network build better pipeline by exchanging their un-hired resumes for qualified, interested candidates. Stop recruiting alone and try networked recruiting to simplify your hiring.
Features Checklist
- Candidate Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Internal HR
- Interview Management
- Job Requisition & Posting
- Jobs Board Integration
- Resume Parsing
- Resume Search
- Social Media Integration
In-depth, you can post jobs to multiple job boards with one click, drive more employee referrals, power the careers page on your company website, easy applicant tracking and recruiting analytics,Google & Microsoft calendar integration, and no sign up fees, upgrade or downgrade at any time.
Pricing starts at $49 per month with three active job postings. Start your 30 dayfree trial to test drive on the features mentioned above.
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Summary
Investing in an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) will help streamline your hiring process in growing your team. I have provided a list of Top Applicant Tracking Systems in the market today highlighting their features and their starting prices. Compare and analyze the list of ATS platforms that fits your startup needs.
Which Application Tracking System (ATS) platform would you test drive today? What ATS platform is missing from this list?
Would love to hear your suggestions in the comment section below.
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