How To Choose The Perfect ATS For Your Company?
Follow these guidelines to find your ideal ATS
The ATS market is booming with brand new solutions arising on a regular basis. Some are good, others not. If you find yourself struggling to make a decision on which one to choose, this guide is for you.
The Basics
First and foremost, there are three basic criteria to consider when choosing an ATS:
– Ease of Use: Some ATS solutions demand hours or even days of practice to master. Multiply this by each member of your team and it will be quite some time before your company is able realize the full potential of its ATS.
– Customer Support: Using an ATS may require some back and forth with your provider, particularly for hands-on tasks such as migrating your data from one system to another. Ensure that your ATS offers friendly, professional, and readily-available customer support.
– Adaptability: Saving you time is just one component of a good ATS. Saving you money is another. Perhaps the best solution for you is not the one with the most bells and whistles. Don’t lose sight of what your specific needs are when making a decision.
The Details
With the above considerations in mind, let’s dive deeper into our search for your ideal ATS. Consider the following:
1. What kind of company will this ATS be used for? Some ATS solutions are tailored for startups, others for multinationals. With that come differences pricing, infrastructure, and features.
2. Will this ATS help you accomplish your objectives? It’s a basic question, but many ATS solutions try to give you the impression that their features will revolutionize everything about what you do. In reality, the utility of some of the fancier features you may encounter is questionable. Keep this in mind when narrowing down your choices.
3. ATS solutions should have some core features, regardless of the size of your business. Some of these features include: CV management and job and applicant progress tracking. Surprisingly, some ATS solutions lack even some of these core features.
4. How do you define the candidate experience? When carrying out a talent search, it is easy to forget about what your candidates themselves experience throughout this process. Take a moment to put yourself in their shoes and try to think about whether your chosen ATS will improve their experience.
5. Does this ATS have a reporting feature? Having access to reports and key metrics related to your recruitment activities is becoming increasingly important, especially as your recruitment volume expands. In order to be more efficient, it is critical for you to be able to reliably analyze what is going on around you and to be able to draw inferences on past decisions as a means for informing future ones.
6. Does this ATS save you time? One of the primary objectives of any ATS is to save you time. Some features are created to automate repetitive tasks. Manatal’s enrichment and recommendation tools are a great example since they take care of most of the heavy lifting involved in populating and managing candidate profiles. Our clients agree that both make their work faster and enable them to focus their efforts on more time-sensitive recruitment tasks, such such as conducting interviews.
7. How will you source candidates with this ATS? Today, recruiters find candidates using many different methods, including though CVs, career portals, social media, referrals and many others. You should pay special consideration to the specific methods of candidate sourcing offered by your ATS.
8. Is this ATS secure? Cloud-based computing brings many benefits at the cost of some risk. Ensure that your ATS possess the basic certifications that will keep your data safe, such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 audit.
