Benefits of an Application Tracking System

An applicant tracking system (ATS) is software that helps companies organize, automate, and improve the maturity of their recruiting and hiring workflow. It provides one location for all your job candidate’s data including resumes, applications, references, and background checks. It helps you track your past applicants, as well as all of your communications. Here are some ways it can benefit your business.

• Overall Growth

• Acquiring better candidates (and faster)

• Increased Productivity

• Better Communication

• Scaling Up

• Strengthening Brand

• Improving Client Experience

Overall Growth

Hiring teams and recruiters spend much of their time wrapped up in scheduling, inputting candidate information, and communicating with many candidates. Instead of focusing on more crucial activities such as networking with top candidates, actively recruiting, and nurturing the virtual bench. By using an ATS, the hiring team can streamline these workflows, improve communication, and organization so that they can shift their focus to more valuable tasks that help make faster hires.

Accelerating Getting Better Candidates

An ATS enables hiring teams to source high-quality candidates more quickly. One way this is accomplished is through job board integrations, which allow postings across multiple job boards simultaneously. This also increases application processing, since all are collected in one place in an organized manner. This makes combing through them a much more efficient process and allows for scheduling interviews sooner.

Increased Productivity

Using an ATS automates time-consuming tasks like job postings, workflows, and applicant analysis. By automating these tasks, there is much more time available to focus on more important responsibilities. Having custom workflows for your specific hiring process helps job candidates seamlessly move between stages in the hiring process.

Better Communication

An ATS helps improve communication with job candidates, ensuring timely and clear communication throughout the hiring process, which can enhance the candidate's experience. This clear and timely communication with job candidates is crucial in today's competitive talent market. Many job seekers never hear back from employers they have applied to. Consequently, they are unlikely to reapply or recommend the company to others. Meanwhile, other prospective employers who provide timely communication are more likely to engage and attract these candidates. An ATS ensures prompt communication, enhancing candidate attraction and reducing the risk of losing top candidates.

Scaling Up

An ATS is an investment that grows with your business. It helps manage increasing amounts of candidate information, ensuring a streamlined process and scalability as your business grows. By not using an Applicant ATS and automating and streamlining your processes, the risk of losing top candidates due to human error increases––increasing the risk of losing top candidates.

Strengthening Brand and Improving Hiring Experience

An ATS can customize the applicant's experience and strengthen your brand. The use of an ATS allows your recruiter and the hiring team to offer faster hiring processes, increased applicant traffic, and the flexibility to scale their workforce.

As a hiring partner, our Application Tracking System of choice is Workable. When you partner with us for your MSP hiring needs, we provide the advantage of using Workable. This includes a dedicated account managing two job postings per month (or more if you upgrade). This service is included in our costs to help you enhance your operational maturity. The benefit extends beyond our collaboration, as you will have established streamlined processes that will serve you well even if you choose to bring recruiting in-house in the future.