Our Ongig team talks to hundreds of people a year about which applicant tracking systems they use because the applicant tracking systems are often directly related to candidate experience and employer branding (things we care deeply about). So, we’re by no means experts on the best applicant tracking systems. However, we’ve learned a bunch on… Read more »
Posts about Recruiting Software
Recruiting Automation: How to Hire Smarter, 6 Pro Tips
Recruiting automation is getting more popular, and with good reason. Recruitment is necessary, but it costs you time (and money). Why does recruitment take so long? In short, numbers. You might attract loads of applicants, but many of them might not be the right fit for your team. Either way, you have to review their… Read more »
How To Use Data Driven Recruitment to Help You Attract Top Talent?
Using data driven recruitment makes you 2X as likely to improve recruiting. And 3X more likely to lower cost (and gain efficiency). Data driven recruiting tools allow you to rely on concrete numbers to shape your hiring decisions. How does data driven recruitment work? In recruiting, “data driven recruitment” means gathering and measuring prospect data… Read more »
3 Types of Recruiting Software To Supercharge Your Applicant Tracking System
If you’re looking to get more out of your applicant tracking system, you might consider these 3 types of recruiting software. They easily integrate with your ATS and can give you a better ROI. Let’s dive in: 1. Text Analyzer for Job Descriptions Analyze your job descriptions for gender bias, racial bias, age bias and/or… Read more »
My Candid Chat with Tim Sackett About Your “Talent Acquisition Stack”
Last Friday I chatted with the always-colorful talent acquisition analyst Tim Sackett. He had sent me a PDF of his “Talent Stack” (software for ATS’s, recruitment marketing and recruitment operations). Tim’s got a new book coming out and he’s thinking hard about talent acquisition software. I like Tim because he calls ’em like he sees… Read more »
The Top 100 Applicant Tracking Systems in 2018
2020 Editor’s NOTE — We have the updated version for 2020 here: Top Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS Software) in 2020 Enjoy! — Rob ——————– A common question I get asked is: “What are the top applicant tracking systems I should consider using?” So, every year the Ongig team and I find the top ATS’s used by… Read more »
Choosing The Best Applicant Tracking System For Your Company
Choosing the best applicant tracking system (ATS) software is a big decision for your company so we connected with ATS Integration expert Elaine Davidson and asked her some questions. Elaine has been a recruiting/talent acquisition leader at Blackrock, Pwc (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and Capco. More recently, Elaine launched Beacon Lane Consulting, a trusted advisor to CHROs, CEOs and Talent Acquisition… Read more »
Amazon Builds Candidate Experience Content Management System for All Employees to Use
We found a surprising nugget at Amazon.jobs when we did our 20 of the Best Company Career Sites article. They now have an Amazon Candidate Experience microsite and on there was a one-line bullet claiming that Amazon now possesses a home-grown content management system allowing ALL employees to publish content on Amazon.jobs. Here’s the bullet (also pictured below): “We built… Read more »
5 Huge Employers That Use Homegrown Applicant Tracking Systems
Some of you asked about examples of big employers using homegrown applicant tracking systems. Here are 5 of them along with the job descriptions they generate: Google Facebook Apple Starwood Hotels and Worldwide Resorts Wyndham Worldwide
The Top 19 Recruitment Software Solutions on the Web
There’s a cool new Web tool called SimilarTech that we checked out recently to see the top online recruitment software solutions being used around the world. There are 83,161 Web sites using one of the 19 recruitment software solutions below. This list is similar to the The Top 100 ATS list we put out recently though it is shorter and includes a… Read more »
The Top 70 Applicant Tracking Systems (2016)
2020 Editor’s NOTE — We have the updated version for 2020 here: Top Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS Software) in 2020 Enjoy! — Rob ———————- Ongig first began reporting on top applicant tracking systems in September 2014 and after 30,000 people read one post on it, we decided to update it for 2016. Our goal for this one is that 100,000 of you read… Read more »
Will Workday “Eat Taleo’s Lunch”?
* Update on June 30, 2016. Interestingly, subsequent to this article, Taleo and Workday both ranked #1 for different things in the recent Top 70 ATS’s Research Report (Taleo is #1 in market share and Workday is #1 in market share growth year to year) A former Taleo exec commented to us the other day… Read more »
The Top 5 ATS’s by Google Search Traffic
After the popular Top 50 Applicant Tracking Systems article we shared last month, we thought we’d look at the top 5 ATS’s based on Google search traffic (courtesy of Google Trends). You can click the trend line below to refine the search more (including adding other ATS search terms). Disclaimer: We at Ongig share this type… Read more »
