Workday is the #1 ATS system used by Fortune 500 companies, narrowly beating Taleo. That’s what we found after a review of the 476 Fortune 500 companies that show their applicant tracking system on their public-facing career sites. 22.6% of these Fortune 500 companies use Workday versus 22.4% that use Taleo. Oracle is still the… Read more »
Posts Tagged:Applicant Tracking Systems
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 »
5 Awesome “Overlays” For Workday ATS Job Pages
All candidates are influenced by the core design concept of “contrast”. That’s why before-and-afters are so effective in advertising! If you’re one of the many Workday ATS clients (see Ongig’s free Top 100 ATS Report you might be frustrated with the “before” look of your job description (without software/design customization). The “Before” Workday Job Page… Read more »
The Top 100 Applicant Tracking Systems in 2018
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 employers actively hiring…and we publish the details. We fine-tune this list of top applicant tracking systems based on community feedback — 117,000 people… Read more »
Do You Have this Massive “Drop-Off” From Career Site to Job Descriptions?
Do you have this problem? You’ve got a solid-looking company career site page like this: The “Hotel Lobby Theory” …yet your job description pages look something more like this JD below. My friend Eric Osterman (Recruitment Marketing Manager at CenturyLink calls it the “Hotel Lobby Theory” — the lobby needs to look pretty but if… Read more »
5 Engaging “Overlays” For iCims ATS Job Pages
If you’re an iCIMS client, you might want more engaging job descriptions than the out-of-the-box iCIMS job page which often looks something like this: Below are 5 examples of iCIMS clients using “overlays” to give themselves job pages with stronger branding and candidate engagement. 1. T-ROC Big Title — They treat the job title… Read more »
5 Company Career Site Mistakes To Avoid
Make sure to avoid these 5 common mistakes on your career site — doing so will vastly improve your digital candidate experience: 1) No Category and Location Pages (Candidate Experience) If you could make the job search easier for a candidate, wouldn’t you? You’d be surprised how many companies, large and small, don’t have department and/or location specific… Read more »
7 Eye-Catching Recruiting Stats from Silkroad’s 2017 “Sourcing Report”
There are many valuable sourcing stats and insights in the “Sources of Hire 2017 Report” from applicant tracking system company Silkroad. Here are the top 7 that caught my eye: 46% of employers had difficulty filling jobs in 2016 (up from 32% in 2015) 92% of employers expect an increase in competition for talent this year Employee referrals… Read more »
Google’s New Applicant Tracking System Adds New Clients
We just saw 2 new companies using the new Google Hire applicant tracking system: Alertus Technologies and College Chefs. This continues the new Google ATS’s growth we wrote about in the Top ATS Annual Report (2017). The Google Hire ATS job listings page at this point is a simple listing of “Current Openings” by department (see below. And… Read more »
The Top Applicant Tracking Systems Annual Report (2017)
2018 Editor’s NOTE — We have the updated version for 2018 here: The Top 100 Applicant Tracking System in 2018 —— Welcome to Ongig’s 2017 Top Applicant Tracking System Annual Report! Here are the main sections of the report and below that is the report itself chock full of ATS data, charts and insights. Enjoy! A list… Read more »
5 Mistakes Your Job Search Page Might Make to Damage Your Brand
Your company career site job search page is a vital component of the candidate experience. However, many job search pages make some common mistakes. I ran across one employer recently, Ideal Industries, whose job search page had 5 things they could fix to improve candidate experience (and increase pipeline/traffic). I don’t mean to pick on Ideal Industries: they… Read more »
5 Huge Employers That Use Homegrown Applicant Tracking Systems
When Ongig published The Top 70 Applicant Tracking Systems research, we were surprised that 11.1% of employers use a homegrown ATS instead of a commercially-available ATS. 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 … Read more »
Do Your Job Descriptions Pass the “Google Mobile-Friendly” Test?
If you haven’t run your job descriptions through Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test, you should definitely give it a whirl. If your JDs don’t pass the Google Mobile-Friendly test, Google will send you less traffic. To see if you pass, all you do is go to the Google Developers Mobile Friendly Test page and type in the URL… Read more »
The Top 70 Applicant Tracking Systems (2016)
2018 EDITOR’S NOTE — Check out the updated 2018 version of this report here: The Top 100 Applicant Tracking Systems in 2018 We think it’s killer. 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… Read more »
Recruiting Strategies for VMware, Slack, Stripe and Dropbox
I caught up with talent acquisition pro Tom Wadlington the other day — Tom has some great experience including VMware, Liberty Mutual, Akamai and PriceWaterhouse. I asked him a few questions on talent acquisition strategy and recruitment marketing. Here’s what he had to say: Q: Hi Tom. You were part of the team that took VMware… Read more »
