An Application Tracking System (ATS) helps employers and recruiters collect, organise and track candidate applications through the recruitment process. The use of the ATS is not new in hiring, but traditional ATS have a more employer-centred user experience. And, candidates often found it clunky to interact with those standard ATS software.
However, today’s ATS offer an excellent user experience to both applicants & recruiters and make the recruitment process easier for both parties. As per Oracle, as of 2019, about 99 per cent of fortune 500 companies use the Application Tracking System in their recruitment process. And 86 per cent of recruiters who use ATS believe the systems help them recruit faster.
Let’s see how the same ATS can help you attract better hires:
How Does an Applicant Tracking System Work
Job seekers continuously look for job application platforms that are easy to use and are user friendly. Good ATS allows candidates to easily apply for open positions through any device without any signup or login process. So, a good Application Tracking System will enable companies to access a larger talent pool, which they can later sort based on skills and experience.
Furthermore, ATS allow hiring managers to easily submit feedback and send notes to candidates. Most good Application Tracking Systems are mobile-friendly and allow collaborations through handheld devices like smartphones and tablets, which make the job of the busy hiring manager easier.
Also, modern ATS cultivate the potential of AI/ML to screen and find relevant candidates’ resumes. The systems scan resumes, search for relevant keywords in their resumes, and push the ones with matching keywords to the dashboard of the hiring managers to assess.
Four Ways To Make an ATS Work for You
The most significant value proposition of an ATS is to reduce the time and precious human resources spent on repetitive manual tasks like job posting, screening, applicant scoring, etc. However, the role of an ATS is not limited to its primary features. It can also help you find quality talent.
Here we list four ways of using Application Tracking System to find and hire quality talent easily:
#1. Build a talent pipeline
ATS allows you to build a talent pipeline for the future; which means when you have an opening, you don’t need to invest time in sourcing because you already have a repository of highly skilled professionals.
You can build this pipeline by storing all the candidate data within your ATS. Hirings are mostly situation-specific constrained by the financial bandwidth of your organisation.
Therefore, it’s crucial to highlight when you come across a good candidate that you think is not right for your current position, but you might need that talent in future.
Save the data of all such candidates and compile it over some time. And reconnect with them when you think their profile matches your current openings.
So, once you have a cushion of a good candidate pipeline, you increase your odds of finding the right fit talent.
#2. Market your career page
Application tracking systems are more than just a candidate application management tool. The system can also help you attract great talent.
The recruitment process starts from your career page, and surprisingly that’s what decides the kind of applications you attract.
Your career page is the place where you can market your company. Put all the details on your career page that make your organisation a better place to work. Showcase everything good about your company, culture and clients.
A fully optimised and branded career page encourages good talent to apply to your company.
Also Read: How to Optimize Recruitment Process to Avoid Bad Hires
#3. Integrate your HR tech stack with ATS
System integration requirements vary from organisation to organisation. However, integrating the HR tech stack to ATS is a great way to streamline candidate data.
Irrespective of the tools you use, you should integrate your ATS with job boards, HR systems, candidate sourcing platforms and pre-employment testing tools.
Integrating your Application Tracking System with your HR tech stack offers you a better user experience and ensures that you entirely use your tech stack’s features.
The integration is only possible when your ATS is compatible with your existing tools. So, if you are not already using ATS, ask your ATS vendor about their integration capabilities before making a final call.
Also Read: Seven Hiring Strategies to Close Tech Roles Quickly
#4. Utilise dashboardÂ
Undoubtedly, an Application Tracking System helps you in every stage of your recruitment process. Yet, its primary purpose is still to make tracking and managing candidate applications a smooth experience.
All Application Tracking Systems have a dashboard, and you need to maximise its usage to meet talent acquisition requirements.
The dashboard provides you with all the critical data of applicants, ranging from location, experience, skills to department.
Then, use filters to rank incoming applicants and assign them a score based on their information and pre-employment test.
So, this exercise will help you narrow your application pool and find the set of applications that align with your current open positions.
About CodeQuotient
CodeQuotient helps tech companies and recruiters find the right talent for their projects. So, we scout the talent and train them in-house. We primarily engage with fresh college graduates. After initial screening, we take top performers into a three-month-long SuperCoders program.
During the SuperCoders program, students directly engage with our highly skilled mentors who teach them the latest on-demand technologies like React, Redux, Node, Expres and more. Our mentorship program revolves around live projects; students spend most of their time developing projects. And we make sure all of our learners develop at least two applications using the same latest technologies by the end of their program.
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