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What is the best CRM to use for tracking job applicants?

  • We are looking for a CRM that allows us to easily view lists of candidates for specific fields (web dev, sales, research, etc...) and their statuses (interviewing, rejected, waiting for reply, have not yet reached out to, etc...). We are using excel right now to track, but are looking for a more robust solution.

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    We've spoken with hundreds of companies about what ATS platforms they use and what their experience has been with whatever they are using. Here's generally what we hear from people in terms of what they like (Note: Very few people we've talked to love their ATS. It's truly a source of pain for many individuals). Very early stage startups - If an early stage startup is even using an ATS the names we hear a bunch are Resumator (http://www.theresumator.com/) and SmartRecruiters (http://www.smartrecruiters.com/), in part because they are free or very low-cost. A good number of early-stage companies are also attempting to use Salesforce for applicant tracking although we typically hear mixed things on this front. Early to medium stage startups - If a company is a bit more mature we hear JobScore (http://www.jobscore.com/) and Jobvite (http://recruiting.jobvite.com/) quite a bit (with Jobvite being the leader here). People tend to like the social recruiting features of Jobvite and JobScore wins points for its candidate "sharing" feature (which does turn some people off entirely from the product). Later stage startups - Later stage tends to be very fragmented as there are over 300+ ATS providers that we've identified and what ATS system a company is using is often highly dependent on when a company started. The name we hear more than any other here is Taleo (http://www.taleo.com/) although there tends to be a lot of disdain for the Taleo user experience. Edge cases - There are of course specialized needs within the ATS world. For example, the needs of recruiters at an agency tend to be different from the needs of internal recruiters. For agencies we often hear Bullhorn (http://www.bullhorn.com/) and MaxHire (http://www.maxhire.net/). Bullhorn is used by a lot of internal recruiting departments as well. In addition, many people want something that's more of a "recruiting CRM" than an ATS. Here we end up seeing Avature (http://www.avaturecrm.com/) used quite a bit. Avature in particular seems to handle the needs of organizations that have large sourcing departments and want a separate system to manage "pre-ATS CRM" needs. Finally, make sure to keep an eye on LinkedIn and the Saleforce platform in the next year or two. LinkedIn is bringing its Talent Pipeline (http://talent.linkedin.com/talentpipeline/) platform to market and Salesforce has a number of companies who are vying to build the leading ATS for AppExchange. JobScience (http://www.jobscience.com/) seems to be the company we hear most about at this point. Hopefully this is helpful. I've left a lot of solid companies off of this list so the absence of anyone doesn't mean they might not be a great fit. I just wanted to relay what we're seeing after a lot of conversations on the topic. Finally, note that the majority of our conversations are with companies on the West Coast of the U.S. so there is certainly an unintended bias here because of that. Update on 7/14/13: We're posting a series of blog posts on this very topic. Here's the first one that we posted to the Entelo blog this week: http://blog.entelo.com/overview-of-applicant-tracking-systems-for-smb/ Enjoy!

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Give a try with BuzzFlow (http://www.buzzflow.io/recruit). The recruit app is intuitive, simplistic and comes with a straightforward UI. It's FREE for 3 users. BuzzFlow isn't restricted to Recruitment. It's a complete CRM with other apps such as Project management, Asset Tracking, Help Desk and many more. Interesting thing is you can create any and unlimited number of apps in your BuzzFlow very easily. When it comes to BuzzFlow Recruit, it is a truly web based app with Application/Email/Resume tracking Interview management and Candidate evaluation system. It allows collaborative decision making in the hiring process. BuzzFlow works inside Gmail under one authentication. Therefore, you do not require to log in to different portals to manage your recruitments. It's all inside your inbox. Additionally it has the following advantages and benefits, Customizable hiring work-flow and customizable fields to suit your needs Tag and Track candidate and internal mails to a particular candidate folder(Dossier) Collaboration within the evaluation team via notes and comments Automatically create candidates in the system as an when application emails come

Surajee Ratnayake

I hope this helps. You can use Basecamp and manage your interview / tracking process as a project. You can set up several tasks and milestones that candidates have to complete and you will be alerted once they are done so that you can verify and then choose the best.

Owen McGab Enaohwo

After trying more than 20 different CRM and tracking systems we've started to create our own http://Cleverstaff.net which  has already well-recognisied within CIS/CEE and have more than 90 happy clients! The system allows you to save profiles by one click and in the process of updating. Smart parsing and 24/7 support - great add value of the CleverStaff what helps to be better than other systems and save a lot of valuable time

Taisiia Mliuzan

You can try the Compare CRM website: http://comparecrmreport.com.  Here our consultants continually test CRMs for functionality,  usability, intuitiveness and many more criteria. But the most important  bit is assessing your business requirements properly and matching them  to the available software which is provided by this service.

Kate Mayfield

Okay, You want best CRM  to use for tracking job applicants. Do you Know one fast growing startup named Kredib in india ? It's really a Revolutionary Recruitment Software, But why ? then read below till end. 3 Things 3 Tools that changes all the Game! 1.  Candidate Management Tool : See, here Recruiters can have all they literally want in Management of Candidates They Can Manage (i). Pending Job Applications (ii). Shortlisted Candidates (iii).Selected Candidates (iv). Rejected Candidates (v). Candidates who didn't attend Interview (vi). Who left Interview in between In Addition, they can also have access to (i). Candidate Profiles, (ii). Candidate Contact Details (iii). Recruitment Status 2. Recruitment Stages Management Tool : Now, This. You can literally add as much as recruitment stages you want Lets say, (i). Screening Test, (2). Telephonic Interview, (3). Webcam Interview (4). Personal Interview, (5). Group Discussion And now Plan out the skills you're going to judge during Interview in every recruitment stages and add those skills in each stages of recruitment Thats IT. 3. Candidate Performance Feedback Management Tool : Now, see this. Whatever Skills you provided in every recruitment stages are shown dynamically. Now, what you can do here? Keep a Handy word file filled with questions you're going to ask during Interview and just use this Tool! Thats it. (i). Delete users Who are Absent in particular Stages (ii). Examine & Rate candidates skills on scale of 5 based on the questions you have planned to Ask. (iii). Select whatever candidates you want to select for next recruitment stage. (iv). And Finally, Select Candidates you have determined to send a Job Offer. Oh, You might be thinking Now, Oh so this is what Kredib is all about ? NOPE! See this Now! Imagine you(Jobsseker) attended Interview in some company and get this reportcard in personal message in your Kredib's Candidate  Account after you go home Amaaaazed!!!!!!!!!! Yeah. It's amaizing. You literally now get to know why the hell company rejected you ? what are your key strengths and key weakness! What the hell is wrong with you! where do you suck ? where you need an Improvement! You can Agree, Disagree to whatever the recruiter has examined about you during an Interview. Imagine a Campus Placement Scenario with this :D Yeah! you can literally show off to your friends that see this is what recruiter think about you! ;) Oh wait, this doesnt stop here! You can share those ratings in your Profile and that now Looks Like this :D Yeaaaaah! thats it. You've now freedom to know how you performed in particular Interview! You've now freedom to share those Skill Ratings to the Prospective Recruiters! You can show off to your friends that this is what recruiters think about me! And Finally This. Yeah, you can literally show-off what companies who interviewed thinks about you. yeah! Thats it. This is what Kredib is all about.

Reema Jaiswal

Look at Newton for recruiting - (http://www.newtonsoftware.com) a native SaaS applicant tracking application that leverages Web 2.0 technology to empower companies of any size to create an efficient and effective recruiting process: increase productivity of your hiring mangers and lowers costs associated with hiring.  Visualize all of your hiring data on one central dashboard- in real-time. Built in performance metrics are best in class and better still ...it hooks into Workday seamlessly.

Ron Proctor

Hi, Tracking the applicants in Excel is really a tough job, and this takes away a lot of your precious time. To make this process simple, we at Zoho have designed a product - Zoho Recruit, a One-Stop Online Recruitment Sofware service for Staffing and HR Departments . Its integrated solution allows recruiters to streamline the recruitment process from Sourcing and Tracking to Hiring. The highlights of Zoho Recruit is its customizability, features and integrations. You can set your workflow, customize fields, status, etc., according to your requirement. This helps you spend less time on the process and more time on what you do best: getting the right candidate. Zoho Recruit is an affordable Online Recruitment Software for small and medium sized business. For more details, please visit our site https://www.zoho.com/recruit/ If you need a demo or have any question please feel free to contact me or mail us to .

Rina Sagayamary

I recommend to use eBoss. It;s light, fast, simple and really usable. http://eBossRecruitment.com (link looks strange, so to confirm: http://www.eBossRecruitment.com)

Sebastian Andruszczak

I'd suggest that the best tool for this is coincidently named http://theapplicants.com we're making a video for them at the moment which should be finished soon and thus have learned a lot about their product. It works exactly as you describe and is used by companies such as OMGPOP and TechCrunch Disrupt.

Jack Smith

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