Applicant Tracking System ensures management of the business
“An applicant tracking system (ATS) is a software application, which helps different
organizations and agencies to meet the electronic handling of the recruitment needs.”
An ATS can also be implemented on in enterprise or small business organizations as per their
requirements. ATS systems are same as the customer relationship management systems; the only
difference is that these systems are designed for keeping a track record of the recruitment process.
In many organizations and corporations, applicant tracking systems are installed to manage resume
data and handle the job applications. On the enterprise level, the ATS is offered as a module or
functional addition to human resources suite or Human Resource Information System (HRIS). This
system is expanding into small as well as medium organizations through open source or software as a
service offering (SaaS).
The main function of this system is to offer database and a central location for a company's
recruitment efforts. ATS are designed and developed to ensure better assist management of resumes
and application information. The data is either collected from internal applications through the ATS
front-end that is located on the company website or is extracted from applicants on job boards. The
majority of job and resume boards like Monster, Hotjobs, Career Builder have partnerships with ATS
software providers to install parsing support and ease of data migration from one system to another.
Modern ATS systems allow applicants to be sourced from the company's own database of past job
applicants.
An ATS can also be used to post the job openings on a corporate web site or job board, screen
resumes, and generate interview requests to potential candidates by e-mail. Some of the other
features are mentioned below:
Individual applicant tracking
Requisition tracking
Automated resume ranking
Customized input forms
Pre-screening questions and response tracking
Multilingual capabilities
The Applicant Tracking System provides thousands of staffing and recruiting agencies across the world
with all the tools that they require to efficiently managing the sales and recruiting. It also helps in
generating the job orders and making the placements. With the help of this software, recruiting and
sales professionals can have full visibility of the client’s activity along with candidates availability that
would enable them to make placements faster and build stronger client and candidate relationships.
As it is a highly configurable, comprehensive solution for streamlining complex corporate recruitment
activities, it is estimated that roughly 50 percent of all mid-sized companies and almost all large
corporations use some type of applicant tracking system. It powers multiple internal and external
recruitment websites and ensures maximum output and complete benefit for the different
organizations.
Altamira provides different types of business management and recruitment software like performance
appraisal software , staffing agency software etc.