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How Do Applicant Tracking Systems Work?
Applicant tracking systems track your candidates’ activity, automating all stages that would otherwise require manual data entry. A good ATS will track all activity from the candidate’s resume in your inbox through final placement (and beyond), freeing up your recruiters to focus on building relationships. Because the applicant tracking system captures all of this data in real-time, you can also use it for real-time reporting to learn how to improve your processes.
There are seven main stages in the recruiting process that an applicant tracking system will help agencies complete more efficiently:
Why Do Recruiters Need an Applicant Tracking System?
94% of recruiting professionals say their applicant tracking system has positively impacted their hiring process.
Finding and placing the right talent is becoming more difficult in a market impacted by talent shortages. An ATS can help recruitment agencies and organizations find, hire, and retain strong candidates. A good ATS has the power to overhaul your entire recruiting operation into the most productive, profitable, and efficient business it can be. With proper implementation, they increase recruiter productivity, save time, and provide organization and structure for your recruiting operations. Agencies that use an applicant tracking system report more placements and more productive time than agencies that don’t.
Top Benefits of an Applicant Tracking System
There are many benefits to agencies using an applicant tracking system to manage their recruitment process, including:
Maximizing recruiter performance with clear workflows and easily accessible information, making faster placements and increasing margins.
Providing a better candidate experience, increasing retention and redeployment rate.
Creating a single source of truth for all candidate information, enabling recruiters to connect with a candidate in real time to increase engagement and retention.
Making better business decisions leveraging key metric reporting from the desk- to executive-level.