Applicant Tracking Solutions Provider Offers New Product
Small employers looking to purchase hr software has different needs than larger corporations. Both may be looking for an efficient option, but businesses with fewer workers also have smaller budgets and need a program that does not require a lot of time to master.
In hopes of fulfilling the needs of such employers, applicant tracking solutions provider myStaffingPro recently expanded its line of products with a new Express edition. MyStaffingPro Express has been designed to be a straightforward option that focuses on the essentials.
This system gives hr mangers the fundamentals, enabling them to post jobs, collect candidate resumes and manage other aspects of the hiring process. The implementation experience has been simplified into a five-step checklist which can be completed in a relatively short amount of time. This checklist gives the user immediate access to manage locations, job posting categories and job templates. Once the user has finished the checklist, they can immediately create and post a requisition to the candidate portal. Express also offers the optional inclusion of collecting and reporting on EEO data.
"Customers using myStaffingPro Express will appreciate the easy implementation and straightforward interface," said the company's director of sales, Ruth Ann Stover, in a recent press release. "myStaffingPro Express is a great starting point for small businesses that need an applicant tracking system. If the time comes when a more robust system is needed, any company can transition from our Express product to our Standard product. It's a win-win for everyone."
Helping to make the application process easier on job seekers, myStaffingPro express allows candidates to apply to positions and submit their resumes through either the companies career portal or a job board. After sending in their information, applicants then receive a thank you message and an e-mail that verifies that their resume has been received. Since many job seekers worry about employers receiving their information when they are unable to personally hand it to them, many applicants appreciate this confirmation notice.
Those who chose myStaffingPro Express also benefit from a central database that allows 24-hour access to applicant and requisition information. User only have to log into the program to have the up-to-date data at their fingertips. At any point during the process employers are able to remove postings from the candidate portal. This keeps the hr manager from having to deal with a stack of resumes for a position that has already been filled and gives them the ability to take down an announcement that contains errors.
Businesses interested in the program can find an online demonstration on the companies website and can receive a 30-day trial free of charge.
When designing software for the employment industry, functionality and usability are two of the most important considerations. Recruiters and hiring managers known that time is money, therefore, if a software option takes too long to master, they are losing money. Because of this, recruiting software must be designed in a way that encourages easy use. In hopes of increasing the ease of locating new clients, applicant tracking software company Catch the Best has recently announced the addition of a new keyword search feature.
This feature enables users to type in various keywords that summarize what they are looking for in a new employee. Their system them electronically skims their resume database and locates the job seekers who are fit the criteria the best. This enables hiring managers and recruiters to decrease the amount of time they spent locating potential employers.
"We are always striving to enhance the hiring process for our current and future customers by incorporating requested functionality that aligns with out vision of a simple, effective applicant tracking and resume management solution," said Mike Wagner, who is the company's Vice President of Marketing & Business Development.
Since the best employees are often in high demand it is important for an employer to be able to locate them quickly. This enables a company to snatch these individuals up before another workplace can. Because a business is only as good as its workers, this ability can make or break a company.
The addition of keyword search to the company's service goes along with the their pre-existing tagging search capabilities.
"Now users have tools to quickly search through their repository of applicants. One by keywords and the other by tagging the resume for a more abstracted search," said Wagner.
Catch the Best was founded in 2007 and is located in Seattle Washington. It serves both recruiting and non-recruiting professionals who are involved in the hiring process for their companies.
Jobs search engine Fresho.com recently announced that it has partnered up with not one, but two, applicant tracking systems providers. JobTarget And BrightMove will enable Fresho to offer job seekers a larger number of job listings.
Businesses and recruiting agencies that are clients of either applicant tracking system will now access to Fresho’s exclusive job ad distribution network. This includes some the largest and most widely used career search engines.
Since both mid-sized and large companies often receive more resumes than a hiring manager can easily keep up with, applicant tracking solutions have become extremely important. Aside from keeping up with candidates, these systems also help out with posting new jobs. When an employer posts a job through their ATS, the system automatically posts it on all of the job boards that are considered part of its network. Now those who post their jobs through JobTarget and Bright Move will also have the added benefit of having their staff vacancies announced on Fresho.com
Currently JobTarget has established relationship with more than 100,000 employers. Their online network receives anywhere from 20 to 50 million page views per month.
BrightMove’s fully web-based ATS was actually designed by recruiters to suit the needs of others in their field. This system features a resume database, reporting and analytics and contact management. Now it with also feature a job distribution tool that will allow employers the ability to publish and manage their jobs their job requisitions on Fresho.com’s career search engine.
Aside from pairing up with these two companies, those in charge of Fresho are working to create partnerships with other applicant recruiting and tracking solutions.
Fresho.com was launched earlier in January of this year and is a completely free online classified directory. The web site has job ads from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, all of which are broken down into 41 separate industry categories.
An applicant tracking system (tools, software ...) is meant to simplify and refine the Internet recruiting process by filtering matches between the recruiters' job openings and the applicants.
Functions can include self-service, variable process flows, interviewer training, validated assessments, job posting, scheduling, on-boarding, performance management, background checks, etc. It is like a database program that stores and retrieves the specific information a recruiter is looking for.
Many of these applicant tracking systems are free for downloading off the World Wide Web, while some may charge a fee.
These are just a few examples chosen at random. There are close to a hundred of these such applicant tracking systems available for purchase and download online. Pretty much anything from small businesses to large corporate businesses can use them.
The benefits of using this type of software for employment screening are: The basic initial questions/requirements are answered and fulfilled. It saves time and energy in the sense that when an employer reviews a paper resume and/or application, they will just have to inevitably type the information onto a computer database anyway for payroll purposes.
While providing needed organization, it can eliminate the potential risk of a resume or application getting lost or ending up in the wrong pile. It can also save the recruiter money and hassle by posting job openings all in one place online, as opposed to seeking out and buying space in a newspaper or television commercial airtime.
