Applicant Tracking Systems

My company is currently looking to invest in an Applicant Tracking System. We have viewed demo's for several Companies, i.e. Taleo, ICIMS and SilkRoad, and have narrowed it down to ICIMS and SilkRoad, has anyone worked with either of these systems? Do you have any recommendations? I'm not looking for additional system solicitations, just some guidance on if you have used these systems and would you recommend them? We are a transportation company with about 3200 employees in our organization and we recruit for the U.S. and Canada. The system would be used by the recruiters only at this time not the managers, anyone have any feedback on these?

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Permalink Reply by Martin H.Snyder on May 9, 2010 at 12:41pm

The reason(s) you eliminated Taleo may be important to the choice between SilkRoad and Icims.

May I suggest that you carefully evaluate and rank individual values that you expect from the system, and spend some quality time with your IT people finding out if they have any answers to any of those values either already available or coming soon.

For corporate hiring, Sharepoint is very capable on the workflows, scheduling, and document sharing stuff and may save much money and admin time because it uses existing network accounts etc.

The key is how much recruiting you want to support v. literal applicant tracking. Recruiting is CRM and sales based activity, but a recruiting database can also be used to record diversity and compliance info. Today's recruiting means worlds of data, and you need to plan for interoperation between data resources- for analytics, integrations, etc.

The biggest mistake people in your spot make is buying an ATS when they wanted recruiting software. The next biggest is not using the IT resources that could be available when planning a new solution- avoiding IT and getting onto an island may be the easier path, and we vendors sure don't mind, but it does tend to defer pain (helpful) and later progress (not so much).