applicantrack

An organization has a need to hire workers as per its requirements. This can be done by the hitherto well known system of advertising vacancies, screening the resultant applications for right candidates. Nowadays screening can be done by computer software systems. Such a soft ware is called Application tracking system abbreviated as ATS. This is basically a database management program where resumes of all applicants are stored systematically. The current trend is to make ATS an online program, which means both advertising and receiving a resume can be done on line within a short time and applicants can sign up for jobs quickly. 

Primarily the work of an applicant tracking software is to assist in recruiting people. An organization’s human resource department can use ATS software to store job applicants’ resume and keep the records in an indexed way so as to pick up the suitable candidates. 

ATS can do much more than keeping records and indexing them. The organization’s requirements of skills are also entered as a data and ATS can compare this data with applicants’ data from its resume database. Which or how many meet the requirements is picked out by ATS. This will make the job of selection of candidates easy. Also if a particular quality is required ATS can scan all the records and print out all the candidates which meet that particular quality. 

When an advertisement is issued by an organization it might be swamped with innumerable resumes sent in response by job seekers. This is so especially in the era of today’s web based recruitments. In such a case the human resource department has the task of sifting through innumerable resumes many of whom may be far below the qualification called for or may be of totally irrelevant qualifications.  This will result in a pain staking work of weeding out the non-suitable candidates. From among the qualified persons the right choice has to be picked up. Applicant tracking system can do this with precision in a trice. 

One such applicant tracking system is “Simplicant”. It is web based and works online. Simplicant caters to small and medium sized organizations. It can take resume data on line or digitally fed. It maintains records of all applicants and stores them in one place.  It indexes and sorts them in any required order and thus it is a time saving productivity tool. Some software is sold as a package to be installed in buyer’s computer and works from there. There also exit the category called “SaaS” which is acronym for “Soft Ware as a Service”. This can be subscribed to on line and start using it. 

There are, among applicant tracking software, reasonably priced money saving software. These are as simple to use as an email service. These will not only have the normal data storage and retrieval system but also help organizations in keeping track of their recruiting status, any applicant’s status and let the organization keep control of entire recruiting operations. Information can be retrieved at any stage for any specific parameter such as all the applicants residing at a particular city or all the applicants having a post graduate degree as an additional qualification and so on.