nowHIRE’s Advice in ATS Selection: Consider the Candidate Experience
New best practices white paper advocates for
applicant’s point of view
Detroit, Mich.—August 22, 2007 —When
companies look for an ATS, they often overlook the
very demographic they need the system for: the
applicants. This is the conclusion of a new white
paper from nowHIRE, a premier provider of applicant
tracking systems.
The white paper advises companies to consider the
candidate experience when choosing an ATS, whether
they hire exempt, non-exempt, contingent or a
combination of employee categories. Because today’s
workforce is online-savvy, prospects won’t tolerate
career sites that are hard to navigate, waste their
time or require excessive information.
Key points to consider when looking for an ATS
include:
• Understand who your candidates are: What
language(s) they speak, their education level, how
likely they are to find you on the Internet, where
they are located, and so on will all determine how
you construct your career site.
• Make it easy to apply for positions: Make job
listings easy to find and understand. Pick an ATS
that lets you create a self-selection process that
requires the minimum information from candidates.
• Strike a balance between the back end and front
end of the technology: Serve applicants and hiring
managers alike with a user-friendly interface up
front and a robust set of recruiting tools behind
the scenes.
The paper includes an account of a company who
carefully considered the candidate experience while
shopping for an enterprise ATS. AutoZone has over
4,000 stores in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico and
hires both exempt and non-exempt workers. Using
nowHIRE’s ATS, AutoZone customized its online hiring
process for the specific needs of each group. The
company has seen a dramatic increase in the number
of hourly candidates, and has decreased time-to-fill
by 20% for corporate openings.
“AutoZone provides a great example of how
considering the candidate benefits everyone,” says
nowHIRE’s president, Joseph N. Impastato, II. “When
applicants are treated like customers, they feel
valued, which leads to good branding and higher
application rates.”
To download a copy of the white paper, Best
Practices in Choosing an Enterprise-Level Applicant
Tracking/Hiring Management System: Keeping the
Candidate Experience in Mind, go to
http://www.nowHIRE.com/register_whitepaper.htm.
About nowHIRE
Since 1998, nowHIRE has been a premier provider of
applicant tracking systems for companies of every
size and in every vertical imaginable. Their
industry-defining solutions feature fully
integrated, web-based recruiting and applicant
tracking software modules that allow companies to
customize the software to their specific recruiting
needs—whether it be for hourly, salaried, internal,
contingent, recruitment-based or any combination
thereof. nowHIRE’s solutions give clients what they
call “Zoom”—the competitive edge.
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Joseph N Impastato II
nowHIRE
586-778-8491 (x15)
joseph.impastato@nowHIRE.com
Gail DeLano
Fisher Vista, LLC / HRmarketer.com
831-685-9700
gdelano@fishervista.com
Adriana Saldana
Fisher Vista, LLC / HRmarketer.com
831-685-9700
asaldana@hrmarketer.com |
