Candidate Source Tracking

ATS Report Card Updates

It's been too long since my last ATS Report Card update, and there actually are some great updates to share. Good news from a bunch of applicant tracking systems has allowed me to change the status for the following systems:

• HealthcareSource
• HRLogix
• Taleo Business Edition

I also added Kenexa 2x Recruiter, the latest version of the Kenexa ATS.

ATS Report Card Update - PeopleClick

I recently worked with Dawn and Eric at PeopleClick to better understand its candidate source tracking capability and how to implement it for clients. The good news is that it's automated in almost all cases, except when the client has added some custom fields for the purposes of tracking candidate source.

If you have any questions about how it works, please let me know and I can share examples or connect you with the right people there for implementation advice.

I have updated ATS Report Card accordingly to reflect the correct information for PeopleClick; I also added CATS and Sendouts as part of the update.

ATS Report Card Update - Hodes iQ

The other day I updated ATS Report Card with a small tweak for Hodes iQ. With the help of my contact there (who also sits on the IAEWS tracking taskforce that I chair), I learned that some implementations of Hodes iQ support automated candidate source tracking to their job description pages. This was good news for a new Hodes iQ client I am working with, and hopefully for others that use or work with this ATS.

Automation - Hiding Source Menus

I would rather not have manual candidate source drop-down menus at all, but when they’re there, I’d rather do something (like populate them) than leave job seekers to figure them out, which we know typically doesn’t go well. At least I know the correct source is listed in these cases. Hiding candidate source menus is a nice option because it removes any opportunity for the job seeker to affect the source data – as long as the jobs are tagged properly. Two ATS providers that use this approach are OpenHire and VirtualEdge – I’ve included some screen captures on ATS Report Card that show how it works. One caveat on VirtualEdge – there are two versions or variations of the ATS that I know of, and only one has this ability. I’ll cover the differences and hopefully the details on why in a future post.

ATS Report Card Update - Kenexa Recruiter

Tonight I updated ATS Report Card based on a couple recent client projects with Kenexa Recruiter - you can see how we are hard-coding the candidate source rather than using drop-down menus in those cases. It's a very easy setup and implementation - well worth it for both the employer and the job site.

Automation - Populating Source Menus

When I look at ways to automate candidate source tracking for clients, using the manual drop-down menus they already have sometimes is an option, as the ATS supports populating those menus with the correct source data. Now, the question I always get from employers – and I honestly don’t know the answer – is whether job seekers take the time to change these preset menus when this automation is in place. In an ideal world, they would go away altogether (topic for my next post), but it’s great to take advantage of what the ATS offers to help clients get more reliable candidate source data. Two good examples of this approach are Taleo Enterprise Edition (7.0-7.5) and ResumeWare - you can see screen captures of how it works over at ATS Report Card.