5 Crystal Clear Reasons It’s Time to Ditch Your ATS

We use software and hardware on a daily basis. Whether it’s your personal PC, your smartphone, or your one and only ATS – there must be a gadget that you use on a daily basis. But there’s one fundamental question that will eventually pop up: When is it time to ditch it and get a new one? What if there’s a newer module that is far more advanced? What if you’re missing out on something better? Well, your ATS is no exception to this rule. Maybe the signs that you need to switch your ATS are still not clear, or maybe you’re just choosing to sweep them under the rug. But sometimes, it’s important to act fast and acknowledge that the time for change is now.

If the following 5 points are something you can relate to, then it’s time to ditch your current ATS!

It doesn’t have advanced parsing or filtration tools

Many ATSs in the market don’t offer advanced filtration tools. This makes it incredibly harder for recruiters to filter and find top talent at scale. So if you’re finding it hard to narrow down your list of prospects or filter through a mass number of resumes with your current ATS, it might be a staggering sign that you need a new one. Nowadays, recruiters are struggling to find candidates from a sea of resumes. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. Luckily, an ATS like EVA-REC allows you to centralize your resume database to easily filter through candidates. All you’ve to do is upload all the resumes into the system, and EVA-REC will automatically parse all the information and create a profile for each candidate. Not only that, but the ATS allows you to filter through candidates in your pipeline based on the criteria that matter the most to you. Perhaps you care more about the candidate’s location, willingness to travel, career level, language proficiency, years of experience, or degree type. Once you give weights to each criterion, the ATS will automatically re-filter through the candidates and rank them for you in order of qualification! This will allow you to save more than 90% of the time that you would otherwise spend on manually filtering resumes.

Your ATS can’t measure recruiting success

As human beings, we’re all prone to making mistakes. Especially when it comes to recruitment. This means that you need an ATS to track and measure what’s working and what’s not in your recruitment process. Although many ATSs have advanced features, many of them can’t generate any advanced analytics or reports. This makes it harder for recruiters to track their recruitment metrics and performance. Alternatively, recruiters would rely on spreadsheets to keep track of their KPIs and crunch the numbers. All too often, this approach is prone to errors and incredibly time-consuming. Therefore, you need to rely on an advanced ATS that can generate data-driven reports. For example, with an ATS like EVA-REC, you can get track all your recruitment metrics from one single dashboard. Where in one single glance you can instantly view all the data related to your jobs, how long they’ve been open, and how many candidates they’ve attracted. You can even track and get an overview of candidate sources, the total number of candidates disqualified and the candidates hired. Ultimately, this will help you fix hiring bottlenecks, accurately predict hiring speed, track your hiring goals, and optimize your spending on talent acquisition.

You’re not spending enough time on core tasks

As a recruiter, it might feel like you’re wearing many hats or juggling too many tasks at once. Perhaps you spend endless hours trying to master your current ATS, searching for a candidate’s information online, or leafing through the file cabinet for a specific resume. Hours later, you might acknowledge that you could have spent that time doing other important things. Like evaluating candidates, building better connections with top talent, or fine-tuning your talent acquisition strategy. So if your current ATS is not helping you spend your time wisely, it’s time to change it. An advanced ATS should enable you to streamline your recruitment process from A to Z. It should spare you the hassle of conducting manual work that is debilitating and draining. Instead, it should be able to automate core HR functions to help you save more than 90% of your time and money. For example, an ATS like EVA-REC enables you to build extremely dynamic pipelines and workflows of approvals for offers, contracts, job requisitions, relatives, referrals and rehires. Through such automation, you can save valuable time on soliciting feedback and approvals from upper management!

It’s designed for only one user

In the past, many ATSs were designed generally to be operated by only one person. Nowadays, recruitment is a team sport. This means that you need the support of your entire team – perhaps you’re looking to solicit feedback or get approval from your manager in less time. An advanced ATS allows you to collaborate and communicate with your entire team in one centralized place. Where you can assign teammates specific permissions to access the features that are specific to their roles. This way, you involve your team – and other departments – in the hiring process. Where you can share candidate profiles, discuss candidates, get feedback, and evaluate resumes – in one single place. Through a more collaborative approach, the ATS will enable you and your team to make more informed talent decisions and mitigate any hiring bias.

It’s not keeping candidates in the loop

It’s not always easy to provide an exceptional candidate experience. Especially when hiring remotely. In the past, it was easier to invite candidates to the office, give them a tour, or introduce them to their prospective teammates. These simple gestures could significantly ramp up their experience. However, if your current ATS doesn’t enable you to get back to candidates in real-time, or doesn’t offer a fast hiring process – the candidate experience won’t go anywhere. Luckily, with the right ATS, you can seamlessly provide a simple, fast, and efficient application process. Where candidates can apply to jobs directly from their phones and apply to jobs in a couple of minutes only. You can also customize the sign-in requirements for the candidates and select the most important fields that you need them to fill. This gives you more control over the application process, where you can make it short and simple. So instead of taking  45 minutes to fill in an application form, candidates can submit them in a couple of minutes only. In addition, candidates will get automated emails throughout the hiring process that keep them in the loop at all times. This means that candidates won’t have to wonder where they stand and whether or not they made it to the next stage.

Bottom line

Switching your ATS is not easy. You might worry about migrating your data, having to invest more money, or the hassle of training your team on it. But the right ATS will tackle all your HR challenges and revolutionize your recruitment – forever. Looking for a better ATS? We might have the perfect fit for you. EVA-REC is an on-demand ATS that automates and improves the hiring process with AI technology. From small businesses to industry giants – we aim to offer fully customizable, world-class features that help create a rich and immersive hiring experience for recruiters and candidates. With EVA-REC, companies can drive merit-based, objective, and fair hiring practices that minimize bias without dehumanizing the hiring process. Thinking about switching your ATS? Our team of product experts would be more than happy to walk you through a one-on-one demo and show you what your world will look like with EVA-REC today! Request a free demo here.

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