October is going to be a bittersweet month. After seven years of great experience using Cytiva's SonicRecruit as my company's Applicant Tracking System (ATS), we finally made the difficult decision to move to a new one.Like many companies that went through the tough economy, my firm looked hard at all of its expenditures, including the technologies we use for hiring. While SonicRecruit gave us what we believed to be great pricing, I was directed (along with a colleague) to investigate what else was out there. We reviewed a number of ATS solutions and, to SonicRecruit's credit, there's not a lot out there that offers anything compelling.
However, in the end, after reviewing about twenty ATS's, we decided to try Jobscience. Our reasons? I won't lie that price was a consideration, although it was less of one than one might think. No, it came down to the fact that Jobscience fully integrates with Salesforce.com, which our sales team uses. For years, we heard unhappy mutterings from the business development team about having to enter new job requirements in a different system. Now, we get to be one big happy family, in theory at least. In addition, Jobscience offers integration with social networks like LinkedIn and Twitter--functionality that exists with SonicRecruit but which we never used with our instance of the ATS.
In any case, welcome Jobscience! I bid a fond farewell to SonicRecruit with no ill will. It's a great SaaS ATS and one which I would heartily recommend to anyone. I maintain that it's still one of the most straightforwardly usable ATS softwares out on the market.More on Jobscience in future posts. We're still going through implementation and I'll be posting a full review of our experience soon.
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