With hundreds if not thousands of job applicants coming across a hiring manager’s inbox or LinkedIn it is not surprising they are seeking artificial intelligence to give them some help.
So, when you apply for a job online, your CV isn’t necessarily going to go directly to a recruiter or hiring manager. It’s first being scanned and processed by an ATS. Whether that human recruiter ever sees your CV could depend on how well your resume is optimised for ATS algorithms.
What is ATS??
In a basic sense, applicant tracking systems are mainly used to simplify the management applications and sorting through suitable candidates
ATS softwares help literally every step of the recruitment process. From the very beginning, when a recruiter creates a job, ATS starts with helping them reaching out to numerous job posting sites at once. Then, when applicants start applying for the job and send their resumes, ATS stores them, organize them and scores them. Based on the credentials provided by applicant via resume and other details, Applicant Tracking Systems may accept or reject applications, depending on the parameters set by the recruiters.
How many applications do companies receive on average?
On average, companies receive around 250 applications per job opening. If a company has just a handful of new openings, the wasted time and effort starts to add up.
Why do companies use ATS?
Streamline the process– Applicant Tracking Systems help the hiring managers by efficiently selecting and rejecting applications based on the pre-set criteria.
Save time– ATS saves valuable time for recruiters by going through numerous applications in a very short span of time. Literally no human can have that time or energy to look into thousands of applications one by one. ATS makes sure that the company doesn’t have to lose the chances of hiring the best candidates just because a recruiter doesn’t have enough time.
Track and keep record of the whole process-ATS does not only seeks out the right candidates for you, but Applicant Tracking Systems track and keep record of the whole process, like how many candidates applied for this job, how many of them have the necessary qualifications, where did they apply from, how did they come to know about the job etc.
Provide Analytics of recruitment process – ATS Provides valuable analytics measuring the number of applications per job, fill rates (meaning how many jobs are filled and at what speed), billing rates or salary details, efficiency of recruiter etc. This will help in improving efficiency and effectiveness of recruitment process. To sum it up, ATS does almost everything that a team of efficient human assistants would do for recruiters
Stay tuned for the next blog on how to overcome ATS and you could land that job anywhere in the world!