Applicant Tracking System

“This is the greatest, that is the greatest pool of brilliance sitting out there right now who cannot make it past the applicant tracking system, the ATS right now. But once we can tap into that, I mean, now you're sitting on unicorn after unicorn after unicorn…”

“We start from scratch. We don't go back to the ATS. We don't go back to candidates we've dealt with in the past.”

“Ultimately, at the end of the day, like, the budget that customers had and the way that customers talked about what we did, no matter what we called it, was applicant tracking. So it didn't really make sense to continue to go against the grain of, no, we're go…”

“There are not many systems that actually charge for the number of applicants that are actually being tracked. Generally speaking, when you look at an ATS, for instance, they'll be looking at seats. Some of them might cap it at a certain number of vacancies tha…”

“Last week I was on Capterra and I looked at the applicant tracking system page. The first 200 vendors have a four star and above rating.”

“You need to get somebody right at the moment where they have super high intent and that there's only like a two week window for a given piece of software. So let's say like I'm the head of HR and I buy a new ATS every five years. There's two weeks in that five…”

“The whole market's going to, you know, integrated solutions. They want You know, recruiters want an integrated solution with their ATS.”

“Do we want to be in the business of building out our own applicant tracking system, which we had? Do we want to be in the building business of building our own HR tools? Is this the right HR? Like, what do we know about any of these things? And that in a lot o…”

“And the name reveals the mentality. It's business process software to keep track of an arcane process that it's going to be done behind closed doors by the HR department. People don't want to touch this thing.”