CATS ATS vs JazzHR | TrustRadius

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 44 reviews and ratings

Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 76 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

I don't know how appropriate it'd be for large organizations with very large recruiting teams - cost per license might not make sense after a certain point. For small/medium sized businesses, it's absolutely worth a look. It's very affordable, super-easy to use, highly configurable, and set up is an breeze. Knowledge base is decent, and support is generally OK, though it's not necessarily a strength. The product team is engaged with the user community to crowdsource suggestions for updates/improvements and allows users to vote on others ideas that are appealing. Search functionality is solid and documents are instantly indexed as far as I can tell - I've never noticed any delay. It'll push postings out to various free job boards and you can customize to push out to pay boards as well. It will integrate to certain HRIS packages, so if that's of interest, making sure yours is on the supported list would be important. Data backup is super easy and would likely make changing to another ATS down the road pretty simple if the need arises.

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Randall Kooistra

Talent Management Lead

Market TrackMarket Research, 501-1000 employees

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Since it allows you to tag candidates based on their level of talent or potential utility to the company, it is best used to identify the best prospects in large operations, such as multi-franchise oriented businesses that cover all kinds of sales. It can be used to make periodic assessments of the level of employee growth in certain departments, and based on the results let us know if certain employees would do better working in another type of area, so that the overall work operations are more uniform. JazzHR could excel in departments that use a high level of reporting, as its administrative tools provide high content reports with statistics on the performance of each employee or candidate at different levels.

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Social Media Manager

SSDIGITALCOMarketing & Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

CATS ATS

JazzHR

Job Requisition Management

Company Website Posting

Publish to Social Media

Job Search Site Posting

Customized Application Form

Resume Management

Duplicate Candidate Prevention

Candidate Search

Applicant Tracking

Collaboration

Task Creation and Delegation

Email Templates

User Permissions

Notifications and Alerts

Reporting

Pros

Custom fields for all entities of any data type let's you track what you care about. Also customizable workflow with triggers can save a ton of time in automating processes and also ensuring steps aren't missed/established processes and protocols are adhered to.
Support is extremely responsive, knowledgeable and committed to resolving any issue.
Integrations with LinkedIn, job boards etc. is a big time saver and helps bring it all to one place.

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Verified User

Executive in Other

Staffing and Recruiting Company, 1-10 employees

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Customizable fields for the applicant/candidate process.
Easily tag managers on comments for candidates.
Send emails to candidates easily through the system.
Easy to see duplicate candidates and delete or merge their files.
Can assign stars to candidates and managers can vote on a candidate through the system.
Can set up Questionnaires to help screen candidates.

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June Burchfield - LION

Talent Director

KMA TalentStaffing and Recruiting, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Reporting has improved over the years but could still be better. It is what I would call "semi-customizable" in terms of what I can generate a report on, but would like full customization capability.
Mobile access is OK but not slick. Usually I don't need mobile access but every once in a while I'm out somewhere, need to grab something out of CATS and I can get it but I think there's a good opportunity to make it better.

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Staffing Manager

KBACE TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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The integration of the other systems such as Payroll, HR systems and operations are not easy to set and not all systems are compatible.
Should improve compatibility with Microsoft Teams
Some processes require more steps and become more tedious than in other solutions

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Consultant in Human Resources

Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

CATS ATS 8.4

Based on 10 answers

Our company has been using it and enjoying the benefits for a few years now. Its a perfect system for our end goal of finding the best candidate effectively and being able to track and write reports on our progress.

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Caitlin Hostetter

RPO Specialist

TriStarr StaffingStaffing and Recruiting, 11-50 employees

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JazzHR 8.0

Based on 6 answers

It worked well for the majority of our needs and is still in use even though I've left the company. The Resumator was an interim solution until we found a system that integrated with all our other internal systems. However, we ended up staying with it because of ease of use

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Professional in Human Resources

Philanthropy Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

CATS ATS 2.7

Based on 1 answer

not recruiter friendly. workflow is not good

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Verified User

Employee in Human Resources

Human Resources Company, 1-10 employees

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JazzHR 9.8

Based on 3 answers

It's not a 10 due to the eTemplates. If those were less time-consuming to set up and if some common forms were available to select from already set up, then I would give it a 10.

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Tammie Phillips

Human Resources Manager

Hemphill ConstructionConstruction, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

CATS ATS 4.5

Based on 1 answer

I've had mixed results with asking for support. Sometimes they gave a quick answer and sometimes my emails were never responded to. Some responses were a single word.

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Bill Branstetter

Managing Director

The Six Second ResumeDefense & Space, 51-200 employees

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JazzHR 8.6

Based on 9 answers

Each person I've spoken to have been helpful, positive and encouraging. Once you begin using JazzHR, they have intervals in which they reach out to you to see how you're doing or if you have any questions. When you're setting up, they review what you've done and offer praise as well as suggestions on how to make it work better for you. They offer webinars and online training videos to walk you through every process.

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Tammie Phillips

Human Resources Manager

Hemphill ConstructionConstruction, 201-500 employees

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Implementation Rating

CATS ATS 9.1

Based on 1 answer

This is an incredibly easy system to implement. There is no hardware or software required, it's entirely SaaS based. Compared to other systems I've implemented, it's breathtaking. Customization can all be done directly in the tool, there is no need for any involvement of consultants and most of the information you cannot figure out intuitively is covered in the knowledge base

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Randall Kooistra

Talent Management Lead

Market TrackMarket Research, 501-1000 employees

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JazzHR 10.0

Based on 1 answer

A solutions consultant walked me through each step. It was easy. As I progressed in setting things up, their support contacted me to set a time to walk through any possible issues and make suggestions on a better way to set it up. At any time, if I had a question, they were available and there are also training documents and videos available.

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Tammie Phillips

Human Resources Manager

Hemphill ConstructionConstruction, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I find CATS ATS easier to use then Salesforce, on the recruitment side. It's hard to create pipelines like you can in CATS ATS. I, however, have used other customized ATS using Microsoft Access. I have used HRConnect which was developed by a firm I worked for using MS Access. It which was a great tracking and reporting tool. It logged calls out, calls in, length of calls, job orders, candidate submissions and tracked all the status automatically.

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Ashley Thompson

Senior Public Sector Recruiter - Technical & Professional Services

NewFound RecruitingStaffing and Recruiting, 11-50 employees

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Both Greenhouse and Lever at least seemed to have great products and great teams; they simply weren't worth 2-5X the cost for us. Now, let's be clear - a platform that helps you hire the best people is a certainly worth 2-5X (or perhaps 10X) the cost. However, for most small and medium businesses, the three platforms are very similar. Once you have ~100s of different positions or ~100,000 applicants, then a more advanced ATS could be worth the cost. For us, Jazz is excellent. We have about 8 types of roles and 250 employees, and we see the Jazz system working very well for us even as we grow to 1,000+ employees.

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Director of Development

Total Access Urgent CareHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

We were able to reduce the amount of time we spent posting to various job boards by more than 75%.
We were able to reduce the time it takes to find, engage, submit and ultimately hire candidates.
We were able to recoup the entire cost of the tool within less than 2 months.

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LeQuay Marsh, MHCS, TAS, ECRE

Principal Recruitment Consultant

International PaperHuman Resources, 11-50 employees

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This cuts down immensely on staff time needed in the total recruiting process. Has probably saved at least 1/2 person.
Trees are being saved since we don't have to print as much! :)
Consistency is so important in the HR field. Jazz HR makes this easy.

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Executive Assistant

Disability Rights TexasLegal Services, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

CATS ATS Editions & Modules

Edition

Monthly Pro Plan	$99¹
Annual Pro Plan	$69¹

per user, per month

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

JazzHR Editions & Modules

Edition

Hero	$39¹
Plus	$219¹
Pro	$329¹

per month

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