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January 07, 2021
Allison Riley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Our entire organization uses the Talent Cloud to some extent, some more heavily than others. All Hiring Managers access our platform to create and submit jobs and offers in iCIMS Recruit/Applicant Tracking. All employees also have access to an internal portal to apply for new positions. The most recent business problem we have been able to address is new legislation requiring us to post specific compensation details for our positions. We have different rates of pay in different locations so with our configurations, the Conditional Field Logic function helped us a lot and iCIMS Technical Support dedicated much of their time to helping us understand it. iCIMS Preboard houses all of our Onboarding documents as iForms, we like that these can be searchable for reporting purposes. Not to mention this has saved a lot of paper. As a User Administrator I have also found that audit trails, email tracking etc. and other ways that iCIMS captures user actions are trustworthy and helpful for troubleshooting. Finally the Candidate Relationship Management helps us connect via talent pools and develop a better understanding of who our candidates are. iCIMS Text Engagement has accelerated not only our hiring processes but also transformed how our Recruiters engage with candidates.
  • Searching and reporting. Once you understand how to set up and save templates, you can generate a LOT of information and configure it to be at the fingertips of those who need it. I have also never seen so much flexibility in how it can be organized.
  • The availability of tools to source and screen, especially as new integrations come about. There are always some technical kinks to iron out but once they are resolved, you can trust that they function well.
  • Simplifying the candidate experience, the look and feel of the Career portals can be configured but there is still an overall recognizable view from the candidate perspective that makes everything clear and organized.
  • We would like Job Screening questions to save previous candidate responses, similar to how Person Screening questions do. This would help us for positions where we ask candidates to write essay-style responses. We see a lot of candidates re-apply for these positions and it's inconvenient for them to re-write everything.
  • The ability to host virtual hiring events using a video tool. We like seeing that video interview tools are in the works already!
  • We had trouble figuring out candidate profile creation from job boards like Indeed. For a while Recruiters were manually uploading resumes into the platform so the Easy Apply integration helped a lot with that. Would appreciate continued improvements.
The experienced Senior Recruiters in our organization say that iCIMS Talent Cloud is the most all-encompassing Applicant Tracking Software they have used thus far which I believe speaks a lot. I cannot picture any scenario where the products are not suited; the options available for different organizations seem to be versatile.
Because each Technical Support Engineer that I have interacted with is consistent in the way they handle my questions. Even if I call instead of submit a ticket, I know they will still create a case on their end and make notes to send for me, and leave room for follow up questions. Those emails have been so helpful for presenting to my senior leadership whenever they need clarification on the way something functions, etc. Additionally outside of the use of Salesforce to track our cases, I really am impressed by the level of attentive customer service and how everyone on the iCIMS team sincerely wants to listen to my questions and assist our organization.
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November 17, 2020
Julia Andrews | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Our whole organization uses iCIMS to attract and hire great talent. We use the new Attract product for our career site, and have a highly configured Recruit platform to serve our vast business needs. We also use Connect to continue engaging with candidates who are not yet ready to make a career move.
  • iCIMS is a very flexible platform that allows us to do most configurations in-house to meet our needs.
  • iCIMS support is available almost always, and comes at no additional charge.
  • New releases happen frequently to allow constant adaptation to changes in the marketplace.
  • I would prefer if we could administer iForms ourselves. We often waste time going back and forth with support to get changes to our forms.
  • I was extremely disappointed to find out that Offer was a product that would come at an extra charge. As a Recruit user, iCIMS knows that we are extending offers. All Recruit customers should have access to the best possible way to extend and manage offer letters.
I could see iCIMS being a great solution for companies of all sizes. I've used it working with companies from a range of 1,200 employees, to over 14,000. I think it's scalable for a large company, but simple enough that a small company without HRIT support could still successfully use it.
One year ago, I would have said that iCIMS support was the absolute best customer service I've received in business. This year however, we have experienced a different level of support. Our account team is great, but getting tickets resolved has become increasingly difficult. It feels as though the iCIMS customer base grew faster than the customer support team has. We used to get things resolved same day, but now we spend a lot more time going back and forth on tickets. However, to keep things in perspective, I think from most other system-support experiences I've had, iCIMS is still far better.
This system is extremely user friendly.
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December 18, 2020
Mike Patrick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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iCIMS Talent Cloud is our talent acquisition platform. It helps us manage and deliver just-in-time talent to the organization.
  • Excellent ATS--creating, supporting, and posting requirements; easy to configure and use for talent pipelines
  • Configurable workflow and reporting
  • Cloud-based platform, easy releases/upgrades, and excellent support
  • Reporting needs work--it needs more ease of use and functionality
I have implemented seven ATS tools over the years; iCIMS is well suited for enterprise recruiting for all levels of enterprise clients.
Support is one of the hallmarks of the iCIMS experience, starting in implementation, technical support, and customer success teams are awesome.
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November 20, 2020
Bill Basnett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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iCIMS is used by entire organization to recruit, hire and onboard our new employees. At DataPath we hire employees to work in over 20 countries and iCIMS allows us to customize and track the processes.
  • 24x7 internet access allows worldwide utilization.
  • iCIMS technical support is the best I have experienced in 20+ years of recruiting.
  • Hiring managers are able to take action on candidates quickly.
  • The iForms are powerful tools and need more reporting options.
  • The Excel exports could use some standard formatting options at the start of the process.
iCIMS is the best Talent Cloud that I have used in 20 years of recruiting. It is very customizable and their technical support team is a phone call away and will make on-the-spot changes.
The best part of iCIMS is their support. They answer the phone when you call! All of their tech support employees have great knowledge and are very eager to solve your problem.
Modern computer users will embrace the system quickly.
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November 19, 2020
Jared Hooste | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We use iCIMS as our applicant tracking system for North America. We are trying to get it adopted by the all departments. We really like the offer approval workflow.
  • The technical support is fantastic.
  • You can customize it, but it won't take all of your time trying to support it.
  • It is very flexible to meet your recruiting needs.
  • It is not overly complicated.
  • I wish it had an automated process for duplicate accounts.
  • It would be nice to see how many touch points they've had with the recruiter, manager, and system.
  • More detailed training on reporting.
It is a great no fuss applicant tracking system. I really like the acquisition of text recruit. I think texting candidates is more effective than calling them. It helps in setting up interviews and asking them to do something in iCIMS like accept the offer letter or complete onboarding tasks.
Support is always helpful and willing to teach you how to do things for yourself. I feel like they want to resolve your issue.
It is very easy to use for managers and recruiters. I can set up an easy application process for the candidate.
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November 18, 2020
Chantelle Painter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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iCIMS Talent Cloud is our applicant tracking system used by all hiring managers across all banners and divisions across Canada. It allows us to review, post, and approve job requirements within our business. It allows us to communicate our job postings via the internet and facilitates our communication of job fairs and initiatives both via social media as well as via campaigns. We also use it for our interview and screening processes.
  • Allows for us to effectively bring our positions to market
  • Allows hiring managers to filter and sort candidates using many criteria
  • Allows us to communicate with applicants in ways that are safe and socially distant
  • Allows us to pull reporting on just about every piece of the recruitment process
  • Full bilingual site and service; we require French but have had to provide most translations
I would say we have experienced the most success where a small team has supported a large number of hiring managers over a large geographic area effectively. A relatively small team can use the platform to support a large group as well as manage the influx of a large volume application scenarios. Also, iCIMS Talent Cloud's social distribution is well suited to job fairs and campaigns to supply information to many people with a small concerted effort.
It has delivered on the solutions it promised and given us the ability to run recruitment efforts effectively and efficiently. Given the state of the world in the pandemic, it has also been able to give us opportunities to improve our processes to meet the needs of the changing environment. We are able to improve our recruitment ROI as well as time to hire.
The system itself is very intuitive and laid out in a familiar way. The use of the system is very easy and customizable. It takes a bit to get comfortable in the back end of the system, but once you've got one process down, the process in others is very similar.
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November 17, 2020
April Takach | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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iCIMS is used as our Applicant Tracking system. We post open jobs to our career board through iCIMS and complete preboarding and onboarding paperwork through the system. iCIMS addresses both recruitment and onboarding solutions for our organization. iCIMS is specifically being used by our HR department, however we would like to see our hiring leaders become more involved with the system to allow them to access resumes and have more direct involvement when hiring for their teams.
  • Storing candidate profile and applications.
  • Sending out onboarding materials.
  • Providing recruitment metrics for AAP purposes.
  • Interview scheduling- being able to send two separate emails (one to manager and one to candidate) from the same pop up window.
Well suited for storing applicant resumes and information. Easily can search your iCIMS database for passive candidates which is helpful in order to have a proactive recruitment strategy.
I receive timely feedback from the iCIMS team when submitting tickets on a regular basis. I specifically have had great experiences with the iCIMS implementation team.
For those who have used Applicant tracking systems before, iCIMS is an easy transition. For those who are new to recruitment, there is definitely a learning curve before being completely versed in the system.
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November 17, 2020
Cara Kuhn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We have used several products with iCIMS and are extremely happy with iCIMS Recruit and TextRecruit. iCIMS has allowed us to streamline processes and allow our Human Resources Team and Hiring Managers access to the system to keep track of and engage the thousands of candidates who have expressed interest in our organization. The texting capabilities have reduced the time it takes us to connect with interested parties and through text campaigns, we have been able to re-engage past talent and passive candidates.
  • Support provided is top notch.
  • Training videos and articles are fantastic for new users and those needing a refresher.
  • iCIMS is constantly enhancing their product line to meet client needs.
  • We were not thrilled with TextApply capabilities but love TextRecruit!
We are very happy with iCIMS.
Account Manager and Support Teams are always on standby.
Very user friendly. Reporting is decent but can use some improvement around customized reports, etc.
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November 17, 2020
Danyell Howell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We primarily use iCIMS Talent Cloud in our HR department specifically recruitment. As a recruiter in our organization, I find iCIMS to be a tremendous improvement over other ATS that I have used in the past. I like that it is very intuitive and multiple ways to access needed information. I would definitely recommend to any HR recruitment team.
  • Uploading resumes easy.
  • Input interview responses directly into the candidate profile.
  • Easy to run reports.
  • Easy to access talent.
  • Better CRM but I understand that is coming.
I really feel that this is the best ATS that I have used as a recruiting professional with 20+ years of industry experience.
I have found iCIMS to be the best ATS that I have used in healthcare recruitment.
Easy to use and very intuitive.
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October 23, 2020
Shaun Drawdy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Our organization uses iCIMS for our recruiting management system. All requisitions are handled in iCIMS throughout the entire recruiting process. Managers are able to review applicants and manage their open positions in partnership with their assigned recruiter. When an applicant is hired, a data feed sends the information over to our HCMS for a seamless onboarding transition.
  • iCIMS offers robust reporting to quickly analyst recruiting data, including onboarding, EEO, and candidate management reports.
  • The job library can serve as a repository for all company job descriptions. Security can be managed to allow managers to edit portions of the description.
  • The requisition process for hiring managers is intuitive and user friendly.
  • The user interface for back-end users could be cleaner.
  • While iCIMS offers robust reporting functionality, the reporting module could be streamlined and more user friendly.
iCIMS offers a best-in-class talent management solution, so if your organization is looking to switch its RMS, then you should check out the software. You will be able to streamline your hiring process, manage your talent acquisition data in one system, and have one system that managers can use to manage their open requisitions.
iCIMS offers periodic updates to its software with notices well in advance of any downtime that will occur. While I do not interact directly with iCIMS support, our HRIS team has been able to resolve any issues with iCIMS quickly and easily. From a compensation perspective, they have been able to do mass updates to our job descriptions to avoid having to update all of our descriptions manually.
Having used the software as a back-end user and as a hiring manager, I find the system to be very user friendly. As a hiring manager, it is easy to post a requisition, track the approval process, and review candidate resumes. As a back-end user, it is easy to create new jobs in the job library and update descriptions when needed.
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October 13, 2020
Anna Radulovich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We use iCIMS to advertise our openings and receive applications. Beyond this iCIMS helps us capture useful information across our 21 locations. We are able to provide access to multiple user groups and allow for constant communication between candidates, recruiters and hiring managers.
  • Great customer service!
  • Very customizable.
  • Easy to use.
  • Great dashboard capabilities.
  • The mobile app does not reflect candidates we have viewed.
  • The invite to hiring managers for the mobile app is unnecessarily difficult.
  • Provide training just on reports after a few months of usage, as these can be difficult to create on your own.
Great for any size company.
I am a HUGE fan of the Tech Support team at iCIMS. I think they may be the best I have ever encountered and especially in the ATS world. I am always so impressed how easily they are able to help me and also teach me at the same time how to change things on my own.
We are very happy with the iCIMS system thus far. It has made the recruiting team function very well and it helps keep us very organized.
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October 08, 2020
Kathleen Nieder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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We use the system to approve and manage all reqs. It is used across the entire organization. The systems allows us to manage reqs and candidates throughout the recruitment life cycle and report on the process. We also use the systems to generate offer letters and complete portions of the onboarding process.
  • Easily routes reqs for approval
  • Allows for managing candidates through the system
  • Onboarding through a portal improved new hire onboarding experience
  • Improve formatting option in job description
  • Improve formatting capabilities in offer product
Overall the system has been working well for us. We are rolling the system out to all of our global locations at this time.
Overall support has been good.
The system is intuitive and overall easy to use.
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February 21, 2021
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We utilize the many features of iCIMS to attract, pre-board and hire all new employees enterprise wide. The integrations provided by iCIMS to our payroll, content management, IT account provisioning, I9 and many other applications and processes is invaluable. iCIMS has allowed us to fully automate many processes that were previously manual. We've been able to move away from paper and to a fully digital environment. iCIMS made our most recent move to working fully remote a very smooth process.
  • Bulk Edits: The ability to perform a search on a set of criteria and impact a value on any field for all the records that match that criteria is a huge time savings not to mention it makes all changes consistent.
  • Customer Support: No matter how good the application is, customer support will be needed from time to time to either answer questions or guide you through making changes to your configurations. iCIMS Customer Support is simply the best bar none!
  • Assignment of On/Pre boarding tasks. The ability to assign tasks be it a review or completion of a document to the candidate or any other relative party allows all employees to be onboarded consistently and efficiently while ensuring compliance.
  • APIs: Your development staff has the code at their fingertips to pull any information out of iCIMS via APIs. Events that occur in iCIMS can also trigger external actions.
  • The wall between Recruiting Workflow and Onboarding Workflow make sending data from both in an integration or even on a report very challenging.
  • Allow skilled users access to the backend formulas and ability to change column headers for reports and integrations.
  • Allow rules based logic and auto-population at the field level. Conditional logic is a great start but putting a full rules engine underneath would be wonderful.
  • Allow field to field comparisons in reporting search criteria.
iCIMS is well suited for publishing your jobs, tracking and dispositioning candidates, pre-boarding and then dispersing the relevant data out to all applicable systems.
iCIMS Customer Support sets the bar for other vendors. They are hands down the best vendor to work with for any issues, modifications, new integrations, etc. iCIMS Customer Support is the 'face' of the company and they are all professional, knowledgeable and ready to help.
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December 22, 2020
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We use iCIMS for recruiting. It is used by the Talent Acquisition with reporting and metrics distributed to HR Leadership team; New hire integration with our HR system.
  • Recruiting workflow; iCIMS presents logical and intuitive progression throughout the process.
  • Customization can be easily configured to support our specific business processes.
  • The design of reports and other analytics can be easily accomplished and distributed via dashboards and/or scheduled reports. Allows for easy user segregation of needed reporting data.
  • The technical support team is phenomenal!!
  • Mass update feature is great.
  • End User ability to create alias field name that is intuitive [for] their organization.
Can quickly perform mass updates to organizational structures to align with finance and HR system.
In the 5 years I have contacted the support team, I always get a speedy and accurate response. The technical support team is extremely professional and knowledgeable.
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November 18, 2020
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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We use iCIMS across the whole company. It is our only ATS where all aspects of the hiring process are managed. From creating a pipeline and reviewing applicants, scheduling interviews, and hiring new associates - iCIMS addresses all of our recruiting needs.
  • Reporting.
  • Pipeline Management.
  • Onboarding.
  • Limitation on filters.
  • Calendar integration with Outlook.
  • iForm creation - turnaround time.
iCIMS is well suited for robust candidate selection. It really helps you capture all details of a potential candidate in order to hire the best candidate for a position. I can't think of any time it would be less appropriate. It's highly configurable and can be implemented to fit your company's exact needs.
It's a great system, but there is always room for improvement.
Again - great system, but always room for improvment.
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November 18, 2020
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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We use recruiting and onboarding platform across the org, with multiple divisions handling their own workflows and processes.
  • Reporting is excellent! Quick and easy to build and share.
  • Technical Account Manager model paired with Success Manager is fantastic!
  • API setup for integration points with multiple systems is a breeze! iCIMS has tons of options to integrate w/ HRIS.
  • Only missing functionality I can think of is building triggers for data manipulation + data transformation --- example upon entry on one form, perform some data validation and trigger a new action or auto-populate values on other tabs/parts of the profile.
It's best for quick-pace and high-volume recruiting processes. iCIMS can get you up and running relatively quickly so you can onboard folks in matter of weeks!

Might be a bit challenging for complex corporate environments, the examples of the need to tailor many scenarios/exceptions for example approval workflows that are automated depending on the attributes of the requisition, etc.
Fantastic turnaround time and attention from TAM.
Easy to use, constant improvement on the roadmap.
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November 18, 2020
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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We use iCIMS as our applicant tracking system. It is a solid system. I like the distribution and the external sites they push my jobs out to. We get a lot of reach and that comes standard. That is very important to us.
  • Great reach and job posting to sites like LinkedIn, Indeed and others.
  • Great customer service whenever I need help.
  • It is easy to search articles or videos if I ever have any questions. Lots of resources available.
  • Purging old applicants should be a little easier.
  • Navigation in making system changes is a little hard, you have to do a lot of searching unless that is something you do every day.
  • Everything is an add on. Lots of features that are basic and should be included are not. You have to pay extra to add that component.
It is a good system for my company size. A little on the pricey side.
It has gotten a lot better with our new account manager.
Making systems changes are difficult to navigate.
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November 18, 2020
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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We use it for recruiting and onboarding only. Additionally, only Talent Acquisition and Hiring Managers use the system.
  • Provides clean-looking dashboards.
  • Tracks candidate workflows.
  • Gives a good customer facing portal experience.
  • The iForms process makes it difficult to pivot quickly and execute new business ideas/initiatives.
  • No native functionality for initials and signatures.
  • Offer Management tool does not allow bulk sending.
It's well suited for most industries--but more so with companies who have a higher number of employees.
Support is great. There is a decent knowledge base + monthly calls with the support team. Additionally, account teams get you quick answers to any questions.
It's very intuitive from a "user perspective." However, from the admin perspective things are not always as clear and we need more control to do things on our own vs having to open a support case and wait. It is not a very sustainable business model in our industry.
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November 18, 2020
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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iCIMS Talent Cloud is being used across the entire organization. It has provided more efficiencies, better reporting, and a better candidate experience.
  • Strong reporting capabilities--you can report on any data entered in the system
  • Strong candidate experience--quick applications and mobile optimized
  • Strong partnerships with other organizations
  • Responsive support
  • Building reports
iCIMS Talent Cloud is efficient, they do regular updates to stay current, and we've received great feedback from candidates and users.
They are responsive and knowledgeable.
Great--it's easy to use. There are a lot of different things you can customize with iCIMS Talent Cloud. While you can do this on your own, tech support is very helpful.
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November 18, 2020
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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We use iCIMS Talent Cloud for the entire organization from hiring hourly assembly workers through senior executives. We utilize it to standardize the hiring process across the organization as well as to ensure government compliance and that we are meeting all of our goals in the recruitment space. All of the tools in the system help us create a quality candidate experience.
  • Standard workflows
  • Reporting tools
  • Roles-based dashboards
  • iForms need to be mobile friendly and not appear to be a form
  • Text messaging seems to be blocked a lot
  • Personalized support
Now that iCIMS Talent Cloud has Jibe and Offer, it is a well-rounded talent suite. It needs to continue making improvements where all the products work together as a seamless system. I can tell it is bringing in tools as building blocks Simple things like being able to have the system send a text with the offer is a miss right now, but overall it is so much better than what we were doing previously and still best on offer!
It has changed a lot over time. I would call iCIMS Talent Cloud's current level of support OK but not great. Why? Because it was great and somehow they managed to downgrade that experience over time for understandable reasons--extreme growth as a company. My hope is they get back to the individual level of support again in the future.
It is user friendly and easy to navigate. I can train a brand new coordinator, a hiring manager, or a seasoned recruiter how to use the system in very little time. It is easy to find the information I need and report on those things that are important to leadership.
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November 17, 2020
Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We are currently using iCIMS across the whole organization for hiring and onboarding of both external and internal candidates. This has allowed more transparency throughout the whole hiring process from the candidate up to the VPs of the organization. We have also gone paperless in our hiring process, which has solved a problem especially in this time.
  • Reporting.
  • User friendly.
  • Chatting between users.
  • Emailing within the platform.
iCIMS is well suited in thier reporting features. Since having iCIMS, our reporting has been a lot smoother and we don't have to keep track of everything by paper or in Excel sheets. It has allowed us to look more closely at our data and make improvements to different processes within our organization.
Everyone on the iCIMS support side has always been extremely helpful from the build phase to now. No matter what our question or technical issue is, the team is happy to step in and come up with a solution that works for our company. The response times have been very quick as well and always professional.
The platform is very user friendly and has helped streamline some of the recruiting processes for our organization. We have been able to keep everything virtual and cut down on paper use. I do wish we were able to give our non-license users more features and searching capability. This is very limited for some of our recruiters.
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September 24, 2020
Misty Granholm | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We use iCIMS in our Scientific Professional Services division. Our division focuses on supporting our customers' lab and regulatory needs through scientific staffing. iCIMS helps us by providing a robust system to review resumes, keep track of our candidates and openings, and start the onboarding process.
  • It's an ATS first- not another HRIS that has their own ATS.
  • The support team is wonderful. They always get back to you and get any questions resolved in a timely manner.
  • The system is user friendly and intuitive. New hiring managers pick up on it quickly.
  • We've had changes to our account managers that have been confusing. We lost our months ago and still have not been assigned a new one. They are very helpful as they take the time to understand how you use the system and ways to make it even better.
  • Reporting is overwhelming.
  • Searching is cumbersome. Sometimes I just want to look up a phone number who called me, but I can't because of the formatting.
It is fantastic for our division that focuses on scientific staffing. We have many clients, but we're not a staffing agency and still hire full-time employees directly. It's not too simple like other systems- we appreciate all the options and how robust it is.
The support team is wonderful. They're responsive and actively work to resolve your issues. I love how you can submit a ticket or call when it's more urgent. Everyone I've interacted with on the customer support team is genuinely nice and they seem happy to help you.
We just love iCIMS. Our hiring managers love iCIMS. I give it a 9 because some hiring managers do not have to use it as regularly and need reminders on what to do. It really improved our experience with our ATS overall and I wouldn't want to work in any other system in my job.
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September 16, 2020
Valerie Buscaglia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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iCIMS is being used in both sister companies in all departments. It definitely helps to streamline processes. The added benefit of housing all applicants in one space that is easy to search is a plus! It could be a bit more user-friendly but otherwise an excellent system for applicant tracking and recruiting activities.
  • Automatic notifications are easy to set up and edit.
  • Ability to email within the platform is a plus.
  • Highly configurable to your company's needs.
  • Portal configuration could be more robust, have better creative options for designing your portal welcome page
  • Auto-launch options could more clearly defined, they are difficult to set up.
  • The social distribution could be more configurable as far as the ad content instead of a boring standard template; needs to have the capability to add graphics and images to create attractive ads for social media.
I think iCIMS is an excellent platform for most companies to use. However, it does have some limitations for one side of our business. The HazMat side, which deals mainly with hiring truck drivers, doesn't seem to get as good responses due to the fact that recruiting for trucking is a different animal than recruiting for most other positions. Trucking needs specialized advertising outlets that are not supported by iCIMS, and due to the lack of qualified applicants, we are now using an outside recruiting service to help us hit those targets in the places they are actively looking for jobs.
When we first started with iCIMS, the support was amazing! Lightning fast and super helpful! Since the COVID pandemic hit, their support seems to have slowed almost to a halt. If you submit a help ticket, it can take days or even a whole week or more to get an initial response from anyone, and then it takes almost another week to get your issue resolve depending on the nature of the problem you are having. They need to make sure these help tickets are being addressed in a timely manner.
It could be a bit more user-friendly for the hiring managers and those folks that do not have much experience with systems like these. I feel like the design of it appears intimidating to them and they decide they don't know what to do even before they have tried anything. I think it might be nice to have a more basic platform as far as visual appearance and usability for regular users and save the "techie" platform for the admin users who are more likely to be well-trained in how to navigate the suite.
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September 16, 2020
Wally Pfingsten | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Our entire company uses iCIMS as our Applicant Tracking System. It's also our repository for our job profiles. We rely on the recruiting and pre-hire workflow data for performance metrics of both our recruiters and our hiring efforts. It is one of the primary tools our Talent Acquisition department uses on a daily basis.
  • It provides and tracks a wealth of data, as much or as little as we want.
  • Profiles are highly customizable.
  • Once set up properly, its approval processes are quite easy to operate by all users.
  • Entrance criteria allow us to create a workflow that cannot be circumvented by users, ensuring we're tracking every step of our process.
  • Visual reporting functionality is somewhat limited, and we often need to export data to other reporting tools to get the granularity and insights we need.
  • Limits on the If/Then logic create roadblocks to some of our automation goals.
  • Seemingly-arbitrary limitations on security rules make it difficult to create the access-control environment we need.
  • The interface can be a bit overwhelming for some users. The fact that the job, person, and workflow profiles look so similar does not help this.
As an ATS, this tool is very useful. As a database, again, fantastic. As a means of communicating with candidates and hiring managers, it's quite good, with perhaps a few caveats.

As a data visualization tool, there's functionality, but I'd recommend they have an additional solution outside of iCIMS. There's lots of data to work with, but data "storytelling" isn't iCIMS' strong suit. The user learning curve can be steep, as well.
iCIMS' technical and customer service teams are the golden arrows in its quiver. Their professionalism, know-how, and good nature make contacting them for issues or questions something to actually look forward to. Their support network to answer questions the first representative might not have answers to is rapid and fantastic. For the first two years of our partnership, we had the pleasure of working with a Customer Success Manager whom I could entrust to move any mountain he could to help us. And when we recently went through an optimization project, we were assigned an optimization specialist who made the experience my absolute favorite project I've ever partnered on in my career.
If you know how to get around iCIMS, it's great. There's so much information just a couple clicks away. You can easily move around, find what you're looking for, make any configurations you need. It's great! If you're new to iCIMS, it can be a pretty steep learning curve. There are *so many* things to do and look at, it can be intimidating. The fact that the main profile types our users most often use look so similar (Person, Job, and Workflow Profiles) can cause some confusion. But once you get the hang of things, the robust functionality is great to have.
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September 10, 2020
Vicki Floyd | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Our entire organization is using the iCIMS Recruit product. Every single person in our organization uses the product in various ways. Prior to using iCIMS, all of our processes were completed manually, which was extremely time intensive. Additionally, we had no way to allow our job candidates to create a static profile (account) and only update when necessary; our candidates had to completely fill out all of their information again when they applied for another position. Our clients love being able to access candidates' information at their convenience; we used to have to create a shared Dropbox folder for this purpose.
  • They are with you every step of the way throughout the adoption and integration phase of going live.
  • Their tech support after going live is superlative.
  • The program is highly configurable, so it works for our unique processes.
  • The program is very robust, so we can pull reports on many different aspects of our business.
  • The resume parsing could be better.
  • On-site training moves extremely fast--perhaps add a day to training.
  • Certain parts of the platform are not configurable that we would like to see configurable. For instance, attachments to a project cannot be alphabetized or ordered.
iCIMS Talent Acquisition Software Suite is extremely well suited for a company that finds itself in a position of processing a high number of job applicants, either for their own company or, like our company, as an Executive Search firm. The software would be less appropriate for companies that don't process too many job candidates at once.
The iCIMS support team is always helpful and knowledgeable. Additionally, they have the ability to think outside the box and solve issues for us in unique ways. The training offered at iCIMS headquarters is superb and has been invaluable to us being able to use the product at very high levels.
The program has a very steep learning curve, especially for those who have not used an applicant tracking system previously. But once your team begins to learn the product, it seems that there is no limit to what it can do. We have been using the system for almost three years and we are constantly learning new things that help streamline our work.
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Feature Scorecard Summary

Job Requisition Management (93)
8.7
Company Website Posting (89)
8.1
Publish to Social Media (76)
7.0
Job Search Site Posting (82)
7.9
Customized Application Form (83)
8.1
Resume Management (91)
8.2
Duplicate Candidate Prevention (87)
6.6
Candidate Search (90)
8.1
Applicant Tracking (92)
8.4
Collaboration (86)
7.2
Task Creation and Delegation (75)
7.1
Email Templates (93)
7.6
User Permissions (90)
7.8
Notifications and Alerts (83)
7.0
Reporting (90)
6.8

What is iCIMS?

The iCIMS Talent Cloud is a unified recruitment platform that aims to empower users at every stage of the talent continuum, allowing them to attract, engage, hire and advance the world’s best talent. With it, the vendor states users can build thriving, diverse teams at scale, align hiring needs with business needs, and meet the challenges of tomorrow with an agile, AI-powered platform designed to provide everything needed to build a winning workforce.

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iCIMS Pricing

  • Does not have featureFree Trial Available?No
  • Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
  • Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
  • Entry-level set up fee?No

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iCIMS Technical Details

Deployment Types:SaaS
Operating Systems: Unspecified
Mobile Application:No
Supported Countries:200
Supported Languages: All