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Formerly IBM Kenexa

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What is Brassring?

Brassring, formerly from IBM and part of the Kenexa Talent Acquisition Suite, and now sold by Infinite Computer Solutions, is an enterprise grade ATS and onboarding solution. It allows companies to find the right talent, track and manage candidates, and…

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Brassring, formerly from IBM and part of the Kenexa Talent Acquisition Suite, and now sold by Infinite Computer Solutions, is an enterprise grade ATS and onboarding solution. It allows companies to find the right talent, track and manage candidates, and use candidate data to spot trends within the…

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Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

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What is Brassring?

Brassring, formerly from IBM and part of the Kenexa Talent Acquisition Suite, and now sold by Infinite Computer Solutions, is an enterprise grade ATS and onboarding solution. It allows companies to find the right talent, track and manage candidates, and use candidate data to spot trends within the applicant pool.


Brassring offers candidate relationship management functionality for tracking candidate data and personalizing communication with each candidate. The suite also provides ATS capabilities via BrassRing, which enables automation for routine recruiting processes. It also includes cloud-based onboarding and candidate analytics intended to streamline candidate selection and hire-to-value timelines.

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Brassring, formerly from IBM and part of the Kenexa Talent Acquisition Suite, and now sold by Infinite Computer Solutions, is an enterprise grade ATS and onboarding solution. It allows companies to find the right talent, track and manage candidates, and use candidate data to spot trends within the applicant pool.

Cornerstone OnDemand, Infor Human Resources, and PeopleFluent are common alternatives for Brassring.

Reviewers rate Candidate Search and Applicant Tracking highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of Brassring are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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IBM Kenexa - Your platform for faster and better recruitment platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 18, 2021
NL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
1 year of experience
IBM Kenexa is used by the HR and Leadership team members. It enables the recruiter in terms of tracking a potential candidate from the starting of the recruitment process. The most amazing feature is that we can customize the email to the candidates for every recruitment step. It is basically a user-friendly tool. It helps to source different candidate profiles from different sources.
  • Applicant tracking
  • Candidate profile sourcing
  • Better communication Between recruiter and applicant
IBM Kenexa is a great software that will enable and empower the recruiter to track the best profiles from the very beginning of the recruitment process. Customized email templates allow better communication between both parties. It also helps proper reporting and documentation as well.

The best tool for the mutual growth of the employees and the company.

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 04, 2021
ME
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
3 years of experience
This is one of the best tools for the employees in any company for their personal growth in terms of technology. This tool is used by the whole organization. When I joined this company my profile was technical support (L1-support) where I was just working on [a] few tools [that] don't [actually] require technical skills. But after some time I realized I should learn something technical and I moved into the Oracle DBA with the help of [the] IBM Kenexa Talent management tool.
  • Best tool to move from one profile/technology to another within the organization
  • Very user friendly
  • Easily interact with the managers or higher profile people through this tool
  • Tracker of the self growth
  • We get the path to move into any new and trending technology
  • We can find our interest in which we're suited well
This is the best tool for both the employees and the company. For employees, if they want to move from one role to another or want to move from one technology, they can move within the organization with the help of this tool and for companies, if they hire people from outside it there are so many things involved to get information about the employees related to the profile, then interview, onboarding, training, etc. If they hire people within the organization, it will be easy for them and cost-effective as well and existing employees will also not leave the company so easily.

Needs an overhaul - Would not recommend

Rating: 4 out of 10
September 20, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
5 years of experience
We use IBM Kenexa BrassRing as our ATS. It is used across the entire organization
  • Applicant tracking
  • Provides a number of ways to source for candidates
  • Some customizable features, but there could be more
IBM Kenexa is dated in my opinion, and could use an overhaul. There are many missing features and areas of functionality, such as having a mobile app. Being able to access candidate resumes, update statuses, etc. through a mobile app is something that other ATS systems offer, and IBM Kenexa does not.

Hiring through Kenexa

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 03, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
2 years of experience
Kenexa is used across the organization globally for recruiting and recruiting operations. Its used for candidates applying to various roles, scheduling interviews, acts as a single database for feedback for interviews, making offers to candidates and storing important data like Visa, work permits, passport soft copy, compliance and any work / country specific regulations. It also acts as a triggering tool for sending mass communications, emails and information about the role and organization.
  • Applications on Kenexa - this I believe is the best strength of Kenexa. It is very easy to segregate candidates based on the skill set, role, country, level, etc., hence being the single source for all information.
  • Feedback Forms - As soon as the interviews are done, the tool allows us to send feedback forms with a detailed feedback (up to 4000 words). This allows a detailed documentation of every interview, enabling the organization to make the best possible hires.
  • CRM like features - like any CRM (customer relationship management) tool, Kenexa allows you to be very personalized with every person you are interacting with. The emails directly go to the inbox of the candidates and are personalized as well (with first names, role, and phone numbers).
Kenexa is is well suited for any organization that has more than 3000 employees globally. I would not recommend this to startups or a growing organization with less than 3000 employees. But once you cross this number, Kenexa becomes useful and is a brilliant tool for global operations - recruiting. I would recommend this tool to any organization that has offices in many countries/geographies as well.

Kenexa connects you with candidates quick and efficiently

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 25, 2018
JR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
1 year of experience
It was used as an ATS and CRM for staffing. We housed all candidate and client details; used it to search for top profiles and reporting. It solves the problem of candidate documentation and back-office administrative needs. It has solid search tools and easy to navigate tools and also UI.
  • Candidate retrieval and documentation
  • Client documentation
  • Reporting
It is great for the staffing industry or really any B2B sales organizations. It can be used as an ATS or CRM. It is not a HRMS just a solid ATS, so I don't think it should be overly leveraged just for human resourcing needs or functions other than those linked with staffing.

Decent ATS for smaller companies

Rating: 5 out of 10
April 17, 2017
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
6 years of experience
Kenexa is used globally for salaried hiring. It provides a single, integrated hiring solution.
  • Integration with HRIS and job boards
  • Contact management
  • Actual user interface is fairly intuitive
[It's] good for smaller organizations with a low level of complexity in terms of geographic scope and reporting structures.

Kenexa just another one of the big dog ATS options that recruiters don't like

Rating: 3 out of 10
September 19, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
4 years of experience
Currently Kenexa is being used enterprise wide by recruiters and hiring managers for recruiting and hiring.
  • Kenexa has been trying to do a better job of understanding the client and candidate needs in the last 12 months but they still have room to improve in this area.
Kenexa is one of the big dogs in the ATS space so if you want a traditional enterprise wide ATS for recruiters, it will meet your expectations - no recruiter loves their ATS. If you are looking to be cutting edge and candidate experience focused, I think that there are more nimble systems out there that are trying to take it to the next level. Kenexa has a reputation as being difficult to work with and we have found that to be true - while we have liked several of the special project folks we have worked with, there is a lot of back and forth with engineering to get things done.

A steep learning curve post go live

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 29, 2016
BM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
1 year of experience
We use Kenexa's 2x Brassring as ATS in a global organisation. It allows our Hiring Managers to provide the data required by them, and start/be part of the recruitment process without requiring access to the system.
  • We can build/configure as required, to respond to both planned and ad-hoc business requirements.
  • Global sparring and knowledge about global recruitment issues, which are not always ATS related.
  • Customizable automations are fantastic
Configurable automations are fantastic, but for the candidate and user, it is lacking what you would expect from a system in 2014.

Kenexa -A defective HR system

Rating: 2 out of 10
July 29, 2016
ss
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
4 years of experience
We are Human Resource Consultants. Managerial positions by are client are forwarded to us via Kenexa and candidates are uploaded by us on Kenexa.
  • The system is good for sorting applications however any activity slightly more complex and it collapses.
I do not have more information of other products but Kenexa is not recommended. It cannot even maintain applications.

Honest and Straightfoward

Rating: 5 out of 10
July 29, 2016
DM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
1 year of experience
  • It allow you to track the progress of a potenital candidate from start to finish
  • You can set up email templates that you can send and label for each part of the process
  • You can pull resumes fron different sources by using keyword searches for the type of employees you are looking to hire
  • You can track communications to each candidate to see when you email or last contact the candidate
I would tell a colleague to make sure you what you are trying to get out of the system. Are you mass recruiting or are you trying to fill a position every once in a while in your company? Make sure you understand the search function as well as how you can get the folders and the files built the way you need it. I am not sure they are tools that would help with mass recruiting. I think removing some of the tools would make it easier to get to resumes and not to have some many clicks with each candidate.

Kenexa? You Betcha!

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 22, 2016
My company currently uses Kenexa as our applicant tracking system and new hire onboarding solution. We have multiple entities and Kenexa lets us customize the different apply and onboarding experiences based on entity, job, etc. As far as problems, we had a horrible go live experience. When we went alive a few functions did not work as tested and there was a lot of rework that had to be done. That being said, our experience post go live has been great. We are currently undergoing the Talent Suite upgrade and the service provided so far has been amazing.
  • Customization of communications being sent to candidates
  • Onboarding experience for candidates
  • Implementation teams are very responsive
  • A desire to listen to what clients want/need next

Kenexa is best suited for job postings, applying, and onboarding candidates.

Less suited for talent management.

The ins & outs of the Kenexa assessment

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 18, 2016
DW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
2 years of experience

My company currently uses the behavioral MDP (Management Development Program) assessment to identify candidates for our training programs, which take place three times a year. This test is one of the determining factors as to whether or not a candidate gains entrance into our MDP cycle. Typically the candidate goes through three phases in the interview. First a phone screen or face-to-face meeting with the Human Resources Field Recruiter, then the invitation to take the Kenexa assessment. Based on the score, the panel interview is scheduled.

We also use the test for current Assistant Store Managers that are seeking a promotion in the near future. In between recruitment cycles, I test the top performers in each zone and give them feedback on areas of opportunity and highlight their strengths with the feedback from their testing.

The assessment breaks the scores down into three categories. 0-20= Fail; 21-49= Pass with Caution; 50-100= Pass. Currently, any candidate, whether internal or external, that fails cannot proceed in the interview process. Candidates are allowed to retest 6 months later.

The Kenexa assessment gives situational examples of real life scenarios and assessing whether or not a candidate can deal with the stresses of retail management.

  • Identifies how a candidate will deal with stressful situations within Retail Management.
  • Weeds out potential risk factors with overall performance through detailed, behavioral questions.
  • Assesses key behavioral categories that a manager needs to be successful.

Kenexa asked a lot of questions that pertained to real life scenarios for retail managers. It is very helpful to see how people react under pressure. It measures the years of experience in comparison to how an individual would react thoroughly.

Some of the more complex math and theory questions may or may not apply to the type of manager we need for this specific industry given all you need is a high school diploma and 2-3 years of management experience to be considered for the role.

Truly awful product, even worse support

Rating: 1 out of 10
July 12, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
4 years of experience
Kenexa was used as the primary application tracking system for the entire company to handle over 10,000 hires a year. We had a few hundred recruiters using the system along with various support staff and hiring managers across the company.
  • Data extraction - this is about the only area where Kenexa did fairly well. Although there weren't built-in tools to get very meaningful data within the system, you had many options to extract data in ways that would allow ingestion into other systems for processing and analysis.
Stay away from Kenexa. I could not recommend using any of their products in any circumstance. Look at newer players in the ATS field, where you're likely to find a more innovative, well-designed system that will provide a better experience for recruiters, managers, applicants, and back-office support. It'll probably be a lot less expensive as well.

Kenexa Rocks!

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 19, 2016
CP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
2 years of experience
I use Kenexa as an applicant tracking system for both external and internal hires within the corporation.
  • It's very user friendly, it's easy to use even if you have no experience with it.
  • Information is easy to find and navigate which makes doing your job that much easier.
  • Sending candidates invites to apply makes the applicant pool much more diverse.
I feel Kenexa worked well for a large corporation.

Kenexa Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 13, 2015
KL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
1 year of experience
Kenexa was used at my past company in the centralized recruitment center. Kenexa forced us to move away from the printed paper (applications and resumes) and review these items online via the Kenexa portal. The portal was easy to use and navigate, I liked how organized the portal was. I could view applicants with ease and move them through different stages in the portal.
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to view applicants
  • Organized portal
I found Kenexa very appropriate for recruitment. The recruitment portal worked very well and was very organized. I would ask how it will meet your business needs specifically and what it will help you do better. There is certainly a learning curve and a different angle of approach with this system vs. PeopleSoft.

Kenexa review

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2015
JU
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
5 years of experience
Kenexa is used across the HR organization globally. BrassRing is used for applicant tracking and OrgMappers is used for engagement data.
  • Kenexa BrassRing is a great tool for applicant tracking, posting roles, tracking EEO data, background check info, candidate profiles, templates, reporting,
  • Kenexa technician support is valuable in providing what their customer needs are to run their business effectively
  • Kenexa OrgMappers is a great tool to host engagement surveys, pull data easily, enter data easily
I would recommend Kenexa because their applicant tracking system has everything needed to run a successful recruitment process where there is a high volume of roles and strong strategy to bring in diverse top talent. I do think this type of tool is for larger companies or companies that are global. For smaller companies with less than 500 employees whose volume of recruitment is low, you may not need this type of system.

Review of Kenexa

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 04, 2015
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
2 years of experience
Kenexa is being used as our primary ATS (applicant tracking system). It is currently being used by the department. We use Kenexa to track requisition assignments, candidate status and applicants.
  • Interface is clean and concise - It is very easy to see the information needed in one screen. The usage is pretty intuitive.
  • Information and fields displayed is very customizable to individual preference.
  • Easy to see actions that are pending and needing to be addressed and real time status'
It acts as a more than adequate applicant tracking system(ATS). The interface is intuitive but the system tends to be slow. At times, he system takes a few tries to log-in as it cannot locate appropriate credentials.

Functionality is fine, however the system is slow.

Rating: 4 out of 10
December 20, 2013
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
2 years of experience
  • It is easy to review the candidates within the requisition.
  • Ease of use between users.
  • When implemented the automatically generated offer letter is simple to use.
I would recommend the colleague ask about refresh rates. Our system was very slow and cumbersome.

2XBrassRing Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 20, 2013
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
7 years of experience
  • Implementation of a new product.
  • Listening to current users design requests and suggestions.
  • Willingness to set up meetings with multiple groups within the organization to find solutions to known issues.
My advice would be that the level of service received from the consultants is not what it once was. I believe their service model changed two years ago, and as a result the consultants are responsible for more clients. As a result the consultants have less time to really learn the system, as they are constantly on calls from one client to the next with no real down time to troubleshoot.

Optimize your Recruitment Performance with Kenexa

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 20, 2013
BK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
7 years of experience
  • Kenexa's "Data Insight Tool" allows for real time metrics to be collected and shared to make decisions that impact our company.
  • Applicant flow data is easy to track as the HR Status options are customizable to adopt to specific work processes.
  • Kenexa customer service allows for an expert technical liaison to help consult any and all implementation decisions that my company decides to pursue.
  • RAM Trigger logic allows for optimal automation of the transactional recruiting processes.
  • Talent Records can be located with Boolean search logic which aids in the recruitment process.
I would recommend that any colleague should complete the due diligence process of examining all products to find the right fit for their company culture. Some of the questions I would ask in a search are: 1-What does the customer service process look like? 2-Who will be performing any enhancements or alterations to my instance of the product? 3-How will this product integrate with existing HR systems already employed by my company.

Kenexa Review from a Recruiting Coordinator

Rating: 5 out of 10
December 17, 2013
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
1 year of experience
  • It is an easy transition from the Recruiting team to the HR team when it comes to onboarding new employees.
  • Great for keeping track of candidates and organizing information by requisition numbers.
  • Easy process for sending out offer letters.
I would advise to go over the functions step by step a few times a day with the trainer in order to get comfortable with it. You need to click on a lot of things to navigate through the product so be prepared to take a significant amount of time a day to review.

"Kenexa 2x BrassRing" comes up short when reaching for the proverbial brass ring.

Rating: 3 out of 10
December 15, 2013
AB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
1 year of experience
  • BrassRing did make it easy to create and post new jobs as well as unpost and close filled jobs.
  • Kenexa 2x BrassRing is capable of running many useful reports for keeping track of candidate flow and overall recruitment progress.
Other products in the same category as Kenexa 2x BrassRing would be Taleo and PeopleFluent. I would also look into Avature as an ATS option. I am currently on the sourcing side of the recruitment process and use Avature for tracking and candidate mining purposes. I would recommend getting any kind of demo possible since the user interfaces vary quite a bit between them. Ease of use and overall stability should be kept in mind when comparing ATS prices.

Kenexa- my personal expereince

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 15, 2013
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
2 years of experience
  • Kenexa allows Boolean key word search within a particular requisition so it makes sifting through a high number of applicants manageable and effective
  • Kenexa can be tailored to meet individual business needs. During the time we’ve had Kenexa here I’ve used it in support of a few different business segments and for each the way the system was used to “position” candidate statuses have varied based on the individual need of the business. One example is when interviewing a high volume of applicants internationally, we were able to send qualified applicants through to the “event manager” and it would enable the candidate to select his/her interview date/time based on previously submitted options inputted by our Kenexa users.
  • Kenexa allows one to customize and score questions for each open requisition that applicants complete as they apply. The system then sorts applicants according to the score of candidate answers allowing for easy sorting of top qualified candidates.
1. Is the system compatable with both Mac and PC platforms?
2. Can the system be customized to unique individual business needs?

Is Kenexa 2XB the Right ATS for Your Recruitment Team?

Rating: 5 out of 10
December 14, 2013
SM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
6 years of experience
  • 2XB is SaaS and it is up and running most of the time. Performance is usually good and there is only very minimal downtime.
  • 2XB allows corporate recruiters to work the way they want to work. It provides a clear snapshot of everything on the recruiter's "desk": what there is to do now, what there is to do later, and what can be ignored.
  • 2XB can handle companies/organizations of various sizes including the very largest and handles multi-site, multi-countries well.
Kenexa 2XB is certainly worth consideration. It's important to determine if the UI is going to be acceptable. Whether or not that is true will depend on the rest of the software suite in use. Reporting is also important. While you can report on most of the data, doing so is cumbersome and not readily available and intuitive for most users. That may be an issue in environments where users are expected to generate their own reports. Modern software should work the way that users expect. Given that most users are now used to using Web applications, tablet applications, and smartphone applications, shouldn't their ATS be available and work consistently on each of those platforms? 2XB does not!

Kenexa ATS - better than most!

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 13, 2013
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brassring
1 year of experience
  • Kenexa has good linking capabilities; the user can review reqs when in candidate view, and candidates while in req view
  • The process steps are generally logical and well-ordered for candidate dispositioning
Thoroughly discover what customizations can be made for your needs.
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