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SmartSearch ATS

Overview

What is SmartSearch ATS?

SmartSearch is a web-based talent acquisition and staffing management software. Features include job posting to job boards and social media outlets, resume parsing, and automated workflow. SmartSearch advertises robust customer service and implementation assistance.

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SmartSearch RULES!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 19, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
SmartSearch is used across the entire organization. We use it as a sales/new business/client development tool and also as our candidate tracking system. We also use SmartSearc...
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David Burchette
Director - Information Technology
Director, Recruiting Services and Delivery
SunTechPros Inc.
SmartSearch ATS10 years of experience

Great Value, Integrated Tool, Key Decision Making Support Application

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 19, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
SmartSearch is used across our entire business as our applicant tracking system. We do requisition management including: related workflows for approval of all positions for hi...
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EJ Meier
Executive - Human Resources
Vice President Human Resources, Global Operations
Gates Corporation
SmartSearch ATS4 years of experience

Good Product but Room for Improvement

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 19, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
HR uses SmartSearch as a repository of candidates (candidates apply via our external website and their information is stored in SmartSearch), completing the hiring process (us...
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Debbie Personette
Professional - Human Resources
Sr HRIS Analyst
EOG Resources
SmartSearch ATS2 years of experience

SmartSearch - efficiency, flexibility and features... This does a lot for your business.

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 19, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
SmartSearch is being used primarily as our candidate intake, recruiting, applicant tracking and onboarding tool. Additionally we use it to track employment and various HR func...
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David Stafford
Vice-President - Corporate
Vice President
L. J. Gonzer Associates
SmartSearch ATS24 years of experience

SmartSearch is Great and a True Business Partner

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 19, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We utilize SmartSearch as our applicant tracking system (ATS) and contact/client tracking. SmartSearch integrates with our back office, so the vast majority of the work our bu...
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Travis Medley
Executive - Other
President
TalentZök
SmartSearch ATS7 years of experience
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What is SmartSearch ATS?

SmartSearch is a web-based talent acquisition and staffing management software. Features include job posting to job boards and social media outlets, resume parsing, and automated workflow. SmartSearch advertises robust customer service and implementation assistance.

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Features

Recruiting / ATS

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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Product Details

What is SmartSearch ATS?

SmartSearch is the flagship web-based talent acquisition and staffing management software from Advanced Personnel Systems Inc, that, while not as broadly used as some other software suites, is capable of delivering all of the features and capabilities (e.g. integration with outside services like Outlook, direct posting to job boards and sourcing via social networks, data/resume parsing and rich automation features) expected of applicant tracking systems. Live support representatives are available 24/7. Also, Advanced Personnel Systems offers a live, personalized demonstration of the software for those interested, as well as full "concierge" service throughout the implementation process.

SmartSearch ATS Features

Recruiting / ATS Features

  • Supported: Job Requisition Management
  • Supported: Company Website Posting
  • Supported: Publish to Social Media
  • Supported: Job Search Site Posting
  • Supported: Customized Application Form
  • Supported: Resume Management
  • Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
  • Supported: Candidate Search
  • Supported: Applicant Tracking
  • Supported: Collaboration
  • Supported: Task Creation and Delegation
  • Supported: Email Templates
  • Supported: User Permissions
  • Supported: Notifications and Alerts
  • Supported: Reporting

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SmartSearch ATS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

SmartSearch is a web-based talent acquisition and staffing management software. Features include job posting to job boards and social media outlets, resume parsing, and automated workflow. SmartSearch advertises robust customer service and implementation assistance.

Bullhorn ATS & CRM, JobDiva, and iCIMS Talent Cloud are common alternatives for SmartSearch ATS.

Reviewers rate Duplicate Candidate Prevention highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of SmartSearch ATS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Smartsearch Review - Recruiter's Opinion

Rating: 4 out of 10
April 09, 2014
Verified User
Employee in Corporate
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartSearch ATS
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SmartSearch is primarily used by the recruiting department in our organization, although sales and account management has access as well. It is used to keep track of actions related to candidates and job requisitions that we receive from out clients. It keeps all of this information in one central location so that users can see what progress has been made on certain positions that we are working towards filling.
Pros
  • Keeping Files - easy to keep information up to date for job requisitions, candidates, contacts, etc
  • Tracking Progress
Cons
  • Not very intuitive - some features are hard to use and learn
  • Running reports - reports give incomplete data
Likelihood to Recommend
This is a good software if everyone in the organization is used to it and knows how to use it. To learn this from scratch is difficult, and while there are a lot of features to make using SmartSearch easy and automated, these features are difficult to learn and sometimes you aren't aware of the option being available.

Work Smarter not Harder, SmartSearch ATS is leading the pack in Efficiency!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 27, 2015
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartSearch ATS
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SmartSearch is being used across the organization as the primary applicant tracking system. In the staffing industry, an efficient ATS is instrumental in our success. SmartSearch is very user friendly and allows us to effectively streamline our applicant hire process.
Pros
  • Search integration with popular job boards such as Monster and CareerBuilder make for simple searches to maximize results.
  • HireTrak allows smooth transition through the hiring process.
  • WIP is great. It makes it easy to efficiently maximize your daily productivity.
Cons
  • Adding a contact to a job. The auto-populate feature doesn't always seem to work in accurately identifying the correct business contact to assign an order under
  • When copying and pasting a job description from MS Word to SmartSearch, it often alters the format causing me to reformat.
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartSearch ATS works well in all aspects in the staffing industry. It doesn't have too many bells and whistles to make it confusing to the average user.

SmartSearch - A smart choice!

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 08, 2014
DC
David Clement
Director of Recruiting
Six3 Intelligence Solutions, a CACI Company (Defense & Space, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartSearch ATS
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SmartSearch is used as our Applicant Tracking System (ATS). It is also used to create and manage our job requisitions and is the portal to the careers page of our company’s internet site. SmartSearch is extremely user friendly and is capable of adapting to our company’s needs, no matter how small or intense they may be. SmartSearch’s capabilities also grew as we grew as a company. They are constantly coming out with new and exciting tools to enhance our user experience.
Pros
  • Helpdesk/ Customer Support - Very rarely are there any issues or problems with SmartSearch itself, but my team excels at weeding out new and challenging hurdles that require SmartSearch assistance, the SmartSearch Helpdesk team has always been very friendly and customer focused, always willing to go the extra distance to ensure complete customer satisfaction.
  • SmartSearch made its system very intuitive, so if you have worked on any other applicant tracking systems before, it will be quite easy for you to pick up.
  • Search Parameters - SmartSearch has made their database work very much like a major job board with its boolean capabilities. It is a great feature to search through your candidate database.
Cons
  • For Administrators - ability to track users log in/out traffic could be reworked a bit for better visibility.
  • Platform issues - sometimes you have to jump between firefox or internet explorer because certain parts of SmartSearch works better on different platforms. It would be nice if it would all work the same on any platform.
  • The only other thing is their hours. They are West Coast, we are East Coast. Although they start very early on the West Coast, they are still three hours behind.
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartSearch is great whether you are an independent contractor, small business, or growing into a large business. It is truly a company that caters to your needs.

SmartSearch ATS is SMART!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 30, 2015
BH
Bill Humbert
Contract Recruiter/Consultant/Trainer
GCommerceSolutions.com (Human Resources, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartSearch ATS
11 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SmartSearch ATS is being used in my company both as an Applicant Tracking System for my RecruiterGuy.com contract recruiter/consulting business and as a Customer Records Management System for my public speaking business SpeakBill.com. It solves my problem of tracking jobs, candidates, managers, posting jobs for Internet Aggregators to scrape, and tracking activity for clients and my businesses.
Pros
  • When a company is a new client, SmartSearch ATS does an excellent job of bringing functionality to their client very quickly, usually within a couple of weeks. Their training program is designed so even non-technical users may use their SmartSearch ATS quickly.
  • The Customer Support Team at SmartSearch ATS are off the charts great for jumping on problems quickly and solving them. Sometimes the problems are created by other vendors who link with SmartSearch ATS. Even then SmartSearch resolves the problem. My advice? Expect a happy resolution the rare times you have a problem.
  • The Development Team at SmartSearch ATS have been around for many years. While the fundamentals of the SmartSearch ATS software are mature, the nature of the ATS software business is constant change. SmartSearch ATS does a wonderful job staying up to date. There is no need to bleed at cutting edge. Give me up to date and stability any day! SmartSearch ATS provides both.
Cons
  • When you create a new job posting, you are required to pick a field from "miscellaneous export information". Camera Operator and Makeup Artists are choices. Web Developers are not a choice. I don't get that.
Likelihood to Recommend

Of course, as in any product choice, the product needs to match the company requirements. SmartSearch ATS solves tracking problems very well for small to medium sized companies - a nice broad market in itself. SmartSearch ATS would not be a good enterprise ATS choice. It is not designed to be.

Based on my experience, a strong enterprise ATS does not currently exist. Most do a better job driving away passive candidates than attracting them.

With SmartSearch ATS, it is possible to make it easy for passive candidates to indicate their interest.

How many positions will you need to post over the next year?

How many candidates will you need to track?

How many company employees will need to access SmartSearch ATS to track candidates?

What types of reporting do you require?

What is your budget?

Is the standard SmartSearch ATS fine for your company or will you need to customize?

Would you like your ATS to mirror image your website? SmartSearch ATS does.

Adaptable and User Friendly

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
April 07, 2015
Verified User
Employee in Human Resources
Staffing and Recruiting Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartSearch ATS
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Smart Search is being used company-wide where I work. It makes sure we can retain information for qualified job seekers.
Pros
  • I like it better than other ATS I have used in the past because it utilizes very little system resources. Unlike other ATS I have used it has never frozen my computer or caused it to crash.
  • It is very customizable. You can easily edit your default view to give you access to any information you may need. This significantly increases productivity.
  • It has a great search function. You can quickly search most aspects of candidates, job orders, or contacts to find the information you need quickly.
Cons
  • Once in a blue moon, when searching within the radius of a zip code, I find that the information is lacking in the ATS.
  • The searches can be at times confusing, especially when searching job orders.
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartSearch is very adaptable and can work well in any environment. It interacts well with Outlook and outside websites. Due to the fact that it is web based, you need not worry about it taking up your hard drive. It works for both large organizations as well as small ones.
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