Item: Brightmove
Rating: 9
Author: Chris Ammann

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Brightmove as our main applicant tracking system (ATS) across our recruiting and management personnel. It is our main source for job postings to our corporate website, and dissemination to other RSS job feed sites. It groups together our offers, correspondence and details of all of our candidates and tracks them through the onboarding process.

Pros and Cons

Power search is a great tool to search through the resumes in the ATS.
It's one of the least expensive ATS options.

GUI is not the best, but certainly not the worst either.

Return on Investment

You will lose candidates if trying to track them with a spreadsheet.
The minimal investment in a true ATS is more valuable than missing out on even one candidate.

Alternatives Considered

JazzHR and CATS Applicant Tracking System

Less expensive and does everything I need an ATS to do.

Support Rating

The Customer Support is the best part of using this ATS vs others. They have a chat feature on the home page where you can ask a question and have a Customer Service rep help you in less than a minute. I have found that to be invaluable and a life saver on several occasions. I'm not sure you get that kind of service from a bigger ATS provider.

Key Insights

Do you think Brightmove delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Brightmove's feature set?

Yes

Did Brightmove live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Brightmove go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Brightmove again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office 365

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for small business, as it is one of the least expensive options to properly track candidates. Serves all of my needs for candidate sourcing within our resume database and pushes our jobs out to RSS job feeds such as Indeed and Simply Hired.

Less Expensive, Great Support for your ATS

Overall Satisfaction with Brightmove