Overall Satisfaction with CATS Applicant Tracking System
We use CATS for all of our applicant tracking and to manage the postings for our corporate website's career page. It's the only tool we use in recruiting to manage candidate information before they are hired (at which point they move to our HR system for employees) and is directly integrated to our public facing careers page.
- Simple to implement, SaaS based tool that needs no in-house IT support or resources
- Customizable reports, labels, fields, applications
- Affordable
- No long term contract, month-to-month with ability to cancel anytime
- Data backups are simple
- Email directly from the candidate record with response coming into Outlook is easy to configure and creates record and updates status automatically
- System isn't intuitive at all when it comes to combining things like Source when left free form - for example. Considers Indeed and indeed two different sources because one candidate capitalized and one didn't (these can be merged)
- Resumes forwarded to resume inbox invariably capture source as senders email, even if source is clearly spelled out (can be edited later)
- Importing resumes has some trouble with addresses and phone numbers with certain file types/configuration
- Increased candidate/applicant flow
- Better tracking of candidate engagement
- Faster resume sorting/triage through use of customized application questions
- Taleo,Epicor ERP,PCRecruiter,resumate
The implementation relative to anything else I've seen that is as customizable and powerful as CATS is first reason. The cost is a huge factor as well - at $99/month for a user license, it's much less expensive than similarly featured products and immensely better than ones similarly priced. Almost any company is probably wise to at least take a look at this system. It won't be right for everyone, but it's a strong option.
CATS ATS Feature Ratings
CATS Applicant Tracking System Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal - We had no applicant tracking system in house, so there was no need for any change management. It's contained primarily to the recruiting team, so there should be limited situations where much change management across an enterprise is needed. Reports, fields within records, and applications are all customizable to be able to introduce CATS to a business' process with minimal disruption.
- Which credit card were we going to use for the monthly fee?
- Do we have a logo file that is the right size to upload?
- Developers needed to integrate to careers page, which took about an hour.