Taleo Candidate software, pros and cons
Updated March 20, 2017

Taleo Candidate software, pros and cons

Greg Bealer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Talent Management

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle HCM Cloud

It's used primarily by the recruiters and the on-boarding departments. Human resources uses Taleo as well. Some of the managers use Taleo, though they don't have as deep of access as the recruiters and on-boarding do. We use Taleo for talent tracking. We use it to organize candidates within specific jobs.
  • Talent Tracking
  • The system makes posting to job sites very easy.
  • Does a good job with organizing requisitions.
  • Does not do a good job about letting you know that a candidate who has applied in the past has applied for a different position.
  • Searching through requisitions is a bit problematic as it does not do a good job of giving you all of the requisitions that fit that particular search.
  • Though it is customizable I do wish that specific users had more of an ability to customize for themselves.
  • The ability to run reports has been very helpful. Size and scope.
  • Candidate tracking outside the normal hiring perimeters is very nice.
  • Once again the amount of reports I can run. This has been a God-Send.
I cannot remember the name of the other program I used but it wasn't as user friendly for a start. I worked for a retail company that I won't name but the problem was that I believe it was an in-house made program. It didn't work nearly as well as Taleo did.
I really like the system, and while there are a few drawbacks such as the fact that it is very hard to customize it for the individual user, still it is a very good system. Mainly the fact that the system itself is very easy to use I think more than compensates for the fact that it doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles.

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