Best Applicant Tracking Systems For Recruiters

The best applicant tracking systems for recruiters working in agencies solve a different problem from the internal version, and the two get compared as though they were interchangeable.

An internal system tracks candidates against your own vacancies. One organisation, one set of roles, one hiring manager to satisfy.

An agency system also tracks clients, multiple concurrent briefs, candidates across clients, placement and margin, and who owns which relationship. It is a sales system with recruitment attached.

Buying an agency product for internal hiring means paying for pipeline and commission features nobody will use. Buying an internal product for agency work means running the commercial side in a spreadsheet.

Be clear which of the two you are before comparing anything.

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