At Kate Underwood HR, we love using technology to assist us with our processes and make our lives and clients’ lives easier.

We use Hireful’s Applicant Tracking System to ensure that we can keep on top of all the different recruitment campaigns we are undertaking and keep all of that data safe and secure in one place. Not only that, but it enables a fantastic onboarding experience for potential candidates – with the ability to create your own bespoke application form, set your own grading criteria and send out email correspondence directly from the ATS.

One of my favourite features is the ability to automate the interview scheduling process! With the templates for the emails already prepared, you can send the interview request out, and once the candidate has selected their preferred time, it automatically sorts out all the emails for you, drastically reducing the time spent on admin.

Not only that but having all the candidate information online and in one place means that you already have an online database of potential candidates to that you can send job alerts (if they sign up for this of course!) this – as well as the brilliant deals they negotiate with website and publications – means that you’re also being cost-effective too!

Here are our Top three reasons why you should use an ATS:

1. An applicant tracking system saves you time

Count the hours you spend manually posting a job on a job board. Now add up the time you spend going through CVs and emailing each candidate, even the ones you know are not a good fit for the position you advertised. It starts to add up, doesn’t it?

With an ATS, all these time-consuming processes can be streamlined and automated, reducing hiring time up to as much as 20%.

2. The right applicant tracking system improves the quality of hire

AI can bring many advantages to the recruitment process, one of them being removing bias from the decision process. An ATS with an AI system implemented can quickly spot the candidates that best match the job requirements and screen out the unqualified ones. This allows recruiters to focus their efforts on the top talent they find, improving the quality of hire, increasing the employee retention rate, and lowering turnover rates.

3. Improves Candidate Experience

Candidate experience is one of the most important parts of a recruitment process and one that recruiters often tend to overlook and dismiss. Using an ATS helps recruiters improve the way they engage with candidates, keeping track of the stage of each applicant and helping recruiters communicate with applicants through integrated emailing systems.

Contacting Us

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