Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) allow enterprises to streamline the process of managing applications for job openings by consolidating the hiring workflows. Organizations leverage ATS to post & manage new job openings and perform multiple operations around the resumes received from candidates. HR Professionals and Recruiters use ATS to manage and simplify the process of hiring new talents by connecting the database of applicants’ resumes to the job opening created on the Talent Management Portal. ATS provides the ability to perform multiple operations such as storing, scoring, screening, and sorting the candidate resumes based on the job details. Some ATS also provide the capabilities of Candidate Relationship Management through which the HR personnel can reach out and communicate with the candidate. These ATS can be sold as stand-alone products or can be integrated with the onboarding software and Talent Management Software to make it an overall Talent Acquisition Suite.
Talent acquisition (TA) applications have traditionally focused on an applicant tracking system (ATS) to track, post and automate the requisition-to-hire process. However, as the TA function in organizations has expanded to compete for talent, TA applications have evolved to cover a broader set of activities such as recruitment marketing, candidate relationship management (CRM) and onboarding. As a result, TA applications are on the market today in a variety of packaged suites that offer combinations of functions beyond applicant tracking. These combined platforms are called talent acquisition (TA), talent management (TM) and human capital management (HCM) suites.