Frequently asked questions about staffing agency software

What is an applicant tracking system (ATS)?

An ATS is a type of recruitment software that staffing agencies and recruiters use to collect, analyse and store candidate information.

Staffing agencies use ATSs as a central point for the entire recruitment process. This includes managing job postings, communicating with candidates, scheduling interviews, storing CVs and notes, collecting interview feedback, and extending offers to candidates. Recruitment software allows you to manage everything in one convenient place easily.

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How can an ATS help staffing agencies?

There are many benefits of using an ATS for staffing agencies, the most important being that it helps improve your efficiency.

As a staffing agency, you know how important having an organised and streamlined workflow is. When clients come to you with staffing requests, you need to be able to jump straight onto sourcing the best possible candidates. An ATS ensures you can post job adverts and sort through potential applicants in no time.

The software automates job posting, communication, database management and candidate tracking processes. They save you time by cutting out manual tasks and ensuring no candidates get lost in the process.

Plus, it helps you build an organised and easily accessible talent database—helping you find suitable candidates quicker than ever before.

Other benefits of staffing agencies using an ATS include:

• Streamlining the staff placement process
• Helping you widen your candidate outreach efforts across more job boards and social media profiles
• Reducing cost per hire
• Improving candidate experience
• Automatically screening applicants with questionnaires
• Generating insightful analytics and insights

In short, recruitment software helps you achieve more by doing less.

Features to look for in an ATS for staffing agencies

GoHire’s recruitment software is built for small to medium businesses, including staffing agencies.

Here are a few of our key features that can help staffing and recruitment agencies optimise their workflow and place more staff in the right positions:

Manage multiple jobs on the same dashboard

You’ve likely got a few open roles you’re recruiting for at any given time. Well, now you can manage them all from one place, at the same time. You can assign each job to a different team member to manage or get a holistic view of all clients and open jobs simultaneously.

Combined inbox

Store all communication with candidates in one place. No more missing emails, misplaced CVs or forgotten conversations. All correspondence with candidates is done through the recruitment software, making it easy to refer back to and pick up conversations where they last left off.

Having a combined inbox makes it easy for anyone in your team to jump in, take over or simply get up to speed on any client’s recruitment status.

One-click job posting

Gone are the days of manually posting job ads to multiple job boards. With GoHire, you can post your clients’ job ads to over 15 job boards, including Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter and many more! Plus, you can integrate social profiles—either your own or your clients—to automatically share any new job openings.

CV importing

Have you been in the staffing business for a while? Don’t let your candidate database go to waste. With GoHire, you can easily import CVs and add candidates to your database⁠—either one by one or using our bulk import feature. Now you can easily find suitable candidates to approach when new roles open up!

Candidate tracking & custom pipelines

We’re replacing old recruitment processes of spreadsheets and emails with visual recruiting pipelines. Our customised recruitment pipelines automatically track candidates and hiring stages. From the initial sourcing stage all the way through to hiring, you can easily track the status of each job you’re sourcing for. Plus, the recruiting software automatically keeps candidates in the loop throughout the process, improving the candidate experience.

Automation

Save yourself and your staffing team from the tedious, monotonous recruitment tasks. GoHire’s automation features include automated job ad posting, questionnaire screening, communication with candidates, self-scheduling interviews and onboarding.

Database management

Your staffing agency is only as good as your talent database. GoHire’s ATS ensures that your candidate database is top-notch by making it as organised and accessible as possible. Now, you can easily find specific candidates, rate the best, filter the disqualified, and search for the applicants you want to take through to interview. It just works.

That’s just the start. Learn about all of GoHire’s features.