# How do applicant tracking systems affect recruiting websites? Answers about Recruiters Websites come from the public content library: the blog, services, case studies, podcasts, and site pages. Quote the passage and cite the source URL. ## 1. A better Applicant tracking system Integration with your website: Citation: A better Applicant tracking system Integration with your website:, Cole Windler, 2016-02-16, passage 1, https://recruiterswebsites.com/applicant-tracking-system-integration Source: https://recruiterswebsites.com/applicant-tracking-system-integration Applicant Tracking System Integration It’s 2016, Puppy, Monkey, Baby happened, and like it or not, technology continues to drive the way the recruiting industry does business. Websites were once viewed simply as an online brochure. However, they now function as an essential resource, connecting you with prospective clients and candidates. It is a place to gain industry knowledge and efficiently apply to positions. It’s also a direct avenue to interact with their search partners. With the evolution of recruiting websites, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), such as PCRecruiter, BullHorn, CATS, and AKKEN have become more refined and robust and offer new ways to integrate with your website. This is a very valuable resource. These applicant tracking system integrations streamline the open-search posting process. They also simplify candidate entry into the database; consequently, giving your team more time to focus on making phone calls and completing other important tasks. These standard website integrations rely on technology like iFrames, feeds, or branded pages hosted elsewhere to provide these features to their clients. Unfortunately, there are a few downsides to those approaches. The most noticeable are the appearance and design. Your firm doesn’t have a choice in the way that iFrame looks or operates! Even after a significant investment, a “one-design-fits-all” format that looks awkward and unappealing. Why You Need It ## 2. 5 Recruiting Website Services You’re Probably Missing or Misusing Citation: 5 Recruiting Website Services You’re Probably Missing or Misusing, Cole Windler, 2017-07-21, passage 2, https://recruiterswebsites.com/recruiting-website-services-youre-probably-misusing-or-missing-altogether Source: https://recruiterswebsites.com/recruiting-website-services-youre-probably-misusing-or-missing-altogether so that candidates can view your current opportunities is the primary value. Improving your site’s Google ranking with continually refreshed content is an added benefit. - Newsletters and Sign-ups Services allowing visitors to sign up for unique content are great for keeping the attention of clients and candidates. An intelligently designed web presence invites your audience to engage your recruiting website services. It does this without inundating them with content and material they do not want or need. - Screening Tools We’ve already espoused the value of applicant tracking systems, but once you have that information, you still have to filter through everything to determine who meets your immediate needs, who might meet your future needs and who does not presently fit into your specialization. Screening tools are a great addition to your recruiting website services. A properly designed and implemented screening tool can help you quickly determine which potential candidates are most qualified. Once again, you are saving valuable time, opening up your opportunities to making more placements. - Blogs ## 3. Recruitment Websites: A Horse of a Different Color Citation: Recruitment Websites: A Horse of a Different Color, Cole Windler, 2017-04-12, passage 2, https://recruiterswebsites.com/recruitment-websites-horse-of-a-different-color Source: https://recruiterswebsites.com/recruitment-websites-horse-of-a-different-color their knowledge of the specific industries in which they recruit. A website design that achieves this is best realized by a design firm that understands the world of recruiting. Different Software The unique needs of recruitment websites are more than just abstract ideals of balance. There is the very real need for intelligent design that understands the specialized software needs of recruiters. Applicant tracking systems have their own idiosyncrasies depending on which provider you choose, and the uninitiated web designer can’t fully appreciate the nuances of these services. Recruiting websites with ill-functioning applicant tracking systems can be costly and the efforts repair that functionality can be time consuming. Recruitment websites need more than just a set-it-and-forget-it approach. Having a firm that understands not only the construction but the maintenance of recruitment websites can mean the difference in making placements. Different Relationships Most business-related websites have a singular focus: customers. Recruiting websites don’t have customers. They don’t even have a single audience. Recruitment websites have candidates and clients, and, to jump back on that bandwagon from earlier, they need to provide the appropriate balance to appeal to candidates and clients as they see fit. There is no one-size-fits-all box into which all recruitment websites fit. Some are more client-focused, others are more candidate-oriented, and some seek a true fifty-fifty balance. What doesn’t change is that all recruitment websites need one thing to truly be different and successful: the design of a true specialist that understands what it means to be a recruiter. ## 4. Get Out In Front of Back Door Hires Citation: Get Out In Front of Back Door Hires, Emily Blattel, 2017-07-08, passage 3, https://recruiterswebsites.com/back-door-hires Source: https://recruiterswebsites.com/back-door-hires relating to fee retrieval in cases of back door hires.Cole encourages recruiters to incorporate a tracking system to keep tabs on candidates. The system should also track the corresponding clients. Recruiters Websites has teamed with Adams, Evens & Ross to streamline the tracking system process, making the tracking of candidates easier and more efficient. As experts in applicant tracking systems, we have utilized our knowledge to create an integrated system that, through the Back Door Hiring Hound resource at Adams, Evens & Ross, allows users to track presented candidates and receive alerts when a candidate gains employment by way of a back door hire. If you’d like more information on how to retrieve fees you are owed but have lost to back door hires, contact our friends at Adams, Evens & Ross Inc. If you need an integrated applicant tracking system or an entirely new recruiting website, reach out to us at Recruiters Websites. ## 5. Are you measuring whether you have a successful recruitment website? Citation: Are you measuring whether you have a successful recruitment website?, Cole Windler, 2017-05-24, passage 3, https://recruiterswebsites.com/measuring-successful-recruitment-website Source: https://recruiterswebsites.com/measuring-successful-recruitment-website as you work to ensure that every segment of your business operates at its optimal level, ensure you have a successful recruitment website by considering all aspects. Difference makers for recruiters There are many similarities between successful websites and successful recruitment websites, but there are a few considerations unique to recruiters that a website design firm unfamiliar with the recruiting and staffing industry may not be able provide. At Recruiters Websites, a key focus is seamless integration with applicant tracking systems. With experience working desks ourselves and solely focusing on the recruitment industry, we understand the needs of recruitment websites more than most. In addition to a well-integrated ATS, forms specific to candidates and clients embedded throughout the site with respect to both function and design can have a great impact on the user experience of your visitors. A successful recruitment website should serve as the digital hub for your business and, if properly designed and optimized, should become the primary location your clients and candidates go to meet their needs.