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iApplicants

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12 Reviews and Ratings

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What is iApplicants?

iApplicants is a cloud-based ATS that offers batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels, resume parsing, and data management. This particular platform is sought and used by small to midsize companies and is offered on a flexible payment schedule.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features iApplicants has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 12 ratings of iApplicants's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Collaboration

    Collaboration capabilities provide the ability to share notes and evaluations

    Category average: 8.6

  • Notifications and Alerts

    Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed

    Category average: 8.5

  • Reporting

    Standard reports on key recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill

    Category average: 7

Areas for Improvement

  • Duplicate Candidate Prevention

    Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added

    Category average: 7.5

  • Company Website Posting

    Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website

    Category average: 8.6

  • Job Search Site Posting

    Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about iApplicants.
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Love iApplicants!

Incentivized
Kelly GurneyView profile
Administrative Coordinator in Information Technology at Horry County Schools (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • The screening for our job applicants is excellent, I have tested it by using a group of people I knew to gauge it's effectiveness. It was spot on, it knows who the team players are and who the lone wolfs are, and the applicants can not fool the test.
  • The supplemental activities are excellent as well. I have a few that I use routinely and while they appear easy, in their simplicity many people get overconfident and make a mess of them, which is in itself an excellent indication of their lack of job skills.
  • In addition, I have had excellent customer service any time I have contacted iapplicants. They are responsive and do whatever they can to help you.

Cons

  • They could communicate new features better.
  • They could advertise better to the education industry, no one really knows about them.

Return on Investment

  • For us it is totally positive it does not cost a lot and we use it all the time and the product works.

Other Software Used

PowerSchool Student Information System, PowerSchool Registration

Unless you LOVE shuffling paper and data entry, you need iApplicants!

Incentivized
Connie HurtView profile
Director of Marketing Resources Support in Human Resources at Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Innovation - iApplicants partners with other related businesses and develops tools to streamline processes. Their integration makes sense - e.g. integrated background checks or HR software integration.
  • Responsiveness - I don't think I've ever had a response that was beyond 24 hours of my request.
  • Training and Updates - The dashboard offers tutorials at your fingertips. Updates/announcements are displayed upon logging in. I appreciate having it there as a constant reminder, but without getting a lot of email notices that clutter my inbox.
  • Customization - I love that we can brand the application for a professional recruiting "portal" and add additional details about our company. Additional customizations are accessible to me as an end user via the GUI, so I don't have to make a request for everything.
  • The application is long enough to deter job hunters who are "click-happy" and apply to every job they come across - applications that allow job hunters to store their resume in the system and click to apply generated hundreds of unqualified people who were desperate for anything and didn't even read the job description. On the reverse side of the spectrum (particularly government systems), I've seen (experienced) online submissions that were so long and tedious and could take hours to complete online. While some fields are mandatory in the application, iApplicants doesn't require a candidiate to essentially re-key every piece of their resume into sections of an online form.

Cons

  • They provided the various reports I needed, so I'm satisfied - they gave me what I needed quickly and didn't charge anything for customizing a couple of reports for me. If I were a larger organization or had more reporting needs, I think I'd want more flexibility to build them myself. (They may have report-builder tools that I'm not aware of since I haven't had the need for them, though.)
  • I'm not sure if it's within their control, but screening questions are supposed to be required for an applicant to submit their application. Some applicants manage to submit without completing them.
  • Allow candidates to attach multiple electronic files (3-4) in addition to their resume. Cover letters, writing samples, portfolios, etc. are helpful tools to obtain from a candidate during the application process rather than requesting in email later.

Return on Investment

  • Dramatically increased employee efficiency. Before we moved to iApplicants, I had to track candidates through EACH phase of the recruiting process (even all of the people who had no business applying in the first place!) I had to send screening questions to candidates with potential, log their email responses, send notifications manually.
  • Our HR staff is able to serve our internal stakeholders significantly. We're able to collaborate with hiring managers and upper management, provide status updates with just a few clicks, and provide better screening by re-aligning on criteria after the first batch of applicants arrives. Sometimes we have to be more lenient, other times more flexible, depending on what the response rate is to the job post.
  • iApplicants significantly enhanced our ability to move candidates through the recruiting process quickly and effectively.

Usability

iApplicants is iAwesome!

Mary Patterson
HR Generalist in Human Resources at Far Bank Enterprises (SAGE, Redington & RIO Products) (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Sourcing Reports: We can see where we are getting the stronger pool candidates
  • Email templates: Allows easy modification to email responses to large groups or individual applicants as to status of their application.
  • Screening questions: Able to place screening questions on application that saves time in reviewing candidate application and moves them quickly to a 'yes' or 'no' category

Cons

  • Searching for candidates who applied earlier for different positions: You have an applicant who is not really a fit for a role he/she submitted an application toward. However, you have a new position come open that they may be perfect - but it was months ago and you cannot remember their name! Search via 'jobs applied for' maybe helpful

Return on Investment

  • Faster lead conversion
  • Positive experience for hiring managers
  • huge save on paper and filing for HR!
  • Able to pull archived job postings and applications without digging through manual files

Usability

iApplicants - Use it and Hire right!

Incentivized
Adam IngberView profile
Director of Human Resources in Human Resources at The PAR Group (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Cost effective
  • Great technical suport

Cons

  • Search capability
  • Reporting features

Return on Investment

  • Time to fill
  • Ease of use

Usability

We weren't gone for long.

Incentivized
Debi Jordan
Vice President of Operations in Corporate at All Trust Home Care (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Ease of product use. There is little training needed when introducing this software to a new user.
  • The ability to customize applications, job postings and reports streamlines our recruiting efforts while saving time and resources.
  • Service has been great as well by support staff.

Cons

  • The only thing I would change is, when revising a job posting, the applications connected with that original post would retain the original custom questions. At this time, the updated questions on the application supersede the original which can be misleading if you are not aware this happens. We have worked around it just fine by having a rule that job posts not be edited. You can create a new one easily by copying the original and then making changes. You then have to search both postings for all candidates.

Return on Investment

  • Increased employee efficiency
  • Faster lead conversion
  • The ability to identify qualified candidates
  • Increased and more effective communication with candidates
  • Source tracking to assist in determining where to best invest our recruiting resources, in turn increasing our ROI in our HR department
  • The job board has increased our ROI as well with increased visibility on multiple job boards that would otherwise increase overall expenses

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