PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool Educational Services Reviews & Insights

Score7 out of 10

27 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Business Problems Solved

PeopleAdmin, a software solution used by the Human Resources Department, has significantly improved the hiring process within the organization. By implementing PeopleAdmin, the Employment Services unit has been able to expand their advertising reach and simplify the application process for applicants. This has resulted in an increased pool size, greater diversity in applicants, and expanded outreach for job postings. Users of PeopleAdmin across all colleges and departments have praised its ability to provide control over job postings, budget expenditures, and overall position management. The software's SelectSuite solution is utilized for all position types, including faculty, administrators, staff, students, and extra help. These features have enabled successful recruitment efforts by offering robust tools such as position management, applicant tracking, performance management, and onboarding. Furthermore, PeopleAdmin has simplified the application process by managing job postings and reducing the time it takes to make a posting and fill a position. The system is used campus-wide, excluding student hiring, and has significantly improved the efficiency of the approval process. Managers now have easy access to review applications without needing to physically come into the HR department or review paper files. Additionally, PeopleAdmin ensures accurate record-keeping of recruitment and applications while addressing various business problems such as eliminating human errors and facilitating the application process. It has also provided a more efficient way to store and access staff job descriptions while improving tracking and reporting of search processes. Overall, PeopleAdmin has successfully solved workflow issues, reduced recruiting fees and expenses related to copying and mailing documents, increased applicant traffic, reduced 'time to fill' positions significantly and proved beneficial to both HR departments and hiring managers.

PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool Reviews

17 Reviews

Educational ServicesHigher Education17

Streamlined and Unified Position Management and Job Postings

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 23, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PeopleAdmin is used for [the] submission and tracking of applicants for employment at the institution. The product ensures all HR functions related to hiring are tracked and that the search committee can make the best choice possible when hiring. By using PeopleAdmin, the applicants have a consistent portal for entering their materials, no one person is responsible for distributing the materials to the search committee and everything is tracked consistently.

Pros

Consistency
Secure
Collaboration
Communication

Cons

Navigation is a little wonky[.]
Switching between roles is tricky for many.
The platform is a little bit slow at downloading materials if the batch of materials contains many documents.

Likelihood to Recommend

PeopleAdmin does exactly what it needs to do. It provides prospective employees a place to browse openings, apply for openings and see the status of the search. Since this resource is available online 24/7, it ensures HR doesn't get overwhelmed with requests. Additionally, it serves as a place for the search committee to collect the same information and review it together. From start to finish of the hiring process, PeopleAdmin gets it done.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Higher Education company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Recruitment Solutions through PeopleAdmin SelectSuite

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 26, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The PeopleAdmin SelectSuite solution is utilized across our institution for all position types including faculty, administrators, staff, students and extra help. We are utilizing position management, applicant tracking, performance, and even onboarding. The SelectSuite software has provided us with the robust tools that we need to make our recruitment efforts a success. We are in the process of enhancing our position management forms and workflows to address several other position update actions as well (promotion requests and salary increase requests).

Pros

Customizable
Constant updates and fixes
Always looking for ways to make the system better.

Cons

Performance Management - more flexibility
Reclassification (ability to move a position from one position type to another)
More support for large media files for musical performance and portfolios

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great solution for recruitment. It has enhanced supplemental question drill down options, pool postings, evaluative criteria, search committee features, and combined documents. There are other great features as well such as the reference collection feature and the robust reporting tools.

Shannon Phillips

Assistant Director of Technology & Compensation Specialist in Human Resources at University of Arkansas (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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PA7 User Review

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

February 23, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PeopleAdmin 7 across the entire organization. We use it to hire faculty, staff and research. It addresses some of our hiring needs but not all.

Pros

Workflow
Role Profiles
Account Set up

Cons

Offer Letter enhancements
Organization structure and set up
Big picture planning

Likelihood to Recommend

I think that it is well suited if everything is very specific and you have no outliers. For outliers and large differences in hiring practices it is not great.

Diane Conners

Assistant Director Recruitment Partner in Human Resources at The George Washington University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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PeopleAdmin will simplify your day!

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

February 14, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PeopleAdmin to manage staff position descriptions and to post open positions and manage searches. This is used by the entire campus although actual access to the software is somewhat centralized. We moved to this from a VERY old paper-based system and it has provided a much more efficient way to store and access staff job descriptions. The applicant tracking side of the software has allowed much better tracking and reporting of our search processes.

Pros

Provides a dashboard view that provides both a quick glance and the ability to drill down on individual items. This is important for managing multiple staff actions and searches.
Applicant information (current and historical) is stored in one convenient place and can be accessed immediately when needed.
Information can be sorted, viewed, and searched for in varying ways which is important when working with multiple departments.

Cons

Moving applicants through workflow is not a very fluid process. When the number of applicants spans multiple pages one is forced to work with each page individually; moving applicants to a status that requires approval precludes moving any others in workflow without filtering them out but it is not obvious that one needs to be aware of this.
One can't search for a job description by simply typing in the employee's name - it requires using the position number and often the name is what is at hand.
When one changes positions within the organization and requires different access there does not seem to be a way to be added globally to job descriptions in the new unit - the process is far too manual. Although I believe adding new units to ones profile is fairly simple, apparently one can't remove the old units so I continue to see things that I no longer need to.

Likelihood to Recommend

PeopleAdmin does not seem to handle the higher education hierarchy well - or at least not ours.

Sara Weixelman

HR Generalist in Human Resources at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

To be or not to be?

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 6, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PeopleAdmin to manage the application process and post our open positions. When we have to run a report or queries, PeopleAdmin is a great tool to pull important information. We currently use it in the HR department. PeopleAdmin simplifies the application process and helps us to manage job postings.

Pros

PeopleAdmin provides excellent customer service and support. We contact PeopleAdmn to address specific issues that we may have and I always get a representative to assist me.
The website is always up and I have never experienced any downtime.
PeopleAdmin is a great tool to help me assist hiring managers to track applicants.

Cons

The application process can be very lengthy.
Why can't the "Back" button be used? When will PeopleAdmin users be able to use the "back" button and not "inactivate" the system? There are time when I have to close the system and all my other windows to re-boot the system.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would tell them to be prepared to customize the products they want. PeopleAdmin is not a "One-size-fits-all" product.

Alfonso Villalpando

Sr. Human Resources Representative/Recruiter in Human Resources at Houston Community College (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

PeopleAdmin Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 6, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PeopleAdmin is being used by one department (Human Resources) to service every department in our organization. Our organization is made up of three sections that use the product, our University (all departments and colleges), our Research Corporation, and our Marshall Health (hospital affiliate employees). Our department posts all full-time and part-time benefit eligible positions on to our PeopleAdmin website. We require all interested applicants for any of the mentioned positions to apply through our PeopleAdmin website. No candidates may be considered without applying through it. PeopleAdmin addresses man business problems for our organization. Some of the most important issues it resolved for us were accurate record keeping of all recruitment and applications, it eliminated a lot of human error when it came to posting positions, closing positions, and reviewing applications, and also it has facilitated the application process for applicants allowing us to receive more applications.

Pros

Accurately records all applications for a position, eliminating any human error on recording applications.
Generates reports for the organization rather than requiring the employee to gather the data themselves.
Facilitates the application process by only allowing applicants to submit fully completed applications.
Allows departments to ask specific supplemental questions with pass/fail answers to facilitate the screening process.
Serves as a library for all positions at the organization so that job descriptions, qualifications, and records are readily available.
Continuously working at all times rather than only during open business hours (i.e. deadlines can be extended to midnight rather than 5 p.m. ET).
Provides IT support at all time through the PeopleAdmin Community page, FAQ, and live staff that responds to any issues in an extremely timely fashion.

Cons

Implementation training could have been more detailed and directed to a beginning user.
Not being able to see incomplete applications while trying to help an applicant submit an application is difficult.
Making the system more user friendly for beginning user.

Likelihood to Recommend

Organizations who have very few applications and/or very few positions posted are probably less likely to benefit as high from PeopleAdmin. Large organizations who have several positions and/or several applications/applicants can definitely benefit from this product. This product is not as well suited for performance management as I had hoped because there is not a lot of freedom to creating and designing different evaluations for different position types in the system when you have an organization that has thousands of different employees and types.

Verified User

Professional in Human Resources (Higher Education company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

PeopleAdmin - a good choice.

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

February 4, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PeopleAdmin is being used as our Applicant Tracking system. The system is used organization wide with the exception of student hiring. Prior to PeopleAdmin our recruiting process was done via inbox and emailed forms which increased the time it took for us to make a posting and fill a position. Having PeopleAdmin has allowed up to start the approval process and finish the approval process in less time (sometimes a day) and post immediately.

Pros

Customer Service.
Customized to our needs.
They understand HR and the processes.
Easy to use for all users.

Cons

Internal hiring is difficult but not impossible.
Only one user group can manage an area in the workflow, proving to be difficult for search committee/chairs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Less appropriate for internal hires. The system does not recognize them as existing users and duplicate accounts are created. The system is also not yet mobile for the internal users making it difficult to respond to workflow changes via phones or ipads. We have a lot of traveling hiring managers and they are unable to review and respond to applications while traveling.

Stephanie Gigliotti, PHR

HR Generalist in Human Resources at National Louis University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

PeopleAdmin review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 3, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PeopleAdmin is being used by central HR as well as other departments across the university. It tracks the entire hiring process from start to finish. It addresses ethical issues that arise during the hiring process.

Pros

Does well at tracking compliance with anti-discrimination laws which is a particular issue for higher education.
Has built in screening tools that allow you to assess and compare candidates using said assessment results and supplemental questions.
Offers the generation of defensible audit trails and reporting of all changes, classifcations, employee certifications, and requirements etc.

Cons

There is room for improvement with customization for on-boarding process.

Likelihood to Recommend

PeopleAdmin is well suited for maintaining a pool of qualified applicants for adjunct faculty positions.

Kelsea Bolin

Administrative Coordinator in Information Technology at Ohio University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Very Good ATS System

Rating: 7 out of 10

January 31, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PeopleAdmin across the entire university. All colleges and departments use it. HR is the system administrator. All benefits eligible position openings are posted through the system. it allows us to control the postings from a standardization and compliance perspective; control the budget expenditures to maintain salary band integrity, control expenditures for grant funded positions as well as overall position control (vs our overall budget).

Pros

Well laid out tabs capture all relevant data points in one requisition
Approval routing features fit our needs nicely
Ability to have guest user access is ideal for faculty search committees

Cons

Mainly labeling of dashboards - more data could be added to aid in ease of reviewing data.

Likelihood to Recommend

The system is ideal for Higher Ed institutions. Main questions to ask would be about customization options for your organization and what reports are available.

Mario Crisfulla, PHR

Manager, Talent Acquisition in Human Resources at Drexel University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

PeopleAdmin-Great Product for Higher Education

Rating: 9 out of 10

January 27, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PeopleAdmin is being used by our entire organization. It helps with postings, applicant tracking, job descriptions, and routing purposes (department, HR, Compensation, AVC, HR, etc.)

Pros

Applicant Tracking - Being able to have applicants create an applicant profile and have it stored in the system in order to apply for future positions.
Great for tracking the work flow and where the position is currently in the approval process.
Keeps history of job descriptions.
Allows for multiple user accesses (HR access, hiring manager access, etc.)

Cons

Since the upgrade-not as user friendly
Not able to easily view and track where the position is at in the approval process.
With the upgrade-doesn't do all the things that we were promised it would do
Needs a function that we can add an electronic singnature or a way to edit and add a signature line and print so we can get job descriptions signed by department heads

Likelihood to Recommend

PeopleAdmin is great for higher education institutions. Easily accessible, never have issues with it not being available online. It's important to figure out which modules are most important for you and the company and to see if the certain modules work like you think they should. They will easily costumize to your needs. However, with the upgrade some things don't work as properly or as efficiently as we thought they would. I prefer the old system better. Also, no applicant data transferred over with the upgrade...that would have been nice.

Verified User

Consultant in Human Resources (Higher Education company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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PeopleAdmin Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 6, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Accurately records all applications for a position, eliminating any human error on recording applications.
Generates reports for the organization rather than requiring the employee to gather the data themselves.
Facilitates the application process by only allowing applicants to submit fully completed applications.
Allows departments to ask specific supplemental questions with pass/fail answers to facilitate the screening process.
Serves as a library for all positions at the organization so that job descriptions, qualifications, and records are readily available.
Continuously working at all times rather than only during open business hours (i.e. deadlines can be extended to midnight rather than 5 p.m. ET).
Provides IT support at all time through the PeopleAdmin Community page, FAQ, and live staff that responds to any issues in an extremely timely fashion.

Cons

Implementation training could have been more detailed and directed to a beginning user.
Not being able to see incomplete applications while trying to help an applicant submit an application is difficult.
Making the system more user friendly for beginning user.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Professional in Human Resources (Higher Education company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience