One platform posts your job to 50 boards in a single click; another requires a six-month implementation before you can screen your first candidate. Both call themselves applicant tracking systems. We tested 13 of them with identical requisitions, real candidate pipelines, and structured interview panels to find out which ones actually help you hire.
After spending three weeks inside 13 applicant tracking systems - posting the same job, routing the same candidates, building the same interview loops - the biggest surprise was how little the category name tells you about what these products actually do.
By Samantha AstorgaAfter testing 14 applicant tracking systems against the same nursing recruiter workflow - credential verification, multi-facility job distribution, compliance documentation - the gap between platforms that understand healthcare hiring and those that treat it like any other category became obvious within the first day.
By Javier RiveroAfter running the same 200-candidate placement scenario through 14 applicant tracking systems, the gap between platforms built for staffing agencies and those bolted onto corporate HR software was obvious within the first hour.
By Samantha Astorga