ApplicantStack

Candidate Experience Surveys

Sends out surveys to candidates in order to capture data on the process.

AI Capabilities

Artificial intelligence to enhance knowledge management such as automatically tagging content, recognizing duplicate content, and suggesting relevant content.

Employee Referrals

Employees can refer candidates through the system.

Onboarding and Training

The solution provides capabilities to train, coach, or onboard new sales hires.

User Permissions

Ability to set configuration and access permissions by user requirements.

Analytics and Reporting

Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Candidate Experience Portal

An online platform that lets applicants engage with hiring through status updates, info access, and communication tools—clear, personal, and user-friendly.

Customized Job Postings

Able to post jobs with descriptions that fit the organization’s needs.

Integration APIs

Ability of the software to interface with legacy and other third party applications.

Mobile

Ability to support multiple devices, OSes and platforms using mobile optimized, HTML-based web access and/or native applications.

Availability and Quality of Training

Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization

Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation

Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features

Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness

End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Data Integration

Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Business Value Created

Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Breadth of Features

Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of IT Administration

This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support

The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.