Congratulations! You’ve convinced the powers that be that your recruitment team needs an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). That’s an achievement to celebrate in its own right. Now comes the tricky bit –making sure that your project is a success. This can be easier said than done. To give your project the best start in life, you need to carefully plan how you will roll out your new ATS company wide. This article is the result of years of experience of helping to make ATS projects work for our clients. Please use it as a guide to help you think about your entire implementation process from beginning to end. And if you have any questions – please don’t hesitate to give us a call.
Our last post was all about creating baseline measurements so you can qualify your results.
Step 3: Consider a phased approach.
Don’t try to include everything in one go - consider implementing your ATS project in phases. This is a good idea for a few reasons. Firstly, it may just be too overwhelming and too much change for your team to cope with. Secondly, you may discover things in the implementation process that you want to add later.
Step four, our next post, asks if you have chosen the right ATS for your company.
This post is an excerpt from the white paper "Twelve steps to a successful ATS implementation". If you would like to read more, you can download it now.
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