Job boards and applicant tracking systems

The appeal of applicant tracking systems (ATS) for employers is obvious: they promise to bring order to the often disordered process of managing job applicants. An ATS can theoretically drive all job applicants into a single pipeline, massage their unruly information into neatly ordered database fields set up exactly as the employer desires, and allow HR to actually manage the interactions with applicants.

Sometimes the ATS works well – and sometimes (like all software) it doesn’t. When it works, the HR and recruitment team are very happy and often are able to do more with less. (Although poor ATS implementations can cause problems for job seekers, as I noted here).

Job boards, however, face several challenges when dealing with employers using an ATS

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