Employment agency software primary purpose is to keep track of available jobs and possible applicants and match the two together the information about the people applying for those jobs.
Employment packages are readily available and the competitiveness in the market has made basic to moderate functions for tracking of applicants and jobs very affordable for medium or even small agencies.
In house or online packages are available. Employment tracking packages have many features including:
- Contact management
- Resume tracking
- Job tracking
- Ad layout templates
- Communication modules
This software for employment tracking is typically found in one of several forms:
- Custom Developed, as a standalone – affordable by large, unique corporations only
- As part of another enterprise or HR package
- As a portion of a more complete ERP package. These are actually numerous and common. For example, SAP has its own applicant information sub-system, as does Great Plains Enterprise software package
Major entries in the Employment market include:
- OpenHire
- Mindscope
- PCRecruiter
- Mojoscripts
- RecruitMax
- and thousands more
In selecting the proper software for tracking your applicants and jobs, several factors come into play.
These factors are similar to those for selecting other software packages:
- In house or online
- Availability of data: Can you extract data from a standard database for easy interaction with your other systems or for customized reporting needs (such as HiPAA)
- Interfaces: Are there interfaces built into the software to allow for automated interfaces into other standard software such as other HR software, business management software
- Training: Especially with a small business, getting everyone up to speed quickly on a new software package is critical
- System resources: Not usually an issue, but sometimes small business environments are on over-taxed hardware already.