Top 10 Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) in 2024

In 2024, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) continue to be the linchpin of a successful recruitment strategy, offering a blend of technological prowess and user-friendly interfaces to streamline the hiring process.

The talent acquisition landscape is brimming with hundreds of HR and recruitment platforms all claiming to be the ultimate solution for anyone hiring top talent. But which ones are truly the most effective?

We’ve examined some of the most reviewed ATS on the market to bring you 10 of the top platforms of the year. These not only boast advanced features that cater to the changing dynamics of work, but also stand out for their innovative approaches to candidate engagement, seamless integration with HR ecosystems, adoption of AI and emerging technologies, and portfolios of complete solutions.

1.?Greenhouse

Greenhouse is an all-together hiring platform delivering hiring solutions from sourcing to onboarding. The platform encourages collaborative decision-making and fair and equitable hiring and is suitable for companies of all sizes. In April 2024, the company announced a new AI capability to help recruiters craft emails and set communication cadences with candidates and is currently working on incorporating AI in other new features.

Greenhouse was recognised in 2023 by Select Software as a Top Applicant Tracking System, and in 2024 by G2 as a Top 50 HR Product.

2.?JazzHR

JazzHR puts powerful, yet easy-to-use recruiting software in the hands of startups, growing companies, and even presidential campaigns. Their mission is to close the loop that connects recruiting to performance so that how a company recruits transforms how it performs. Their platform is designed to scale with businesses of any size, whether you’re hiring 5 people or 500 a year.

In 2023, JazzHR was recognised by Forbes Advisor as one of the Best Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) of 2023 | Awarded Best for Startups and featured as Best Recruiting Software for Employers | Awarded Best for Employers With Fewer Than 500 Employees.

3.?Rippling

Recognised as the UK’s best recruiting software and ATS, Rippling lets everyone – from sources and recruiters to hiring managers and department heads – hire more efficiently. The platform unifies HR, IT, finance, and more, and is integrated with 500+ apps.

After launches in the UK and Ireland, Rippling announced in February 2024 the opening of its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Sydney, Australia, continuing its ambitious international expansion.

4.?Zoho Recruit

Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based hiring platform that gives HR teams and recruitment agencies the digital tools to fill roles quickly and efficiently. It offers both an ATS and CRM in one platform, as well as scalability, customisation, and remote hiring tools.

In December 2023, Zoho announced a new AI-powered tool to help users craft tailored job descriptions. The new Smart Assist by Zia refines grammar, integrates industry jargon, and ensures compliance with job board quality standards.

5.?BambooHR

BambooHR is a complete HR platform that brings together employee, payroll, time, and benefit information together in one place. Trusted by 33,000+ companies of all sizes, the platform is designed to simplify complicated processes and streamline time-consuming tasks.

In February 2024, BambooHR announced the release of Employee Community, an internal communications hub, and Total Rewards, a compensation statement and retention tool, helping to keep employees connected and showing them the full value of their compensation package.

6.?Workable

Used by approximately 27,000 companies, Workable allows you to recruit, onboard, and manage your employees in one single solution, with a platform made by one of the most reputable brands in HR tech.

In 2024, Workable was named by Forbes Advisor as the Best AI-Powered Recruiting Platform, with AI tools that include AI-generated job descriptions, interview question generation, email assistance, resume data extraction, salary estimation, instant sourcing, and coming soon, profile summarisation.

7.?Pinpoint

Pinpoint provides applicant tracking software for in-house talent acquisition and people teams. The platform has been proven to attract 4x more direct candidates, make hires 40% faster, and allow talent acquisition teams to spend 80% less time on admin.

Pinpoint has been recognised as a Top Rated Applicant Tracking Software by Software World and offers industry-focused solutions including Healthcare, Startup, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Transport & Logistics recruitment software.

8.?ClearCompany

ClearCompany is the world’s fastest-growing talent management platform and award-winning Applicant Tracking Software designed to optimise the employee experience as well as HR initiatives to maximise employee and company success. The company’s ATS both automates common recruiting tasks and sets the stage for talent maximisation, leveraging AI, texting, video, and scheduling technology to create best-in-class candidate experiences.

ClearCompany has been selected to Gartner’s 2024 FrontRunners list for Applicant Tracking Software, placed on Capterra’s Talent Management Shortlist Software Report 2024, and recognised on G2 Crowd’s Best HR Product List.

9.?Manatal

Manatal is an AI recruitment software that enables HR departments and recruitment agencies to source and hire effectively. It is trusted by 10,000 recruitment teams in 135+ countries and leverages the latest technologies at every stage of the recruitment cycle to allow recruiters to source more candidates, speed up screening, simplify team collaboration, and hire top talents.

Manatal was recognised as the best Recruiting Software of 2023 by Forbes Advisor and also received 60 badges from G2 in 2023, ranking high in categories such as Recruitment Marketing, Applicant Tracking System, Staffing, Recruitment Automation, and Recruitment Platforms.

10.?iCIMS

iCIMS is a best-in-class, AI-powered hiring platform designed to boost efficiency, cut recruiting costs, and exceed candidate expectations. Used by 25% of the Fortune 500, the platform has been proven to reduce time-to-fill by as much as 50% and produce an average potential ROI of 282%.

The platform allows the candidate experience to be personalised at scale and is the #1 ATS in US market share.

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