| Functionality | 7 <p>Applied offers most of the functionality most companies will need. In addition to core ATS functionality (e.g. posting your job ad to external job boards, scheduling interviews, tracking candidates over a pipeline)</p><p>Applied also have plenty of anti-bias functionality. For example, a mark scheme attached to each interview or pre-screening questions to standardize marking and the ability to anonymise screening.</p><p><br></p><p>However, a few advanced features are missing. Most notably, a CV-parser, candidate nurturing campaigns and a chrome-extension to add candidates from linkedin with one click.</p> | 6 <p>Join offers some of the functionality most SMBs will need for hiring. This includes multi-posting to 10+ job boards, native online assessments, pre-screening questions, and interview kits. It also has an excellent Chrome Extension for adding candidates from LinkedIn. However, it does lack some core functionality such as interview scheduling, CV parsing, and reporting functionality. </p> |
| Ease of Use | 9 <p>Applied is exceptionally easy to use due to its well-structured UI.</p><p><br></p><p>An average start-up employee would require less than 1-2 hours and very minimal guidance to maters all key functionalities. </p><p><br></p><p>Key information and processes are where you would expect them to be and are highly intuitive to use.</p> | 10 <p>Due to its lightweight nature, Join has the gentlest learning curve out of the ATS's we've come across. It is highly intuitive and easy to use.</p><p>The only minor quibble we have is the ability to drag and drop stages in the interview pipeline. </p> |
| Look and feel | 7 <p>Applied has a visually appealing software, although at times it can look slightly childish.</p><p>Loading times are fast - usually ~ 1 second.</p> | 9 <p>JOIN has a modern, attractive and uncluttered interface with fast load times which makes it a joy to use.</p> |
| Customisability | 6 <p>Most of the Applied product can be customised. For example, interview kits can include custom questions and custom mark schemes for each questions.</p><p>However, more sophisticated customisability like CSS or the ability to move candidates to different stages of the pipeline depending on their responses to pre-screen questions are not available.</p> | 5 <p>Join offers less customisation than more heavyweight ATS's. For example, you can't delay emails to candidates, add team members to specific roles to help with hiring, or add more than one question type to interview kits.</p><p>However, it provides standard levels of customisability for job application forms and interview pipelines. </p> |
| Ease of Setup | 6 <p>Applied doesn't offer a free trial and requires speaking to sales before purchasing due to their custom pricing model. However, the platform has a well-structured UI making basic setup simple; <10mins. Fully customizing the platform takes approximately 1 business day.</p> | 10 <p>Join offers a free plan that doesn't require speaking to sales to gain access and upgrading also doesn't require speaking to sales. The platform is highly intuitive; completing basic setup takes <10mins. Fully customizing key features takes approximately 1 business day.</p> |
| Customer Support | 7 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Personalised Q&A only available via Email. Response times vary from less than 1 hour to one business day. This will depend of the volume of tickets customer support are receiving. Support is generally helpful.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Self-serve materials are extensive and of high quality. Applied offers articles detailing how to use all of their core-functionality.</span></p> | 8 <p>Join provides good self-serve materials, and although support is only available via email, they responded to our queries within minutes.</p> |
| Integratability | 4 <p>There is some integrations, for example, 8 job boards to which your listings can automatically sync, thousands of further job board integrations through Broadbean, some HRIS integrations like BambooHR (here you can use API for a no code integration).</p> | 3 <p>Join only has pre-built integrations with 2 of the key HRISs (Personio and Factorial) and has no integrations with any e-sign or background check tools. However, it does have an API for custom integrations.</p> |
| Ease of Migration | 6 <p>There is an extensive selection of self-serve analytics (especially DEI- related data) which are available to be exported with one click. There are no custom reporting features.</p> | 8 <p>Exports of key data (candidate, job, employee data) are available via self-serve download to CSV. Most other data are available via API are on request. </p> |
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