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What Is an ATS and Why Your Business Needs One in 2024

An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) helps you hire faster, smarter, and with less effort. Here's everything you need to know — with a look at Covixo's ATS.

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Covixo Team · Novaluxe Technologies

What Is an ATS and Why Your Business Needs One

If your hiring process involves a chaos of emails, WhatsApp messages, and Excel sheets, an ATS will transform how you recruit.

What Is an ATS?

An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is software that manages the entire recruitment process — from posting a job to making an offer — in one organised system.

The Problem Without an ATS

  • Resumes arrive via email, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn simultaneously
  • No central record of candidate history
  • Interview feedback lives in people's heads
  • Offer letters are created in Word and emailed manually
  • No visibility into how long each stage takes
  • What a Good ATS Does

    1. **Job posting**: Publish to Naukri, LinkedIn, Indeed, and your career page simultaneously

    2. **Resume parsing**: Automatically extract candidate details from resumes

    3. **Pipeline management**: Visual kanban board for each hiring stage

    4. **Collaborative feedback**: Rate candidates, add notes, tag teammates

    5. **Interview scheduling**: Send calendar invites from within the system

    6. **Offer letters**: Generate and track offer letter acceptance digitally

    7. **Analytics**: Time-to-hire, source of hire, offer acceptance rate

    Covixo ATS

    Covixo's ATS cut our customer TechServe Solutions' average time-to-hire from 45 days to 18 days. The collaborative feedback system was the biggest unlock — no more chasing hiring managers for feedback.

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