Small businesses that need to hire traditionally have had limited technology resources available to help ;)
Flickr - Nonsequiturlassmanage the flow of applicants and resumes that come in for any of their openings. For most, they remain stuck on the last 'big breakthrough', that is applications and resumes sent through e-mail, rather than in snail mail or submitted in person on paper.
Once e-mailed resumes start pouring in to the unfortunate HR rep or hiring manager, then starts the tedious process of opening, downloading, forwarding, saving locally, printing, and copying resumes, cover letters and anything else the candidate e-mailed you. Big companies with staffs of recruiters and (at least once upon a time) hundreds or even thousands of openings long ago implemented full-featured Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), that provide wide-ranging functions like job posting, online applications and resumes, screening and assessment, interview scheduling, and finally offer management. These systems greatly improve the productivity and effectiveness of the recruiting function, but have traditionally only been implemented by, and accessible to the larger organizations.
The problem for the small business that needs to hire is that they need to complete all the same processes as the large company, but usually with no tools (other than e-mail) to assist them. They spend comparatively way more time that the large organization manually processing paper and resumes.
A new entrant into the HR Technology market The Resumator, recognizes this problem and delivers a simple, inexpensive, yet elegant solution. The Resumator is a basic ATS in 10 screens. It allows a company to enter job openings, collect applicants and resumes, engage multiple staff members in the hiring process, and overall streamline and remove so much of the tedious, manual paper-pushing that most small organizations have to endure.
Nothing really remarkable yet, but where the Resumator distinguishes itself from its competition, is t;)
he ability, with a single line of code, to embed and include up to date job listings and a form to accept resumes directly on a company's website. So in a flash, candidates who find your corporate website and see and submit for your open positions. Very few, if any, 'enterprise' ATS's offer this kind of simple website integration without quite a bit of custom code.
Other beneficial features of the Resumator include aggregated ratings. The tool allows unlimited people to participate in the candidate evaluation, enter their indiividual candidate ratings on a 5-star system, and the Resumator produces an aggregated ranking. Space is available to enter team comments, and communications with the candidate are also visible to all team members.
Finally, the Resumator offers help to the small business that may not be terribly ;)
tech-savvy by recommending local, industry specific, or niche web job boards that may be a good fit for posting the job opening. And finally, it automates the process of actually posting the job opening to many of these boards and keeping track of the candidate activity that gets generated. Again, this is a feature I have seen enterprise class ATS's struggle to pull off.
As for the cost, The Resumator is priced at a flat fee of $59 per month for unlimited jobs, applicants, and users. A 30-day free trial period is offered with registration. Even the smallest shop hiring one person a month easily spends 59 bucks of labor passing around paper.
I really like the Resumator, and I would encourage any small organization that is lucky enough to be in position to be hiring to give them a look.