Recruiting Manager

Not found it usefull

I downloaded the app for evaluation, together with another recrutiment App - Recruiting (https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000016aa0EAA). After a while I considered the other one as more usefull and skipped this one. I give it 2 stars, because I don't find it usefull.

Outstanding Free Edition

We considered several applicant tracking systems that were low to very pricey. This Recruiting Manager was recommended to us for our needs and turns out it is an excellent resource for us. I am not sure why the low ratings, because this app can be personalized to suit the users needs. For our purposes, it is excellent and very pleased with it. It does have the capability of sending and logging emails and once the user understands how to use the report and search function, can easily match jobs to candidates.

Incomplete development

I was looking to add a recruiting workflow app that did basic things like set up a new job, assign the job to a Salesforce user, associate candidates and applicants with that job, assign workflow tasks and set up some basic approval steps. Recruiting Manager looked like it might work and I was willing to do some basic configuration setup to get it going. Unfortunately, after installing it, I discovered this app lacks the basic data integrity to link jobs, users, candidates and applicants together. For example, the Job ID and name should appear in a dropdown on the candidate and applicant screens to associate the person with the right job. It is very common to associate an applicant with multiple jobs (since most applicants apply to multiple relevant jobs), then treat each applicant-job combination as a separate recruiting "deal", similar to how multiple sales Opportunities can be associated with a single Account in Salesforce. None of these things can be done out of the box with Recruiting Manager. Basically, this app is completely under-developed. It's just a framework that doesn't even have similar field names on related screens. The workflows don't work. It's totally confusing. Frankly, it lacks the basic quality control I would expect for an app on the AppExchange. Either develop this app or pull it off the exchange. It's a waste of time.

Worst Program in the World!

Not user friendly at all, horrible set up, never able to get any answers from the support team. I use it because I have to but looking for new options. Would not even recommend this to my enemy.

Please fix email

Can you add email en mass email functionality to this app?

An OK app that could be great

Like the title says, "just ok". If used as a simple, centralized, web-based database to track applicants then it does the job. But as a full-featured system for matching applicants to open positions, sending email, etc it's not that great. With some work it could be great. A way to convert from Applicants to Candidates. A way to send email to the applicant, etc.

Email does not work

Inspite of a lot of other problems with this application, we thought to use it but it does not work at all.. YOu can not send email to the candidates from the sales force.com You can not do mass mailing as well. Very difficult to work with.

Not Practical

This is a great concept, but the way they have handled it just isn't practical. There is no way to convert from Candidates to Applicants, so you have to re-enter all that information again. There also doesn't seem to be any easy way to transfer the info to other areas of salesforce (like Contacts for example). Without these conversion options, this app just wastes a lot of time.

Hmmm...How do you create an application?

Seems easy, but when you go to create an application, there is no way to do it. We wanted to link it up to the web and ask candidates to apply (like the use of web-to-lead), but it does not appear there is a way.

Missing conversion Applicants to Candidates

Database structure seems to be well suited for keeping track of recruitment data. However, there is no support to automaticaly convert Applicants to Candidates. Without this conversion, Aplication is not practical in use.