Avature Reviews & Product Details

Ease of use. As a client, I find it quite flexible to meet the ever growing needs of our various markets.

Learning curve is not a concern. Our Recruiters and SUs community got reasonably good hands-on in decent time.

Support mechanism is good and TAT from the tech support is reasonably quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lead time in providing the requirements/features not in Avature is on a higher side. With ever changing needs and competitive environments, Avature needs to be more agile when it comes to fulfilling the business critical requirements.

Sometimes, there are multiple teams for us to refer to - Consulting, Tech support, Account Management. I think there should be a single SPOC towering all 3 so that we can raise our concerns/issues in more suitable manner and at right forum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how I can easily search by job title and keywords and location to see any open internal jobs. Or, I can simply just search by location or even just view all open jobs.

This way it gives me transparency as well into possible open roles that can be the next step in my career path. By seeing all open jobs, the added benefit is I can see jobs that I didn't even know about that I may be interested in.

I also like how I can create job alerts to stay abreast of when jobs I'm interested in are open. Super cool feature! This way I don't have to keep signing in to search.

Additionally, I like how I can submit referrals to roles as well and keep track of the progress made with each person that is submitted.

The layout is simple and easy to use. I like how there is not much whistles and bells so it just makes it easier to navigate and it doesn't take me long to find what I need. I also like the branding and company-specific pictures throughout the site. It makes it feel much more customized.

When I ended up applying for an internal role, it was short and simple as well. It was a short one page form with just a few questions and then a place to upload my resume and cover letter. Really speedy and then afterwards I got an email to confirm. Can't complain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I don't like is that when you apply to an internal job, it should show you after you submit it, a confirmation page. I don't remember receiving that and I had to wait for an email back. Also, there should be a dashboard to track progress. This is two-fold. If you submit an internal application, it can be a black hole because you don't know when it's been viewed or if you've been moved on to the next step so lot of suspense. Would be nice to have a list of each application you submitted and where it is sitting or what step you have been moved on to, if any.

Also, the same would apply for referrals. We should be able to track on Avature what step our referral has advanced on to. Otherwise, we have to email the HR person in charge or message them and it's back and forth that could be avoided if there was just something on Avature to show that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lists tool lets you create anything from task oriented actionable reports, to complex criteria for improved automation within the workflow. I hands down has to be one of the best features of Avature. We use this to create complex rules on restriction workflow progression as well as sending mailers etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A white label variant. Being able to create more customer branded outputs within the business instead of relying on Avature development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was easy to use.

It had many internal options like attaching a candidate to a job, send them e-mails, put in place automatic e-mails, track the steps in the recruitment process.

Also, it could be used by many team members at the same time (if they have access).

We had many own created templates in place, which helped to send messages faster and with fewer mistakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avature ATS had got too many side-features added to it, the system got very slow forcing us to refresh the page often to have it fully loaded.

For many of these side-features, we got no guidelines provided nor notification that an X feature has got added, so we had useless things making our daily work harder due to the system global speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and having the ability for a shared data model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost of the product causes some heartburn. I would like to see the yearly cost be switched with the one time implementation costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system is very innovative and simple to use, it allows a lot of bolt ins in a modular format so that the system can be personalised to the company’s needs and of the people who will be using the system. It is very user friendly and simply to get to grips with, I like that by clicking on a job title, it Willy aie you back to that page without having to continually use the back button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the necessary fields in the back end, don’t always show in the front end, so the system stops you from moving forwards without giving an obvious reason as to what you have missed.

There are GDPR issues with the system, in that personal details of candidates, such as addresses, dates of birth and pictures, are not blanked out when they are being shown to hiring managers on the system. The only way to do this would be to take them off and then re-upload them as a new profile, which is time consuming and not efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The recruiting process can be talored to your own needs. Configuration of the system allows for alomost every possible workflow including a variety of actions such as email, forms, etc.

- High amount of automation can be accomplished (e.g. emails, time based actions, etc.)

- Speed of implementation: As a SaaS product, Avaturte can be implemented in a very short amount of time compared to traditional software solutions

- Quality of imoplementation consultants Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

response time of support: takes too long to react to critical issue

stability of solution: number of errors/issues seems to be quite high Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software and the company behind it adapt. If my company/team are having an issue or make a suggestion changes are made and an updated version of avature comes out with a demo of the changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The approval process is daunting. The could very well be a choice made by my company but to get a candidate from A to B is a 2 week process internal or external. Due to the number of Avature production emails/ System Administrative emails / Action Item emails managers and myself can get confused as to which emails need immediate attention and could be considered junk mail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User navigation and ease of workflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avature has a high potential in improving upon the current existing robust platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like Avature reporting. You can get very granular. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You need to be very tech savvy to understand it quickly, unlike other ATS Tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is an option to send mass emails to to candidates not being considered. This helps us in enriching candidate experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Search string could have been more user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've worked with Avature for the past 5 years. It has grown tremendously since then in its features, customization and ease of use.

Our account manager who we meet with every week is helpful and understands our needs really well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The mobile functionality isn't there yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

social onboarding solution to transform your recruiting organization

; to assist with transforming Culture, Set-up, and the layout out of required docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing at this time. All ATS systems have some sort of downfall so it just depends on what exactly that you are looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the search functionality within Avature, not only with using Advanced Search, but also being able to use lists to slice and dice data is extremely helpful as a recruiter to show Hiring Managers pertinent information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like the look of the resume format. It is clunky and everything blends together. It makes it hard to filter through resumes quickly. I also think it is difficult to upload candidates quickly since when you import a LinkedIn profile, the education section gets messed up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that you can pull candidate profiles directly from LinkedIn. they go straight into the requisition that you are recruiting for. Also, You can upload multiple candidates into the system by using a few features. My personal favorite is the email/dropbox feature. You can designate which req, category, and any other classifications for multiple profiles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a huge learning curve and the platform is not very intuitive. A lot of my coworkers struggled with it at first. You also have to make sure you're trained on including all necessary data, or the reporting function will state that you have made no progress. For example, you can mark a candidate as phone screened, but if you do not log the phone call itself in the outreach column it will not show on the report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to define custom business specific fields at a granular level throughout the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much to dislike. Would be nice to have a mobile application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avature has some very strong modules. As an example, one can move a candidate from one req to another fairly easily. The underlying base of Avature is solid...candidate movement within a requisition is solid as well, one of the few intuitive functionalities that exist in the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How large are the G2 servers? Because the list is exhaustive.

1. While the report-writer attempts to be user-friendly, the learning curve is fairly steep. The function is not intuitive.

2. I've worked with Avature on and off since 2005 or so. NOT ONE of the versions has been intuitive. In some of the versions, the UX/UI was more like the make-up job on Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo in "To Wong Foo With Love...."--basically covering up the "green-screen" underpinnings. Later iterations were better, to be sure, however, the continued kludgy linking to MS Office Suite products continued.

3. Trying to search from within Avature--I finally gave up. Somehow, to use another movie reference, my seach string got "Lost In Translation" and the results just were off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It integrates with Linkedin and gives all the information with fewer clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well sometime search not apply correctly and also don't provide skill base search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

piplining candidates, the clarity of the interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the performance management tool, the onboarding tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Time and Time again, we compare avature to other CRMs and Avature consistently wins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish there was more customization as far as design and layout with the landing pages we have built in our specific program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avature has a number of features that its competitors do not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't a landing page creation feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We implemented Avature for the internal recruiting team a couple years ago. They had good customer support and helped ensure a (fairly) smooth transition. Avature has a lot of solid features - including creating new profiles in their system straight from a profile/resume online. Good automation functionality as well, and customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because it's robust, there is a lot you can do but might not know how to do. It takes some solid time/effort to learn and utilize it well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avature is can be used in a variety of ways. It is very flexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not as user freindly as most. Could not get recruiters to use it as it was not intuative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avature in its entirety gives us the ability to meet students when they are Freshman and record every interaction we have with them until the graduate - this is extremely helpful for us as we like to identify potential candidates early in their student career. Being able to have students sign in at events to know what they have attended is also very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would suggest adding a feature for a student to take a picture and add it to their profile on the spot - it would be an extremely useful tool to help the recruiter remember students. Other than that, I'm not a huge fan of the way the menu is set up - having the last visited pages populate a list on the side seems sloppy and distracting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.