We make significant use of the concept of "Activities" in Crelate, which was someone new to us when we switched to Crelate from our previous ATS. By logging specific occurrences with candidates and clients as separate "Activities," it creates the ability to produce very powerful, highly-detailed reports in order to determine what has/hasn't occurred. As well, when working on a job order for a specific client and position, the use of Stage Changes within the job's Dashboard is a very useful feature; including the fact that, by moving a candidate to a specific stage, an Activity can be created automatically (as opposed to each Activity needing to be manually created). One can even perform Stage Changes for numerous candidates in bulk, which makes Activity creation even more efficient.
There is one new feature coming out now that we're excited about trying: the ability to send questionnaires to candidates and clients. Hoping thing will vastly improve our ability to collect crucial data, without necessarily having to call each person just to find out the basics which determine whether or not the candidate/client is viable, and worth a follow-up conversation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When creating a job order, and then adding select candidates to that job dashboard so that one may then contact them and track them through the process, one can only add 300 candidates to the job at a time. Oftentimes, we are linking 1,500+ candidates to a particular job, meaning we have to perform 5 or more linkings of 300 apiece. This takes time; and, it's something that occurs multiple times every single day. It would be nice if one could link more than 300 candidates at a time.
In addition, moving 1,500+ candidates through a Stage Change take rather a long time. I mean, the system does it for you; but, one has to wait a few minutes for it to occur. So, it's best to just occupy oneself with another task while waiting for the stage change to execute. It would just be nice if it happened more quickly...again, we're talking several minutes here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Thank you for your review. I agree about the value of the activities. They took me a bit of time to adopt, but now I have an entire page of reports devoted to activities and I am better for it.
It is wonderful to hear your excitement for the new product feature. I think you will be pleased with how it works, and some other goodies we have coming soon.
The developers are going to be interested in your comments about the time it takes to move large volumes of candidates through a stage change. Given that they are always looking for ways to optimize the process and make things faster, I am sure they will start using this variable in their testing.
