--- title: TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System Reviews meta_title: 'TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.4 review_count: 16 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Recruiting url: https://www.g2.com/categories/recruiting --- # TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System Reviews **Vendor:** TargetRecruit **Category:** [Other Recruiting Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-recruiting) **Average Rating:** 3.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System Software for staffing and recruiting firms built on Salesforce TargetRecruit is a cloud-based Applicant Tracking Solution that is fully customizable and part of an ecosystem of integrated apps. From front office to back office, we have combined a powerful and flexible ATS with the world’s #1 CRM program. Founded in 2008 by a talented team of Staffing Executives and IT professionals, TargetRecruit started with a mission to create technological advancements in the staffing industry. The founder of TargetRecruit worked and lived this industry for years and was able to build an innovative, cloud-based system that is tailor-made to address the unique pain points of the staffing and recruitment industry. Our Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) helps clients reduce their recruitment costs, generate a faster time-to-hire, decrease time-to-engage, enhance their workforce retention, and improve workforce compliance. ## TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System Reviews ### 1. Keep upto date with ongoing hires **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan L. | Director of Training, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2022 ### 2. Adaptable solution to scale your business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2020 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** We have been working with TargetRecruit for over 4 years and would highly recommend both the product and service. The product includes all the standard features we require but can also be configured to our exact needs to help maintain our competitive advantage. As our business grows, the system can evolve with us, and we are not entirely dependent on the vendor to make the changes we need, this can be done in-house or via a third party. Lastly, and uniquely, any configuration changes we make are supported through subsequent upgrades of the platform. The product also runs on Salesforce which gives us total peace of mind in terms of security and scalability – we know that we will never outgrow it, and we have absolute trust that TargetRecruit and Salesforce will protect our sensitive data. It also provides incredibly flexible reporting and automation tools to drive efficiencies across our organization. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** The implementation service and support have been very good generally, but particularly in the past 2 years under the new leadership. We have seen improvements across the board with the product roadmap and more regular new releases. Similarly the quality of support and assistance we receive at all levels also continues to improve, and we can see that TargetRecruit are investing in all these areas as their business grows.” **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improving all around efficiency as an organization so that our software works based on our ideal processes, rather than our processes being dictated by the limitations of the software. ### 3. Powerful and Flexible. Helps us maximize our growth through gains in efficiency. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2020 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** We moved to TargetRecruit from another ATS two years ago and we could not be happier. Everything about TR is excellent, the delivered functionality, ability to customize, and their support is responsive and effective. We also love App Exchange add-ons that integrate easily into TargetRecruit. We have added ReportUpgrade for more advanced reporting and Match My Email so all email traffic is captured in TargetRecruit. When we decided to move to a new ATS, we ran multiple ATS companies through rigorous demos to help us decide which solution is best. The TargetRecruit sales professional, Kumudh, was very patient, helpful and thorough. We also evaluated the other ATS solutions on the Salesforce exchange. What we discovered through our detailed demos is that the other Salesforce ATS’ locked-down much of the configurability of the Salesforce environment forcing customers into pre-packaged solutions with little flexibility. That flexibility and ability to add fields, check boxes, change order of lists, add basic code, add/edit drop down values, etc. is the very reason companies go to a Salesforce solution. TargetRecruit allows the customer to make customizations themselves (within reason) or their excellent support team can do them for you if you know what you want. We have added some cool customizations that truly make us more efficient and gives us visibility into our business that we could never have with any other ATS. We highly recommend it! **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** There's nothing we really dislike about TargetRecruit. The Salesforce reporting tool could stand to be more powerful, but it's still much better than the other report functionality of other ATS'. **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** Define your requirements and desired business process up front and in detail. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can track, measure and manage just about everything in our business now. We have daily reports and dashboards delivered to employee and manager inboxes so we can see what's most pressing for that day. The recruiters, sales folks and managers all love it. ### 4. A flexible, secure and scalable platform to run your entire recruiting business on. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Turloch M. | Commercial Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2019 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** The best thing about TargetRecruit is that it is built on the Sales(Force.com platform), because of this you can trust that your data is incredibly secure and the platform is flexible to deal with the ever-changing nature of your business processes. I particularly like the having the ability to quickly build reports and dashboards, - and once you get a bit of practice with them, they are very powerful and will allow you and your team to slice and dice the data however you want; vital when you need to make informed business decisions as you grow. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** The system could be localised a little better to suit the UK market, although I understand with the new ownership, this is work in progress, which is positive. In fairness, the TR team are responsive, committed and nice to deal with. **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** Have someone set it up that understands your business, make sure your data is good, and keep it simple to start, and grow into the system over time. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** The TargetRecruit platform allows us to run our business end to end in the cloud. It provides our team with information at their fingertips, enabling them to provide high quality and consistent service to both candidates and clients throughout the recruitment process. ### 5. TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System is the best ATS out there! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2019 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** What I like with TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System is that you can customize it based on the existing protocol you have in your company, and also what the employees want. We can do boolean search and reports as well in TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System making our lives easier in finding the right candidate. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** What I dislike with TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System is that when you are working 12-14 hours a day for a project there are after-hours maintenance and technical difficulties. However, during Pacific regular business hours those issues are not rampant just after hours. **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** I hope the after-hours maintenance and tech issues will be lessened. Yesterday, I had to wait for 2-3 hours to resume at my work. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to keep track when will we send recruiting emails to our candidates in our database decreasing DNC requests. We were able to make a good BD pipeline as well because of TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System. ### 6. Poor technical support and timezone consideration **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2019 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** The planner/calendar is very functional, with one central administrator able to view at a glance and book interviews and appointments for the team with ease. A lot of other ATS we trialled did not offer an integrated planner or calendar. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** There have been multiple occasions where TargetRecruit has stopped working and no one is able to tell us why. Our account representative told us that in our time zone (Australian EST) we would only have technical support until 11:00am (local time) each day, however our business hours are 8:30am - 5:00pm and our business success relies on the integrity of the data stored and accessed in TargetRecruit. We were provided a link to determine if the Salesforce servers were operational, yet every time we had an issue, or Target was down, the servers looked like they were all responsive. And still no one was accessible or able to answer why this was happening. Given that we were sold the package and the company knew we were based in Australia, and assured us of full support, I would not recommend this to anyone who is trying to run a business outside of US-business hours. The webinars and training sessions would always fall at 4:00am (or earlier) our time which was impossible to have our staff attend. There was just no consideration for our needs as a customer. **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** Consider the technical support and if your business operates outside of standard US business hours, then I wouldn't recommend TargetRecruit. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** We will be ceasing using TargetRecruit in a couple of weeks (ending in May 2019) and have already merged to Bullhorn, as this is an ATS that will really suit our needs, with 24-hour tech support and consideration for our operating hours. ### 7. Decent but still lots to be done **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2019 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** I like that it integrates with salesforce and allows for us to create a contact in our system/org quite easily. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** There are a lot of flaws, templates do not work, macros are non-existent, emails don't aggregate under candidate records, there is a limit to how many candidates you can see on a single page and are unable to actually sort them by date because of this. **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** Please make this platform more responsive and have some flow. It's very choppy. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to have someone join our org quickly. That's really the only benefit of this system. ### 8. disappointing solution **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rafael o. | COO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** based in force.com from salesforce qith all the power and flexibility it provides **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** support provided in a non professional way, with an absolute lack of procedures, issue tracking, customer information, theysimply try todo tehir best in some of the issues you report, and then forget about all the remaining ones, or even the ones they hacve tried to solve. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy candidate handling, plus the well-known DAXTRA resume parsing and candidate database storing ### 9. IT manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roman M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2019 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** Complex solution which is able to cover most of use cases for HR company **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** Not Lightning ready, some functionality and flows to much complicated and not user friendly. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single stop for all needs for HR company ### 10. it does the job **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard R. | Associate Consultant, Management Consulting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** it is simple and fairly fast, also fairly intuitive **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** I feel that it lacks a couple of functionalities like keywords search in Reports section **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** applicant tracking system ### 11. Easy to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** The platform is can easily be customized and easy to understand. It increases the team's efficiency in collating data. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** The interface needs a bit of improvement but overall performance is great **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** highly recommended **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** The design is very intuitive. Highly recommended ### 12. Easy to use, once you learn it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** reporting systems are pretty easy to navigate, but learning how to build and create filter reports can be tough **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** 2 column limit in some objects is too little - specifically the candidate record **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** It is easy to use, once you learn it. There are lots of tools to utilize. However, the limit of 2 columns in the candidate records are frustrating. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy reporting and exporting/importing of information. ### 13. Target Recruit **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omolara M. | Recruitment Consultant, Oil & Energy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2017 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** Target recruit is an effective software for recruitment purposes. It is easy to use to navigate when searching for candidates regarding a job role. It is user friendly and detailed. It also contains a well nice fitted dashboard and good candidate search tool as well as a good client management system. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** It takes a while to save a candidates profile as it takes a lengthy process. Generating resumes for a particular job can be tedious **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** Yes I would recommend the use of target recruit for any rerfu **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** Staffing and recruitment of candidates has been made easy. Interview and scheduling experience efficiently guide both candidates and clients through the entire recruitment process. We have been able to realize the following employee appraisal ### 14. Good product built on Salesforce **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2017 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** Fits our needs for recruiting in the industry. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** Not 100% fit for our business needs currently. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruiting ### 15. Mediocre product with little to no support **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maegen P. | Senior Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2015 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** The product is easy to use, and the reporting functionality is nice. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** The technical support. It is very difficult to get any issue resolved due to the language barrier. **Recommendations to others considering TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System:** Do your research for other Native salesforce ATS systems. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of recruiting metrics. Prior to adapting TargetRecruit we manually pulled all the reports needed for leadership team. ### 16. target recruit **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicole W. | Finance Manager, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2015 **What do you like best about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** Since this is built off the Salesforce platform the reporting features are very powerful. **What do you dislike about TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System?** We do not always have the best service from Support. Issues come up very frequently and often take quite an bit of time to resolve. I sometimes feel like I have to do so much explaining of the issue and what needs to be fixed I am essentially doing the developers job. **What problems is TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System solving and how is that benefiting you?** This program allows up to manage our job orders and placements, which is critical to our business success. - [View TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/targetrecruit-applicant-tracking-system/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-15+23%3A48%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=eb61a938-c187-4930-8bfa-9564af7fe088&secure%5Btoken%5D=be38d12e999111a803fa651a8e759b60683bc4373e61f0e8ceb3ed3c8982657b&format=llm_user) ## TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System Features **Candidate Management** - Automation - Filtering - Automated Matching - Resume Management - Client Portal **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Communication** - Candidate Portal - Job Posts - Email Integration **Onboarding** - Onboarding - Assessments **Analytics** - Pipeline Dashboards - Analytics Reports **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Dashboards ## Top TargetRecruit Applicant Tracking System Alternatives - [Bullhorn](https://www.g2.com/products/bullhorn/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (1,176 reviews) - [Ceipal ATS](https://www.g2.com/products/ceipal-ats/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,416 reviews) - [JobDiva](https://www.g2.com/products/jobdiva/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,738 reviews)