# The Applicant Manager Reviews **Vendor:** The Applicant Manager **Category:** [Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/applicant-tracking-systems-ats) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 123 ## About The Applicant Manager The Applicant Manager (TAM) is a cloud-based applicant tracking solution that helps recruiting agencies and teams to streamline their hiring and onboarding process. The solution lets users track job postings and actively engage quality candidates. TAM provides toolsets that allow recruiters to review, select and share applicant information within teams. TAM allows posting job details on multiple free and paid job boards such as Indeed, GlassDoor, Monster and more. Agencies can also link their social media channels such as Facebook and LinkedIn with TAM for posting job updates on these channels. Recruiters can configure rules for screening and pre-screening applications to automatically remove under-qualified applicants or duplicate entries. TAM provides advanced search features to search or filter applicants by using keywords, ratings, skills, tags or a combination of these. TAM integrates with major email service providers such as Gmail and Outlook for centralizing contact and communication details. With TAM, recruiters can collect and store confidential applicant data including EEO, disability, and VETs details to comply with OFCCP regulations. The onboarding module allows users to design and share the onboarding process with new joiners. The solution can be accessed using web browsers of any internet enabled device including smartphones. ## The Applicant Manager Reviews ### 1. Useful and Customized ATS! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2023 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** Applicant Manager helps in hiring candidates and automating our recruitment process. Easily assess and screen candidates based on their experience level and skills Recruit extraordinary candidates who are Actively looking for a job change and applying for jobs. A better platform for posting jobs on job boards and filtering applicants, scheduling interviews and hiring candidates. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** Dashboard performance is limited. Otherwise the best recruiting platform I have used in my recruiting career. **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** The applicant manager helps track and manage applicants who have applied for job openings. Reducing the time to recruit the right talent within a given period of time is one of the most effective and valuable. Easy to use and implement in the staffing and recruiting firms ### 2. Excellent ATS - The Applicant Manager! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** The Applicant Manager is very helpful in fulfilling our recruitment needs. I can track many open positions and candidates applying for those positions. Using it, you can easily find and manage the right candidates. This reduces the hiring process time. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** The performance of the dashboard is low, otherwise very useful platform to track the applicants. **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Applicant Manager solves many recruitment issues and saves our hiring process time and reduces the manual recruitment process. We can easily filter candidates based on their skills. It is easy to review and hire applicants within the framed time period. ### 3. An answer to our client's needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura P. | Manager of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** Many things come to mind, but their willingness to create a client ratings portal saved us with our clients. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** If we could do a little more customization as the 'user' when needed 'on the fly' when we get specific requests from our clients. **Recommendations to others considering The Applicant Manager:** It is an easy tool to get up and running in your organization. It is easy for your recruiters to learn and our external clients LOVE it!!!! **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our clients are now able to login to TAM and rate the applicants because TAM created a secure portal. This is helpful when you have a search committee made up of 10-12 people. It cuts down on the time to determine who are the 'finalists' that can then be brought in for 'in-person' interviews. ### 4. Best applicant tracking system I've used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessica H. | Vice President of Events, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2020 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** I love how customizable TAM is. Ive used many different applicant tracking systems in my career but the problem that i've found with the others is the lack of ability to customize. Working in the government contracting industry my candidates require a security clearance. Other systems I've used don't allow me to easily, or even at all, create fields for clearance information and levels. This is just one of nuances in this industry that I need my applicant tracking system to be able to sort by, run reports on, and identify. The folks at TAM were able to show me how to create fields, prescreening questions, and store information for this. It is very easy to set up so that the user can create exactly what they need to see for their specific industry requirements. Other systems seem to be based on a very generic version of what someone in the recruiting/staffing industry should need and doesn't recognize that not all industries are the same. I also love that it integrates with my email to capture all of the back and forth with my candidates so that I can go back and revisit candidates years later and remember all of the correspondence with them. Plus the staff at TAM doesn't just set you up and disappear.They are always available to help make changes or review updates they've made. They are dedicated to making sure that their customers are getting the most out of their tool, which is also extremely reasonably priced compared to its competitors. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** I would like to see a little more flexibility in the reporting features. **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to track hundreds of open positions and the candidates that apply. I can see the last time I communicated with all of the candidates to make sure that I haven't forgotten to stay connected with anyone. i was able to create a custom work flow of steps and I can get a snapshot of where all of my candidates are in my hiring process, or how many candidates I have at each step of my process for each of the open positions that I have to for each of the contracts that I am working on. when candidates answer my prescreening questions I can quickly see if someone meets the minimum requirements for each position and if not I am able to still respond to each and every applicant with a click of a button based on event triggers that I set up which sends an email, again that I customized, for me to them that will reiterates the position that they applied for and, their name, etc., and why they aren't a fit. It saves me a ton of time having to respond to everyone while still responding to everyone. TAM saves me a lot of time by automating a lot of features without making it look like its "automated'. It allows a much more personal feeling. ### 5. Simple, effective, and cost efficient! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christina S. | Vice President, Director of Talent Acquisition, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** I have been recruiting for over a decade, and TAM is probably the most user friendly and cost effective platform that I have used (I am experienced in at least a half-dozen different applicant tracking databases). **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** The dashboard is a bit old-fashioned as far as ATS systems go, but it's still very easy to read and understand. It's also customizable, so that outweighs the dated look and feel. **Recommendations to others considering The Applicant Manager:** I love the price per user model for TAM. Also, it was so easy to upload years of data and resumes into the system. **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** With TAM, I have been able to streamline talent, pipeline, and move candidates through our process with relative ease. ### 6. Good features for a small to medium size company. Great technical and personal support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** Terrific support. Can call or email and get almost immediate quality response. The few times there wasn't an immediate solution available, there was still prompt follow up. All issues/questions get resolved. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** No dislikes at all after four years of use. **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** TAM helps organize our recruiting process. Eliminated manual recruiting practices and provides useful reports with minimal effort. TAM has lots of useful features for a small/midsize company that are easy to use even for an administrator who is not a technology wizard. ### 7. Flexible and Affordable System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Candice O. | Project Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** The Applicant Manager (TAM) allows us to create many diverse workflows based on different grant requirements to review and recruit our applicants. We have the different grants and allows us to post internally as well onto external job boards. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** Unable to delete multiple triggers at one time and current unable to auto assign workflow steps **Recommendations to others considering The Applicant Manager:** Affordable and flexible workflows for each position as needed **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems at the moment - better accountability with our interview teams and applicants ### 8. Low cost, user friendly ATS with great customer support team. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** The lay out is user friendly and not overly complicated. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** Not much to dislike! The customer support team is prompt, helpful, and get things done quickly. **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** TAM helped us look into workflow triggers to allow messaging to go out to appropriate users as candidate applications moved through different stages. ### 9. Efficiency and simplicity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah L. | Marketer / Business Development , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** I love that I can customize TAM however I want it and can make it the best for our needs as a company! I also love that I can export anything to whatever format I like. Really starting to appreciate the extensive reports as well. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** I wish there was a way to assign a task with an email and have the email sent out on it's own without having to set a permanent trigger. And I wish it was more mobile friendly for sure. **Recommendations to others considering The Applicant Manager:** Definitely use this if you have several candidates applying to several jobs, continuously. **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits include speeding up the process of sourcing candidates and making it so much more efficient. Instead of inputting and organizing everything ourselves, TAM does it for us. It also allows us to communicate faster and specifically to who we want to in a organized way. **Official Response from Jayme Dean:** > Hi Hannah - thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review! We really appreciate you taking this time and are so glad to hear that TAM is working great for you and your team. We would love to hear more about what you would like your emails to look like. Please give us a call so we can discuss further! ### 10. Good for a basic Talent Acquisition tool **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about The Applicant Manager?** TAM is excellent for being able to pick up very easily by users of the system including managers with little experience using applicant management software. It also is highly configurable. **What do you dislike about The Applicant Manager?** I was not employed by Auberge Resorts when this tool was selected, but it seems that there are disjointed pieces and functionality between different sites within our company. This could also be the downside to how highly configurable it is. We have had a problem that has been unable to be resolved by the TAM service team - hiring manager notification when statuses have been changed or notes have been input. **Recommendations to others considering The Applicant Manager:** It currently does not have mobile support (or if it does, it is not functionality we have). **What problems is The Applicant Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** This solution was put into place before I started and am not sure how applicant management worked prior to the software. ## The Applicant Manager Discussions - [What is The Applicant Manager used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-applicant-manager-used-for) - [View The Applicant Manager pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/the-applicant-manager/reviews/the-applicant-manager-review-1419734?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+18%3A39%3A00+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=64d921fb-b558-464a-b8e1-667a5ef796aa&secure%5Btoken%5D=637cfeb4347c9488b334f50934103b3e6d2947f2f086332f24118e30920a42f8&format=llm_user) ## The Applicant Manager Features **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation **Recruitment Platform - Recruitment Platforms** - User Permissions - Sourcing - Interviews - Dashboard - Internationalization & Locationalization - Customization **Agentic AI - Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making **Sourcing** - Candidate Search - Career Page Configuration - Social Sourcing - Job Posting - Candidate Sourcing Metrics **Platform Basics** - Interoperability - Performance - Integrations **Recruitment AI - Recruitment Platforms** - Candidate Matching - Gen AI in Talent Acquisition - Engagement **Candidate Management - Applicant Tracking System** - Candidate Evaluations - Applicant Data Management - Hiring Processes Tracking - Automated Resume Parsing - Scheduling - Candidate-Facing Statuses - Workflow Building **Platform Content** - Digital Strategy - Candidate Relationship Management - Employer Branding - Social Recruiting **Platform Performance** - Automation - File Sharing - Reporting **Agentic AI - Recruitment Platforms** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Performance - Mobility - Reporting - Dashboards **Platform Additional Functionality** - Dashboard - Mobility **AI - Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)** - Predictive Insights - AI Job Description - Chatbot ## Top The Applicant Manager Alternatives - [JazzHR](https://www.g2.com/products/jazz-co/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (831 reviews) - [ClearCompany](https://www.g2.com/products/clearcompany/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (496 reviews) - [Breezy HR](https://www.g2.com/products/breezy-hr/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (675 reviews)