Featured Review of Free Recruiting Software Zoho Recruit

The bar for recruiting software gets moved higher every year. The features available in last year’s most sophisticated applicant tracking systems are today’s standard base package.

The Zoho Recruit applicant tracking system recently upped the ante. Zoho Recruit is a free recruiting software platform that offers the rich functionality and comprehensive feature set previously available only in large and costly enterprise systems.

Who is Zoho Recruit For?

From the beginning of their development, Zoho designed their product with the core needs of recruiters in mind. Zoho Recruit is suitable for agency recruitment firms and corporate recruiters and talent acquisition departments.  They have two different modules to best suit the two types of recruiting: Staffing Agencies/independent Recruiters and Corporate HR for internal recruitment.

Additionally, because the model of Zoho Recruit is software as a service, the recruiting software can easily scale, meeting the needs of a small independent recruiting firm to the needs of large enterprise organizations.

Five Key Features of Zoho Recruit

• Sourcing and Resume Management: Allows sourcing of resumes from multiple sources (web, job boards, corporate site, social media) and management them from a single platform.
• Client and Contact Management: Allows management of clients and hiring managers. There is a nice feature to quickly view the current status and update on all associated openings and interviews.
• Job Posting: Automate job posting with customized fields and track activity against any job (interviews, notes, candidate submittals.) Create “hot” lists of open jobs and easily export lists of job with full descriptions.
• Resume Parsing: Zoho Recruit ties in with RChilli and eGrabber which means that you can quickly import resumes from any number of sources like Doc, PDF, and HTML files.
• Workflow and Candidate Experience: Allows for easily customizable recruitment process workflow design for managing your activity and notifications. Using the workflow module allows users to create email notifications based on specific actions (for instance, when candidates are added to a job order, a new job opens, etc…)

Integration with Your System

• Employment website: Zoho Recruit integrates easily with your existing employment website. Using the software, you can easily create web forms to embed on your website that allow candidates to quickly apply to your open jobs. They are logged into the applicant tracking system without any manual import.
• Google Applications: If you use Google Apps in your organization, you will find Zoho Recruit tightly integrated with your existing system. Users can log in through their existing Google Apps login, use their Google contacts, and track events and interviews through the Google Apps Calendar.
• Email: Zoho Recruit has an interesting way of handling emails – you can receive your emails all inside your recruiting software. No more switching between email clients. If you use any POP enabled email service like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail, you can send and receive emails without leaving your applicant tracking environment.

Pricing

The full feature set of the Free edition and the affordable Standard edition recruiting software packages can be viewed on Zoho Recruit. Even the free edition of Zoho Recruit is a full recruiting software system, with all of the features of many expensive application tracking systems.

• Free Edition: Zoho Recruit is free for one recruiter to use. The free version is a full, robust applicant tracking system, which includes resume, contact, user and candidate management.
• Standard Edition: The standard edition of Zoho Recruit is priced at $12 per recruiter per month. The standard edition includes all of the core functionality of the free edition, with the addition of customization options, product branding choices, reporting templates, and bulk updates. Additionally, they discount the add-on services of resume parsing, email integration, and extra data storage.

Zoho Recruit offers an incredible array of sophisticated applicant tracking features for both external and internal recruitment. It’s a true platform, in that brings all aspects of recruitment communication and web application integration under one software service. Although Zoho Recruit offers a free recruiting software system, they can be stacked up against any other enterprise grade ATS. They have set the bar high and brought a solid SaaS offering to the recruitment market.

Try out a free demo of Zoho Recruit today and see how your recruiting software stacks up.