Zoho Recruit: HR Tracking in the Cloud
Zoho, the SaaS provider and Google Apps competitor that offers online office suites and other business applications, has launched Zoho Recruit. The VAR Guy wonders: Will solutions providers use Recruit to fill their own vacancies?
No doubt, SaaS-oriented HR applications have gained popularity. The VAR Guy’s own SaaS 20 Stock Index includes a range of HR SaaS specialists — such as Kenexa, Successfactors and Taleo.
But Zoho is a bit different because the company has a track record for blending consumer-friendly user interfaces with SaaS business applications. According to Zoho’s press release, here’s a list of key features for Zoho Recruit:
- Source and Reach Candidates. Gather resumes from multiple sources and do the initial filtering and resume screening – without weeding out the qualified candidates.
- Manage Candidates and Resumes. Manage resumes and track the candidates throughout the interviewing process … you can also schedule interviews, send automatic e-mail notifications and log candidate activities and notes. And once you’ve made a decision on a candidate you can “lock” him or her to avoid confusion with other positions or clients.
- Create and Publish Job Openings. Collect resumes by creating and publishing the job openings in your website – and allow candidates to apply directly from there.
- Parse Resumes. Populate resume information from different sources like social sites, mail attachments and more through and integration with ResumeGrabber. Oh – and Zoho Recruit customers get a discount on ResumeGrabber.
- Stay on top of what’s going on. The activities stream allows recruiters and sourcers to stay on top of the recent and future activities. For example: what interviews are taking place today, who got hired recently, what new job openings do we have to fill?
- Customize. No two recruiting processes are alike. Zoho Recruit can be customized with a tool called Zoho Creator.
Zoho Recruit is available now. It’s free to individual recruiters, and otherwise it costs $12/user/month. Will VARs open their wallets?
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Matt thank you for taking the time to point out Google Apps isn’t the only game in town. We have been running Zoho and recommending Zoho to small business customers for nearly two years. Our biggest challenge is keeping track of all of Zoho’s different saas applications. The list of Zoho offerings seems to grow daily.