Applicant tracking systems (ATS) used to be simple databases. Now, they’re crowded, complex ecosystems. There are hundreds (arguably thousands) of tools calling themselves ATS, hiring platforms, talent suites, or recruiting OS.
For People and Talent leaders, that’s a problem:
Everyone claims to “revolutionize hiring”
Demos all look good in isolation
Buying the wrong system locks you into years of workarounds, manual hacks, and low adoption
This ATS buyer’s g