Web-based productivity suite Zoho is launching a new product today, Zoho Recruit. A niche product, Zoho Recruit, is an application designed to help HR Departments and staffing agencies management recruitment.
Zoho Recruit, which is an offshoot of Zoho People’s recruitment technology, is an Applicant Tracking System that helps staffing agencies and recruiting departments track job openings, resumes, candidates and contacts. The application will source candidates by gathering resumes from multiple sources on the web and includes a technology that will weed out the candidates.
The application will include a database that manages resumes and track potential candidates throughout the interviewing process. You can also schedule interviews, send automatic e-mail notifications and log candidate activities and notes.
Zoho Recruit will also power a platform to create and publish job openings. The app includes an activity stream to let users stay on tops of new within Zoho Recruit and is fully customizable. Zoho Recruit is based on a freemium model, with the more feature-rich platform priced at $12/per user/per month.
Zoho continues to innovate and iterate by launching new products and add-ons to its existing offerings. Most recently, the startup launched Zoho Discussions, a online forum tool for businesses. Over the past two years, Zohos has added support for Sharepoint, mobile, Google and Yahoo IDs and group sharing. Zoho knows that it will have to fight an uphill battle to keep users from flocking to Google Apps and soon Microsoft’s Web-based version of Microsoft 2010. Although Zoho ’s the underdog, the startup’s strategy may be paying off—the startup has reached 2 million users in just 4 years. And the startup is on Microsoft’s radar, with a Microsoft exec calling of Zoho as a competitor that offered “fake Office capabilities.”
I cant say anything before i use it… i quite dint get it btw..
AdamHart
http://www.isopurewater.com/
So..the way the video presents it, the foundation of this suite is a spam application which sends unsolicited email to people who have published Bios, Resumes, and CV anywhere on the web?
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ELQ -
That’s hardly the foundation. Being able to quickly send e-mails to clients and interviewees/applicants is just a piece of the overall story. Besides, it is of course not meant with unsolicited/spam e-mail in mind.
Rodrigo
Zoho’s offering is not exactly innovative (but I love their overall suite as a business platform!).
The Resumator has been providing jobs and resume management built especially for “deputized HR people” since January. We found allowing unlimited users and charging based on the number of jobs needing to be open at one time is much less of a pain for customers.
Still, Zoho is doing a goo job building an all-in-one suite of products.
http://www.theresumator.com
This is nothing new or remarkable. Infogist.com has been making a resume gathering software for years that actually works well and has a lot of sites it can crawl for resumes. Applicant tracking is old technology take a look at Taleo.com if you want a reasonably priced yet powerful ATS. And for social network sourcing inparser.net is the way to go.
Zoho is just another attempt to sell HR software that the think will be the silver bullet for recruiting. Try good old fashion sourcing and actually talking to people instead.
Agree with Don’s comment…this is not innovation. Zoho has done a great job over the years of basically ripping off other people’s technology and claiming that THEY are in fact innovative. They’re not.
They’re very good at building cheap clones.
@Ryann :
Yeah, that’s exactly what we are encouraging people to do – spend less time on the boring process stuff so they can spend more time talking to people. We don’t claim
Rodrigo
@Zig -
Not true.
And if you were real/credible/honest, you’d provide some real information.
I reckon one of our products in our growing portfolio of applications for businesses is competing with you and you’re getting a little uncomfortable?
Rodrigo
This might be good for small/independent recruiters, but most companies and organizations (even small ones) will want someone to help guide them in setting up, deploying and maintaining a system that manages their hiring processes.
There’s so much more to the process than just posting jobs, collecting resumes and tracking progress. It takes years of experience to understand the intricacies and challenges recruiters face on a daily basis. So while Zoho has done a really good job of shaping their CRM product to be more “candidate” friendly, it’s seriously lacking the depth of functionality most ATS platforms already contain.
I’ve used Taleo, Hirebridge and Peoplesoft over the past 5 years and there’s no way I could get by with Zoho’s platform even with the small companies I’ve worked with. It’s missing all of the screening, compliance and system integration tools. It’s also missing my most important requirement: a human being I can call when I need help or advice.
@ryann:
Taleo is FAR FAR FAR FAR from reasonably priced.
Our VanaHRM solution is built on Zoho People and Zoho Recruit offering an integrated, enhanced, and supported full-suite human resource and talent management solution for small and mid size companies.
http://www.vanaconsulting.com/vanahrm.html
It competes in a niche filled with catsone, simplicant, smartrecruiters and similar offerings. Not with Taleo and the likes. But its good to have these put pressure on the overpriced section of the ATS industry (Taleo, Bond Adapt, iRecruiter, etc.)
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