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- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Recruiting with ICIMS
ICIMS seemed some-what difficult to use at first, but my team has adapted well to it. At first, it didn't seem very user-friendly, but through trial and error, we have developed some tips and tricks. I do like the reporting features, which make it easy to pull numbers and data from our recruiting efforts.
Pros
ICIMS has great add-on features, such as TextRecruit that make it convenient and easy to interact with candidates. Adding candidates into ICIMS is very easy and user-friendly. It's also awesome that it has a dashboard on the front page, which makes for easy access to current candidate data.
Cons
I wish ICIMS had more appeal, design wise. It's very bland looking compared to other recruiting software I have used before.
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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ATS that has great value
We first chose this software because it was more competitive and more user friendly than our previous ATS. As the years have past, the customizable features to make it work for any industry and the reporting capability is why we have continued to renew. The Help Desk team is extremely responsive and don't make you feel stupid for asking a question.
Pros
We like the ease of use for job seekers, administrators and Hiring Managers. The customer service in the Help desk is excellent as well.
Cons
The reporting is so robust, it can be daunting to figure it out. Once you get the hang of it, you realize the possibilities are endless.
Alternatives Considered
SilkStart MultiChapterReasons for Choosing iCIMS Talent Cloud
Most value for the cost.Switched From
JobviteReasons for Switching to iCIMS Talent Cloud
Best value for the cost. The other options were more expensive and didn't allow the flexibility at the time.- Industry: Gambling & Casinos
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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iCIMS Review
I have very little qualms about the use of iCIMS. The product does what we need it to do in order to have a candidate have a smooth transition.
Pros
I like how this product keeps all pertinent information in one spot for each candidate.
Cons
There are areas where duplications are shown and quite often the user clicks the wrong area to get where we need to be.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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iCIMS is average product for Talent Aquisition Team
Pros
There are some good feature that help you to track your talent hunt.
Cons
Email alert & some customization require professional consultant to setup.
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Basic Review
several integrations - more efficiencies in managing candidates and jobs. the system has grown with us since 2010 and we continue to add
Pros
Alot - it is very intuitive and System Config being able to do much of what we need to do on our own and / or use that to figure out what we might need assistance with. the test site and being able to easily move new configs to production. the ability to integrate with other products so easily. User Group configuration, permissions are easy to set.
Cons
a very micro response but not having the ability to report on before and after field values. this was discussed in 13 or 14 and still not available. some of the reporting is limited and not being able to compare some statuses to current date would be nice
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We enjoy reading positive feedback and welcome constructive criticism to ensure we are meeting our customer's expectations. I'll be sure to share your feedback with the teams within iCIMS that will benefit from reading your thoughts.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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My Opinion
Positive
Pros
Functionality of Iforms
Notification on status updates
Reporting
Cons
Inability of workflows to work with each other
Limitations regarding employee referrals
User Admin restrictions
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for the awesome review! We work hard to meet expectations like yours, and we are happy to hear we hit the mark for you and your organization.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Very robust system
Overall, I would not recommend this applicant tracking system. It's very overwhelming and difficult to navigate. It's also very difficult to see where candidates are at in the process.
Pros
The software is very robust. There are endless amounts of reports that you can run from iCIMS and there's a lot of features within a candidate profile. I really enjoy using the Dashboard as you're able to pull so much information.
Cons
This software is sometimes very overwhelming. It takes so many clicks to get to a candidate's profile and there are an overwhelming amount of features within a candidate's profile. It is also very difficult to figure out how to run reports and pull information you're wanting to see.

- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Icims is a great ATS
Overall icims has been great and we have no plans to switch to a different software.
Pros
Icims overall is very easy to use and intuitive.
Cons
Although there are many reporting options it can be cumbersome. It would also be nice to have the ability to run one report that can capture both job and applicant data in one report.
- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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Crowd Sourcing Review
I am not the one who bought the app or software but instead I’m the applicant who received an offer from Liberty Mutual Insurance. And I am astonished that they can find me base on my recent search or application similar to financial customer service job I applied for.
Pros
The ability to auto populate information and test is integrated. At the same time you’ll be updated if you qualified for the job or not.
Cons
I think it need ads on social media people may not be familiar about it. Indeed and Upwork are similar crowdsourcing but I set away ICIMS for them it tracks people with the same interest of job search criteria.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Could be better
Pros
I use ICIMS for open jobs at my organization. It is nice that everything is in the same place.
Cons
It is very clunky. It is hard to use and is not very user friendly.
- Industry: Defense & Space
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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iCIMS
We have improved time to fill, system analytics, and can produce actionable data to improve our recruitment process.
Pros
It’s extremely configurable and they put out quarterly releases in direct response to customer feedback.
Cons
The Offer product is an additional cost that is quite hefty. Without it, the offer letters through iforms can be a difficult process.
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Ease of use, customer support, UI, costReasons for Switching to iCIMS Talent Cloud
Ease of use, customer support, UI, costResponse from iCIMS
Thank you so much for your positive feedback and for taking the time to post this review. It's our customers who allow us to constantly improve the way we do business and I'm so glad to hear that your experience with iCIMS has supported your initiatives.
- Industry: Airlines/Aviation
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review on iCIMS Recruit module
Our overall experience with iCIMS is amazing. With the help of iCIMS, we gain a bigger pool of candidates from different sources, we manage well of the applications within the system and we build up a stronger talent pool for our company.
Pros
- expand our reach to wider groups of candidate: iCIMS has partnered with Google job and other free job aggregators, that job posting function helps us to reach more candidates, we do see a significant growth of quality candidate profiles for our job openings. It is very cost effective and it saves so much time on populating our jobs on different portals.
- navigate with ease within the platform: it is very easy to pull out different applications and review the resume and cover letter. I like the tabs which are very clear and categorise information in good order
- Very good customer support team: Whenever I call the iCIMS customer support team, there is always someone on the phone and solves the problem for us. The customer ambassadors are professional, friendly and knowledgeable.
Cons
Overall, I would say there is no big issue in my user experience when iCIMS. Just two minor things,
- When I move the candidate to the next bins in the recruitment workflow, I couldn't find an update button. If I reload the page, it will show up the main dashboard and I have to go back to the particular job profile again.
- The cover letter button does show as the same tab of resume, I have to go back to the candidate details tab and find out the cover letter. It will be great if I can see the resume and cover letter on the same tab.
Besides, we think that the hiring manager app may need more modification as right now the app doesn't equip with all the functions from a web version.
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We enjoy reading positive feedback and welcome constructive criticism to ensure we are meeting our customer's expectations. I'll be sure to share your feedback with the teams within iCIMS that will benefit from reading your thoughts.
- Industry: International Trade & Development
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Best functionality for objectively and automatically screening candidates
With iCIMS, we've become a much more effective and efficient recruiting team. We processed more than 5,000 applications in order to hire approximately 50 employees last year alone. Because of iCIMS' unique functionality, we've spent less time to make the same quality and higher quantity of hires. This is a huge win for our team and we're excited to share our success with others.
Pros
When searching for our organization's ATS, I demoed with A LOT of vendors. I was shocked that most relied on very crude initial screening mechanisms. Most were dependent on an HR's manager review of a a resume-- HR managers would give a thumbs up or thumbs down on whether or not to advance a candidate. We are a data-driven organization, and we prioritized an ATS that offered the functionality for us to objectively and automatically screen candidates. This functionally helps to minimize human biases while simultaneously weeding out irrelevant candidates; opening our organization to a diverse but targeted hiring pool. iCIMS was the only ATS that was able to offer us this critical functionality.
Cons
iCIMS is far and away the industry leader on critical aspects of functionality, however user-experience is not necessarily one of those aspects. It's a clunky system (feels a bit like Salesforce in that way), and not super intuitive on how to use. We've been able to workaround this, for the most part, by really streamlining how specific people interact with the platform.
Response from iCIMS
Hi Elizabeth! Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We enjoy reading positive feedback and welcome constructive criticism to ensure we are meeting our customer¿s expectations. I¿ll be sure to share your feedback with the teams within iCIMS that will benefit from reading your thoughts.
- Industry: Medical Practice
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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ICIMS makes recruiting exciting!
Pros
ICIMS is always one step ahead of current recruiting trends! Always enhancing existing products to further engage new candidates. Continuing to roll out new products to simplify the experience for recruiters and hiring managers.
Cons
Lots of clicks to get from job search to career portal.
Alternatives Considered
Oracle Taleo CloudReasons for Choosing iCIMS Talent Cloud
Loooking for something with a spectacular candidate experience.Switched From
Oracle PeopleSoftReasons for Switching to iCIMS Talent Cloud
Better option for TA and hiring manager workflow.- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Navigating the Options
IBP is able to employ technology that it didn't have two years ago and reach a wider applicant base. We have the capability to receive applications online, post and advertise our openings on a variety of job boards and most importantly, get our customers the workforce they need.
Pros
When building a new recruiting process and the technology around it, you need a partner with a strong background in the field and an even stronger support team. iCIMS delivers on both! Having the opportunity to configure pages, portals, fields...you name it, it can most likely be done. That means that your process is not only improving, but it's also getting the efficiency, reliability and back up it needs from the technology you're employing to help your company meet its recruiting needs, retain talent and up your employer brand.
Cons
With great power comes great responsibility and it's clear from the beginning that if you don't establish a clear path for your recruiting process, you can get swallowed up by all of the customization options with iCIMS. Sometimes, it's too much. Talking through your needs can help you establish a clear path forward. That is also true of introducing the platform to your users - a bit at a time is best to get buy-in - because there's just so much you can do!
Response from iCIMS
Thank you so much for your positive feedback and for taking the time to post this review! We enjoy reading positive feedback and welcome constructive criticism to ensure we are meeting our customer¿s expectations. I¿ll be sure to share your feedback with the teams within iCIMS that will benefit from reading your thoughts.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Feature Functionality is Great, Flexibility with Indeed needs improvemetn
We have been able to quantify on a week-over-week, and now year-over-year bases key factors such as the number of open positions per region versus the number of applicants, an average number of applicants per job by region, and many other key factors on the regional level. This is important as we now know and have been able to identify why the struggle to hire is greater on one region of the country versus another.
Pros
iCIMS provides us with the ability to manage the thousands of applicants we recevied each year for over 500 locations around the country. Our account teams can independently manage the applicants for their open positions, but we have full visibility to all activity and can choose to be as active in the process as necessary on a per-job level.
Cons
The majority of our employees are "front line" employees who are working at or close to minimum wage. We need a 1-click solution, and have not been able to do that using iCIMS. More than 70% of our applicants come across Indeed, and we have a real need for a 1-click solution, but that has not been negotiated between the two companies. By the time an applicant is asked create a password, provide information that is already on a resume (phone, address, email) and then start answering job questions, they abandon it. If they could simply click once from Indeed and send it directly to the specific job advertised, it would increase our application rates exponentially. Note this is true only for our front line positions, but again, they make up more than 90% of our job postings.
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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iCIMS Onboarding= Great Product!
Overall the product is leaps and bounds better than where we came from! I do feel like the company is always striving to improve and connect- which makes it a nice working relationship.
Pros
I love that everything is electronic! It makes new hire paperwork so seamless- and the applicants love it also!
Cons
The reporting features are hard to use and configure. Once you figure them out- things are great- but until that point it can be difficult.
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for the awesome review! We work hard to meet expectations like yours, and we are happy to hear we hit the mark for you and your organization.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great tool for customization
Pros
iCIMS is highly customizable, which they will tell you themselves but they truly aren't kidding. We have been able to automate many of our recruiting and onboarding processes, which in turn has given time back to not only our corporate group but operations staff as well. As an iCIMS administrator, I love that I am able to make configuration changes myself, independent of iCIMS Customer Support, for a huge variety of functions. When there's a change that I don't know how to make, the Customer Support team will walk me through the steps so that I am empowered to make the change in the future. In instances where iCIMS Customer Support is required to make adjustments, due to limited administrator permissions, they are quick and responsive, ensuring little to no downtime.
Cons
The reporting function is not very intuitive or user friendly in the beginning. As you become more familiar with the software the reporting function becomes easier to use and is quite powerful but there is definitely a learning curve.
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for the awesome review, Megan! We work hard to meet expectations like yours, and we're happy to hear we hit the mark for you and your organization.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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iCIMS Status Review
Overall we are very happy with iCIMS for our recruiting needs.
Pros
One of the top features of iCIMS for a company's ATS are the statuses you can use during the recruitment process. Whether you use pre-made statuses, or create your own, it works as a wonderful way to organize candidates in a job posting to where they're at, or where you're at, in the hiring process.
Different statuses can also be used to integrate with other software and "kick off" actions outside of the system itself - for example, a video interview or a credit check authorization form.
The use of statuses really helped our team streamline the recruitment process, with any open position we were working on.
Cons
The reporting feature with iCIMS is not the most user-friendly set up. It is very customizable, and you can save past reports for future use, but the set up itself is not the most intuitive software, so you have to really go through piece by piece to make sure you're setting up a report for the information you're looking for.
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for the awesome review! We work hard to meet expectations like yours, and we are happy to hear we hit the mark for you and your organization.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Highly configurable, A+ Support
Couldn't be happier! Highly recommended.
Pros
The tech support and customer service at iCIMS is absolutely top-notch. I call in almost every day during these first six months after roll-out, which has been critical for our success.
Cons
The configurability allows us, for better or worse, to accommodate every possible scenario..which means standardizing processes is "too" possible. Not really a con...the only other thing is getting recruiting workflow and onboarding workflows to talk to each other on reporting.
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for the awesome review! We work hard to meet expectations like yours, and we are happy to hear we hit the mark for you and your organization.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great Software for Healthcare Recruitment
The software is giving a clear view of each stage what the candidate has to go through at the time of hiring. Mostly this is accurately imputed by each hiring manager or HR . The clear view of the process is giving a full understanding when the start date of the new hire might be and making manager aware of the education plan and orientation in the healthcare facility might be. All great info!
Pros
The software and program are really easy to use. I worked at San Antonio Regional Hospital in California with this software and I can say loudly and proudly that I recommend it . I used it daily to access any updates regard hiring process of my candidates or applicants of the position open in my department.
Cons
Not sure if they have mobile access. Being always on the go, sometimes between meeting you want to check on the processes, however, I never tried to access it because was no option given. Being in management I see this a way to improve because being always gone and not at your desk mobile access can give you a great view of the process of hiring.
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for the awesome review! We work hard to meet expectations like yours, and we are happy to hear we hit the mark for you and your organization.
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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iCIMS Saves Time & Money
Our overall experience is very positive. We love the configurability of the product so that we can make it unique for our business model. Their support team is fantastic.
Pros
Before we starting using the iCIMS applicant tracking system, we were doing everything by hand. Reports included. Our candidates were annoyed because we had no way to maintain a profile with their information, and so they would have to send us a resume and fill out an application every time they applied for one of the positions for which we were sourcing. Everything was laboriously saved in a Dropbox folder for our clients. Now everything is automated, our client have candidate materials at their fingertips, and we are far more efficient,
Cons
The learning curve to get up and running if you have not used an applicant tracking software is pretty steep. Anyone on your integration team needs to be able to devote a large amount of time to work with the iCIMS team to get everything set up. And the resume parsing is not the best.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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System reviews
Pros
Easy to use, robust features, easy customization
Cons
More support and updates around new features
Alternatives Considered
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IBM Talent Management
- Industry: Packaging & Containers
- Company size: 5,001-10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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I love iCIMS Recruit!
We use iCIMS for all our recruiting needs and created a customized way to route consultants through the platform that does not disrupt the recruiters and provides accessibility to managers who hire their own consultants -- thanks to the support staff!
Pros
I love the customization capabilities that enable us to move candidates through the recruiting process, communicate with candidates and hiring managers, integrate our background check process, report metrics, and create guides, include attachments and links to our hiring assessments ... and the support is second to none!
Cons
I like the bi-directional email address string least. Candidates often comment on how it looks like Spam. I would love to see the email address appear without the additional clutter.
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for the awesome review! We work hard to meet expectations like yours, and we are happy to hear we hit the mark for you and your organization.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Intuitive and to Easy to Use
Overall this program has significantly simplified our process of screening candidates and moving them through the hiring process, which continues to improve as we learn the system. Customer service is excellent. Implementation went pretty smoothly, but if you are connecting to your HRIS, that adds a complicating layer depending on the vendor. I am happy with the product 15 months post implementation.
Pros
iCIMS was a big improvement for us over the previous recruiting program we used as part of our HRIS primarily due to ease of use and reduced time in our screening process. The layout is clean and easy to read, and once you understand how things are organized, it is simple to navigate the software. We use the onboarding feature, which has automated that process for us. Customer service has been excellent. Most of the time (99%), they resolve my issue in one brief phone call. Everything is customizable and there are many training resources available to users.
Cons
The layout of the candidates in "bins" can be a little confusing sometimes. There was a task we were trying to improve and finally found out how to do so but it took a few conversations to figure it out.
Response from iCIMS
Thank you for the awesome review, Suzanne!