Talos ATS

Avantages

The Talos ATS is great and has lots of really useful functionality, but most ATSs will do the same thing. What really sets them apart is their customer service. The team are fantastic, at every level. They understand the challenges we face and go above and beyond to help us solve them. They speak our language and are always on hand to offer support and guidance, often working with our other suppliers to help get the results we need.

Inconvénients

There are better ATSs on the market - but it really depends on what you need and how you're going to use the system. For a business of our size and structure, Talos is the perfect tool to meet our needs now and in the future.

Avantages

It super easy to get going and made an instant impact, finding all levels of candidate throughout the UK. The recent updates around admin/settings have made it very easy to customise the whole recruitment lifecycle and remove admin with Outlook integrations/interview scheduling

Inconvénients

There is a lot of reporting available but can be a little slow to process, with only a PDF/CSV download available but understand updates are coming to this later in 2025

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Talos ATS

Avantages

Useful to have a one stop shop for recruitment where all roles are clearly visible and you can track and easily reject, progress candidates

Inconvénients

I find it hard to understand exactly where the roles are being posted and then sometimes how to find them on job boards. It would be better to allow you to select the job boards you want to ensure your role is featured on and then perhaps give you an option to boost certain roles with sponsorship or on specialist sites for an additional fee easily.

Avantages

Simplicity, user friendly, top tier support and success team

Inconvénients

Some elements can be clunky - nothing you can't work around - useful regular calls with success team to discuss and for them to feed back for continuous improvement

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Talos ATS

Avantages

How much time it saves me!!! Issuing interview invitations, rejection letters, asking for information, setting up meetings, sharing applications. All with a few clicks, its such a boon. And the customer service if fabulous!

Inconvénients

No "waiting room" for video interviews - this causes a little confusion when setting up. A lot of candidates like to come online early to check the system is working,

Avantages

The ease of using the system. Pretty straightforward and saves so much admin from my end to the point of there being very little in terms of paperwork.

Inconvénients

There are aspects such as reporting, which was challenging, but now that has been revamped I look forward to working with the system.

Occasionally I forget what permissions I need to grant new users, especially for ATR purposes.

Avantages

It’s a seamless process to post job vacancies, track applications, and manage candidate communication—all from one centralised location.

Inconvénients

Applicant ID changing when moved from section to section.

Avantages

Ease of use
Keep easy track of the volume of candidates we have

Inconvénients

Took some time to get used to (new way of working for me)
Some reporting took time to set up

Avantages

makes the tracking of applicants tidy and easy.

Inconvénients

i do think it should follow an applicant journey rather than having to search for the applicant again after each time they are changed from one area to another.

Avantages

Makes tracking candidates very easy and simple while being very user friendly.

Inconvénients

I think setting people for a call back could be improved as Talos could give you a reminder for calls as people do get lost when set to call backs.

Avantages

Talos is user friendly and simple to navigate with some interesting and useful key features. It is a huge improvement of our previous software

Inconvénients

We could understand and utilise better the interview booking area of the system as it allows candidates to book the same slot for different roles at the same time

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Talos ATS 

Pourquoi passer à Talos ATS

Avantages

We have been working with Talos360 now for around 6 years, during that time we have grown substantially as a business. They have been able to support our growth and their continued innovation helps to drive forward our process ensuring we deliver the best possible service to candidates and managers.

Inconvénients

We haven't had any negative experiences

Avantages

Easy for posting job adverts and managing the candidates progress so remote managers can see the updated and every step of their service recruitment and onboarding process. It is a good system for a whole team to use and communicate each others areas so this can be picked up easily when needed

Inconvénients

We are still working on some areas that we are not utilizing Talos tram are supportive with this and always happy to help develop the system to our every changing business needs as and when they come to light

Avantages

Very easy to use, adaptable to our needs

Inconvénients

format of print outs is not always ideal

Avantages

I find Talos easy to use, reporting stats are effective in our decision making, creating posts and setting up a new job board are easy.

Inconvénients

Some job boards do not allow you to repost a vacancy to the original reference number.

Avantages

As a standalone HR person this has helped me no end with the whole recruitment process, saving time, communicating to every single applicant regardless of outcome of their application so helping with the reputation of the firm.

Inconvénients

The hardest part of using talos so far has been writing an application form.

Avantages

The system is very user friendly and it is easy to navigate

Inconvénients

When a role has been posted, we are unable to edit the post, we have to archive and readvertise which costs credits.

Avantages

Simple & easy to use. Reliable and does what we need it to do.

Inconvénients

It's not a completely bespoke set up so there are are some features that are unnecessary for our needs and some minor tweaks that we would make if it was. With that said you're not paying for a completely bespoke system here and the team have made a number of changes and custom development as far as practical for them to ensure the system continues to meet the needs of our business.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Talos ATS

Avantages

The applicant management trough each progression stage works really well and receives the most positive feedback from our users / recruiting managers, many of which struggled with our previous ATS. The performance of our adverts is significantly improved via the automatic postings on free resources such as Indeed, LinkedIn and our own website (which is hosted by 360/Talos as part of the ATS set up).

Inconvénients

The requisition module needs to be updated to include more flexibility than the current hierarchy set up in the background allows, both in terms of choosing approving managers / levels of approval required and the set up of the fields to make them more customised/integrated with our internal language and needs.

Avantages

Makes the candidate experience seamless from our careers page to the ATS (without them knowing). Each step of the candidate journey is trackable as well as all communication. Links well to other advertising sites. Love the link to DocuSign, this helped especially in seasonal recruitment, when sending out mass onboarding documentation.

Inconvénients

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Avantages

It is really easy to use, unlike other systems I have looked at that overcomplicate it where it is not needed. Also the SMS & video interview features are great and keep getting better with every update.

Inconvénients

Some of the limitations within the system, but every time we come up with an idea that would work for us, Talos are usually already looking to develop the system to update it. They have made so mnay updates following our suggestions I lose count.

Avantages

This software brought down our candidates days in the process - this is because of how easy it is for a candidate to apply and also the ease of use from an admin side. The Talos team are very supportive and will try to ensure you are utilising the software to its maximum abilities.

Inconvénients

The only downside was our onboarding was a bit slower than we would have hoped. We did ask for a lot to be done in a short amount of time and this was a factor but the team at Talos worked diligently to get everything done and we are very happy now. As I said it was just a small snag but the guys thoroughly made up for it and we are happy with the performance.

Avantages

Talos ATS is super easy to use and does exactly what I need it to do.

Makes dealing with a high volume of applications stress free.

Inconvénients

There isn't anything I would change or do not like.

Avantages

The software could be used by anyone within the recruitment sector or wider group. It's an all round efficient system which allows you to preserve your Brand - something we value more than anything! We were trained on how to use the system and after one session, all 11 of our managers were able to run the system independently with complete confidence.

Inconvénients

The initial configuration took a little while to implement (longer than anticipated) due to movements in both our team and 360's however, it was our first time implementing and ATS and feel that the extended time allowed us to ensure the system was implemented correctly.

Avantages

It is a relatively straightforward ATS and when used frequently can be navigated fairly easily

Inconvénients

The Video link can cause technical issues and always feel that there needs to be a Plan B, i.e. Teams and it would be great if this could be linked to Outlook / Teams invitations. Interviewer cant put on backgrounds.

We do appreciate that there is more functionality than we currently use. This is our fault.

I also appreciate that there are How To Videos but a straightforward paper How To Guide, i..e PDF would be more helpful as you have to watch the video and then take notes! In the end, the video seems too time consuming and you don't watch it and this isn't great. A manual would also be good for first time users!