JobScore Review: Is It the Right Applicant Tracking Software for You?

With JobScore, all plans include a career page builder with intuitive layout tools. JobScore lets you manage your career page directly from its platform. You can create attractive job descriptions with pictures or videos to showcase products or services, add company logos, and feature impressive profiles of team members to attract the best candidates for the position and find impressive employees.

JobScore has layout tools to help make a customized career page. (Source: JobScore)

With JobScore, adding a job listing is straightforward: Simply click “Add Job,” which takes you to a page where you add details about the job such as educational requirements and status (full time, part time, freelance). You may add text and relevant images.

You may choose if you want a resume and/or a cover letter and what information you need from the applicant. With the Scale and Enterprise plans, you can modify the application form as you see fit—create short forms to encourage readers to apply or make long forms to easily catch qualified talent. These application forms are stored in the account and reusable by different departments of an organization.

Within the same page, you may add hiring team members, specify their roles, and customize when to get candidate alerts.

JobScore allows customization of the workflow stages, which determines how applicants move through the hiring process. You can add, remove, edit, or reorder stages to create a workflow that’s stored in your account and reusable on different jobs. However, some stages can’t be deleted or edited such as “new,” “recruiter screen,” and “declined.”

In the paid plans, you can customize the workflow stages for each job. For example, you may decide to skip an onsite interview after the phone screening for a specific job.

Add, reorder, or remove stages to customize workflow.

All plans include an auto-post feature where users can post jobs to free job boards. The published job postings stay on the boards until the position is closed or filled. If you don’t want to post a particular job, you can turn this feature off. JobScore’s Start, Scale, and Enterprise plans allow posting to paid job boards. Currently, JobScore supports about 80 job boards.

Learn about the best job posting sites to post your listings and attract the right candidates.

JobScore makes it possible to share job listings with friends. From its Jobs page, you can access your jobs listing and the Action Menu, which opens the option to share the job to your social and professional networks. You may share on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and email contacts. People who visit your career site may also reshare your jobs.

JobScore makes sharing jobs on social networks simple. (Source: JobScore)

JobScore lets you monitor job postings, making it easier to see how these postings perform. With this feature, you can see details like the number of views, clicks, and applications for each posting. You can also see who’s sharing your jobs and if these shares get views and applications. For me, I think this feature is handy in determining which sources provide results. However, this feature is only available for the Scale and Enterprise plans.

View the number of candidates from different sources and how many reach each stage of the workflow. (Source: JobScore)

JobScore’s Candidate Manager lets you review and respond to multiple applications at once. After an applicant submits the required details, JobScore extracts education, employment, and contact information from resumes, which can be sorted by job, candidate answer, or tag.

JobScore lets you score candidates based on your set criteria such as job titles, location, keywords, and educational degrees. You can add corresponding weights to generate scores for candidates. From here, you may sort candidates based on their scores so those with the highest will be at the top.

JobScore’s Scale and Enterprise plans let you set the maximum time for candidates to linger in your workflow stage, after which they are considered “overdue.” In this report, you’ll see the number of overdue candidates in each stage. Clicking on these numbers shows a detailed list of candidates, from which you can send an update or follow up on their application.

Overdue reports show how many candidates are stuck in each stage. (Source: JobScore)

JobScore allows your employees to participate in referral campaigns. Your team members can view their referrals from their portal and know where they are in the hiring process. JobScore also highlights referrals and notifies recruiters and hiring managers so they aren’t mixed with other candidates.

You can also reward successful referrals with prizes, cash, or charity donations.

All plans have unlimited users, which is beneficial if you want to involve other team members in the recruitment process. With JobScore, you can assign different access levels to your co-workers to control what they can see and do. There are five different access levels:

• Owner: This includes HR leaders who have total control.
• Admin: This level can include full-cycle recruiters with similar access to the Owner, except the ability to view “Private Notes.”
• Extended: This level is given to team members such as hiring coordinators who need access to reports.
• Standard: This level is appropriate for hiring team members who perform interviews.
• Limited: This level refers to anyone else in the organization.

Features of different access levels (Source: JobScore)

For the Scale and Enterprise plans, JobScore supports integration with other tools, including the following:

• Google Calendar
• Microsoft Outlook
• Company website
• Human Resource Information System: ADP, Bamboo HR, Namely, and Paylocity
• Onboarding: Sapling, HRCloud
• Background check: Verified First
• E-signature: Adobe Sign and DocuSign
• Single Sign-on: Google Workplace, Azure Active Directory, Okta, and OneLogin
• Compliance: Circa
• Texting: Emissary

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) compliance is required for all businesses with more than 15 employees in the US. For all plans, JobScore shows applicants a disclaimer and provides them the choice to divulge their ethnicity, gender, veteran status, and disabled status. This optional information is hidden to avoid influencing hiring decisions.

For the Scale and Enterprise plans, contractors can create self-identification forms that match the correct layout and font mandated by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Part of the OFCCP mandate is to record the reason for declining a candidate. JobScore provides “disposition codes” to track disqualification reasons and reduce risks of violation.

JobScore also supports creating a legal agreement, which applicants should go through as part of the application process.