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1.fiverrFiverr is one of the best freelance websites. It was established in 2010 and become a major competitor in the freelance job market. Its primary focus was on how to provide quality projects at affordable prices of as little as $5 per project.Fiverr freelancers offer services starting from $5 per project and can even go up to several thousands of dollars. Each job is referred to as a ‘gig’ and payments are based on the number of gigs.By 2012, the platform was hosting 1.3 million Gigs and over. Instead of allowing the clients to post jobs on their platform, they give the freelancers a chance to create a gig or gigs based on what they can do best. The platform lists the freelancers/sellers in different categories of specialization and according to their ratings. The buyers/employers can now choose from the list of freelancers.Fiverr platform also provides the clients/buyers with the information they require to choose the freelancer to hire. It gives the employers access to the freelancer/sellers portfolio and also the feedback made by previous employers.In the Fiverr platform, payments are made based on the number of gigs that a seller sells to the client.Fiverr platform categorizes the freelancers according to their specialization and ratings from their previous employers. It makes it easy for the employers to search for sellers by looking at their portfolio and the gigs they offer.Fiverr platform provides communication channels to their clients that are secure. It provides an in-app channel that allows the clients to get in touch with the freelancers through messages and even share documents.Let’s evaluate the pros and cons of Fiverr as a freelance platform.Pros of FiverrSimple, easy gigs to order right upfrontGreat for micro-gigs and tasksA variety of gigs that can be scaled quicklyEasy to instantly hire someone to help youSignificant volume and user baseCons of FiverrSlow payment for freelancersQuality of gigs can be poor at timesFreelancer2. FreelancerFreelancer is a website like Upwork. In addition, Freelancer is another freelancing platform that was formed in 2009 and is aimed at enabling the payments to be made using various local currencies.This freelancing website offers freelance service and crowdsourcing to millions of employers and freelancers in over 247 countries worldwide. The payments in freelancer platform are based on milestone completed.Freelancer platform, allows employers or clients to post their projects on their platform for free. They can then invite the freelancers to either bid, or they can go through the freelancers’ portfolio and decide who to give the task.The clients can choose from the best technical bid which means that they get the freelancers who best fits the job description and not necessarily the one with the lowest rate.When it comes to Freelancer platform, the website matches the jobs posted on it by the clients with the available talents. They narrow down the search to make it easy for employers to choose the best freelancers. For Freelancer platform, the client can have live chats with the freelancers which enable them to assess the progress of their projects.The freelancers can send bids to the clients on the projects they deem suitable for them. Freelancer.com allows the buyers to go through the registered talents by looking at their skills and proficiency or by looking at their profiles. The sellers can send applications to the clients for the jobs they are good at.Let’s evaluate the pros and cons of using Freelancer vs. Upwork vs. Fiverr.Pros of FreelancerSlick dashboard for hiringEasy to instantly hire someone to help youSignificant volume and user baseCons of FreelancerDependent on your reviewsLimited customer service help3. UpworkUpwork was formed in 2013 as a merge between Elance and Odesk. Elance only allowed payments through USD which limited freelancers from other countries from getting jobs.The Upwork freelance website is also among the best freelance platforms which is cloud-based and has the largest pool of job seekers and employers. Upwork has registered over 12 million freelancers, over 5 million clients and posts three million jobs annually.The clients in Upwork are allowed to post their projects online on the website by giving their specifications and budget. Upwork then matches the job with different freelancers’ qualifications to make it easy for the clients to choose the freelancers to hire.The freelancers also can view these projects which match their portfolio and apply or bid for the job.Upwork sets its payments based on milestones accomplished by the freelancer. The projects can be long term or short term, and the client has to create a milestone with the agreed budget.Upwork also rewards a top freelancer by giving him/her a top-rated badge. The Freelancer platform also sets their payments in the form of milestones completed. It ensures that the payments are released to the freelancer when the client is satisfied with work submitted.Upwork enables employers to view the profiles of the freelancers to make sure that they get the best in what they need. Upwork also provides an in-app communication method where the client can interview the freelancer to get more information.The search engine tools of Upwork filter the freelancers based on their qualifications and enable the clients to narrow down their search for potential sellers. The freelancers can also view the jobs that fit their set of skills.It has an in-app communication channel that the clients can use to chart or video call the freelancers. The channel also permits the client and the freelancer to share documents and files through the platform.Let’s evaluate the quick pros and cons of using UpworkPros of UpworkOpportunity to make money on high priced hourly freelance jobsSignificant volume and user baseCons of UpworkDependent on your reviewsLimited customer service helpClunky dashboard for creating jobs and getting hiredConclusion on Best Freelance Websites for BeginnersFreelancing is becoming the next best way to outsource talents for employers and for freelancers to get jobs. These are some of the best freelance websites for beginners that should help you earn money right now or help you free up your time.I like using freelancers to help me get work done either for my businesses or my personal life. As an entrepreneur, you have to think about a freelance business as a way to move up in the “hourly income” chain.You can effectively outsource your services to other people while you make money at a higher rate. This can be a great passive income opportunity.Conclusion for Hiring Freelancers: Use Freelancerand Fiverr together for hiring freelancers to help grow your business and free up your time.Conclusion for Getting Hired as a Freelancer: User Freelancer and Upwork to start building your book of business. If you like small tasks that are drier in nature, consider signing up for Fiverr and throwing a few gigs out there. It might not hurt.What skills do you have you can offer as a service? Don’t have one? Try learning a few new things like graphic design, social media, data entry and more. I know you can start making money right now.I hope this can help you gain insights into the best freelance websites and how they work.

Here are a few more technology startups.Applytics: Applytics Innovative Solutions Company is a software product company which works to provide Anti -Counterfeiting solutions & Intelligent Traffic Management Systems where IP’s have been filed. They are currently building a Centralized Product Authentication Service which enables worldwide consumers to verify the authenticity of the products with the manufacturer(s) with a click of a button & creating value to Manufacturers, Consumers and the Government. This product allows creating a common platform which allows customers to assess the authenticity of the products that they are buying. They simplify this process by unifying the communication infrastructures through the use of a patent pending process. Currently in pilot stage, it enables consumers to find counterfeit goods in Industries ranging from FMCG, Luxury, Pharmaceuticals, seeds & Pesticides and Automotive industries.Cavintek: Cavintek is a cloud-based workflow management software company that helps customers become more productive and do more with less. It helps businesses streamline their processes and reduce costs through automation. Their flagship product, cflow, provides a suite of applications that help customers manage information, run their business processes and be more productive. cflow is aimed at SMBs trying to make a transition from managing via spreadsheets to an integrated platform. Cflow contains applications ranging from HR, purchase and inventory, assets, productivity management, compliance and skill assessment. cflow also contains industry-based solutions for jewelry, healthcare, manufacturing and construction.ChargeBee: ChargeBee is a billing solution that makes subscription management and payment collection simple for web applications. Businesses can focus on their core business without worrying about automating operational stuff. Improving customer conversion, engagement and retention are major challenges in SaaS and ChargeBee is primarily positioned to deliver value to customers using analytics & tools.CipherGraph: CipherGraph is a cloud powered service allowing enterprises to securely use and adopt the cloud. It allows enterprises to enable their workforce to securely connect from anywhere to an organization’s cloud deployment (like Amazon AWS, Windows Azure etc.). They offer enterprise class security, compliant with corporate policy for secure and encrypted communication with strict control (Role Based Access Control). This allows a highly granular access policy based on user’s corporate identity or group. CipherGraph’s cloud powered “VPN as a Service” enables secure communication from all user devices, including phones and tablets. The communication is seamlessly encrypted without needing any change to the user’s applications or work flow. The service is cloud hosted and hardware free.Colimetrics: Colimetrics has developed a software product called Org Lens that automates the measurement of human factors impact on organizational efficiency. Targeting companies which have to deal with growth in working personnel, Colimetrics’ software aims at identifying problems such as bottlenecks, bureaucracy, incorrect division of work, miscommunication of priorities etc, which bring down a company’s working efficiency. Org Lens has an analytics engine that mines organizational data. A powerful notification framework identifies potential issues before they become major problems. The reporting framework allows a variety of ways to look at the analyzed data and provides various reports, drill downs and cross references. Org Lens also includes adaptors that fetch data from internal systems such as e-mail, HR and CRM.CollateBox: CollateBox is a free online service that lets you collect and organize data from multiple sources or team members and securely share specific records based upon column, row and cell value for others to work while you receive instant notifications based on different activities around your data – magically. Think about what you want to do with your tables of data and lists and we will transform it to that effect. If you want to organize, act, share and work with parts of such data lists with other team members with lesser efforts and better control, you are left with no choice today. That’s why CollateBox matters.DataWeave: DataWeave provides actionable data in an easy-to-use format that can be used by businesses in their decision making, application building activities. Data is served to users through data APIs, dashboards and visualizations. Businesses and developers can now rest assured that they will get the data they want and focus on building applications and deriving insights. Some examples of datasets provided by DataWeave are: eCommerce price intelligence, hourly commodity prices, and open government data.Diabeto: Diabeto is a healthcare- technology company that aims to leverage web and mobile technologies for disease/disorder management and to improve health and well-being. Their first product is a tool for diabetes management which addresses the issues of tracking, managing and processing data from various diabetes tests. It is a hardware device that plugs into a glucometer and wirelessly transmits sugar reading to a diabetes mobile application for easy tracking and manageability. They currently have a hardware product that works with most glucometers and an android app that supports the device.FORMCEPT: FORMCEPT is an effort to make data analysis accessible to everyone, be it an enterprise, an individual or a device. They are building a BigData Analysis platform that can empower the existing data analysts and data scientists of an organization to extract insights out of data faster, thereby significantly reducing the time taken to convert data into decisions. The platform provides batch processing, interactive analysis and stream processing capabilities out of the box. It can analyze unstructured data in the form of documents (PDF, HTML, DOC, text, tweets, etc.) and structured data stored in relational databases. It has built-in semantic capabilities and processing algorithms that can analyze unstructured data, categorize them, retrieve on demand and also deliver the results/reports to the right devices at the right time. Enterprises can also write customized applications (called “Intents”) on top of the platform according to their business needs and/or targeting their end customers.GAMOOZ: GAMOOZ specializes in Augmented Reality applications for mobile (iPhone, iPad, Android,Blackberry, Symbian, Bada), desktop, online, big screens and kiosks. In last one year, GAMOOZ has created 50+ AR applications for a number of companies and agencies across the globe. They have recently launched an Image-Tracking based AR Browser called ScanAR for print media. It is available on iTunes Store and Google Play and Web. They are planning to launch their own Augmented Reality Merchandise very soon eg.AR T-shirts, AR-mugs, AR-Notebooks, AR, Bags etc. They plan to sell their AR merchandise via their online shop and partners across the world via online retailers and retail chains.Graaby: Graaby is an application and solutions product company which aims to create and establish an NFC ecosystem to simplify life. They are introducing an NFC based geosocial coalition loyalty platform application called Graaby Rewards. Graaby’s focus is to build a NFC infrastructure between business and their customer, helping businesses understand their customers through a geosocial coalition reward platform, which helps retention as well as acquisition. Graaby`s NFC mobile tag will enable any mobile literally into virtual wallet bringing a new experience of tapping into rewards and social check-In into their Foursquare, Facebook places , Twitter even without any application or internet enabled mobile. Graaby’s NFC infrastructure with all partner business can be used by third party NFC application provider to add value to customer and business.Harness: Harness Handitouch Private Limited (Harness) is an education technology start-up founded by alumni of premier educational and corporate institutions in India and internationally. Their product, Touch-on-Cloud, is a tablet and cloud based learning “operating” system which disrupts the idea of classrooms, ICT and learning management systems as we think of them today by bridging the digital-physical divide. The solution has applicability in conventional, online as well as distance learning .Touch-on-Cloud effectively addresses problems faced in current conventional and ICT classrooms such as teacher control and lack of student engagement as it enables user generated content creation, real-time classroom collaboration, evaluation and feedback and content management on the cloud. Developed on HTML5, this learning operating system is platform neutral and embraces the bring-your-own-device trend that has equal efficacy for schools, colleges and coaching institutes.Hazel Media: Hazel Media is a Technology Product company set up in 2010 with a vision to create mobility and enterprise platforms that solve problems for the masses. The company had introduced its vernacular language rendering platform for mobile devices called mPustak in 2011 which won accolades, including the mBillionth Award in 2011. Hazel Media is focusing on combining Data + Mobile +Languages to create platforms that solve mobile data collection and management challenges in developing countries like India. The company’s flagship mobile data platform is called MobQuery, which has been unveiled in 2012.HuntShire: HuntShire’s Ghunter is an online assessment methodology backed by a propriety grading system to serve as a more effective recruitment process. Ghunter is designed to suit the assessment test requirements for various organizations in recruitment and talent management. By incorporating principles of gamification, HuntShire wishes to make test taking a fun experience which will bring the best out of candidates. By eliminating the need for providing options in a question, the Hunt Methodology tests the problem solving abilities of the candidates and selects people with specific skill sets defined by the role requirement. Companies can educate the applicants about the values and employer benefits during a test by sending custom messages, which in turn will help improve the desirability of the company.Impact Index: Impact Index is a leading statistical system in the sport of cricket today. The platform is targeted at the entire gamut in the cricket world. To casual cricket followers, as Impact Index simplifies cricket analysis immensely, cricket geeks, as it brings out much more than any other system can and is exponentially more accurate than the averages/aggregates that is used, and most importantly, owners/managers of cricket teams who want to select the best value players -aka Moneyball and Cricket boards, for ensuring deserving players get picked. Their claim is backed by its mention in Wisden Almanack 2012 (the most famous sports reference book in the world) – the first time in its 148 years of existence that it has mentioned an alternative statistical system in the game, by virtue of having Cricket Australia as a client.InCights: InCights intends to reduce cyber-crimes, Instances of Identity theft and associated frauds, by use of unique behavioral characteristics of people to identify and authenticate their identity. This unique character, called “VOICE”, can be used to identify consumers from anywhere, anytime and from any device. Currently this telephonic and IP based Services is being tested by BASIX SubK iTransaction to enable micro-payments in Rural India through a network of Banking Correspondent Outlet. InCights intend to make the service available to corporations, groups and association through direct sales team and by establishing a network of Value Added Resellers and OEM Partnership.Innosolv: Innosolv Consultancy Services Private Limited was founded in 2006. Innosolv, provide end-to-end solutions; from IT Services and Solutions catering to the small and medium enterprises, across sectors. Having spent the last decade working with the Indian businesses, some of their clients have become large public companies. They have two products, namely iDine, developed specifically for hospitality industry, to provide an end to end integrated solution. It provides single point management of Multi-Brand & Multi-Outlet Restaurant Chains, Point of Sale, Menu Management, Vendor Management, Recipe Costing, Automated Consumption and Costing Variance Analysis, Payroll, and Brand Investment, and iBeam Laundry, developed specifically for laundry industry, to provide end to end integrated solution. It Includes Retail, Institution, Door-to-door, and Linen Rental Business models. Solution includes Operations, Pricing, Wash process management, Finance and Accounting, Payroll, Fixed Asset management, and other unique requirements.Instamojo: Instamojo is a solution that lets the user sell digital creations simply by sharing unique checkout pagelinks. Instamojo is a simple payment system based on shortened URLs that makes everyone a merchant without installation of complicated scripts, technical know-how or signing up for merchant accounts. It can be used for software, music, video, photos, online courses, web & mobile apps, e-books and magazine or newspaper content.IntouchId: IntouchId is a cloud and mobile based product that allows people and businesses to securely maintain and share their contact information with their contacts. Just update your contact info in one place and all your contacts and customers automatically see the updates directly in their mobile’s phonebooks. Conversely, your address book is always up-to-date since it is being managed by the contacts themselves. The auto updating address book is always at your fingertips – visible directly in your phone. Users will never have to type contact info into the mobile or worry about losing contacts, saving enormous time, effort, and stress over lost or wrong contact. Also, for the first time ever, users will get to control how they show up in their contact’s phone-book, opening doors to personalization and other applications.JusPay: JusPay is started with a vision to revolutionize digital payments in India. It claims to offer the e-commerce merchants the nearest equivalent of Amazon’s Buy with 1-Click. Their solutions open the doors for e-commerce merchants to monetize on Mobile devices. JusPay aims to be the market leader in mobile payments that will catalyze the explosive growth of e-commerce, personalized entertainment and value added services. Their value-propositions are in providing payment on a Single page, no redirects, express checkout, card storage that reduces number of steps from 7 to 2, mobile checkout, single click payment with innovation on second factor authentication. JusPay is targeting a 10 billion dollar ecommerce market and plans to target other markets like VAS, Digital goods and Bill payments in the future.JustUnfollow: JustUnfollow is on a mission to help users clean their twitter. Think of them as TweetDeck for friend management. The goal is to build the perfect dashboard to help everyone manage their social graph. JustUnfollow is currently helping a million users make unfollow decisions on Twitter. JustUnfollow also helps business users keep track of the various twitter accounts they manage. The unique ‘Copy Followers’ feature helps businesses follow their competitor’s followers on twitter thus providing them with the right target audience. Twitter users follow a lot of people when they join twitter. Over a period of time their timeline gets clogged with unwanted updates. It’s hard to make unfollow decisions in order to clear up the timeline. JustUnfollow helps by making unfollow decisions easy.LearnSocial: LearnSocial is a peer-to-peer Learning Platform which envisions transforming every individual into a teacher and student. It connects people who are passionate/knowledgeable about a topic and can teach it, with people who are interested to learn new things. Currently the platform enables the learning to happen face-to-face in the real world or do “virtual” Classes through LearnSocial Live, a rich, interactive online platform that connects learners and teachers from all over the world to share their learning’s in real time. LearnSocial is the World’s first Hybrid platform which supports all modes of learning – Physical, Virtual and Self-paced there by connecting Billions of teachers, learners to share Knowledge, experience and quench their thirst for lifelong learning.Little Eye Labs: Little Eye Labs, the mobile tools startup from Bangalore, is focused on helping app developers optimize mobile apps for better performance and battery life. They provide intuitive and innovative tools that let you, the app developer or tester, view your app’s gut in a way that helps you better understand, test, benchmark and optimize. Their first product, called “Little Eye” is a power analyzer that will provide detailed insights into an app’s power consumption, at the place where it matters most for the developer/tester – his workstation. It will monitor and provide visualization of the app’s power consumption by the various hardware components (e.g. CPU, Wifi, 3G, display, etc) and also show associated events. It will help testers perform regression analysis of their app’s power consumption. In addition, the tool can also help developers benchmark their app’s battery consumption.Mango Sense: Mango Sense aims to bring books to life by making them interactive, engaging and fun using videos, quizzes, graphics, maps and games with their product MangoReader. They have two products; one is a HTML5 reader, which works on iPad, iPhone, Desktops and Android tablets. This reader helps to collaborate, highlight, search dictionary, ask questions and share notes within an interactive book. The other is a HTML5 book creation platform where one can create interactive books (videos, images, maps, quizzes, 3D Diagrams etc. The HTML 5 platform enables a “create once sell everywhere” functionality with this platform. With MangoReader Store, users can purchase, rent, gift or subscribe to interactive eBooks. MangoReader is a winner of EduStars-2012 by YourStory.in and Young Creative Entrepreneur award– 2012 by British Council.MilkorWater: MilkorWater is a computational financial analytics company which helps consumers make smarter investment decisions through unbiased analysis of recommendations given by stock market analysts. It is delivered as a Web 2.0 based technology for web, mobile and social platforms, and hosted on the world-class Amazon EC2 cloud platform. MilkorWater is the largest free site in the world that analyses stock recommendations from 1500 professional analysts across 125 brokerage firms for over 825 stocks traded on NSE. Through its analytics, its aims to revolutionize investment decision making, level playing field for retail investors by democratizing information, increase the stock market depth by bringing large number of retail investors, and bring accountability and responsibility in this market.Praxify: Xtremum Solutions is an innovative healthcare technology and analytics company working towards connecting the various stakeholders in the healthcare domain. Its flagship product – Praxify is India’s first cloud & iPad based specialty specific electronic health record (EHR) with practice management capabilities for physicians. The app comes with several features that allow, for example, easy appointment scheduling, and completely digitized patient records that enable quick and precise billing. The app is delivered using the SaaS model, allowing various stakeholders to use the app on the go, without worrying about security and integrity of the app.Radiowalla: Radiowalla Network Private Limited is a venture backed start-up which has two services – SpotRadio & Radiowalla. SpotRadio is an in-store radio solutions product, which was commercially launched in August 2011. This service offers audio branding and sound scaping solutions to retail chains, corporates and brands. It has partnered with over 40+ national retail chains with over 4,000 locations in the country within a year. Spot Radio’s music database spans across several languages and genres. It offers businesses the option of music day parting and localized ad insertions via streaming and store and forward technologies. It also helps businesses monetize their stations by operating an ad sales team, that sells airtime on clients channels to non-competing brands that wish to target the in store traffic of a particular store. Radiowalla is Radiowalla Network’s direct to consumer audio platform which offers created and curated 30+ streaming audio channels (Music and non-music) for netizens worldwide via mobile apps and any broadband connected devices.SpanIdea: SpanIdea Systems is a product design and technology services organization focused on Semiconductor, Embedded System, Wireless and Mobile Application Design. It is founded by industry veterans from CISCO, INTEL, QCOM, WIPRO, BROADCOM with a track record of delivering successful networking products for leading multinational companies and startups. Their product, uBox, is a unified Smart Home box to create a home gateway, for smart TV and home cloud.TeachAClass: TeachAClass aims to bridge the gap between education initiatives, such as Khan Academy and CK-12, and students at low-income schools in developing countries. Using a cloud-based, plug-n- play wireless toolkit called NomadEDU, which is pre-packaged with learning material, Teach A Class enable a classroom cloud anywhere in the world. The product aims to equip local teachers with quality teaching aids and provide a global distribution capability to all content creators. It has also integrated some groundbreaking, learning modules, such as the SMILE Program on NomadEDU, by which teachers and students can also develop their own questions and videos, allowing for collaborative learning.Treetle: Treetle is a location-based interest network. The Treetle platform let’s people easily find, and connect with, others around them who have the same interests and enables them to together do the things they love to do. It’s completely free for users. Treetle’s search and recommendation engine makes discovery of neighborhood groups and events efficient. Treetle’s unique way of rewarding users who organize events provides healthy incentives to actually do the things they would love to do anyways! The site is available across 3400+ cities across India, and will be rolled out globally in the next two quarters. Treetle will be releasing its mobile apps in September 2012.Virinchi: Mobile and Web Application is Virinchi’s forte and it enables them to help clients in fabricating their dreams. Their expertise lies in domains such as Mobile Application Development, iOS and Android App Development and more. Their app DealGali provides fast and comprehensive deals to users and connects buyers with sellers. Businesses can create their deals, offers, discounts and advertise their location on DealGali.com and customers can, in turn, find the best deals, discounts, offers they require and spot them in their nearest location using their smartphones.[Source - http://yourstory.in/2012/09/yourstory-ins-tech30-report-2012/]

Amazing question. Almost every applicant tracking system ‘sucks.’ This was a truism when I worked at LinkedIn and now having started a company that does recruiting, I can confidently say few people ‘love’ their ATS.Why is there no winner?Because there is no ‘standard’ hiring process.For competitive talent, it’s pretty much an all-out war. Every organization does what works for them and the recruiters they’ve worked with. What this means is each company has a different way of vetting, screening, and ultimately making offers to candidates: a very manual process.Check out any online review forum and you’ll see there are HUNDREDS of ATS’. many with top notch reviews. Top Applicant Tracking Systems. Does this mean all of them are equally good? No, this only means that there are hundreds of different and equally valid ways to hire people.Only companies like Google have really tried to turn their hiring into a science, and even then, their process will be completely different from another company’s—different brand, different needs, etc.Hiring Software is a tough and thankless space. As a result, this is going to be a rather long, comprehensive answer to try to get at some of the major differences between players in the market.OVERVIEW:There’s no ‘Gold Standard’ ATS. Let’s leave that out there. Even the market leaders like Workday and Silicon Valley darlings in the space like Greenhouse do some things really well and then expand somewhat haphazardly across the spectrum. And while Lever (company) , TAM, Greenhouse.io, Halogen and People HR are some of best reviewed ATS software companies, I personally know people using at least 3 of those systems that aren’t blown away.Even now, many companies are still using spreadsheets to track their applicants. Using spreadsheets to track applicants, creates an environment of little collaboration, and wastes time. Previously, ATS's were strictly for resumes, and didn't allow for the reporting and analytics that current systems offer. Newer systems include referrals, skills assessments, and mobile applications.Companies decide what their specific needs are for their recruitment process. A small company may need to use social media to get the word out that they're hiring, while a large company may need analytics that allow it to view the cost effectiveness of their hiring process. Certain verticals, like healthcare or law, may need something more specialized.Rather than look at hundreds of ATS’ and compare features, I’ve instead picked 4 companies that represent ‘legacy’ software (Cornerstone), a fast growing standard (Workday), and two tech start-ups (Greenhouse and Lever), which get a ton of buzz out in Silicon Valley.First, I’ll give an overview of the companiesThen, we’ll take a look at how they do at 5 critical ATS tasks:Building candidate pipelineManaging evaluation processCollecting feedback on candidatesReporting on your hiring effectiveness / hiring processHiring and Onboarding employeesI have divided my answer into the process areas in question and then additionally between each company to provide a features comparison.Finally, in the appendix I’ve put a bunch of user reviews (along with the highest user-rated ATS’) and screenshots.I have a background in HRIS and working with buyers and end users and this structure mirrors how I’d think about buying these pieces of software depending on my needs.COMPANY COMPARISON OVERVIEWABOUT WORKDAYFounded in 2005, Workday provides a complete HRIS solution, payroll and financial management. While Workday does leverage technology partners, their product has been extensively built in house. They leverage Adaptive Analytics for providing customers with analytics. Within the Workday Human Capital Management hire to retire product, they have talent management, recruiting, onboarding and workforce planning tools. In 2012, Workday went public and today they target mid-sized to global Fortune 500 companies.ABOUT GREENHOUSEGreenhouse is a SaaS company that provides an end-to-end recruiting, applicant tracking, hiring and onboarding product. Greenhouse leverages technology partners to augment their functional areas. Aside from their comprehensive features, Greenhouse spotlights their analytics tool which is powered by analytics leader Tableau Software. Based on customer reviews, the Greenhouse product is most popular with mid-sized companies. Founded in 2012, Greenhouse completed Series C funding of $35M in August 2015; this investment brought their total funding to $60.13M.ABOUT LEVERLever, a newer recruiting software company, started in 2012. Their idea was to integrate the hiring process, not just within HR, but to include all members of the hiring process, including management and executives. They also wanted to make their platform user-friendly and accessible on the go, not just for recruiters, but for applicants. In just under 4 years, they have acquired clients such as: Quora, Shopify and Netflix.ABOUT CORNERSTONECornerstone has been in the recruiting software market since 1999. Their philosophy, in terms of what they offer their clients, is to encompass all aspects of the recruitment process: recruit, interview, hire, onboard, train, etc. They are a global company, with their product being used in 191 countries. They have over 25 million users, who speak 42 different languages. Along with big name corporations like Hallmark, Xerox and Walgreen's, Cornerstone's software is also used by government agencies, higher education, etc.HOW DO THE ATS’ COMPARE ON DIFFERENT FRONTS?1. Building a candidate pipelineWorkday acquired Identified in 2014 to build their sourcing product. Identified goes beyond the basic candidate search to find candidates that may not always seem the most interesting on paper but are a better fit for the role which will give Workday an edge. Workday will use gamified pre-hire assessments to build a comprehensive talent pool, something only 40% of companies do today. Like many competitors, candidate sourcing comes from a variety of resources, but with their advanced filtering systems, they capture candidate data traditional sources can not.Greenhouse leverages a mixed bag approach including job boards (via technology partners), external events, social media, external agencies, in-house referrals. There are built in features that help identify skills needed to fill gaps in their candidate pipeline. A/B testing in these environments provides the recruiting team data on which avenues bring in the best candidates.Lever believes that companies need to collaborate within, to gain the right candidate for the position they are hiring for. By using online sourcing, email sync and in-house scheduling, more people can be involved in the hiring process, which makes everyone feel empowered by the process. Also Lever allows recruiters to pull information directly from the web into a candidate profile. This means that someone who may be otherwise employed, could be invited to apply for a position, based on the imported information. Lever believes that every employee in a company should have access to Lever, to easily enable referrals. This helps to create a larger applicant pool.Cornerstone believes the recruitment process shouldn't be time extensive. They believe that using social tools helps to streamline the process and creates a better experience for the candidate. They also believe their reporting metrics can help from the beginning of the process, to determine the "cost per hire", and where your best talent is coming from. They also use in-house referrals, and collaborative tools to ensure a smooth process.2. Managing the hiring & evaluation processWorkday took a different approach to hiring by moving away from a tradition applicant tracking system in the hiring and evaluation process. Workday made their process predominantly mobile for both the hiring team and the candidate, but what this really meant is that the mobile and the web version are equals in terms of functional usability. All aspects of the hiring process are automated to prevent stop-gaps in the hiring flow.Greenhouse works on automation; meaning, once a candidate enters the system and begins the hiring process, there are automatic workflow triggers that move the candidate along and prevent stop-gaps. They also have a function called ‘The Interview Kit’ which each interviewer receives and it provides all relevant information such as the resume, instructions for the interview and a scorecard. This ‘kit’ is consistent for each level of the interview which they say helps make the final evaluation clear and objective.At Lever, even the evaluation process is collaborative. Using their email sync and Slack, their system allows immediate questions and answers from within to company, to allow for a faster process in choosing the right candidate. Also, any conversations that a candidate has had with someone inside the company, can be tracked for easy reference.Lever integrates the evaluation and feedback process to simplify the process. Since they believe all employees involved in the hiring process should have access to the system tools, this enables multiple types of feedback for a candidate, but all kept within one simple system. Feedback is included as part of the email sync and Slack system. As an example, a recruiter could post a question to a member of the hiring process, or multiple members, through a community set up on Slack. All they have to do is @mention a member, and await their response.Cornerstone has grown with the technologies and social tools available. They have also moved to using the collaborative method of hiring. Cornerstone offers a scorecard system that allows for easy comparison of candidates, in a customizable way that shows candidates as green, yellow or red. The easy color coding of where the candidate stands in the process, and how they rate for the position could be a very useful tool. They believe in using predictive analytics to help choose the right candidate.3. Collecting feedbackWorkday feedback is collected during each interview stage and is completely visible to everyone on the internal hire side by having all data stored in the same place. The type of feedback collected is determined by the company and is customizable based on specific needs of the role or organization. Workday provides candidate scorecards built in to the hiring process. By having both mobile and web-based applications, Workday has seen a 400% increase in customer activity on mobile devices which could translate into greater involvement during the feedback cycles.Greenhouse’s interview template makes it so that feedback collected is consistent and can ultimately provide an objective comparison. The kit makes the feedback collection process collaborative and will also save time among the entire team involved in hiring because all information is stored in the same place. Please note, the candidate scorecard is not numbers based.As mentioned, Lever collects feedback through the evaluation process.Cornerstone’s feedback is integrated with the scoring process above, so people can assign feedback to each candidate in the system.4. Evaluating your hiring process & reporting on hiring effectivenessWorkday specifically calls out how they use their analytics to spotlight how effective your hiring process is. Leveraging Adaptive Analytics they can even drill deeper to show recruiting and hiring managers the ratio of candidate pipeline to headcount which allows teams to increase their effectiveness and play a proactive role in recruiting. While this is not a part of the question, I found that the Identified acquisition provides analytics that go a step further and bleed into retention. For example, "you're able to pull up recommended job changes for each person ranked by impact on retention risk and right within Workday, you can start the process to make that job change"Greenhouse has partnered with Tableau Software to run the analytics on their product. This means that the hiring team will be able to understand where in their process they can make changes to be more cost effective and source better quality talent. For example the data can allow the recruitment team to identify candidate patterns such as when and why they fell out of the evaluation process; this in turn can help the recruiters filter candidates out earlier when the evaluation costs less money (techcrunch unicorn) i.e. during phone interviews. Furthermore you can leverage the tool to run visual data on how effective you were at each stage starting with sourcing your candidates.Lever offers a simple platform, which utilizes filters to create reports that can be exported to Excel or used right in their applicant interface. The metrics allow a company to determine where their efforts are working, and where they need improvement. They also enable a user to see how their pipeline is working and where their source of applicants, and eventual new hires are coming from.Cornerstone reporting allows for an overview of many standard and customizable views. It's not only available for the recruiting process, but for current employee trends and business practices. This alone allows a company more information to apply to their hiring process. One feature they have is headcount planning, which allows a company to see how many people they have in their departments at the current time, and according to data, plan for future hires.5. Onboarding employeesWorkday provides a comprehensive new hire onboarding which provides new hires with a one-stop to complete all necessary documents required for the HR team; completing personal information, entering payroll information and completing compliance documents. Workday’s application is very compliance oriented and does not extend to other new hire areas such as how to set up accounts and access operating programs.Greenhouse made their first acquisition in November 2015 to extend their product offering to onboarding. This acquisition provides new hires with an interactive checklist that takes them through how to set up their accounts, acquire their necessary equipment, complete hiring forms & documentation, how to set up email & calendar, and the general company welcome. They do not include new hire training.Cornerstone is more versed in the actual onboarding process. They have been around longer than Lever, and have grown with the market needs. Not only does Cornerstone include a specific system devoted to onboarding, they also have a system in place that tracks current employees for new positions, along with a system that tracks training of new and existing employees. They believe that the onboarding process is crucial to get your new hires from training to working.Right now, from information on the Lever website, Lever does not yet offer any system for onboarding. They are still a growing company, and right now are focused on the hiring process.CONCLUSIONS?All of these solutions have compelling products for the applicant tracking, recruiting, and onboarding (except Lever). In reality, as mentioned above, these products as apples to oranges based on the company size, the total product offering, the feature sets, the maturity of the product and the approach each company takes.APPENDIX: REVIEWS AND SCREENSHOTSHave you not had enough ATS goodness? Need more details and screenshots? Here are some reviews and screenshots of the highest rated ATS’ and Cornerstone, so you can see where the software is at, and what reviews have said about them.Lever, which was given a 4.8 stars out of 5, has 9 reviews. They were rated highest in ease of use, customer support and functionality. 98% of reviewers would recommend Lever.Providing Feedback In Lever:Scheduling in Lever:Reporting in Lever- Job Site for posting, Application, Interview Kit- Sourcing, Candidate History, Source Reporting- Email Sync, Slack Collaboration- Scheduling: Interviews, Member Calendars, Timezone Support, Automatic ping for Feedback- Physical Interview, Interview Process, Feedback- Recruitment ReportingThe Applicant Manager (TAM), which was given 4.7 out of 5 stars, has 47 reviews. They were rated highest in ease of use, product quality, and functionality. 94% of reviewers would recommend The Applicant Manager.- Applicant Data- Pre-screen Options- Reporting- Greenhouse, which was given 4.5 out of 5 stars, has 91 reviews. They are listed as being mid-high in cost, available on MAC, Windows and Linux, and are cloud based. They are available for small, medium and large companies. They were rated highest in customer support, product quality and functionality. 93% of reviewers would recommend Greenhouse.Images for Greenhouse:- Interview Plan- Preliminary Screening- Reporting- Halogen Software, which was given 4.5 out of 5 stars, has 42 reviews. They are listed as being mid-priced, available on MAC, Windows and Linux, and are both cloud based and on premise. They are available for medium and large companies. They were rated highest in product quality, customer support and ease of use. 90% of reviewers would recommend Halogen.Images for Halogen:- Talent Search- High Potential Report- Reports- People HR, which was given 4.4 out of 5 stars, has 33 reviews. They are listed as being mid-high priced, available on MAC, Windows and Linux, and are cloud based.They are available for small and medium sized companies. They were highest rated in ease of use, product quality and functionality. 88% of reviewers would recommend People HR.Images of People HR:- Employee Profile- Reports- Performance ReviewsSample screenshots of Cornerstone applications can be found here:- Social Sourcing- Applicant Management- Referrals- Career Sites- Reporting- Talent Scorecards