What features does Sam Nadler's AI-built ATS prototype include?

Short answer: Sam Nadler shows a Kanban-style pipeline board, a filterable candidates page, offer templates, custom feedback forms, analytics and light, dark and party modes, built in about an hour with fake data.

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From Episode 9: Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch, starting at 4:56.

Sam Nadler [4:56]: I mean, you have the jobs page, which you can the different roles you have posted, candidates page. This is all fake data, so no personal information shared. And this is all pretty standard for a applicant tracking system, kinda have the pipeline board and can move candidates over or back.

Jordan Metzner [5:17]: Can you describe it for somebody who's listening maybe who, like, what these pages look like and how nice they are?

Sam Nadler [5:22]: Yeah. So they're beautifully designed. This pipeline board is you know, kinda looks like a Kanban board with the cards, the name of the candidate, the title of where they're currently at, has some tags. You can click on there. I don't think these buttons are working, so that's something I need to follow-up on. But you can move them over, into the different statuses of your process. You can edit these statuses. So maybe your process is slightly different than what's represented here. For the candidates page, you have all the candidates and what stage they're in. There's different filters, so you can say, all the source candidates or in about an hour, and I'm not arguing this doesn't need a bit more time, it's pretty robustly built to, like, pretty much exactly how we use an ATS today, and that was my goal with the second PRD. We even have an offers page. You have offer templates you could use, feedback. You can create your feedback form. So different candidates may require different types of feedback. If you have a very technical candidate, you'd want some sort of technical feedback, not maybe nontechnical, not necessary, so you can customize the feedback process.

Sam Nadler [6:36]: Different analytics, theoretically, this is to be built out, but that's, different tasks of your recruiting team, whether it's, scheduling an interview, etcetera. And then, one really fun feature that I think we like to do is I have a light mode, a dark mode, and then getting ready, a party mode.

Jordan Metzner [7:03]: Oh, nice. Party mode.

Sam Nadler [7:05]: Yeah. So we'll we'll wait for the beat drop because I made this song custom as well.

Jordan Metzner [7:13]: Sam's ATS.

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