ATS selection helper
Five questions about your organisation, instantly the selection criteria to compare ATS vendors on. Vendor-neutral: we don't sell an ATS and we don't crown a winner.
Five questions, then your selection criteria.
This selection helper is deliberately vendor-neutral: it doesn't crown a winner, but translates your situation into the criteria to compare vendors on. That way you narrow the market to your own workflow instead of to demos.
Your selection criteria
Answer the five questions; your criteria list appears here instantly and adjusts as soon as you change an answer.
How we reason.
The selection helper follows the evaluation framework from our vendor-neutral guide Implementing or switching an ATS: first narrow by organisation type and size, only then by features. The Dutch market has 45 ATS vendors (recruitmenttraining.pro, 2026) — anyone trying to compare them all ends up comparing demos instead of workflows.
We don't sell an ATS ourselves and have no partner deals with vendors; our work begins where the ATS stops — integrations with the back office, email and dashboards. Which systems you encounter most often in the Netherlands is covered in What is an ATS?
Good to know.
Why doesn't the selection helper name any systems?
Because there is no best ATS, only a best match with your workflow. The market has 45 vendors (recruitmenttraining.pro, 2026); a shortlist of five names mostly tells you who made the shortlist. Criteria you can compare sharply against yourself get you further than a ranking.
Is RiverFlows independent in this advice?
Yes. We don't sell ATS licences and have no revenue arrangements with vendors. Our work is the integration and automation around it — which we do on the system you choose, provided it has a usable API. That's why an open API comes up in almost every piece of advice.
How long does an ATS project take?
Count on three to six months from selection to go-live, depending on customisation, integrations and data migration (recruitmenttraining.pro, 2026). Small organisations with a standard setup can be faster; the lead time is mostly in decision-making and adoption, not the technology.
Are my answers stored?
No. The selection helper works entirely in your own browser; nothing is sent or stored.
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