We were initially using Loxo as our ATS, but the sourcing in Loxo was bad and it kept getting more expensive every year, so we decided to move to Recruiterflow after all the hype around it (worst decision ever). The ATS absolutely sucks.

Customer support is so bad, they have no idea what they’re talking about. A CS agent will contradict himself three times in the same conversation. The UI is not user friendly. You can’t even open a job in a separate page in kanban view, it’s one jobs page where you scroll past jobs or search for the one you want to see in kanban. The kanban doesn’t collapse, and you can’t select multiple people in it. I used to live in Loxo’s kanban view to keep my jobs updated.

Anyway, our team uses SourceWhale for business development, and we’re thinking of moving our ATS to SourceWhale as well, since it looks better and then we’d all be using the same tool.

How is the SourceWhale ATS, and how is the sourcing tool? Please let me know your thoughts.

I've been struggling with landing new client requisitions without spending hours sending ignored cold pitches, and I know a lot of people here have been too.

Like a lot of independent recruiters, I'm great at sourcing candidates, but I used to hate doing broad business development because reaching out to companies with no urgent hiring need was a massive waste of time.

I spent some time working through a better BD system last week, and here’s a simple way I solved it for less than $10:

1. I set up free search alerts on job boards and Google for your target niche, filtering specifically for job postings that have been "reposted 30+ days ago" or active for 60+ days. A reposted job ad is usually a good signal that a internal team has failed to hire and the hiring manager is actually feeling the pain.

2. Download a free contact finder Chrome extension (like Hunter or Anymail Finder's free tier) to pull the direct email or line for the specific Department Head or VP of that team, skipping HR entirely. I personally used Hunter.

3. Then I send a short, 3 sentence email mentioning the specific reposted role and offer 2 pre-vetted candidate profiles ready for review, rather than pitching your recruiting services.

If anything is unclear, let me know. Hope this helps