iCIMS

Manage recruitment, applicant tracking, and employee onboarding.

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iCIMS Overview

  • Updated November 26, 2025

iCIMS is a comprehensive talent acquisition platform designed to help businesses attract, engage, and hire the right people efficiently. It provides robust applicant tracking, recruitment marketing, and onboarding tools that simplify the entire hiring journey.

With its user-friendly interface and integration capabilities, iCIMS enables organizations to manage candidates, strengthen employer branding, and improve overall hiring outcomes while ensuring a streamlined and professional experience for both recruiters and applicants.

Key Features

  • Applicant Tracking System (ATS): Centralize job postings, candidate data, and feedback workflows, and integrates securely with HR tools while streamlining recruiter workloads.
  • Candidate Relationship Management (CRM): Nurture talent pipelines with behavior-based outreach, automated campaigns, and tracking across email, text, and chat channels.
  • Onboarding Tools: Automate tasks like paperwork, welcome materials, and role-specific workflows to help new hires get productive smoothly and without delay.
  • Reporting & Analytics: Provide real-time dashboards, scheduled reports, and recruitment metrics that help improve performance and visibility across hiring operations.
  • Text Recruiting & Mobile Engagement: Enable recruiters to send messages, schedule interviews, and engage candidates via SMS or mobile—even when teams are on the move.
  • AI-Powered Features (e.g., Copilot): Offer AI for job matching, ranking, candidate search, career-site optimization, chatbot support, and multi-language translation for smarter hiring.
  • Career Site Builder & Branding: Let organizations design branded, mobile-friendly career pages with SEO tools and customizable templates that reflect their identity.
  • Integrations & Ecosystem: Connect with over 750 partners including HCM systems, and supports open APIs to ensure flexibility across talent and HR platforms.

Price

Employee Size Range Estimated Annual Price (USD)
1-100 employees ~$9,000 per year
101-250 employees ~$11,500 per year
251-500 employees ~$15,000 per year
501-1,000 employees ~$24,000 per year
1,000-2,500 employees ~$55,000 per year
2,500-5,000 employees ~$80,000 per year
5,000+ employees ~$135,000+ per year

iCIMS does not publish fixed pricing on their website. The above figures are derived from third-party sources and market estimates.

Pros

Competitor Pros of iCIMS
Greenhouse iCIMS offers a broader range of enterprise-grade features and stronger analytics support, while Greenhouse focuses on a more streamlined, mid-market experience.
Jobvite iCIMS delivers more robust onboarding, compliance, and AI-powered tools, while Jobvite aims for simpler, AI-driven automation.
SAP SuccessFactors iCIMS specializes deeply in recruitment with powerful ATS and CRM capabilities, whereas SuccessFactors covers broader HR functions but may lack focused talent acquisition depth.
JazzHR iCIMS scales smoothly for large organizations and includes advanced reporting and branded career‑site tools. JazzHR is more suited for smaller teams.
Avature iCIMS has a more polished onboarding and mobile/text engagement stack, while Avature is strong in CRM-driven talent pools but may be more complex.

Cons

Competitor Cons of iCIMS
Greenhouse iCIMS comes with higher costs and greater complexity, and teams may face a steeper learning curve. Greenhouse feels more intuitive for lean hiring teams.
Jobvite iCIMS lacks clear, transparent pricing and may involve lengthy sales cycles. Jobvite may offer quicker deployment and simpler cost structures.
SAP SuccessFactors iCIMS focuses narrowly on talent acquisition, whereas SuccessFactors provides a unified HR suite—benefiting organizations that want one integrated system.
JazzHR iCIMS is more expensive and heavyweight; organizations with limited budgets or hiring volume may find JazzHR far more accessible and cost-effective.
Avature iCIMS can feel rigid and less customizable in CRM workflows compared to Avature’s nimble approach to complex recruitment models.

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