Why businesses use ATS systems for hiring?

Just read an article on why businesses prioritize applicant tracking systems for hiring today. I'm not sure it's worth it because the way I understand it, these tools just focus on identifying the performance of a candidate, in other words, I guess they decontextualize the candidate's professional experience by removing their character... any thoughts?

Here's the link where you can find the article:

https://raznameh.org/whats-really-behind-todays-recruitment-start-ups-prioritizing-an-efficient-ats-system/

Raznameh said:

Just read an article on why businesses prioritize applicant tracking systems for hiring today. I'm not sure it's worth it because the way I understand it, these tools just focus on identifying the performance of a candidate, in other words, I guess they decontextualize the candidate's professional experience by removing their character... any thoughts?

Here's the link where you can find the article:

https://raznameh.org/whats-really-b...art-ups-prioritizing-an-efficient-ats-system/

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Its because for some businesses manual review of each application is impossible because of the number of applications they get.

So ATS does the initial screening, then a recruiter goes through the selected ones and calls up potential candidates and the process continues from there.