The moment an offer is accepted is the most exciting part of the hiring journey. After weeks of sourcing, interviewing, and assessing, you’ve found the perfect global talent in your Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
But for People Operations and Recruitment leaders, that moment of celebration often transitions into a moment of dread. Why? Because the final mile of the hiring journey—the “handshake” between your ATS and your global employment platform—is still manual and prone to mistakes
When speed matters, this shouldn’t slow you down. Connect your ATS to a global employment platform like Oyster so the handoff is simple: import once, start the hiring process instantly, and let the right local details apply automatically. It’s not a nice‑to‑have—it’s how you grow a distributed team without sacrificing accuracy.
The Cost of the Manual Handoff
The biggest hidden cost in global hiring isn't in recruiting fees—it's in the friction, errors, and delays caused by manual data entry between systems. When your ATS and employment platform don’t talk to each other, you get:
- Delays in onboarding: During hiring season, every duplicate field and manual contract setup adds days. Candidates expect a fast, professional experience.
- Data errors and payroll risk: Mistakes in salary, title, or location can lead to payroll delays and compliance issues later.
- Low People team productivity: People teams are forced to waste time on administrative data entry and reconciliation instead of focusing on high-value talent acquisition and management.
The Fix: Connect your ATS to Oyster
Connecting your applicant tracking system (ATS) to Oyster turns that last stretch into a simple handoff.
- Guarantee data accuracy: Designating the ATS as the single source of truth eliminates data entry errors, ensuring every employment contract is built on consistent, accurate information.
- Speed up onboarding: Automating the data handoff reduces administrative lag, accelerating time-to-onboard from days to hours.
- Ensure compliance: Hiring on Oyster means that the system automatically applies local compliance layers once a new hire process starts, ensuring speed never compromises legal requirements.
Integrating Oyster with your Talent Pipeline
Oyster is building an HR ecosystem where your favorite tools work in perfect harmony. We are thrilled to announce our latest ATS connection – Ashby.
Introducing the Ashby integration
Ashby users can bring candidates into Oyster without manual entry. Here’s how it works:
- Offer accepted in ATS: Your hiring team marks the candidate as hired in Ashby.
- Select candidate and click import: With a single click inside Oyster, key data such as name, job title, and country, is automatically imported into Oyster.
- Compliant contract generation begins instantly: Kick off Oyster’s compliant hiring flow with pre-populated data, and generate contracts for review and signature within minutes.
Oyster connects your entire talent stack
Oyster supports a comprehensive ecosystem designed for the modern People stack. Beyond Ashby, we also offer seamless integrations with:
- Greenhouse: Leverage your existing Greenhouse data model to automatically populate new employee profiles in Oyster.
- BambooHR ATS: For users managing their hiring pipeline within BambooHR, easily push finalized candidate data into Oyster to kick off the compliant onboarding and contract phase.
- Zapier: For teams using niche or custom ATS solutions, leverage our Zapier connector to build flexible, automated workflows that keep your data synchronized.
Beyond integrations: the full journey with Oyster
The challenge in global hiring is no longer finding the talent—it’s operationalizing the employment process efficiently and compliantly.
While ATS integration solves the data handoff, Oyster supports the entire employee journey. From automated hiring documents and locally compliant payroll to streamlined benefits administration, Oyster’s platform is designed to automate every step of the process. We provide the comprehensive automation and compliance engine that turns a globally distributed team from a complex operation into a competitive advantage.
Book a demo with Oyster to experience a seamless global employment journey.
