profile updated Apr 15, 2008, 1:09 PM
Way back in the old days of the mid-1980s, when an impressive desktop system had 768k (that is not a misprint) of memory, candidate management meant investing in mainframe equipment and software or buying a bigger filing cabinet.
Most data (a techie's term for a resume) was unstructured (think: resume); most computers could only handle structured data (think: employment application). So a recruiter's work involved a lot of index cards, file folders, and paper.
Just about then askSam came into the world. It was not designed as a recruiting tool, but as a way to give some structure to unruly digital documents and make it possible to find what you wanted as well as related things you didn't know were even there. Now, almost a quarter century after creating arguably the world's first desktop free-form database, Seaside Software offers a variety of products built around the principle of making life with computers easier.
askSam resume tracker is askSam Pro with special forms, searches and features pre-designed for recruiters. You could save $200 by getting the Pro version, but you would spend well more than that in the time it would take to design and implement the recruiter-specific components.
When we searched Google for askSAM we found multiple sites offering allegedly OEM versions of the products at giveaway prices. You pay your money and you download the software; there's no manual, no support, and no guarantee the software will work.News & Updates 
Products & Services
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askSam Resume Tracking System 6
A powerful, but inexpensive, resume tracking system. It accepts resumes in many formats including e-mail, PDF and directly from web pages, very handy when sourcing online resumes. The program is very fast, completing complex searches through thousands of documents in seconds on a desktop PC. This is a customized version of askSAM Pro specifically for recruiters, so it has templates, reports and forms designed the way recruiters want them. Because askSAM is highly flexible, adding, deleting fields or changing forms is a snap. For $595 it is a product that will manage your candidate records every bit as well and in some cases faster and better than programs costing into the thousands.