HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between ELMO Suite and Recruit CRM & ATS. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Recruit CRM & ATS.
ELMO Suite
Source
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Compatibility
8 of 10
objects map 1:1 between ELMO Suite and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
ELMO Suite and Recruit CRM serve different primary functions, which shapes every migration from one to the other. ELMO is a hire-to-retire HRMS: it covers payroll, time-and-attendance, performance management, and learning alongside recruitment. Recruit CRM is a dedicated ATS and recruitment CRM for small-to-mid staffing agencies. Migrating from ELMO to Recruit CRM means extracting the recruitment module subset — candidate profiles, job records, applications, interview data, and onboarding checklists — and mapping it to Recruit CRM's candidate and job schema. The rest of the ELMO data (payroll records, leave balances, performance reviews, learning completions, rostering) has no native equivalent in Recruit CRM and migrates as structured records or is flagged for post-migration reconciliation. We do not migrate automations, workflows, or sequences; we deliver a written inventory for the customer's admin to rebuild in Recruit CRM.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
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What's pushing teams away
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What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a ELMO Suite object lands in Recruit CRM & ATS, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
ELMO Suite
Candidates (Recruitment Module)
Recruit CRM & ATS
Candidate
1:1ELMO candidate profiles — including name, email, phone, resume, skills, and application history — map to Recruit CRM Candidate records. ANZ-specific fields such as visa status, TFN (Tax File Number) declarations, and right-to-work documentation stored in ELMO custom fields migrate as Recruit CRM custom fields. We resolve duplicate candidates by email dedupe before import and flag any ambiguous duplicates in a reconciliation queue.
ELMO Suite
Job and Position Records
Recruit CRM & ATS
Job
1:1ELMO job or vacancy records map to Recruit CRM Job records. Fields including job title, department, location, employment type, and job description transfer directly. Position status (open, filled, cancelled) maps to Recruit CRM job status values. Internal versus external job flags are preserved as custom fields if Recruit CRM's standard status values do not cover the customer's distinction.
ELMO Suite
Applications
Recruit CRM & ATS
Application (Candidate-Job association)
1:1ELMO applications — linking a candidate to a job with stage, source, and submission date — map to Recruit CRM application records. Application stage values (applied, screening, interview, offer, hired, rejected) map to Recruit CRM pipeline stage values. Where ELMO stores interview scores and interviewer feedback as sub-records, these migrate as Recruit CRM interview notes linked to the application.
ELMO Suite
Interview Schedules and Feedback
Recruit CRM & ATS
Interview + Candidate Notes
1:manyELMO interview records (scheduled time, interviewer, interview type, feedback scores, outcome) split into Recruit CRM Interview records and linked Candidate notes. Feedback scores stored as structured rating fields in ELMO become Recruit CRM custom fields on the Interview record; free-text interviewer notes migrate as Candidate Activity notes for full candidate timeline visibility.
ELMO Suite
Onboarding Checklists
Recruit CRM & ATS
Onboarding Tasks
1:1ELMO onboarding task lists, document checklists, and assignee ownership map to Recruit CRM onboarding or task records where the customer's Recruit CRM plan supports onboarding objects. Standalone task lists that do not map to a named Recruit CRM object migrate as structured candidate activity records. We confirm Recruit CRM plan feature support during scoping before committing to object-level mapping.
ELMO Suite
Employee Records (recruited persons)
Recruit CRM & ATS
Candidate (status = placed/hired)
1:1ELMO employee records for individuals recruited through the ATS module who are now active employees map to Recruit CRM Candidates with a placed/hired status flag. This preserves the hiring pipeline history without duplicating data in an HRMS that the customer may no longer maintain. Historical employment type and start date migrate as custom fields.
ELMO Suite
Companies and Clients
Recruit CRM & ATS
Client
1:1ELMO organisations or company records linked to job vacancies map to Recruit CRM Client records. Company name, address, industry, and contact details transfer directly. ELMO records that represent staffing agency clients rather than the agency's own org chart map to Client; records representing the agency's own legal entities map to a separate company profile as agreed during scoping.
ELMO Suite
Engagements: Calls, Emails, Meetings, Notes
Recruit CRM & ATS
Activities on Candidate or Job
1:1ELMO engagement records — call logs, email threads, meeting notes, and general notes — attached to candidates or jobs migrate as Recruit CRM Activity records on the corresponding Candidate or Job. Engagement timestamps, disposition codes, and outcome notes preserve. Email body content migrates as note content with the sender and recipient preserved in the activity record.
ELMO Suite
Custom Recruitment Forms and Rating Scales
Recruit CRM & ATS
Custom Fields (flagged for reconciliation)
lossyELMO organisations frequently use custom candidate rating templates, competency scorecards, and interview evaluation forms that do not have a direct Recruit CRM equivalent object. We export these as structured records with field-level mapping to Recruit CRM custom fields and flag any rating scale that cannot map to a Recruit CRM picklist or number field for manual post-migration reconciliation.
ELMO Suite
Payroll, Leave, and Performance Records (out of scope for Recruit CRM)
Recruit CRM & ATS
N/A — structured export only
1:1ELMO payroll records, leave balances, superannuation contributions, performance review cycles, goals, and learning completion records have no native equivalent in Recruit CRM's ATS schema. We export these as structured CSV/JSON records at migration cutover and hand them to the customer for archiving or importing into a separate HRMS. We do not attempt to force HRMS data into a recruitment CRM's data model.
| ELMO Suite | Recruit CRM & ATS | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates (Recruitment Module) | Candidate1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Job and Position Records | Job1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Applications | Application (Candidate-Job association)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Interview Schedules and Feedback | Interview + Candidate Notes1:many | Fully supported | |
| Onboarding Checklists | Onboarding Tasks1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Employee Records (recruited persons) | Candidate (status = placed/hired)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Companies and Clients | Client1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Engagements: Calls, Emails, Meetings, Notes | Activities on Candidate or Job1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Recruitment Forms and Rating Scales | Custom Fields (flagged for reconciliation)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Payroll, Leave, and Performance Records (out of scope for Recruit CRM) | N/A — structured export only1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
ELMO Suite gotchas
Per-user pricing means headcount inflation at migration adds cost
Modular licensing means scope creep during migration
Module-to-module data lag creates dirty migration snapshots
Custom performance review forms resist direct field mapping
Recruit CRM & ATS gotchas
API rate limits are license-scaled and can throttle bulk migration
Custom field schemas vary per organization and require field-level mapping
Files and email attachments require separate extraction and re-upload
Email sequences and automation logic do not transfer between platforms
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Module and licensing audit
We audit the customer's ELMO environment to identify which modules are active (Recruitment and Onboarding, Performance Management, Learning Management, Payroll, Time and Attendance) and which are unlicensed. We also confirm the number of active candidate records, job vacancies, applications, onboarding checklists, and engagement records to be migrated. This scoping step determines the migration object set, identifies any licence upgrades required to access recruitment data, and sets the pricing estimate.
Field mapping and ANZ field configuration
We produce a field-level map for every ELMO recruitment module field to a Recruit CRM standard or custom field. ANZ-specific fields (TFN, superannuation fund, visa status, award classification) are identified and scheduled for custom field creation in Recruit CRM before data import. Custom ELMO review forms and rating scales are documented for post-migration reconciliation. The mapping document is reviewed and signed off by the customer's HR or recruitment lead before any data is extracted.
Test migration and reconciliation
We run a full test migration into a Recruit CRM sandbox or staging environment using production data volume. The customer's team reconciles record counts (Candidates in, Jobs in, Applications in, Activities in), spot-checks 25-50 records against the ELMO source, and confirms that ANZ custom fields and application stage values map correctly. Mapping corrections happen in this test phase, not during production migration. The customer signs off the test migration report before production cutover.
Data extraction and transformation
We extract recruitment module data from ELMO using the available export method (API or structured CSV) and apply the agreed field mappings. Records are deduplicated by email address. Active employee records (for placed candidates) are flagged separately. Any module synchronisation lag identified during scoping is addressed by using the most recent independent snapshot of each object rather than relying on cross-module references. ANZ-specific fields are formatted to match Recruit CRM's custom field data types.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: first Client records (ELMO organisations linked to vacancies), then Candidate records, then Job records, then Applications and Interview records, then Activity history (calls, emails, meetings, notes). Custom fields for ANZ-specific data are created before the Candidate import phase. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We use Recruit CRM's data import API with batch processing and validate record counts against the scoping estimate.
Cutover, validation, and automation handoff
We freeze ELMO writes during the cutover window, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration period, then confirm Recruit CRM as the system of record. We deliver a written inventory of every ELMO recruitment automation, workflow, and sequence requiring rebuild in Recruit CRM's workflow builder. We support a five-day post-migration hypercare window for data reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild ELMO automations as Recruit CRM workflows; that work is documented for the customer's admin team.
Platform deep dives
ELMO Suite
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard HRMS migration. 1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across ELMO Suite and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Object compatibility
1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
7-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
ELMO Suite: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
ELMO Suite doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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