How to Leverage Recruiting Technology to Your Advantage
Let’s talk tech, shall we? In today’s current HR climate, the trend of recruiting technologies and softwares is widespread for easing the pains of the hiring process and eliminating some of those tedious, time consuming tasks. Want to learn more about recruiting technology and how you can leverage that to your advantage? Read more below!
What is Recruiting Technology?
A recruiting technology, or recruiting software is “a category of human resources management (HRM) that handles the process of posting jobs and attracting top talent for vacant positions within a company. Recruiting streamlines the entire candidate search and hiring process to make it easier for organizations to add employees.From posting jobs to reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates, recruiting software streamlines and automates the entire candidate search and hiring process. By eliminating paperwork and offering powerful resume and candidate search functions, the software makes it easier for organizations to find and hire employees.” (TechnologyAdvice).
Depending on your position, whether you’re a recruiter, hiring manager, or something else in between, integrating some sort of recruiting technology can save a ton of time, energy, and effort and allow you to get the most work done as possible! Especially if you find yourself with a popular job posting and you are overloaded with 100+ resumes. Trying to parse those resumes fairly and in a timely manner is tough - and frankly, it just doesn’t get done. Not to mention juggling clients, candidates, new applicants, rejected applicants...A LOT goes into recruiting.
Check out this other great quote from TechnologyAdvice on the topic of Recruiting Softwares:
Companies have replaced dated systems and paper resumes with new technology that offers social media recruiting, online assessments, automatic workflows, and real time analytics. Now, recruiters can take a systematic approach to hiring. This not only saves time, energy, and resources, but leaves candidates with a pleasant brand experience as well.
Recruiting software can provide a platform for companies to improve their candidate experience levels. According to Careerbuilder, 81 percent of job seekers say that they want companies to communicate the status of their application more frequently and 51 percent said that the lack of communication was their number one frustration with the job search.
That same survey found that 78 percent of HR professionals found recruiting and HCM software improved the hiring process, although half of those respondents do not use an ATS or other recruiting software. Compare that with the Fortune 500, where 90 percent of companies employ recruiting software, according to Jobscan.
Everything’s digitized in this day and age….It’s just a part of life as a business person. You’re going to run into technology everywhere you turn...and, to some - it’s a terrifying reality. This is because so many are afraid AI is going to take their jobs - however, we have to learn to work WITH AI! These recruiting softwares are designed to help YOU - not take your job. So, embrace them. Take a look at the ways in which you can use technology...
How to Leverage your Recruiting Technology
There are a number of ways to leverage your recruiting technology - it varies from integrating an ATS, implementing assessments, CRMS, One-Way Video Interviews, and more. Furthermore, one thing you can’t ever stop is communication! Whether you’re implementing a recruiting technology into your hiring process or not, candidates will not and should not ever miss out on opportunities to communicate with you. HRAdvisor has this to say:
First impressions matter, and the biggest mistake hiring managers can make is to ignore the importance of how they recruit. In today’s world of social media and company review sites, if even just one candidate has a bad experience (during any point in his or her hiring process), the world can hear about it. And just one slip-up can affect your chances of hiring top talent in the future.
Candidates want an easy, fast way to apply for jobs. They want a flexible way to interview, and most of all, they want to stay informed. They want communication.
No matter the technology you can’t let your clients fall to the wayside. You have to keep an open line of communication, be clear, consistent, and concise and really allow the human element to shine though over the technology.
How to Leverage ApplicantOne, Inc
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