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Sep 23
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6 Ways Technology Improves the Recruiting Process

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Technology offers many helpful tools that recruiters can utilize. It can improve the recruiting process by making it more efficient, organized, and productive. Technology can also help recruiters stay up to date with the latest skills and trends in the recruiting world.

Helpful Websites for Sourcing

The many available websites that make recruiting more efficient give recruiters access to candidates and clients as well. LinkedIn offers a recruiting portal (fee) or free access for browsing current subscribers. Here, you can browse for potential candidates by searching for particular skills and education. You can also browse current job openings, and reach out to potential clients. Linkedin has become a great resource for employers to network with others and to help in their recruitment needs. The potential for LinkedIn — and other social networking sites — to play a major role in your employee recruiting strategy increases as more job seekers post their profiles each year.

Indeed and Glassdoor are some other helpful websites for recruiters. These sites are job boards where recruiters can access current job openings and potential candidates who are interested in a career change. By posting a job on these sites or researching candidates, recruiters improve efficiency and create awareness in the job market among candidates about their openings.

Indeed Resume hosts millions of resumes from job seekers across nearly any industry and location. Employers can quickly find candidates by entering a job title or skill and geographical area. You can narrow down results by criteria – such as years of experience, education level, and more. Also, by setting up a Resume Alert, you can receive daily emails with links to new resumes that match the criteria for the positions you’re looking to fill. (Recruiting Strategies)

Glassdoor has more than 64 Million monthly unique users looking for a job. Glassdoor claims “Using numerous customization options to create targeted search capabilities, you can reach candidates on and off-site by occupation, location (country, city, state) and on competitor pages. As well, you can support your diversity and inclusion initiatives with laser-like focused data.”

Assessment Software

By narrowing down skill sets, assessment software offers recruiters an avenue to improve candidate matching. Analyzing behavior, skills, and language assessments; allows recruiters to better match a candidate to a particular position. This saves time for recruiters, clients, and candidates. SourceMatch combines assessment software and candidate analysis for our clients. We develop 360-degree profiles for candidates that allow the Hiring Manager to have a deeper understanding of each candidate while saving them the time of having to browse or review hundreds of resumes.

Organization Software

There are quite a few ways to organize recruiting tasks and goals. Asana is a powerful tool for organizing your team’s workload as well as your own by projects, or simply individual tasks. You can assign tasks, deadlines, and comment on what needs to get accomplished in a very structured way that eliminates some of the conundrum of doing the same via email threads. Gmail is also a great tool to use for staying organized. You can set up reminders, invitations to meetings, and times that you will not be available for meetings. By far the ability to connect multiple software solutions creates the ability to integrate a clear workflow with specialized software for every step of the way.

Agave.com is a great option for recruiters. They offer free or low cost recruiting Customer Relationship Management software (CRM) or Applicant Tracking System (ATS), rich API support, nurture campaigns and follow-ups, transparent offers, detailed reports, scheduling, and candidate sourcing. Some of these features are automated saving time as well as keeping everyone in the process up to date with the status or action items.

Communication Software

Skype is a free tool to use for conferencing with teammates, clients, or candidates. You can stay connected to your team and update them with questions or answers, as needed. You can Skype to interview potential candidates for open roles, to see which one matches your clients’ needs. Customization can be added through a project or interest-based groups making it easy to unify specific topics/discussion as well as separate the top priority ones from non-urgent chats.

Zoom is also a popular option to use for conferencing. Zoom is popular for meetings, webinars, conferencing, and business IM. Some other popular options include Google Meet (conferencing app), Webex (web conferencing), Blue Jean (conferencing, online meetings), Join.me (conferencing, online meetings), or even Slack (team collaboration).

Intelligent and Automated Screening Software

Using AI to screen applicants is a powerful tool. AI can recognize keywords, skills, education, and background knowledge. Using this, AI “filters” potential candidates from the larger group of applicants. SourceMatch uses 360-degrees AI as well as holistic screening, to find the top talent.

Using AI to simplify and shorten the time it takes to process various sets of information can lead to significantly faster decision making. At SourceMatch, the speed on some of the automated stages of recruiting reduced lead time by 2-3 days. It starts with simple workflows that keep candidates updated as to where they are in the recruiting process, as well as to remind them via email and text messages of their next steps (i.e. provide additional information, take assessments, complete their application, etc.). This is especially helpful to keep candidates interested in a job they’ve applied for when they also have a job, and multiple other personal priorities The advanced workflow stages rely on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to evaluate statements of interest and writing samples submitted by candidates.

Organizing Social Media Accounts

Buffer allows the user to create one post for multiple social media accounts. You can even set up a specific day and time to share the post. This is great for social media marketing and posting job openings.

Hootsuite also analyzes and executes social media data and marketing. You can pay for these services and choose the right plan for your needs.

In conclusion, technology improves the recruiting process in many ways and it helps recruiters be more efficient, productive, and organized. What are your top technology “go to’s” when it comes to recruiting?

Aug 12
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Recruiting Automation

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Recruiting automation – technology at its finest

With the addition of advanced technologies like machine learning, advanced programming, and distributed data analytics, recruiters are ready to broadcast job openings to more places. We see the development of technologies that allows us to provide a platform for candidates to engage with companies and their recruiting processes.

That’s why it’s important for recruiting professionals to adopt cutting edge technology so that they won’t have to resort to outdated technology when learning how to use it.

Technology will play a larger role in our companies hiring process this year, and here a few reasons why:
Since last year, passive recruiting became the top priority source in every hiring organization (35% up compared to last year). In fact, to save time, over 42% of recruiters are turning to intelligent tools that process all data info for them and the other 46% don’t have enough data to make smarter decisions in their hiring process.
On average, recruiters can actively source for 64% of the open roles in their organization. Hence, why we see companies seek out additional recruiters to help out with that growing number of unfilled/hard to fill positions. For smaller businesses, recruiters are currently seeking candidates with more experience and with a greater level of skill than their average employee. However, 20% are actively sourcing for all open roles in their organization.

The preferred outreach method

Since 2018, emails continue to be the preferred method to reach out to candidates (up to 38%, followed by phone/text 33%) and LinkedIn inMails (13%) had a significant decrease since last year.

Your employer brand is influenced by diversity in the workplace, which is not only a value but a core factor that positively contributes to the quality of work if proper attention is given to it. The number of opportunities for hiring talent is growing with a staggering 80% of new hires done to improve diversity in the workplace. But even more compelling, a growing number of organizations are also leveraging hiring automation, finding solutions to the hiring pipeline needs for diversity, inclusion and equity training (AOC), and the integration of workforce management (WFM).

Where is recruiting automation most useful?

In order to stay competitive, recruiters must dedicate an increasing amount of their day to sourcing. This year, 22% of talent organizations will increase their spend in recruiting automation tools (up 30% YoY), creating better and more relevant results.
To ensure there’s a fit between jobs and candidates, recruiters need to understand how automation works, why it will impact their jobs and how to adapt to the changing landscape of data collection and decision-making processes. As for some job seekers, automation is a straight path to a less-stressful process after using grueling application processes and assessments. For others, automation for long-term planning means a fresh start.

Talk to SourceMatch to find out how we leverage technology to make your recruiting process better, faster and easier!

May 16
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Technology in Recruiting – save time and Money Without Losing the Human Touch

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While technology continues to advance, companies will have to keep the human touch, in regards to the workplace. Finding and retaining the right talent depends on many key factors. Those factors include: finding a candidate that matches the company culture, using the right platform to find those candidates, and keeping up with technological advances, in regards to recruiting.

Which Recruiting Company Will Find for you the Right Talent?

Many recruiting companies offer different types of deals and platforms to find candidates. Some will send you resumes to sort through, some will narrow down your search, and others will use both technology and holistic approaches to find the right candidate. It’s important to take this into account when deciding which company to use. Would you like a short term employee or long term? Would you like to spend time interviewing or have a recruiting company do that legwork for you? How vast is that company’s lens in regards to finding candidates? You have to consider all these questions.

What Types of Technological Resources do Recruiting Companies Have?

There are many different types of websites and software programs that recruiting companies can utilize to reach out to candidates. SourceMatch uses these sources, not just one, to find the best candidates for a certain role. After that, SourceMatch provides even more assessments, to learn about this candidate. We offer skills assessments as well as behavior-based assessments. Using these tools, SourceMatch aligns the top candidates to your company’s open role. We take pride in matching a workplace culture to an applicant’s style of working.

How Does Big Data Play a Role?

Big data plays a role in a company’s hiring process. According to entrepreneur.com: “Earlier, companies had little to guide them on a potential applicant’s future flight risk other than gut feeling. Now, tools integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) and deep analytic capabilities can parse the data on your company’s current employees — including their prior experiences, skills and latest achievements — to learn what good candidates look like based on past hiring decisions. In addition to your own enterprise data, AI can look at data from across the industry to build a profile that can then be applied to cull resumes, screen candidates based on warning signs, and grade and rank a shortlist of qualified candidates for each job opening.” Technology is very much integrated into recruiting. At SourceMatch, we actually use a unique combination of technology and workplace culture matches. We identify each client’s needs and work together to assess and identify the best talent.

Understanding How Culture and Technology Work Together in Recruiting

We incorporate culture and technology in recruiting practices. It takes a balance of knowing the advancing technologies available, and how to incorporate those while recruiting. According to forbes.com: “When newly hired executives leave after a relatively short period of time, the reason is rarely that they lacked the technical skills to deliver on the job. More often, it’s because they struggled to form relationships within the company or lacked cultural compatibility.” That being said, knowing your clients and staying up to date with current technology, can benefit both recruiters and employers. Recruiters can utilize social media and other recruiting platforms, while also getting to know more about their clients and candidates. This allows for the correct “pairing” of the candidate with the client’s organization.

How Social Media can Help the Recruiting Process

Many recruiters have seen the benefits of using social media to find candidates. You can learn about communication and personality, as well as some work history (if listed). You have people sharing job openings through social media as well as recruiters reaching out to candidates via social media. According to entrepreneur.com: “Employers from different industries have reported over 30% increase in the referral candidate counts via social media recruiting techniques. Industry recruiters have always preferred the candidates referred by existing employees, and social media helps them engage in referral recruitment easily.”

The Pros and Cons of an Automated Hiring Process

Technology can make the hiring process more effective for both candidates and recruiters. Candidates can now search and apply for many jobs rather than filling out applications and dropping them off at the front desk. This benefits candidates and employers in regards to saving time, but it can take away from the “human” interaction aspects. Technology can also help “weed” out incorrect candidates at a much faster rate, leading recruiters to the best candidates, sooner. On the other hand, keeping a more personal, human approach helps both recruiters and candidates find the best job. A person may look good on paper, but that person may not fit in the work culture of a certain position or workplace. Knowing both the personality of the candidates, as well as the culture of the workplace, give recruiters the ultimate advantage.

Keeping the Human Touch in Recruiting

To keep a human approach in recruiting, companies can either hire internally, use personality assessments, or reach out to recruiting companies that use more than AI. Hiring internally gives employees and employers opportunities for growth. Employees know that there is room for growth and employers have the time to learn about their employees. Using personality assessments gives employees and employers knowledge about where they fit in the company work culture. This can boost employee and employer confidence in job roles and relations. Using a recruiting partner, companies can learn about new models of finding the right candidates and fix any retention related issues. This is great for companies that have noticed human or workplace-related concerns, along with high turnover.