Managing recruitment and selection process is one of the most critical, time consuming tasks. It is essential for any organization to recruit well qualified and suitable employees. As a growing company, you need the right tools to manage your hiring process. A significant amount of time and resource can be taken up with the hiring process unless you automate.

According to LinkedIn, the most important recruiting KPIs are:

* Quality of hire

* Time to hire

Experts believe that by streamlining some aspects of the recruiting process, recruitment automation will enhance a human recruiter’s capabilities.

Here are some major ways recruitment automation is changing recruiting

• Assess them Before You Interview Them

You could assess or gauge prioritization abilities, IQ and other relevant qualities even before the aspiring candidates step into your office. A vast majority of talent acquisition leaders say the hardest part of recruitment is identifying the right candidates from a large pool of applicants. The system assesses prospective candidates by surfacing key data points that cannot be found on resumes. It can be used to track the candidates’ career highlights, likelihood of switching jobs, company fit and aptitude.

• Ensure Consistency in Hiring Process

The recruitment process involves a number of steps and when done manually there are huge mistakes created due to human error. The entire process can be streamlined and automated.

• Free Yourself for More Productive Tasks

Free yourself or your team from mundane tasks that can be automated and utilize the same resources for other productive tasks, thus increasing efficiency and productivity.

• Automate Screening Questions

Filter through hundreds of applicants and end up with only those candidates who are apt for your organizations vision and values, in the process helping you weed out the candidates who do not meet your requirements. Just imagine the number of hours you would have otherwise spent interviewing these candidates, setting up infrastructure for assessment tests and multiple rounds of interviews. Evaluating Common Sense, Emotional Intelligence, Communication, Fluency and many important KPI’s are key to “Quality of Hire” while screening for prospective team members, and this can be fully automated with industry standard baselines.  

• Keep Candidates Informed via Automated Emails

Recruiters waste a lot of time responding to calls/emails from candidates they have interviewed. Use automated emails to let them know the status of their application.

• Automate the Offer Process

The system can generate automatic offer letters, contracts and other documents along with rejection letters based on customizable workflows tailored to each organization’s recruiting standards.

• Automate Employee Onboarding

Aspiring applicants have already gone through the process of application and filling in details and majority of the organizations have to go through the same basic information to be filled in again with the employees who join. By connecting the Recruiting Platform with Company Portal systems, a vast majority of the data can be copied over and will assist in speeding up the on boarding process from Day One. There are some MNC’s who have even adopted completing paperwork via digital transformations even before the employee show up on Day One. Automation can help with a number of activities such as setting up IT access, notifying Product/Project stakeholders, operations workflow for new joiners and so on.

• Screening resumes: Automate score | rating

Industry experts consider screening resumes is still the most   time consuming part of recruiting. Upto, 88% of resumes received for a role are considered unqualified. On an average, a recruiter spends 23 hours screening resumes for a single hire. Through the hiring automation platform, the score/ rating is allocated to the candidates based on the inputs they provide. They are assessed on several levels such as aptitude, technical skills and other relevant skills. A filter incorporated in the system helps to select only relevant skill assessment categories for a particular role.

•  Helps in having a pipeline of Talent

Using the hiring automation platform helps in creating a database of the qualified candidates you were not able to hire, but is suitable for another role, down the road.

Looking Ahead…

In 2019, finding top talent will depend on the recruiters’ ability to intelligently automate their work flow.

It is imperative to ensure that the recruitment process is conducted in a smooth and consistent manner so as to ensure that we hire the best talent in the market. Just as salespeople and marketers have benefited from software enabled automation in recent years, recruiters are increasingly turning to automated platforms for hiring the best talents

Armed with cutting edge tools and insights, recruiters can refine the process, eliminate inefficiencies, mitigate biases and get across to the top talent in minimum time. According to a survey conducted, 75% of recruiters say technology will play a big role in their company hiring process in 2019.

 Majority of recruiters worldwide are happy to consider a more data driven approach, most of them do not have time to turn the data to actionable insights. It is found that data driven recruiting teams are far outperforming their peers. Leveraging these insights, to optimise the recruiting strategy, increases the team productivity and gives the organisation a competitive advantage. Intelligent and smart way of recruiting through hiring automation helps to analyse candidates’ data quickly and make decisions faster. It helps to ensure that all the best fit candidates were identified and engaged, resulting in better quality hires and a higher performing organisation

Adopting automation platforms is helping recruiters screen candidates and shortlist quality applicants in record time.

Research also suggests that most companies depend on employee referrals for some important roles to avoid hiring misfits. This could negatively impact their ability to attract the best talent. Utilising automation, increases efficiency, offloads tedious mundane and repetitive tasks. As a result of this, it helps in reducing time-to-fill and cost-per-hire.

PQube has been in the forefront to address these pain points of sourcing and recruiting process. Get yourself a top notch, best in class, custom made hiring automation platform and some peace of mind. Through our end-to- end automation platform, you can speed up candidate discovery and qualification processes and float best-fit candidates to the top of your talent pipeline. Work Smarter, Not harder!

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