You have spent the last few years updating your IT department, moving your data and software onto the cloud, and generally transforming your business into the modern, streamlined, tech-savvy company it needs to be. And yet, you’re still hiring new recruits in the same way you always have.
If this sounds like your company, then it may be time to take steps towards modernizing and streamlining your company’s recruitment process. Read on to discover how you can achieve this.
Why You Should Streamline Your Recruitment Process
If you’re still interviewing potential new recruits in the same old way, you may be wasting far too much time and money on your recruitment processes.
You post the situation vacant online and receive hundreds or even thousands of replies. You then have to trawl through every single application, and the attached CVs, to find the candidates you are looking for.
Next, you have to organize initial interviews, and arrange meetings to discuss all the candidates after the interviews. After all that, you have to go through the entire process again for the second round of interviews and by the end of it, you hopefully have one candidate who fits the bill.
The problem is that your interview process is so cumbersome that, not only have you taken up a disproportionate amount of time looking for the right person, but by the time you finally offer them the job, they’ve decided they’d rather work for a slightly more technologically switched-on company! So how can you do things differently?
How Top Companies Recruit in 2019
If the above process sounds familiar, then you need to join the ranks of companies such as Cisco, Michelin, FedEx, Siemens, P&G and many other Fortune 500 companies who have turned to highly effective recruitment software to streamline their recruitment process.
A simple example of how this software can produce results and a return on investment, is when a questionnaire is used as a tool to find out the qualifications, experience, and personal qualities of candidates. The results can be funneled into the promising, and the not-so-promising candidates who can be automatically rejected. Meaning that the time spent looking through applicants can be whittled down from days, or even weeks, to just hours.
After the right candidates have been found, all arrangements can be made by text messaging or chatbots, with interview times being automatically sent out to your candidates, along with links for video interviews.
Additionally, by using a centralized system, your national or international business can ensure that the qualities your company seeks in its employees are uniform throughout the entire company, no matter if the office looking for new recruits is in Los Angeles, London, or Lahore.
These are just a few examples. By using recruitment software, it is possible to put your entire recruitment procedure online. This not only speeds up the process dramatically but also saves time for the people who are involved in the recruitment process.
This, of course, means that your company will also save money. In some cases, the savings can be substantial, over $1.5 million in one case.
Summary
To summarize, if you want to take your company’s recruitment process into the 21st century, keep up with your competitors, save wasted hours and wasted money on processes that could take you half the time and cost half as much, then it is time to look to recruitment software to streamline your operations.
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