Digital HR: Tips to Update the Recruitment Process

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4 min readMar 20, 2017

Do you know how to make HR digital?

Deloitte’s 2017 Human Capital Trends survey showed that more than 50% of organizations this year are changing their HR strategies to apply digital tools. Also, up to 35 percent of HR teams are implementing some form of AI to bring HR solutions, and nearly 40 percent are developing mobile apps for HR functions.

New recruitment process from top global organization

Successful HR teams reskill their HR staff equipped with tech tools and assign new roles for them as consultants. For example, Wade and Wendy, a chatbot service, creates HR solutions using AI and chatbots. Wendy makes the candidates aware of the company’s culture, and recruitment process. The switch is a recruiting app that supports finding a new job. Software vendor Unitive applies artificial intelligence to create successfully job descriptions, and may algorithmically recognize gender or biases to eliminate them.

IBM uses a new feedback process to improve engagement and purpose management. To promote a culture of long-life learning, IBM creates a new digital education platform. It allows employees to post useful content, manage development process and so on. They’ve created a career management system to motivate employees to be responsible for their career growth by looking at the patterns of their colleagues.

Also, they launched chatbot named Cognitive Human Interface Personality to manage different HR-related questions. It may respond to the 200 popular staff questions and chatbot has already decreased call center time.

Royal Bank of Canada applies a new “preboarding” app to help employees gain information about their new jobs, and meet their peers online. They plan to create tools that bring a digital solution for corporate education and career growth.

Steps to upgrade recruitment

Update key technology: create a reliable digital infrastructure and upgrade corporate education model, develop frameworks that are easy for staff to use. You need to create a multiyear strategy as well with cloud enterprise resource planning websites, analytics, AI-driven tools and so on. Develop a digital HR team and prepare team members to apply new tech solutions to enhance service delivery, hiring, and staff development. Organizations such as Deutsche Telekom and RBC connect HR design team with IT to create and launch different apps.

Implement relevancy and personalization

For example, Woo.io is a website that helps to provide anonymous hiring and pays attention to the personal needs and wishes of the candidates. It helps to save privacy and matching talents with appropriate organizations. Between the clients, there are such companies like Amazon, Uber, Entello, Lyft.

This approach helps to meet candidates’ expectations, involving flexible schedule, better salaries, and new opportunities for career growth. Woo supports finding off-market and passive candidates that would be relevant for the organization. It helps recruiters reach a new audience and hire good staff.

A technology company HackerRank motivates senior developers to develop their skills and to get great jobs. Their website allows matching the person’s skills with hiring managers’ demands and it makes the recruitment more effective. For candidates, this is a chance to estimate how much they’re in demand as well.

Digital HR requires digital technology expertise

Use networks of expertise and share leading practices. Pay more attention to the new world of education and add innovation to your strategy. Many companies apply performance management approaches create around hackathons and design sessions.

Permanently rotate people and hire new MBAs to hunt employees with analytics skills. Visit other organizations to search new ideas, invite outside speakers as well.

Successful HR teams reskill their HR staff equipped with tech tools and assign new roles for them as consultants. For example, Wade and Wendy, a chatbot service, creates HR solutions using AI and chatbots. Wendy makes the candidates aware of the company’s culture, and recruitment process. The switch is a recruiting app that supports finding a new job. Software vendor Unitive applies artificial intelligence to create successfully job descriptions, and may algorithmically recognize gender or biases to eliminate them.

Update key technology: create a reliable digital infrastructure and upgrade corporate education model, develop frameworks that are easy for staff to use. You need to create a multiyear strategy as well with cloud enterprise resource planning websites, analytics, AI-driven tools and so on. Develop a digital HR team and prepare team members to apply new tech solutions to enhance service delivery, hiring, and staff development.

Implement relevancy and personalization. For example, Woo.io is a website that helps to provide anonymous hiring and pays attention to the personal needs and wishes of the candidates. It helps to save privacy and matching talents with appropriate organizations. Between the clients, there are such companies like Amazon, Uber, Entello, Lyft.

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