Top Recruitment Platform Features for Small Businesses
Talent acquisition is a highly competitive process for organizations — especially in the current job market. Employee expectations have shifted as professionals reprioritize what matters to them. Additionally, retention and engagement efforts at many companies are falling short, leading to record high levels of employees quitting their jobs and engagement at all-time lows.
As a result, companies are looking for any advantage to help them attract top talent, including the consideration of a dedicated recruitment platform.
When we say recruitment platform, we are referring to software that centralizes hiring tasks, automates workflows, stores and protects data, and integrates with other business tools. While many organizations may have a tech solution that addresses one or two of these, it would be valuable to invest in an all-in-one solution.
In essence, the best software solutions for recruitment allow HR teams to manage every step of the recruiting process, from sourcing candidates to onboarding.
Applicant Tracking System
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is a crucial element of any recruitment platform. It provides a blueprint for your company’s hiring process, which enables you to deliver consistently positive candidate experiences and reduces errors. Cloud-based applicant tracking solutions like Manatal allow HR professionals to manage the entire hiring process through a single view that can be customized to suit your unique approach.
This means that you can apply company branding at each step in the process and modify the steps to include assessments or mass updates to inform candidates or clients about the status of the talent search. It is also a simple way to maintain communication with candidates in your database who may not be actively looking for a new job.
Candidate profiles are easily accessible and remain up-to-date with information from resumes, social networks, and other online sources. This dramatically reduces the difficulties involved in identifying and managing candidates during the hiring process. This makes it simple for teams to collaborate throughout the process and manage multiple job listings seamlessly.
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Recruitment CRM
A customer relationship management (CRM) tool is vital to running a successful recruiting business. Therefore, this is an essential feature for recruitment agencies to have in a recruitment platform.
A Recruitment CRM solution allows agencies to manage client relationships and projects — as well as cultivate prospective clients. It is also a useful way to keep customers informed and invite them to collaborate on projects. With Manatal, agencies can share a dedicated and customized view of hiring projects with the ability to manage permission levels down to specific roles.
Combining recruitment CRM and ATS solutions in a recruiting platform is an ingenious way for recruitment agencies to manage hiring and commercial activities in one place effectively. Hiring teams and the client contact can quickly see that projects are being completed on schedule, and agency leaders can review data to determine if clients’ job vacancies are being filled successfully (i.e., with professionals who stay in their role beyond the probationary period).
Artificial intelligence and Automation
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a popular buzzword in the corporate world, with applications of this technology found everywhere, from chatbots to fraud prevention. The value of AI is that it can be programmed to complete tasks that were assumed could only be done by humans. In human resources, repetitive and time-consuming tasks like parsing resumes can be done much faster and without the errors that people tend to make.
Selecting a recruitment platform that includes AI capabilities will further enhance candidate sourcing efforts by quickly identifying the most qualified candidates in your database that fit your job parameters. Additionally, your hiring team will be able to select particular job requirements and identify the most qualified candidates blindly. This helps to reduce the human biases that can creep into the hiring process and increase the number of candidates from underrepresented groups who interview for vacancies.
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*First published on Manatal.com.
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Manatal is an end-to-end recruitment and onboarding SaaS platform trusted by thousands of brands in over 135 countries worldwide. It is an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool that allows companies to hire faster, better and save costs.
