Recruiting Software

Making Most Of Free Applicant Tracking System Trial

So you have finally determined that your hiring process needs to be managed better and you are looking for a free applicant tracking system trial. Without recruiting software, your entire enterprise recruiting assets and activities are hard to keep track of.  Resumes, referrals, interview schedules and many other important bits of information are otherwise scattered across various people, emails and folders. In most cases, this recruitment information and data, including resumes may have ended up in a black hole where they will likely never be seen again. No doubt, you are looking to get organized. As you search for a proper system to manage and streamline the Read more

What Is Resume Tracking – A Review Of The Basics

As a growing company, filling those open positions and bringing the right people on board must be at the top of your list of priorities. If you are using the right set of recruiting tools and technologies, chances are that you would receive hundreds of resumes for every position on the average.  When you are getting inundated by tons of resumes, there are two key questions you should ask yourself. Are you attracting the right kind of applicants? And, do you have the means for proper resume tracking and keeping things organized. The quality of the applicants that you attract Read more

Interview Advice: 3 Tips For Employers & Recruiters

In today’s competitive business environment, it is just as important for the employers and recruiters to be on top of their game as it is for the job candidates.  To attract the best employees, a company must enact a powerful and well thought-through recruiting process.  The interview is a vital component in your smart hiring process to building a high-performing team of motivated employees. There are many articles offering interview advice for job seekers about how to flawlessly handle a job interview, but few focus on how the employers and recruiters should conduct the process from their end. The below tips and interview advice build further on Read more

Great Talent: How To Find & Recognize Fast

Most growing businesses will have stories to tell about hiring decisions that went wrong in one way or another. Hiring mistakes can range from not targeting the right audience or lack of proper recruiting tools to bringing the wrong person on board for a critical position. One of the more common and often overlooked recruiting mistakes, however, is to let great talent slip away without truly realizing the cost of such a mistake. In fact, in many cases, employers and recruiters may not recognize this until it is too late. Being aware of these risks is crucial to implementing an Read more

Talent Management System & Recruitment Management

Our recent article on the role of Recruiting in the context of talent management highlighted some of the key, and in some cases subtle, differences between a recruiting software platform and a traditional talent management system.  It provided helpful information for employers looking to purchase a new system to strengthen their recruitment regiment.  In this follow up to our previous post, we are stressing the need to assess your unique talent acquisition requirements. A clear understanding of your highest priority recruiting needs will help you pick a system that is most effective in attracting, engaging and hiring top talent. As Read more

Talent Management & The Role Of Recruiting

When investing in HR technology, understanding and prioritizing your organization’s most important HR and talent management challenges is critical. In the absence of a clear understanding of the priorities, a company is likely to acquire a solution that is either too specific and inadequate for its organizational needs, or provides too many “features” – though in reality barely touches each at the surface level. In both cases, the result is that you end up with something that cannot get the job done. Companies are now increasingly aware of the importance of talent acquisition in talent management. In fact, starting off Read more

Applicant Tracking Software & Modern Recruitment

Applicant tracking software and recruitment technology, in general, have come a long way – especially over the last few years. The way businesses and individuals interact has undergone a sea change with social media and digital technologies driving the revolution. Traditional recruiting strategies are becoming outdated and ineffective.  Attempts to interact with potential candidates using older traditional methods could turn away the top talent that your company really wants to attract.  In order to keep up with the trends and continue to attract the best employees, you must ramp up your recruiting software capabilities and take a close look at your Read more

Online Recruitment: Tips For Selecting Right System

All online recruitment systems are not created equal. Selecting and implementing the right cloud-based hiring software platform is critical to the success of your company’s recruitment process. When reviewing your organization’s recruitment and technology capabilities, it is important to focus on those features and capabilities that will help your company effectively compete in the war for top talent. It is also important to look for an online recruitment system that is built with modern hiring practices in mind and can help your company take full control of its recruiting process and advance its talent acquisition capabilities to the next level. Read more

User Management For Enterprise Recruiting

As a company grows its operations, the recruiting process evolves from an isolated small-scale activity to one that requires many stakeholders to participate. User management capability of a recruitment software platform allows for different levels of access for the various team members who will be involved in the hiring process. Management of user permissions represents an access control function for managing access for certain people during different stages of hiring. Though often overlooked in recruitment software and applicant tracking selection, user management is an extremely important part of the recruiting process. It helps employers and human resource personnel to easily, Read more