| Having gone through the worst economic period of this | | | | your life easier, but also vastly improves the candidate |
| generation and now beginning to see a light at the end | | | | experience by keeping the lines of communication |
| of the tunnel, it is quite possibly the most interesting, | | | | open.o The tip: Be sure to make use of email |
| exciting and difficult time to be a recruiter. As with all | | | | templates. Instead of re-writing offer letters or |
| other aspects of life, recruiting and HR are increasingly | | | | rejection notifications over and over, utilize templates. |
| turning to technology and automation, moving away | | | | Once you create a template, you can access it at the |
| from manual processes and paper piles. A focal point | | | | click of a button and save yourself an enormous |
| of technologies being leveraged are applicant tracking | | | | amount of time. |
| systems (ATS), software applications designed to help | | | | 4. Did you know your ATS can help... Piggybacking on |
| organizations recruit more efficiently. | | | | these communication tools, you can use different |
| But if you're a recruiter that doesn't consider himself | | | | folder statuses to manage your pipeline of top talent. If |
| particularly tech-savvy, how can you be sure you're | | | | you have the ideal candidate that you know would be |
| making the most of your applicant tracking system? | | | | a great fit for your company, but there just aren't any |
| These systems are capable of managing so many | | | | positions at the moment, your ATS can help you |
| different aspects of your workload that you might not | | | | maintain engagement with these contacts. This makes |
| even be fully aware of its vast functionality. | | | | it easier to get them on board once an appropriate |
| Here's some insight into that vast functionality to make | | | | opportunity does arise.o The tip: Manage your talent |
| sure you're using your recruiting technology to the max. | | | | pipeline and keep them interested in your company by |
| 1. Did you know your ATS provides... you with one | | | | sending them your most recent press releases and |
| central database to store candidate information for all | | | | newsletters. This way they stay abreast of what's |
| your myriad sources? You have CVs coming at you | | | | going on at your organization, and also stay interested. |
| from all directions: university recruiting, job-boards, | | | | 5. What the ATS can do: The resume parsing tool of |
| referrals, LinkedIn. Your ATS can efficiently manage all | | | | an applicant tracking system is a highly useful feature |
| of them.o The tip: Leverage your ATS's analytical | | | | that eliminates the need for laborious manual data |
| reporting tools! Don't just manage all your different | | | | entry, automatically parsing and inputting CV info into |
| sources; use the ATS to determine their value. These | | | | your database. Not only does it decrease |
| reporting capabilities can determine which sources are | | | | administrative work, but the ATS can profile |
| most effective, where your top talent comes from, | | | | candidates by skills cited in their resumes.o The tip: |
| what job boards convert poorly, and more. | | | | Within the applicant tracking system, create saved |
| 2. Did you know your ATS... Are you inundated with | | | | searches of the hottest skills sets at your company in |
| CVs right now and don't have time to visually scan | | | | order to continually scan your database for CVs with |
| through the hundreds flooding your desk daily? Most | | | | matching keywords. It's also important to keep in mind |
| applicant tracking systems give you the ability to | | | | that when these matching keywords appear higher up |
| create knock-out or screening questions, thereby | | | | in a CV, it indicates the candidate has recently been |
| automatically filtering out unqualified candidates, saving | | | | involved in or enacting these skills (as opposed to |
| yourself more time to spend on the eligible applicants.o | | | | lower on the CV, which indicates experiences in the |
| The tip: Are screening questions powerful tools? | | | | past). Therefore, set your resume parser to rank |
| Absolutely- but don't abuse them. It's best to create | | | | those CVs as better matches, and you'll be left with |
| only 1 or 2 broad, overarching questions, such as | | | | better quality candidates! |
| education level or work eligibility. You risk eliminating | | | | These are just a few tips on how to use your |
| valuable candidates if you get too much more specific. | | | | applicant tracking system, but there are plenty more |
| 3. Did you know your ATS has... powerful mass | | | | which your ATS vendor should be able to help you |
| communication tools, also known as Candidate | | | | with. If you're not leveraging HR technology for |
| Relationship Management (CRM), to facilitate | | | | recruitment, it's time you did; and if you are using an |
| communication with candidates? This not only makes | | | | ATS, it's time you make the most of it! |