Leveraging Technology for Talent Acquisitions

Recruitment is getting tougher by the day and there is an increasing need for avenues that will help HR teams simplify and speed up this process. Leveraging technology for the purpose of talent acquisition has helped many HR teams face the various recruitment related challenges and overcome many of the problems they face.

Reducing recruitment costs and time to hire, sourcing of quality candidates, improving employer branding, etc. are some of the benefits that can be obtained by leveraging technology for recruitments.

Initially, companies made use of print media and employee referrals to recruit candidates for the various job openings. Off recent, recruiters have moved on to the usage of publishing positions and sourcing candidate resumes from job portals. Now, even these seem to have become quite outdated. The following are some of the options that technology has provided in order simplify recruitment processes.

Job Portals
Job portals have emerged as one of the easiest way candidate resumes can be sourced. Now-a-days, potential candidates hardly have a look at the print media while job hunting. Majority of them turn to job portals to look for job openings. Recruiters, too, rely completely on job portals to meet hiring targets and get the best candidates on board.

Recruitment Software/ Applicant Tracking Software
Candidate tracking software has emerged as a technological boon for HR teams, as it automates the entire hiring process, making it less manual, less time consuming and hassle-free. The software streamlines all recruitment related activities, helps close positions faster and reduces hiring costs.

Social and Professional Networking Sites
The latest trend that is being followed by recruiters for talent acquisition is recruiting through social and professional networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc. These sites have emerged as an important source for potential candidates, especially, for sourcing of passive candidates.

Technology has helped simplify recruitment to a great extent and HR teams can now easily meet their hiring targets, stay ahead of competition and get the best candidates on board, faster!