Tuesday, November 30, 2010

What do Recruiters Expect from Recruitment Software?

Recruitment software sure does help recruiters in ways more than one, but it is essential to know a few of the important features of the application that can help them recruit better and faster. Features that most recruiters find useful in a recruitment software are:


Being able to Segregate Work Properly
The recruitment field is becoming more demanding than ever before. With greater number of jobs availability in the market, comes the challenge of greater and faster recruitments with quality talent. In order to achieve targets, your team will need an automated system that helps them through the entire hiring process from creating job requisitions to posting job requirements, attracting candidates, qualifying job seekers; resume processing up to the final selection and joining of the candidate. With a powerful applicant tracking system in place, recruiters can follow a streamlined and professional recruitment cycle. It automates all time-consuming tasks and significantly reduces the time spent in the recruitment process as well as the costs involved.

Advanced Search Options
One of the challenges that recruiters face often is to process and organize resumes so that the right resume can be found quickly when they need it. So the first thing that a recruiter expects from recruitment software is an advanced searching facility.
Searching for resumes through the database to fill up a vacancy becomes easy for recruiters thanks to the unique quick matching, filtering & query building tools that recruitment software offers. After identifying a new requirement, quick matching tools allow recruiters to instantly search the database for suitable candidates based on skills, qualifications, experience, etc. required for the vacancy.

Integration with Social & Professional Networking Websites
Social media participation has emerged as an essential tool for networking with professional contacts, making new contacts and keeping in touch with the world. Recruiting through social networks is the latest e-recruitment trend. Social and professional networking sites provide recruiters with a pool of prospective candidate profiles, especially in case of passive candidates.
Recruiters should be able to explore the possible social media sites using recruitment software in order to be able to post job requirements and reach out to prospective candidates.

1 comment:

  1. Great article. I think one of the most important things I find useful is for a system to be user friendly and functional. I find as a manager that footprints left in a system help me see the relationships between what candidates/jobs and companies easily.

    I like this system out of the ones I have tried.

    http://www.voyage.co.uk/

    Patrick Gray - Logical Resources Recruitment

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