How is Social Media helping the Recruitment Industry?

The growth in the use of social media in the recent years is cited as phenomenal. The need for quality candidates is fierce. Recruiters increasingly need to be where candidates are in order to engage them in the recruitment process. It is obvious that companies and recruiters looking to hire quality talent must make use of social media recruiting effectively. This includes engaging with talent and creating a strong employer brand across a wide range of social networking platforms.

Applicant Tracking System Benefits

Applicant tracking system (ATS) is being increasingly used for automating recruitment. Some or the other form of applicant tracking system is used to streamline recruitment processes and to manage resume data.

Applicant Tracking System- New Age Recruiting

Automation of hiring processes is what most companies are considering to close positions faster and get the best talent on board. Both applicant tracking system (ATS) and recruitment software are being used increasingly for this purpose. 

Importance of Workplace Branding in Recruitment

Company culture, also known as organizational or corporate culture, defines business values, routines, work environment, management structure, branding, symbols and objectives of a company all put together.

It is very important for the HR team to start working on building a compelling company culture and brand which goes way beyond a mission statement. Creating and maintaining a brand-based corporate culture can help organization to a large extent in recruiting and retaining the very best talent.

Employee Referrals: Boon or Bane

Employee-referral programs have been used for decades to fill about 30 percent of job openings. Your company may have an employee-referral program, but is it being leveraged to close positions quickly?

As reported by The Economic Times- “Leading IT companies like Wipro have doubled cash incentives for each new hire joining through internal staff reference from around Rs 20,000 paid earlier to Rs 40,000. Rivals Infosys Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services too are doling out more incentives to encourage those on their payroll to search for and bring in staff.”

Are you missing the big picture?

The recruitment scenario today calls for constant scrutiny of what’s going on the hiring front. HR heads and business owners are keen to know what’s lacking in their system and what’s working in their favor.

Following manual processes for recruitment makes it really difficult to keep a track of the hiring metrics. Managers have to depend on subordinates to send them daily, weekly or monthly reports to know how many candidates appeared for interviews, number of interviews that have been scheduled, open positions, time taken to close a position, etc.

How does Recruitment Software help in Safe Guarding against Data Theft?

One of the biggest worries that recruitment business owners have is that of data theft. Recruiters who part with the organization often move out with the candidate resume database to their next organization. This leads to large amount of data loss that has been collected by the organization overtime.

Recruitment Software – Measure, Monitor, Manage!

As Peter Drucker,"Father of Modern Management", has said,” What gets measured, gets managed!”, recruitment metrics when measured can be managed effectively.

Reducing time to hire and close positions quickly is very important in recruitment. To bring in real change, we have to measure which brings out the chinks in the armor. These loopholes have to be analyzed and taken care of as soon as possible. You should be able to know what your recruiters are working on, how many candidates appeared for interviews, how many joined and so on.

More than Just Resources, Hire Talent!

Corporates consider their employees to be the most valuable assets. Having a good talentpool adds great value to the organization. Their active contribution towards the productivity and profitability of the company is what determines business growth. They play a very important role in establishing the reputation of the firm to the potential customers as well as employees.

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:

How to Tackle Recruitment Related Chaos?

“We are an ISO xxxx certified, CMMI level x company. We follow all the standard processes and we maintain the quality.” These are the usual Vision and Mission statements of most enterprise level companies. We all know the importance of standardized processes and its benefits. But then, when it comes to recruitment, in spite of these standardized approaches the recruitment practices fail to deliver desired results?

10 Reasons to buy a Recruitment Software

Recruitment is one of the most important processes in an organization. HR teams are under constant pressure to achieve their targets and recruit quality talent. Thankfully, technology has come to their rescue in the form of recruitment automation. It is now possible to streamline all recruitment related processes and close positions faster.

Does Recruitment Software Save Time and Money?

This is one of the most frequently asked questions that I come across while talking to corporates and consultants who are considering a recruitment software to automate their recruitment processes.

They often ask me that considering the present market condition in recruitments, would it be really feasible to buy a recruitment software? How will investing in a recruitment software help me save time? Will it give me a good ROI?

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.

How to Calculate ROI on Recruitment Software?

Return on Investment (ROI) is the profit or loss incurred on an investment, which you receive on an annual basis. It usually calculated on investments like property, gold, stocks, etc. While calculating the ROI, the gain from an investment is divided by the total cost of investment. The result is expressed in the form of a percentage or ratio.

What's the point of choices if they don't work for you!

I recently came across this tag line which job portal monster.com has come up with! It so aptly summarizes the dilemma of what we face as consumers every day. Today we have so many choices for everything that it is very difficult to decide on one. The irony is that even with so many choices there are very few that work for us.

Investing in a Software: Expense or Expenditure?

One of the most common questions that I am asked when dealing with prospects is - Do we consider the amount spent on acquiring a software as an Expenditure or an Expense?

Recruitment Software for Recruiters

Most often than not I have witnessed this conflict between decision maker and end user.

When investing in a recruitment software, the HR Manager of a corporate or the owner of a consultancy wants visibility where as the end user is more worried about the ease of use. Recruitment software should be primarily for the end user and in the process if it also provides visibility and control to the manager, it is definitely an icing on the cake.

Checklist – Before You Buy Recruitment Software

Owing to the increasing hiring needs, you may be contemplating on the need to streamline your entire recruitment process. Numerous recruitment software packages, developed by various firms, are available in the market. But not all of these available software solutions are meant for you.

Nitman Software Ranked amongst the Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies

We are happy to announce that Nitman Software was recently recognized as one of the Top 25 Emerging Technology Companies by The SmartTechie magazine. Our products Talentpool and Talentscout were judged on parameters like ease of use, evidence of success, scalability and monetization potential. The companies listed in the ranking are those that are predicted to be the technology giants of the near future.