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Applicant Tracking System Upgrade: Why a modern platform matters

In today’s competitive job market, organizations are increasingly relying on applicant tracking systems (ATS) to streamline their recruitment processes and identify the best talent. However, as technology evolves and new solutions emerge, it becomes crucial for businesses to evaluate their current ATS and consider an upgrade or replacement when necessary. An ATS upgrade can offer significant benefits, including improved efficiencies, leveraging advanced technology capabilities, and reducing costs while maximizing value. In this article, we’ll explore these key reasons in detail, helping you understand when it’s time to make the switch. Enhancing Efficiency One of the primary reasons to consider replacing Read more

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Hiring Process Alignment: ATS for Strategic Success

The success of any organization relies heavily on its ability to attract, recruit, and retain top talent. However, the hiring process can often be complex and disconnected from an organization’s broader strategic objectives. To bridge this gap, companies are increasingly turning to applicant tracking platforms to implement and monitor alignment between their hiring process and strategic goals. In this article, we will explore how leveraging an applicant tracking platform can streamline the hiring process, enhance strategic alignment, and drive organizational success. The Importance of Hiring Process Alignment Before delving into the role of applicant tracking platforms, it’s crucial to recognize Read more

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Rethinking Talent Acquisition: The Case for Active Candidates

In the competitive landscape of modern recruitment, employers often default to focusing on passive candidates—individuals who are not actively seeking employment but may be open to new opportunities. However, as the dynamics of the job market evolve, it is crucial for employers to challenge this conventional approach and consider the benefits of actively pursuing candidates. This article explores why focusing on active candidates can be a more effective strategy from an employer’s perspective, highlighting the drawbacks of the passive candidate approach and emphasizing the potential for fresh energy and motivation that active candidates can bring to a role. Breaking Free Read more

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Tips To Elevate Employer Branding & Reputation

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One way to drive a lot of applicants to your open positions is to ensure your jobs are getting in front of the right candidate pools by pushing opportunities out to talent communities and social media platforms via your recruiting software. As long as you are hitting targeted sources and your audience is referring these jobs to their networks, you will start accumulating applications from people who see your jobs, think they’re the right fit, and apply. How can strong employer branding help? No doubt, many of these passive candidates filtering into your applicant tracking system deserve your full attention. Read more

Best Recruiting Software For Growing Companies

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As a startup or small business, you probably think you cannot afford the best recruiting software that provides an enterprise-class applicant tracking system and therefore must compromise on the quality of your hiring. “The first people you hire in your startup are critical to your company’s success,” Brad Feld, co-founder of the Foundry Group, wrote in a recent blog post. The best recruiting software solutions are more accessible than ever. Thanks to Simplicant’s recruitment software and applicant tracking system tapping into the power of social recruiting, hiring the best people is within reach for every startup and small business.

Facebook Recruiting: 4 Do’s And Don’ts

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As of December 2012, Facebook, the largest social media network, passed the billion mark with 1.06 billion monthly active users. This includes 618 million daily active users and 680 million users of Facebook’s mobile service. With a potential candidate pool this large, it is obvious you cannot ignore Facebook recruiting in your overall social recruitment strategy. Great candidates are taking to Facebook every day to find out more about equally great companies and connect with top employers. Ignoring this space in your social recruitment plans is clearly not an option. But how do you ensure you are using your recruitment Read more

Social Media Recruitment: Hiring For The Right Fit

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When it comes to your talent acquisition strategy, recruiting the best should be your top priority. Using social media recruitment as a key aspect of your recruitment and talent acquisition strategy is a great way to quickly and cost-effectively reach top talent. This might explain why 91 percent of recruiters use social media to source and screen prospective employees. The digital information available from social media can be the difference between recruiting a great candidate and an applicant who may not be a good fit at your company. So, when using social media recruitment as a strategic sourcing method for Read more

3 Ways To Manage Your Recruitment System

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Recruiting the top talent you need in your company is far from easy. This is why many companies, from small businesses to big Fortune 500s, will utilize outside recruitment firms to find great candidates. While giving tasks to outside recruitment teams and agencies can make your life a little simpler, it also brings with it a host of other challenges. Chief among those challenges is the need for controlled access, security and privacy. Even if your company has unlimited resources, it is unlikely you will use an outside recruiting team to hire for every position. Which means when your new Read more

3 Ways To Improve Interview Scheduling

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If the phrase “interview scheduling” sends a chill down your spine, know you are not alone. Recruiting the best candidates is not easy, and is one reason why more companies are taking to social recruitment to find the top talent they need. But once you have connected with talent using social media and their applications arrive in your applicant tracking system, the next step in the hiring workflow can sometimes be even more complicated. Scheduling interviews with smart people is a pain, especially if you found a passive candidate with a traditional 9-to-5 job. Finding a gap in your passive Read more

Turn Company Career Site Visitors Into Applicants

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Your company career site will be the first impression of your company for many talented, job hunting candidates. This is one reason it’s essential to optimize your career site and online employment applications. Similar to how you evaluate a candidate on the basis of their resume, social media profiles, and digital footprint during the recruiting process, job seekers are judging your company based on your company career site and job posts. If the content they see during the job application process doesn’t catch their attention or get them excited about the company, you might be losing out on the top Read more

5 Recruitment Analytics Hiring Managers Love

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Numbers can really help a company paint a picture of the hiring process. For instance, the average time-to-hire from a company career site is 45 days. For each open position, employers receive about 118 applications on average. Only 17 percent of 516 hiring managers said that job seekers have the skills and traits their organization is looking for in a candidate. These numbers explain just how tough the recruiting process can be. Companies can quickly and efficiently tailor their strategy to the practices garnering the best results if they pay attention to recruitment analytics. Simplicant’s next-generation platform and applicant tracking system Read more

3 New Ways To Use LinkedIn In Recruitment Plan

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Are you looking to connect with your next great candidate? Combining professional social media giant LinkedIn with a great recruitment platform and applicant tracking system such as Simplicant makes a smarter recruitment plan for finding the best talent. LinkedIn can be a great resource for finding top quality candidates, especially passive candidates. Once you have located these top-notch candidates, you can use Simplicant to build an impressive talent pipeline for your company. Here are some tips and tricks for your recruitment plan to leverage LinkedIn more effectively in your overall talent acquisition strategy.

The Skills Gap Issue In Startup Hiring

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The skills gap is a major concern for venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 companies. This should not be surprising if you look at numbers like those provided by the Job Preparedness Indicator. According to this recent survey, only 17 percent of hiring managers said candidates were presenting the right skills for the job. In startup companies, it is even more essential to hire employees with the necessary skill sets. A bad hire can cost a company big money, and hiring an employee who does not fit into your organization can ruin the company culture you have worked so hard to Read more