Recruiting Process

Integrated Recruitment Software: Ideal Hiring Tips

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Recruiting, Recruiting Process, Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog

You might see the recruitment process as a series of disparate tasks. Looking at the process, you might consider talent sourcing, candidate relationship management, recruitment workflow, and social media recruitment as vastly different activities. However, viewing the different parts of the overall recruitment process as separate and independent tasks, instead of as an integrated recruiting software suite keeps the recruitment process from being efficient and effective.

Recruitment Funnel Management For Better Hiring

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting, Recruiting Process, Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog

It’s rare you find the best fitting people for your open positions right away. Your recruitment funnel defines the process through which you identify and eventually hire a select few out of a large number of applicants. In fact, these days companies are interviewing an increasing number of applicants before they are able to find someone who fits their unique requirements. Hence it’s critical for organizations to start off with a large number of high quality prospects. Your recruitment funnel is made up of potential hires ranging from active job seekers to passive candidates. Managing this funnel is not always Read more

3 Ways To Improve Interview Scheduling

Category: Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog

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

Hiring Strategy: 4 Reasons To Use Same Day Job Offer

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting, Recruiting Process, Recruitment, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition

When your company is feeling the pain due to unfilled critical positions, finding a great candidate who is a good match could be the lucky break your team has been looking for. Not only does this person have great qualifications and experience, but they just nailed the job interview. Everyone involved feels really great about the candidate’s future with the company. Still, your hiring strategy includes a lot of red tape to work through before the hiring is finalized. When your company finally puts forth an offer, you receive terrible news..that your superstar candidate has already taken a job with a Read more

Candidate Management: Keep Applicants Informed

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting, Recruiting Process, Recruitment, Simplicant blog

Are recruiters doing all they can in terms of candidate management or are they letting the best and the brightest slip away through the system? Even worse, are they damaging their own brands by failing to answer that email or pick up that phone call? According to a recent survey, 77 percent of those polled said that they did not hear back from a company after applying, which made these applicants think less of an organization that shows poor candidate management. Further, 90 percent reported that they would feel better if they would simply get back some sort of feedback Read more

Build A Broad Perspective – Get The Facts

Category: Recruiting Process, Recruitment, Simplicant blog

Finding the right people to fill your company’s open positions goes beyond simply advertising the jobs through various channels and marketing them to your talent communities. Before taking the next steps in the hiring process, you need to verify the accuracy of the top candidate information in terms of their education and experience. Here are several ways to ensure you get the facts you need: Use referrals Employee referrals are one of the best ways to find quality, credible candidates for your openings. Workers don’t often refer someone who they don’t know well or don’t feel would be a good Read more

Online Recruitment System: Collaborative Hiring Tips

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Sourcing

Attracting and acquiring the right talent is a critical and strenuous task that involves many people who contribute, via an online recruitment system, in the various aspects of the hiring process. These could be internal employees, hiring managers, executive management, contract recruiters, social media contacts and many other internal/external stakeholders. Most of them will need to review the status of candidate applications, in the recruitment system, at various points in the process. In addition, many of these stakeholders will have valuable input and information that will need to be recorded in the online recruitment system and shared with others at Read more