Recruitment Management System

Managing Recruitment At Your Fast Growing Company

Category: Fast Hiring, Hiring Trends, Recruiting, Recruitment Management System, Simplicant blog

Fast growing companies are known to invest large amounts of capital and resources into marketing, production and business administration. But most skimp on one of the most important elements of a successful company: Managing recruitment. Managing the process of hiring qualified talent can prove challenging during periods of unprecedented growth. So, what are the best practices—the key needs and requirements to recruit successfully in a fast growing company? Each company has its own unique recruiting challenges and requirements – regardless of whether it is a fast growing company or not. The challenges for hiring talent with good ROI are clearly different for a Read more

How To Manage Candidate Relationships & Keep Talent Interested

Category: candidate experience, candidate management, Employer Branding, Recruitment Management System, Simplicant blog

Every day, recruiters and human resources staff find themselves on the receiving end of thousands of resumes and job applications. The number of online applications has increased steadily thanks to major shifts in the way job seekers and companies interact. While the level of interest continues to go up, job seekers are often disappointed with the lack of engagement in the process. Many skilled candidates apply to jobs through company career sites or via referrals. However, the majority of applicants may never receive a response or hear from the hiring company after submitting an application. Companies that are not able Read more

10 Qualities Of A Good Recruiting System

Category: Recruiting, Recruiting Software, Recruitment Management System, Recruitment System, Simplicant blog

A modern recruiting system is a must-have for businesses that want to leverage the latest talent sourcing strategies and online recruiting tools in one user-friendly platform. There are so many internet job boards and social networks to tap into to find active and passive job candidates. The question is: How do you incorporate these resources without multiplying the work of your hiring teams? The answer: You need a good recruiting system. What makes a good recruiting system? How do you choose which system to buy? To help you explore the options out there, we’ve compiled a checklist of the 10 Read more

Best Practices To Boost Employee Referral Programs

Category: Employee Referral, Employee Retention, Employer Branding, Recruiting, Recruitment Management System, Simplicant blog

For any growing company, referrals play a key role in almost all aspects of business operations – from selecting new vendors to getting introductions to new prospects. Talent acquisition is certainly another such area where referrals from employees have long been considered a valuable source of finding good quality talent.  Most companies and their executives understand this. Still, most employee referral programs fail to perform and are ineffective. Unfortunately, while companies want to leverage employee referrals to improve their hiring process, they are consistently unable to implement these in an effective and sustainable way to get company-wide adoption. Employee Referral Read more

What A Talent Acquisition Team Must Do To Win

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Employee Retention, Hiring Trends, Recruiting Software, Recruitment Management System, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition

Just like a soccer team works hard to maintain its formation and presses ahead with full force, a talent acquisition team must go all out these days to have a chance at winning – when competing for top talent. In Ruchi Dubey’s article, she mentioned several challenges and global phenomenon that are simultaneously happening across companies and nations. Recruiters must now face a very active and mobile talent pool along with emerging markets, fierce business competition, technological advances, and demographic changes. And if that wasn’t enough, employers must also look at issues regarding lack of relevant skills, retention and workplace satisfaction.  If last year Read more

Global HR Trends Worth Revisiting

Category: Hiring Trends, Online Recruiting Software, Recruiting, Recruiting Software, Recruitment Management System, Simplicant blog

The second quarter of the year went by quickly – much like the NBA Finals! As we look ahead at the rest of the year with much speculation about what’s next, let’s take a look at some recent and notable HR Trends in the year so far. With more companies competing for top talent, it’s helpful to understand some of the key HR trends that are relevant to a company’s hiring efforts today. Recession may no longer be in the driver’s seat but is replaced by the need for growth. As a result, organizations are faced with an even greater Read more

Online Recruitment Systems & Talent Acquisition In Digital Age

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Recruiting Software, Recruitment Management System, Recruitment System, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting, Talent Acquisition

If you are looking to hire top talent for your company, you already know how important it is (in the SURVIVOR spirit)  to ‘Outwit, Outlast and Outplay’ the competition and stay one step ahead by having up-to-date hiring standards and recruitment systems in place. Most job seekers rarely spend time sending resumes around – instead they rely a lot on applying online and through referrals. What you’ll see though are perfectly crafted online profiles ready for viewing anytime, anywhere. With just the click of a button, any candidate can now shop around for jobs while recruiters can easily browse through Read more

What Is Resume Tracking – A Review Of The Basics

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Applicant Tracking System, Recruiting Software, Recruitment Management System, resume management, Resume Tracking Software, Simplicant blog

As a growing company, filling those open positions and bringing the right people on board must be at the top of your list of priorities. If you are using the right set of recruiting tools and technologies, chances are that you would receive hundreds of resumes for every position on the average.  When you are getting inundated by tons of resumes, there are two key questions you should ask yourself. Are you attracting the right kind of applicants? And, do you have the means for proper resume tracking and keeping things organized. The quality of the applicants that you attract Read more

Talent Management System & Recruitment Management

Category: Recruiting Software, Recruitment Management System, Recruitment System, Simplicant blog, Talent Management System

Our recent article on the role of Recruiting in the context of talent management highlighted some of the key, and in some cases subtle, differences between a recruiting software platform and a traditional talent management system.  It provided helpful information for employers looking to purchase a new system to strengthen their recruitment regiment.  In this follow up to our previous post, we are stressing the need to assess your unique talent acquisition requirements. A clear understanding of your highest priority recruiting needs will help you pick a system that is most effective in attracting, engaging and hiring top talent. As Read more

Talent Management & The Role Of Recruiting

Category: Recruiting Software, Recruitment Management System, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management System

When investing in HR technology, understanding and prioritizing your organization’s most important HR and talent management challenges is critical. In the absence of a clear understanding of the priorities, a company is likely to acquire a solution that is either too specific and inadequate for its organizational needs, or provides too many “features” – though in reality barely touches each at the surface level. In both cases, the result is that you end up with something that cannot get the job done. Companies are now increasingly aware of the importance of talent acquisition in talent management. In fact, starting off Read more