Tag: applicant tracking system

Employee Turnover Reduction With Power Of Referrals

Employee turnover can be a huge waste of time and money for any company. Just think of how long it takes in the recruitment process to find the best person for a position. If for some reason this employee has to leave the company, the company is faced with the daunting task of diving back into the recruitment process to once again go through the entire recruitment process of finding the best candidate. Not only is employee turnover time-consuming for you and your entire team, it also results in wasted time and a loss of precious time and ultimately revenue. Read more

Recruitment Funnel Management For Better Hiring

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

Access Control & Delegation Management

When it comes to hiring the best candidates, it is often a team effort. Whether your organization is large with multiple departments or a small-scale startup beginning to ramp up recruiting efforts, collaboration, delegation and proper access control are some of the key requirements. To find the best people and scoop them up before the competition, you need to ensure that you have the access control capability to enable your team to easily participate in the process. You simply cannot address all the recruiting needs of your company, even if you would like to tackle everything yourself. The truth is, Read more

Tips To Elevate Employer Branding & Reputation

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

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.

3 Ways To Manage Your Recruitment System

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

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

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

A Hiring Checklist For Finding Top Talent

When your business is rapidly growing, it is important to find the top talent your company needs. It is also important to hire this top talent as quickly as possible so your company can continue to grow and thrive. This is one reason why your company should be sure to have a hiring checklist to keep your recruiting efforts on track. Perhaps new funding has made it possible for your company to finally branch out and hire the employees you need to stay competitive in the marketplace. Or maybe some of your top talent has flown the coop and you Read more