Recruitment Software Management: Improve Your Funnel

It’s rare you find the best fitting people for your open positions right away. 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 easy, however, and you want to ensure the best and brightest do not fall through the cracks in your system.

How do you ensure your recruitment software is packed with the top candidates? How do you get the talent you need into your applicant tracking system and turn cold leads into hot prospects? Your recruiting success might just rely on how many sources of talent funnel into your applicant tracking system and how well you manage this recruitment funnel. Continue reading

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Recruitment Software: Delegation and Access Control for Internal Company Use

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 and delegation are  key. To find the best people and scoop them up before the competition, you need to ensure your team is on the same page.

You simply cannot address all the recruiting needs of your company, even if you would like to tackle everything yourself. The truth is, the more voices involved in the hiring process, the greater the likelihood you will hire someone who fits like a glove into the overall company culture. Besides, team collaboration and delegation can build up employee engagement, motivate workers to get involved in the future of the company, and promote diversity. No recruiter is an island. Continue reading

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Applicant Tracking System Tips To Improve Your Employer Brand

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.

No doubt, many of these passive candidates filtering into your applicant tracking system deserve your full attention. In addition, however, you also want to attract candidates who actively seek out your company for opportunities. These active candidates are not just stumbling upon your job descriptions — they are searching for opportunities at your organization. Continue reading

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Recruitment Software: What is the Best Hiring Solution for Growing Companies?

As a startup or small business, you probably think you cannot afford enterprise recruiting software or 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.

Great recruitment software is 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.

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Looking For Talent On Facebook? 4 Do’s and Don’ts

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 in your 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 platform according to the best social recruitment practices? How do you know your company is attracting and recruiting the best people from Facebook, instead of driving them away?

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