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 team comes on to help your recruiting efforts, they will need access to your existing recruitment software and applicant tracking system.

This can cause some problems for privacy-minded companies, when proper access control cannot be administered. You need your new recruiting team to help, that is why you brought them on after all, but you want to make sure they only have access to a specific set of open positions and the related candidates. This is true when dealing with your internal recruiting team as well. Using an applicant tracking system like Simplicant, you can assign different levels of access control to your outside recruiters as well as your internal team. Continue reading →