HIRING TOOLS FOR 2024--How to hire best Talents.

Further to my last article “Recruitment- understanding & challenges”, let us talk about HIRING TOOLS FOR 2024 today.

Recruitment being the most important function of HRD and employee being the most important resource in any Business, it is critical part of the process. To cope up with the challenges and hire best suitable talents in any organization, it is important understand what tool to be used to hire employees.

Companies uses different tools suiting their specific business requirements. These tools are widely used worldwide. Some SAAS (software as service) services also offer such solutions.

Recruitment processes are always complex in every company, does not matter how good the brand is. This is to find right blend of competence and personality to fit your company’s culture.

You need to go through many resumes, may be hundred if not or thousand .What’s worse is that the job doesn’t end there. You still have to take interviews, tests, HR rounds, etc. In scenarios like this, the help of digital tools goes a long way. So, why not capitalize on it?

Let’s talk about Recruitment Tools for today.

What are Recruitment Tools?

The recruitment tools help in automating and streamlining the process of hiring by generating interest, screening resumes, conducting interviews, and hiring best suitable talent.

Indeed, these tools ( SAAS or Recruitment software) are the best assistants to all HR professional in recruitment process because of their help in the hiring process. They assist the entire flow of a hiring procedure, thereby optimizing productivity with minimum effort and time.

Different types of Recruitment Tools

Based on their different usage the different tools are-

1 1. Job Aggregators

The JOB AGGREGATORS act as a job board. They advertise jobs where hires are made on a company’s hiring policy. Examples of these tools or career sites are Indeed, Naukri.com, Monster etc.

2. Recruitment CRM

These tools help building up and maintain a relationship with the candidates in the hiring process. These relationship-building tools are beneficial in social recruiting. Some of the examples are SmashFly, Yello, Avature, etc.

 

3. Testing & Assessment

These tools are used to assess a candidate’s ability in the recruitment process. It can test attributes like skills, aptitude, personality, behavioral characteristics etc.Examples of these tools are HackerRank, Pymetrics, Self Management Group etc.

4. Automation  and AI 

These recruitment tools are based on Artificial Intelligence and are mostly used because of their automated process of hiring. AI and Automation hiring tools can screen candidates, analyze data, enable virtual chat, and many more. Examples of these tools are Textio, Zoom.ai, Ideal, etc.

5. ATS- Applicant Tracking System

An ATS (Applicant Tracking System) is another helpful automated recruitment system because of its database assistance to recruiters in talent acquisition. Examples of these tools are Naukri RMS, Zoho Recruit, Talent Recruit, etc.

6. Video based Interviews

These tools enable video interviewing while taking into account various factors. It can be facial expressions, choice of words, voice tonality, and others. Some of these examples are Zoom, MS Teams, Google meet VidCruiter, Wepow, etc.

Uses of these tools

1. for Screening Candidates

There are various factors when it comes to screening qualified candidates. These can be skills, mentality, experience, personality, attitude, suitability, interest etc. Because this can be a lengthy process, it is essential to simplify things.

Recruitment tools can screen tons of candidates based on your predetermined factors with ease.

2. Engagement

Interviews can design a vital moment for the candidates. This mental pressure can often harm their interview.

Recruitment tools help HR and candidate both, in the engagement process of hiring. This makes it a less frightening process. Doing this allows the candidates to be at ease, which enables hiring managers to pitch the job effectively.

3. Candidate reach

Another use of these tools is ability to pitch companies and jobs to top-performing employees via mail. These tools can send out automated mail about a job posting that helps build your company image and spark curiosity.

4. Feedback

These hiring tools help gather effective feedback on the process from candidates. An effective feedbacks are crucial because they help in the process. These hiring tools help gather effective feedback on the process from candidates.

5. AI Video Interviews

AI video interview is yet another particularly superb section of hiring tools. While real-time video interviews have been standard for a long, these tools take it up a notch.

AI Video Interviews take into account almost every move of a candidate. For example, facial expressions, patterns of speech, choice of words, etc.

Recruitment tools help recognize these patterns, thereby assisting in a well-informed decision.

Importance of Recruitment Tools

Few notable importance of uses of Recruitment tools are-

1. Accuracy

A well-functioning tool helps filter the accurate parameters in the recruitment process. This helps eradicate human error and improve accuracy with better employee productivity.

2. Time saving

While HR can screen a limited number of resumes from talent pool, these tools can go through a ton. This saves time and shortens the process of hiring.

3. Cost-effectiveness

These recruitment tools are very cost-effective as the kind of purpose they serve. What’s even better is that there are some free tools available in the market as well.

4. Efficient

Because these tools are automated, they are highly efficient in filtering suitable and potential candidatures. They have great response time, replies, effective communications, etc.

5. Consistency

These Hiring tools are incredibly consistent in their way of work which is required in any process. While an HR executive may have inconsistency despite many efforts, a well-serviced recruitment tool won’t.

Conclusion-

We have now derived that as per the requirement of the business specific, companies must use these tools to save, time, energy and for better performance, consistency, and lessor error.

Wishing a great HR day and Happy Recruiting !!!