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From improving candidate experience to resume screening, automation has changed the way we hire people. Talent acquisition teams are now delegating the tasks and automating repetitive, manual tasks allowing time for more work strategically on a daily basis.
The upcoming days of global human capital have witnessed a paradigm shift in challenging times of the global pandemic. From the new normal remote working to accelerated automation, the agility within the HR department has been put fast working. Covid 19 has actually updated the definition of workplaces, workforces, and work and has revamped the hiring process faster, leaner, and more convenient. Many thanks to the automation technology, due to which much of the talent show Singh is accomplished without physical proximity. This has also fuelled the recent popularity of artificial intelligence for recruiting purposes.
Talent acquisition teams are now delegating the tasks and automating repetitive, manual tasks allowing the time for more work strategically on a daily basis. Innovative enterprises are rigorously scaling as the demand for niche roles increases. That is why recruitment automation has enhanced the modern techniques and workflows of recruiting process more convenient. Recruitment automation includes the use of automated software, innovative and modernized techniques, and workflows of the hiring process such as sourcing, screening, assessing, interviewing, and finally hiring that has eventually led to increase productivity, reduced cost time to hire, and improved the overall talent profile of the organization.
Innovation is the need of the hour in every field. And the software industry is not left behind. There are certain ways recruitment automation will amend the way of talent acquisition.
1. Advertisements and job promotion
It can be a time-consuming task if it is done by humans manually. Individuals involved in the recruiting process had to manually list various job boards and websites and post jobs on each one. The biggest advantage of automation is automating the entire publishing process. Numerous digital advertising platforms could be used to recruit officials to publish automated targeted job advertisements on different platforms.
2. Sourcing
One can add a recruitment chatbot on the color pages on the social media pages handling all job-related queries and doubts of the aspiring candidates. Artificial intelligence has made this possible that chatbots can even answer all the standard questions or doubts, reducing the recruitment officials’ burden that was done manually earlier.
3. Resume screening
It is believed that resume selection is still the biggest bottleneck in recruiting. Artificial intelligence comes into play with the power of automation, which allows intelligent screening software to automate the resume screening process. It can be a game-changer for evaluating the talent automatically by LIVE reaching the machine learning for data and insights.
4. Scheduling
Recruitment automation has allowed different tools to synchronization of recruiter’s calendar with the candidates to find a suitable date and time for both. Once the screening and scheduling of meetings are done, these automated interview scheduling software ages and better coordination and planning for interviews.
5. Assessments
Automation has reduced the redundant task of handing out written Aptitude tests to every person who comes for a job interview. Pen and paper were unnecessary in this job for the recruiter. An online assessment saves individuals from the burden of not going through hundreds of interviews with unqualified people. According to the candidates, the assessment for the role can be sent.
6. Metrics for hiring and data
The most critical aspect of the recruitment process is hiring and data metrics. The officials involved in the recruitment process have to cover a lot from the ground, including individual details, background information, resumes, etc. Basically, keeping track of job advertisements is a difficult task, like how they are performing. However, the applicant tracking system has saved a lot of databases giving access to the hiring managers.
7. Development of candidate
Candidate relationship management systems have enabled businesses to engage with candidates through email automation.
8. Offers
With the updated HR software, following the interview, automation has utilized offer letters, contracts, and other relevant documents for successful candidates and letters of rejection for unsuccessful candidates.
9. Enhancing productivity
With the development of recruitment automation, the productivity of recruiters has been enhanced by working effectively and settling on better choices at a quicker pace.
10. Improving candidate’s experience
Updated tools have enabled automation in certain stages of talent acquisition. Now, the recruiters can concentrate more on building connections while the applicants can experience a streamlined and organized procedure.
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