Refining your company’s talent acquisition strategy takes time, effort, and precision. As you journey to enhance recruitment metrics such as time-to-hire, it’s pivotal to consider the must-have recruiting tools needed for success. If you lack any of these recruitment tools explained below, it’s time to connect with those missing resources for an immediate turnaround in your company’s recruitment strategy.
Let’s evaluate the top 10 must have recruiting tools that should be included in every company’s talent acquisition strategy for the utmost onboarding success for new individuals. Many of these tools are what Cadient already has in its arsenal ready to help service your company’s talent acquisition needs.
1. Applicant Tracking System
Having an applicant tracking system, like Cadient’s version, is one of the best recruiting tools for a seamless hiring experience for both candidates and recruitment personnel. The many features included in this system guide everyone through the recruitment, selection, and onboarding process.
The top features of Cadient’s applicant tracking system are their applicant pooling, hiring management console, and availability matching. The applicant pooling accumulates multiple candidates in the system where they can be matched with positions at various company branch locations. Having many candidates within the pool will ensure there is high-quality talent available to reduce turnover challenges when an employee resigns their position.
The hiring management console is an easy-to-use tool for recruitment personnel to optimize time-to-hire. With great features, such as automated emails to candidates for application status updates and information configuration about candidates for the recruitment team, the hiring management console works to decrease recruitment costs and optimize productivity with these hiring tasks.
2. Recruitment Marketing Platforms
Your employer brand will benefit by making your company’s presence known on recruitment marketing platforms. It’s one of the must-have recruitment tools that creates customizable career pages containing information about company culture, employee testimonials, the company’s mission and vision statements, and current job openings. Potential candidates can browse this customized career page as a learning resource before placing an application.
Recruitment marketing platforms also include social media integration. They connect with social media like Facebook and LinkedIn to communicate with potential candidates about job postings and company content. If potential candidates comment on these social media posts, a social media representative from your company can respond and engage with them. Such interactions can enhance the possibility of quicker hiring turnaround times.
3. Talent Sourcing Tools
AI helps analyze passive candidates’ skills through multiple platforms to maintain a high-quality talent-sourcing tool. Passive candidates are individuals who could be potential employees for a company’s position. However, these candidates have not applied to any of the company’s job postings and are not in the market for a new position.
The system connects with job board platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, Career Builder, and other entities in which individuals post an established career profile. From there, AI will analyze these people’s profiles to see if their skills match your job descriptions. Then, once the system suggests a list of potential candidates, you can reach out to them one by one with an automated or personalized message to connect and invite them to apply for one of your positions.
4. Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) Systems
One of the tools included in a recruitment marketing platform is a candidate relationship management (CRM) system. This platform engages in talent pool management to collect applications from active and passive candidates alike to draw from the pool when an open position is available. There are also engagement tracking tools to show how many candidates have opened and/or responded to emails to refine future outreach efforts.
It also allows companies to maintain relationships with potential candidates through various outreach efforts such as email campaigns about new openings and text or email communications about application status updates. Cadient Texting enhances candidate outreach with text messages rather than emails because texts have a higher engagement percentage.
5. Skill Assessments
Skill assessments are recruitment tools in HR that assess candidates’ job-related abilities via online tests. You may have applied to a job on Indeed before, requiring you to take a skills test to finish the application process. This is an example of a recruitment tool for a company’s talent acquisition strategy.
Implementing skills tests, coding challenges, and job simulations will reveal candidates who have the top skill sets necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of your company’s open jobs. For example, a skills test for a Content Writer position may be to write a test blog post for the company while following set writing standards before being officially onboarded.
6. Video Interviewing Platforms
Video interviewing platforms are one of the must-have recruitment tools for a more personal and convenient hiring process. Especially for remote positions, potential candidates and recruitment personnel can coordinate the best time for an interview all without the candidate having to drive the company headquarters.
Cadient’s video interviewing platform collaborates with Spark Hire to deliver a high-quality experience when it’s time for candidates to set themselves apart from other applicants. With no lagging and crisp video quality during the virtual interview experience, candidates can seamlessly discuss their experience and how they can positively contribute to the company as the recruitment personnel observe their responses.
Its mobile-friendly features allow candidates or recruitment personnel to tune into the interview while on the go with their mobile devices. The system optimizes interview scheduling, eliminates no-show candidates, and decreases the travel costs of scheduling in-person interviews by having everyone tune in virtually.
7. Employee Referral Platforms
Employee referral platforms make for a stellar internal hiring strategy where your trusted team members can suggest new talent from their inner circle who are interested in working with the company. Internal hiring efforts cost much less than their external cousin as there are fewer people to interview.
Current employees can log on to a user-friendly fillable form on a website or a mobile application, depending on the technical layout for the employee referral program’s data collection. A perk of these programs is that the current employee and new talent can both receive a referral bonus after a certain number of days the new talent has been employed.
8. Recruitment Analytics Tools
Recruitment analytics tools collect data from various platforms and centralize them into one report for a thorough analysis of the company’s current recruitment strategy profile. These analytics tools work in conjunction with collecting data from recruitment marketing platforms, ATS, and various job boards.
Various analytics are tracked by evaluating key performance indicators (KPIs) such as the quality of each hire, where the new talent came from, and the time it took to procure the new hire. Once each data point is calculated, you can properly evaluate the data with visualization tools like charts and graphs.
9. Job Board Aggregators
Job board aggregators are search engines especially for job seekers to browse open positions from either one company on a specialized career page or multiple companies on a mass job board like Indeed or Monster. They contain many advanced search features for job seekers to find a position that is best for them. Job posting results can be narrowed down by location, job title, required experience, and salary amount.
10. Onboarding Platforms
Cadient’s onboarding properties allow candidates to complete virtual forms to finish their new hire paperwork. The platform also engages in compliance tracking to ensure that all legalities are followed during the new hire process by filling out forms like W2, I-9, 1099, or other forms based on the employee’s position status. The candidate can complete the forms on their desktop, laptop, or mobile device, making for a convenient process.
Refine Your Talent Acquisition Strategy Today!
We hope you have learned exponentially about the top 10 recruiting tools for solidifying your company’s talent acquisition strategy. Evaluate the current tools in your company’s arsenal and add more as necessary to fit the strategic vision of your recruitment process.
