Technology for Efficient Recruitment

By Slava Barouline, Chief Technology Officer of Recruitment Systems

Today's technology allows developers to build very complex business software that can significantly improve recruitment agency efficiency. CTO and co-Founder of Recruitment Systems Slava Barouline explains the key benefits of good recruitment software.

Preset and customisable workflows
Through clearly defined processes, even inexperienced recruiters can do a great job.  Having processes in place allows recruitment agencies to scale rapidly.

Multi-channel communication with customers
There are many ways to communicate with candidates and clients. All good recruitment systems should ensure you can communicate with your contacts using postal mail, email, SMS, phone calls and your website. Modern systems like the TRIS Recruitment CRM simplify the communication process with the customers and allow users to access all communication instances in one place with a click of a button or simple search.

Reporting and business intelligence
No recruitment agency can monitor efficiency successfully without extensive reporting. Reports are very useful to keep track of staff performance and to estimate future expenses and income. The next step in reporting is business intelligence information analysis which allows agency managers to fine-tune recruiters' performance, allocate resources to the most profitable sectors and leverage relationships with your most important clients.

Customisation and flexibility
Every agency is different and has its own requirements and processes. It is very important for recruitment software to be flexible and customisable to carefully suit your business needs.

Web presence
One aspect of successful recruiting is a dynamic web presence. Appearing on popular job boards and having a company website is a very important part of the business. Today's business systems allow agencies to go even further by providing infrastructure to build B2B and B2C portals that work together with recruitment backend systems.

Integration
Recruitment software can offer an extensive set of features, some tools are generalised and some are highly specialised. It is very important for your recruitment database to integrate with other back office software.  This should include integration with popular job boards, accounting packages, skill testing software, text searching and parsing tools.

Automation
It is vital for successful recruitment software to assists users in shifting the workload from mundane day-to-day tasks to more creative and rewarding work. This should include communication with clients, updating website content and creating appealing job ads.  This is why the system has to automate most of the repetitive recruitment activities like sending typical emails and generating standard documents.

Powerful search
The recruitment industry is highly competitive and the recruiter who finds the most appropriate candidate for a job wins. Some recruitment databases now offer highly advanced search engines which combine the ability to search candidate details and their resumes to quickly find the best candidates.

Up-to-date and relevant information
Recruitment databases should be kept up-to-date and relevant. Recruiters will not value contact data if it is old and now inaccurate. Modern systems offer many ways to keep information as current as possible by providing resume parsing tools, database cleansing utilities and web portals for customers to maintain the information themselves.

Quick response time
Powerful, flexible and automated systems are not efficient if the underlying technology is slow. Client-server systems like the TRIS Recruitment CRM use the latest technology to ensure computer hardware is used to delivery the quickest response time possible. With 64-bit processors and quick networks, recruitment software is no longer a bottleneck in providing recruiters with the information they need.

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