Finding the right person to fill a role is crucial to long-term business success — but finding the perfect candidate can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. Luckily, HR tech has advanced to help fill the gap. Today’s applicant tracking systems (ATS) and candidate relationship management (CRM) solutions help time-poor hiring teams to streamline the hiring process by automating key stages of the process.
Over 80% of recruiters agree that recruiting automation can help increase their productivity. By automating time-consuming, manual or repetitive tasks, hiring teams can focus on what matters most: building connections with candidates, and finding the right people for their open roles.
What does this look like in practice? Recruiting automation helps hiring teams find the best candidates quicker, boost applicant quality,and provide a better overall hiring experience. Let’s unpack these points in more detail:
Find the best candidates more efficiently
Our research shows recruiter workloads are 33% higher than pre-COVID. It’s not surprising to hear that 61% of recruiters say their stress levels at work have increased as well. To address recruiter burnout, leveraging recruitment automation tools has become imperative to help drive efficiency. A comprehensive ATS and CRM solution, underpinned by recruiting automation saves hiring teams time, and resources —empowering teams to do more, with less.
Improve applicant quality
According to research, one of the key challenges recruiters face is being able to access a reliable and consistent pipeline of quality candidates. One easy way to improve applicant quality is to enhance and streamline applicant sourcing. Automation tools like, Job Advertising, allow hiring teams to cast a wider net and provide innovative solutions to seeking and identifying new talent.
Provide a stand-out experience for candidates
In today’s talent market, candidate experience is everything. Research has found that 49% of highly sought-after job seekers have turned down job offers because of a poor candidate experience. To establish a strong rapport with potential candidates, there needs to be personal touch. But, in a competitive labour market, recruiters also need to move fast.
Automation tools allow recruiters to automate administrative tasks and keep candidates informed in a timely manner. With less manual admin, it also works to free talent teams up to foster meaningful relationships with candidates.
PageUp Talent Management Suite Automation tools
To truly harness the power of automation, savvy teams are looking for end-to-end solutions. Employing a Talent Management Suite powered by automation presents a distinct advantage —workflows are woven seamlessly throughout the entire recruitment cycle. These tools mean hiring teams are able to save time and reduce manual input across the entire recruitment process: from sourcing and candidate nurturing, to screening, interviewing, and hiring.
The PageUp Talent Management suite has a range of powerful recruiting automation tools to help you streamline processes every step of the way:
1. Nurture candidates with Recruitment Marketing
70% of the global workforce is made up of passive talent —they aren’t actively seeking a new role. In today’s talent market, building long-term talent pipelines is crucial to engaging passive candidates. With Recruitment Marketing, it’s easy to capture interest, build targeted nurture workflows and keep candidates engaged until they’re ready to apply.
Through automation, recruiters can reduce the manual input traditionally required to keep their talent pools engaged. With set-and-forget workflows, they can send relevant content, automatic job alerts and trigger personalisedpersonalized email and text messages to candidates to help drive greater application conversions.
Today’s candidates value clear and consistent communication. And, with 82% of candidates willing to share a positive recruitment experience with others,- providing a great candidate experience can also have an exponential impact on your employer brand.
2. Candidate sourcing with Job Advertising
71% of recruiters say they would be more successful in achieving their hiring goals if they could automate candidate sourcing. According to PageUp research in 2023, 42% of applications have come via job boards. Automating job board management would be a significant time saving for many recruiters. But, to maximisemaximize ROI from job boards, recruiters need to invest a lot of time managing contracts, researching the most effective boards for specific roles, and navigating pricing with each provider.
The good news is that recruitment automation tools like Job Advertising, can greatly reduce the burden. Job Advertising enables recruiters to simultaneously post job ads on hundreds of platforms, increasing candidate reach. Recruiters can easily select and publish in just a few clicks, eliminating the need to create multiple profiles and accounts across different job sourcing channels.
The tool also offers recommendations on the channels to target for the most suitable candidates, improving the quality of applicants. Performance analytics helps recruiters track and measure the success of their recruitment efforts across job boards. That way, teams will easily know where to invest in the future.
3. Interview scheduling, made easy
One of the largest causes of frustration for candidates during the interview process is poor communication, especially around schedule changes. In fact, 62% of professionals say they lose interest in a prospective employer if they do not hear from employers within two weeks. Hiring teams can improve the candidate experience by leveraging automation tools to streamline the interview process.
PageUp’s interview scheduling integration allows recruiters to schedule interviews based on up-to date availability of users and meeting rooms. With features like 2-way calendar sync and real-time scheduling, this powerful integration drives efficiency and delivers an improved experience for candidates, hiring managers and recruiters.Recruiters, hiring managers and interviewees can easily reschedule interviews in a few clicks and automatically notify stakeholders— reducing frustrations around schedule changes.
4. Fast-tracked background checking through seamless integrations
Background checking is an underappreciated — but highly critical —stage of the recruitment process. 94% of employers engage in one or more forms of background screening. Of those employers, two-thirds find the length of time it takes to complete the screening to be the most significant challenge. This can prove costly: if the process takes too long, the candidate may accept another offer.
Automating background checks accelerates this process. Prompt results allow hiring teams to make decisions in a timely manner, promoting a positive experience for candidates. PageUp partners with the best vendors in the world to offer superior background checking capabilities. With seamless integrations with partners including CVCheck and Fit2Work in To Australia; or HireRight in North America, we are able to offer employers their preferred pre-integrated solution that is quick, efficient and easy to use, ensuring that your employees are screened —and hired— in a timely manner.
Final thoughts
In today’s fast-paced recruiting environment, automation tools need to be a key consideration when evaluating an end-to-end software provider. Whether your goal is to attract top-tier applicants, establish strong talent pipelines, streamline onboarding processes, enhance candidate experience, or empower existing employees, recruitment automation drives productivity, reduces repetitive tasks and gives hiring teams the tools and time they need to prioritiseprioritize outstanding candidate experiences.
If you’d like to learn more about how PageUp can help streamline your hiring process, get in touch today.
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