A considerable number of businesses are looking to shift their recruiting strategies to impact their hiring process. Nearly 60% of talent acquisition professionals indicate they are taking chances on different ways to accelerate time to hire and reach candidates, according to the Employ Recruiter Nation Report.

Recruiting and talent acquisition professionals need intelligent and comprehensive technology that can handle the complexities of modern recruiting. Sophisticated talent teams are moving from disconnected, and sometimes frustrating, point solutions to a unified platform that can easily connect with quality candidates and bolster their hiring efforts.

But what does it take to leave behind the technology of the past and adopt a unified talent acquisition suite? Here we provide a sneak peek from the new Strategic Guide to Modern Talent Acquisition, so you can adopt a unified tech stack with the tools recruiters want and need to compete for talent and tackle potential roadblocks along the way.

Defining Centralized Talent Acquisition Technology

In today’s competitive labor market, simply having an applicant tracking system or a few other point solutions is no longer enough to help recruiting teams find and hire top talent. Recruiters need a fully integrated, end-to-end talent acquisition suite that allows them to optimize and automate their hiring process.

The best centralized technology manages the complexity of talent acquisition and delivers improved hiring outcomes in challenging hiring environments, including:

A platform of centralized talent acquisition technology should include capabilities for:

• Career Sites
• Candidate Relationship Management
• Applicant Tracking System and Onboarding
• Job Broadcast
• DEI Solutions
• Intelligent Messaging
• Video Screening
• Internal Mobility
• Employee Referral Tools
• Analytics

Without these capabilities, recruiters are forced to waste time on tedious tasks that could be automated. By investing in a unified talent acquisition suite, you can give your recruiters the tools they need to be successful and keep them happy at your company. In short, if they don’t have great technology with your company, they’ll find a place that does.

Benefits of Centralizing Talent Acquisition Technology

Recruiting teams need a solution that manages the complexity of today’s labor market and delivers improved hiring outcomes. Whether looking to solve today’s problems or plan for future hiring, centralizing your talent acquisition technology will help deliver better recruiting results. A unified talent acquisition suite addresses the entire candidate lifecycle and helps improve the experience at every touchpoint.

Centralizing your recruitment technology can help:

• Save time on manual tasks: Recruiters are working harder than ever to find quality candidates in the highly competitive market. Help them save time on administrative tasks with centralized automation and AI software that can more easily source, screen, and engage candidates.
• Bolster key recruiting metrics: Enhancing your recruiting program starts with measuring it. Agile talent teams are seeing results in key recruiting metrics like quality-of-hire, time-to-hire, and applicant conversion rate with centralized technology that can make talent acquisition a strategic driver of business performance.
• Improve communication and collaboration: Recruiting teams need strong communication to find and hire the right talent. Centralized technology opens channels between recruiters, hiring teams, business leaders, and candidates, enhancing collaboration and relationships between each group.
• Improve ROI: A unified portal helps talent acquisition teams transform their recruiting by learning about their processes in real time. This allows them to easily pivot when needed and make improvements for quicker results. Use data to improve the candidate, recruiter, and employee experiences and maximize return on recruiting investment.

Where to Start Your Journey

Take Inventory

Not sure if your talent team is ready to consolidate and centralize your recruiting tech stack? Evaluate your current program and see what can be done to improve before making changes. Talk to recruiters and other talent acquisition professionals to gauge their needs and get to know their day-to-day roles. Use this data to decide if centralizing is the right move. Get to know solutions that could work best for your teams and explore what the team needs before searching for the right centralized solution.

Evaluate Talent Acquisition Software

Not all talent acquisition platforms are created equal. Be sure to carefully evaluate the possibilities before committing to a centralized technology stack. Have everyone on the talent team identify the manual daily tasks that could be automated and prioritize the tools that they would use the most.

This list of priorities, goals, tasks, and tools should be the guide when evaluating potential recruitment software solutions. A centralized platform should seamlessly integrate with any technology and offer automation and AI to streamline tedious manual tasks. Be sure to include recruiters in the final decision-making process as they’ll be using the tools on a daily basis.

Evaluating a new technology platform can take anywhere from weeks to months. Take a look at user reviews on trusted sites like G2 to see what real users have to say about a product. Don’t be afraid to use your point of contact for any software that you’re previewing — ask questions and make comparisons before deciding.

Decide and Implement

Take the time to evaluate the right platform, but don’t let indecision keep your team stuck with disconnected recruiting solutions. Adopting new technology can be tricky for even the most efficient teams. It takes communication, goal and expectation alignment, and hard work. There are several ways to improve user adoption of recruiting technology, but the most important is getting the entire team’s buy-in of the new software. Adoption will go much more smoothly when the whole team buys into changing technology.

Ready to unify your talent acquisition technology and realize the benefits of what a holistic solution can do for your talent acquisition function? Learn more about Jobvite’s Talent Acquisition Suite.

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• Enterprise ATS and AI-Powered Candidate Matching Drive Efficiencies
• Advanced ATS Streamlines Recruitment Process
• Robust ATS and Advanced Analytics Capabilities to Enhance Sourcing
• AI-Driven ATS Optimizes Recruitment
• Recruitment Tech Boosts Communication Workflow
• Predictive Analytics Improve Quality of Hire
• AI-Powered Analytics, ATS, & Video Interviewing Enhances Hiring
• ATS Streamlines Enterprise Recruitment
• ATS Centralizes Application Management

Enterprise ATS and AI-Powered Candidate Matching Drive Efficiencies

Specialized hiring technology has revolutionized the way we approach talent acquisition in our organization. One of the most significant improvements has been the ability to automate repetitive tasks, such as resume screening and initial candidate assessments. This has allowed our recruitment team to focus on more strategic aspects of the hiring process, such as candidate engagement and employer branding.

The use of applicant tracking systems (ATS) has been a game-changer for us. These platforms enable us to manage the entire recruitment workflow from a single dashboard, from posting job ads to scheduling interviews and extending job offers. The ATS also provides valuable data analytics, which allows us to track key metrics such as time-to-hire and cost-per-hire, helping us to continuously refine our recruitment strategies.

Another tool that has proven highly effective is AI-powered candidate matching software. This technology uses algorithms to match job requirements with candidates’ skills and experience, ensuring that we are considering the most qualified individuals for each role. This not only saves time but also helps to reduce unconscious bias in the recruitment process.

Billy Parker, Managing Director, Gift Delivery

Advanced ATS Streamlines Recruitment Process

I’ve used specialized hiring technology in the recruitment process during my work at Delante as the Senior HR Coordinator. These systems have automated many aspects of the recruitment process, so I don’t need to be posting job ads, screening resumes, and managing candidate communications all on my own from start to finish anymore. Just imagine how much time it takes off my shoulders.

The best feature of our ATS is going through resumes and automatically ranking candidates based on predefined criteria. So again, it speeds up the screening process, but more than that, it also ensures a more objective evaluation of candidates, in my opinion. I personally feel that it’s a big advantage to use this software to be fairer to candidates.

Karolina Górska, Senior HR Coordinator, Delante

Robust ATS and Advanced Analytics Enhance Sourcing

Specialized hiring technology has greatly enhanced the recruitment processes in our enterprise organization by streamlining workflows, improving candidate sourcing, and enhancing the overall candidate experience. One specific feature that has been particularly effective is the use of applicant tracking systems (ATS), which allow recruiters to manage job postings, track applications, and collaborate with hiring managers more efficiently.

With an ATS, we can easily review resumes, screen candidates based on predefined criteria, and schedule interviews, significantly reducing the time and effort required for administrative tasks. Advanced analytics capabilities within the ATS provide valuable insights into recruitment metrics such as time-to-fill, source of hire, and candidate engagement, enabling us to continuously optimize our recruitment strategies and improve outcomes.

Michael Hurwitz, CEO and Co-Founder, Careers in Government

AI-Driven ATS Optimizes Recruitment

AI-driven ATS has been a game-changer in optimizing our recruitment process and maintaining a competitive edge in talent acquisition. With advanced data analytics and automation features, this system has helped us analyze data on candidate sources, time-to-hire, and pipeline bottlenecks, so we can make data-driven decisions to develop our recruitment strategies.

Additionally, these analytic features have allowed us to identify and invest in the most effective recruitment channels, leading to a higher quality of hires and a reduction in time-to-fill positions. So, in this way, we have reached up to 40% more operational efficiency by enhancing our overall recruitment strategy.

Yulia Pavlova, HR Professional and Key Partnerships Manager, Aqua Cloud

Recruitment Tech Boosts Communication Workflow

Using an enterprise ATS as our go-to hiring technology suite has improved the efficiency of our recruitment process in ways we would not have imagined before implementing it. Previously, we had no elaborate way of updating candidates on the progress of their interviews, and it was the same with the rest of our recruitment team.

We’ve been able to automate much of this communication workflow, which has boosted the efficiency of our recruitment and enhanced engagement with candidates. Now, we can scan resumes instantly, send emails to candidates informing them if they are qualified for an interview, keep our recruitment team updated, and streamline the entire recruitment process from start to finish.

Clooney Wang, CEO, TrackingMore

Predictive Analytics Improve Quality of Hire

Specialized hiring technology has been a game-changer for improving our recruitment processes as an enterprise organization. The ability to automatically screen and rank candidates based on job-specific skills and experience has significantly increased the efficiency and quality of our hiring.

One feature that has been particularly effective is automated resume screening. Our ATS can now instantly scan resumes and highlight candidates that have the required credentials. This allows our recruiters to spend less time on manual review and more time engaging with highly qualified applicants.

Another useful capability is predictive analytics to model the attributes of our top performers. By having the system score and rank candidates based on that model, we’ve seen a major improvement in our quality of hire. It helps surface people who are culturally and skillfully matched for the role and company.

Overall, I’m very pleased with how specialized hiring technology has transformed our recruiting function. It enables us to work smarter and faster, while also hiring the kinds of people that drive our organization forward.

Sunaree Komolchomalee, Head of HR, Cupid PR

AI-Powered Analytics, ATS, & Video Interviewing Enhances Hiring

As Director of Business Operations, I’ve seen specialized hiring technology transform our hiring process. Our dedication to integrating cutting-edge technology has made our hiring process more efficient and effective.

One of the biggest improvements we’ve seen is the adoption of ATS. This technology has allowed us to automate multiple stages of the hiring process, from processing resumes to scheduling interview appointments.

And it’s not just speed we’re talking about. The accuracy with which we’re matching candidates with job descriptions has made a huge difference in the quality of our hires. For example, our ATS contributed to a 30% reduction in hiring time last quarter.

Another great asset has been the ability to use AI-powered analytics to forecast candidate performance. By looking at data points from previous recruiting cycles, we can predict which candidates will succeed in their roles. This predictive power has been instrumental in reducing turnover and increasing employee satisfaction.

In addition, video interview software has revolutionized the way we conduct interviews, especially in today’s global world, where remote working has become the norm. Not only has video interview technology saved us a lot of time and effort, but it’s also enabled us to reach a wider talent base without geographical restrictions.

We use these technologies to streamline the recruitment process and align with our values of diversity and inclusion. By using the latest technology and maintaining a strategic approach, we continue to attract and retain the best talent, driving Stallion Express’s success in the e-commerce shipping industry.

Jen Seran, Director of Operations, Stallion Express

ATS Streamlines Enterprise Recruitment

I would say that implementing an applicant tracking system (ATS) in our enterprise organization has greatly improved our recruitment processes. The ATS we use has streamlined job postings, application tracking, and candidate information management, which allows us to work more efficiently and reduce manual errors.

We found that by automating these tasks, our recruiters have more time to focus on building relationships with candidates and developing strategic initiatives. This system has led to a better candidate experience and more informed hiring decisions overall.

Syed Balkhi, Founder, WPBeginner

ATS Centralizes Application Management

Our recruitment process has seen a significant boost thanks to our applicant tracking systems (ATS). ATS acts as a central hub, streamlining how we manage applications.

It automates tasks like screening resumes based on keywords and sorting candidates by qualifications. This frees up our team’s time to focus on what matters most: in-depth interviews and candidate engagement.

Kimberley Tyler-Smith, VP of Strategy and Growth, Resume Worded

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While recruiting is a tedious, time-consuming process, requiring multiple steps and interactions along the way, the right technology enables large companies to reduce manual tasks, streamline and accelerate the hiring process, and align to business goals and outcomes. 

While you may know Jobvite from its early days as an ATS provider, the company has been on a multi-year journey to build an enterprise-grade solution that optimizes complex workflows and accelerates hiring outcomes.  

Jobvite’s best of breed talent acquisition technology streamlines hiring across the entire talent acquisition lifecycle and offers a transformative approach in the market — to deliver predictable hiring outcomes, create exceptional experiences, and increase recruiting capacity at scale from a single talent acquisition suite. 

Purpose-built to meet enterprises where they are, Jobvite offers a comprehensive solution ideal for organizations frustrated with point solutions that are too narrow, or HRIS and HCMs that are too broad. 

Here are five ways the power of enterprise-grade talent acquisition technology can speed up recruiting, helping your company stay ahead of the competition and find the best talent in record time.

#1: Sourcing & Candidate Nurturing

Jobvite’s enterprise-grade Source and CRM solution helps recruiters spend less time sourcing and more time connecting with the right candidates. Recruiters can easily identify candidates, engage and segment talent, and build relationships with candidates at scale. As a result, recruiters are able to identify and attract high-quality candidates much faster.

This technology enables talent professionals to segment talent pools into strategic audiences and create personalized campaigns to drive conversions. What’s more, you’ll receive real-time insights into recruitment marketing campaign performance and candidate engagement levels to stay agile.

#2: AI-Powered Candidate Matching

Jobvite’s recruiting technology offers an innovative solution for finding candidates who match the requirements of your open roles. With AI-powered candidate matching, recruiters can efficiently screen and identify the most suitable candidates for the job. This tool uses machine learning algorithms to understand the job requirements and match them with the candidates’ skills and experience. It can even recommend jobs to past candidates and match interested applicants with the right role.

This technology not only saves time, but also improves the quality of hires as it reduces the risk of bias in the recruitment process. It’s an essential asset for any recruitment team looking to speed up efficiency, reduce bias, and improve the quality of hires.

#3: Applicant Tracking

Recruiting technology has revolutionized the talent acquisition process, making it faster and more efficient than ever before. One of the most powerful tools in this regard is the applicant tracking system (ATS) in Jobvite’s Evolve Talent Acquisition Suite. This system streamlines the recruitment process, from sourcing and screening to interviewing and hiring. 

With features like automated resume parsing, customized job postings, and candidate tracking, Jobvite’s ATS can help your recruiters save a significant amount of time and resources. 

Furthermore, it provides real-time analytics and reporting, allowing recruiters to make data-driven decisions and measure their effectiveness. Find what fits your team’s recruiting needs using configurable dashboards, workflows, and feedback. Ultimately, this modern ATS technology can empower your team to collaborate with a portal that enhances communication, fosters feedback, and ensures greater hiring success.

#4: Data Analytics

One of the biggest hurdles to developing an efficient recruiting process is the time and effort that goes into identifying your current bottlenecks to start with. With comprehensive insights into hiring efficiency, data analytics allow you to make improvements and streamline your hiring to reach new heights in no time. 

The Jobvite Analytics dashboard is purpose-built to uncover hiring trends, spot recruiting bottlenecks, and identify areas for improvement, so you know exactly where to dive in. Taking the guesswork out of hiring efficiencies means you waste less time pinpointing what needs to be improved and more time focusing on how your recruiting process drives results and contributes to business outcomes.

#5: Onboarding

Onboarding is another area where recruiting technology can significantly impact new hire productivity and set your candidates up for success. Jobvite’s Onboarding solution allows you to provide a top-notch experience that streamlines the new hire process and gets them productive faster.  You don’t need multiple outside integrations when you have every tool you need in one comprehensive platform.

See the Power of Purpose-Built Technology for Yourself 

When you leverage best of breed technology that integrates into your existing HR processes and workflows, you can drill down into creating a more effective and efficient talent acquisition function in your business. Whether it’s through ATS and onboarding technology, building relationships with candidates through CRM, or ensuring you have access to centralized data, Jobvite has an entire suite that helps you recruit faster, connect with stronger candidates, and deliver exceptional outcomes.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can support your enterprise talent acquisition needs and streamline hiring together.

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