If you work in HR or own a small to medium sized business, you know that hiring can be a struggle. Between posting positions, keeping track of applicants, and scheduling interviews, your days are filled with job board surfing, paper shuffling, and seemingly endless games of phone tag with applicants.
With the emergence of Online Recruiting platforms, many features have been added to ease the burden placed on hiring managers. Until recently, Online Recruiting Systems were only available to enterprise level clients and required many dedicated resources to implement and maintain. But with the rise of Software-as-a-Service (or Cloud Based) Online Recruiting platforms, anyone in HR can now have access to user-friendly technology designed to simplify and streamline your hiring process.
However, overhauling your entire hiring system can be a daunting task, and small to medium sized business owners often don’t even know where to begin. So to set you off on the right track, we’ve designed a series of questions to see if an online recruiting system is the right fit for you.
Question #1: What Does My Current Hiring Process Look Like and How Can I Improve?
The first step is to understand your current process. Take a moment to review your hiring over the last year. Consider questions such as: How many people do you hire? How many applicants do you process for most open positions? And how many people were involved in the recruiting and hiring process?
Once you get an accurate picture of your current process, start looking for areas of improvement. Create a list of problems you are currently facing or areas of inefficiency. Ask yourself: Where does the majority of my time go during my hiring process? Once you’ve identified your most tedious practices, you can begin to look for time saving solutions currently available with most online recruiting systems.
Question #2: What Tools are Available and Which System is Right for Me?
So you’ve made your list and checked it twice. The next step is to do some research. For example, say that you’ve identified internal communication as a major concern. One of your most important goals would be to find a system that promotes a collaborative hiring process, where communication with other department members is tracked and logged. Alternatively, maybe you play phone tag with candidates too often when setting up interviews. If so, you should seek out a system that focuses on streamlining your interview scheduling.
The goal of this stage is to find out what’s out there and figure out what system works best for you. The options may seem overwhelming, but with a list of your biggest concerns in hand, it will be easy to match your hiring process problems with the available solutions on the market.
Question #3: What Can I Do to Upgrade My Hiring Process?
After your primary concerns are address, the next step is to focus on new and exciting improvements. With the right features, an online recruiting system can be a powerful tool to redesign your entire hiring process. For example, what if you could boost your company’s brandand reputation by improving applicant experience? Or focus on using more screening processes to instantly identify the most talented candidates? With the right tools in place, hiring can go from a headache to a streamlined, efficient process that clearly identifies the best new talent for your team.
With these three questions, any hiring manager can work towards a complete hiring overhaul, designed to turn your everyday struggles into streamlined success. For more information about choosing an online recruiting system, check out Hyrell’s Online Hiring System Buyer’s Guide. It includes worksheets to assess your current hiring processes, guidance for when and how to implement, important points to consider when comparing vendors, and questions to guide conversation during product demos.
