Small Business owners receive dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of resumes for each job posting.

And since most small businesses don’t have a professional HR department in place, you may struggle to navigate the hiring process and find the best candidates in such large applicant pools.

For many traditional HR organizations or company managers, paper-based procedures make the process of finding and hiring the right employees even more difficult. Small business owners face the same struggles, so we’ve identified four of the biggest challenges of paper-based recruiting for small business owners and franchisees:

1. Applicant Tracking with Paper Clips and Gum

The traditional hiring and recruiting process can be lengthy and unorganized. This is due to having to collect paper applications, shuffle resumes from one disorganized pile to the next and keep track of applicants using spreadsheets and outdated filing systems.

2. Lack of Efficient Communication

Applicants expect to receive timely updates about where they stand in the hiring process, but emailing or calling every applicant isn’t always possible. This often results in more disrupting follow-up calls and emails from applicants wondering about the status of their applications.

3. Costly Job Posting Tactics

Many small business owners often try posting job openings in newspaper ads or on Internet job boards. These traditional outlets are expensive to use week after week. And, at the end of the day, job boards just leave you with an inbox full of hundreds of resumes to print out and review as part of the manual, paper-based hiring process.

4. Applicant White Noise

The process of identifying the most qualified applicants from a stack of resumes is time consuming and ineffective. Hiring manages receive resume after resume for every job posting, and they have to manually review each one to find the right applicants. The process makes it difficult to identify the qualified applicants from the unqualified, so the best applicants often get lost in the shuffle of resumes.

Without a systematic and uniform procedure to track applicants and candidates across your company, your precious time and resources can be swallowed up by the challenges of your paper-based recruiting process.

Are you a franchisee who is ready to overcome these hiring challenges? Contact Hyrell to learn how you can automate the hiring process with a simple, efficient solution.