Description: Discover practical tools that can leverage technology to improve recruitment in this day and age. We've put together a comprehensive guide to help you!

Attracting, processing, selecting, and onboarding applicants can be an intense set of activities to go through. Today, with the number of applicants actively searching for jobs, going through a mountain of resumes, replying to each candidate, and monitoring the entire recruitment process can become a bit much. And it becomes more tasking if the recruitment team also doubles as the HR department in an organization. That's a lot of work to do, and usually on limited time.

The good news is we aren't in the 20th century anymore. Many of these activities have software applications to aid you, and a lot can be fully automated. Thus, this leads us to another problem, which applications are worth using in this age of unlimited helpful tools online? Well, you are in luck because we have carefully compiled a list of tools you will need.

SignalHire

It can be a hassle to search for the contact details of the right applicant. There is also the problem of getting the correct contact information if you find the right talent. SignalHire presents you with the solution to that problem. The chrome extension can comb for the contacts of prospects you see online. Are you looking for a particular job role or people in a location? They have you covered.

SignalHire can also search with its keyword specification. The best part is the contact information it provides is likely to be correct because of its 95% accuracy rate. It also has a 3rd party verification system that makes sure the emails do not bounce back.

SignalHire goes a step by presenting the prospect's phone number, allowing you to track the person via email and text message. SignalHire also offers a highly reliable API, which means you can use a more specific system to search for your prospect.

SoGoSurvey

One thing management asks the recruitment team to do is enhance the recruitment experience. There are various reasons for this, but the most important one is to become a powerful marketing tool for the company through word-of-mouth recommendations - an effective strategy for attracting talents from other organizations.

A study by IBM found candidates are 68% more likely to recommend a job to other prospective candidates, while they are 38% likely to accept an offer if they had a positive candidate experience.

Seeing how powerful a candidate's experience is, conducting surveys to improve their experience is paramount. SoGoSurvey is a fantastic tool to carry out this process. HR personnel can get direct feedback and work on the points candidates point out as areas of improvement. It can double as a survey for internal use too.

TextRecruit

The power of the mobile phone is not one to look down on. With over 90% of people using their mobile devices to look for jobs and over 98% of people reading their text messages. Texting is an effective way of communicating with a candidate at the various levels of the interview.

Whether the recruitment stage, selection stage, or job offer stage, text messages have proven to be more effective than emails for response time. TextRecruit can help you with using one of the most effective ways of communication.

DataPeople

Data people help you collect data on your recruiting process and suggest ways to improve your outcome. One of its stand-out features is that Job description optimizer, which helps optimize your job description, clear, easily digestible, and inclusive of people. It picks from its vast database to make sure you are putting out the proper job description.

A poor job description will attract the wrong candidate, recruit a candidate that doesn't fit into the organization, and turn off an applicant who doesn't see what's in for them in the description.

Kin

The onboarding process is one most companies ignore or do not give their full attention to. And so, it doesn't come as a shock that a poor recruiting process is a factor that leads to a recruit quitting within six months. If an unstructured onboarding process happens, there is a 31% chance of an employee leaving after three years.

The onboarding process is the first impression the new employee has of a company so, it matters. Kin helps with the onboarding by providing a checklist (which can be customized), a digital signature, and a custom welcome page to the fresh addition. Kin also offers a vacation tracking system and a feedback system for the organization's employees.

Sparkhire

Video interviews have become popular in recent times, and with the pandemic still causing panic for some, they are only getting more popular with recruiters. Sparkhire offers the recruiter and applicant the opportunity to engage in a video session. The interviewer can create a question template which the applicant can answer at their convenient time.

This feature is possible because of the record feature the applicant can use to answer the questions. The recruiter gets access to it and can carefully analyze the candidate's answers. The recruiter can also share the recorded video with other team members to get collective feedback.

Pymetrics

Hiring a new employee should be an objective process, but we are humans, and bias exists, even on a subconscious level. To become objective, we can use Artificial Intelligence to cut down preferences. Especially in making judgments based on resumes alone. Pymetrics help by custom making "games" that help to measure factors like potential, cognitive ability, and emotional stability. 

Factors that matter in picking suitable candidates for the future of an organization. The system does this by benchmarking the best-performing employees in the company and using this as a litmus test to gauge candidates' abilities. This tool is suitable for use at the selection stage of the recruitment process.

Bananatag

Internal communication through the recruitment process can be messy. If not careful, it's easy to miss updates to bosses, text the wrong person and forget about replying to co-workers. Bananatag offers a drag-and-drop template system that is customizable. You can select members and include certain members to send messages.

There is analytics to show the people who have read it and the open rate, and a feedback session where you can see people's responses to a bulk email. You can also export this for yourself or send it to a designated team member.

Yello

Yello is an all-inclusive software. It has the means to source out your talents, engages prospects, nurtures them for future employment, and help with the selection process, including the scheduling interviews, the application workflow, and evaluations of candidates. Yello has a reputation for selecting from a diverse community and also young talents fresh from school.

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, it's overwhelming to decide what tools are best for you. And rightfully so, with the multitude of tools available to us all. The key is understanding what your organization needs. Do you need an all-inclusive tool? And if yes, would you use all its features to optimize the tool? Or would you go for tools that tackle one issue at a time and do it well? Factors like the organization size, stage of the organizational growth, and even the price will influence your decision. We hope this article was of help to you.