Recruitment and Technology
Recruiting has come a long way from posting classified ads or posting positions on company billboards. Recruitment has evolved considerably to include online bulletin boards, resume databases and applicant tracking technology, candidate comparison tools, online testing and assessment tools, and blended technologies to assist in recruiting processes. and selection. The era of recruiting has just begun with an explosion of recruiting solutions built to help the busy recruiter recruit just as quickly and successfully. Companies around the world have created software applications, web applications, customer relationship management solutions, job boards, online resume databases, job posting tools, applicant tracking systems, and online solutions. cloud. The shift from offline to online recruiting has been driven by the range of new recruiting tools.
In the past, recruiters would post a classified ad, review unsolicited CVs, post a referral notice on the company bulletin board, and wait for the position to be filled. If it were an executive position, the recruiting agent might consider spending money on a display ad in a local daily or weekly business magazine or trade magazine. The internet revolutionized recruitment for recruitment agencies. People who worked in recruiting learned the tools of the trade to convey jobs to job applicants. ORC technologies allowed recruitment agencies to create their candidate pools based on research.
The last 25 years have seen incredible technological change. The way we live, trade, communicate and generally interact has been revolutionized. Recruitment is another area where technology has changed the way we live and operate. Today, the recruiter’s box of tricks and gadgets is almost endless. The recruiting technology won’t do the placement for you, but it will post jobs, look up CVs, and even tell you if the candidate is a good fit based on the CV. Recruitment technology allows you to record candidate information, post candidate information, post job postings, and track responses.
Things have changed, but better by allowing recruitment agencies to work more efficiently and effectively. The use of recruiting technologies will continue to expand in the industry as new and better technologies become available. To stay ahead or at least keep up, recruitment agencies need to identify which recruitment solutions best suit their needs and apply them vigorously.