Tuesday 20 October 2015

Applicant Tracking System – Return on Investment

Human resource is the department which plays a vital role in ROI the company or firm, confused??
Recruiters are the people who will select the candidates for departments and all aspects when these people are putting their effort in their work definitely the flow of the organization will be towards profit or success (whatever) :P

When you are going to provide some help in their recruiting system that will be Ice on cake which will increase revenue of the organization.

Applicant tracking system will help the recruiters in posting the job, extracting and filtering the candidates. When you are scheduling interview for job posting, time has to spend in terms of interview date, time and status of the candidate. You can do all updates like offer made, accepted and rejected.



Benefits of Applicant Tracking System:


1.       Less number of costs per hire which reduces the investment.
When you are scheduling interviews with less number of candidates with expertise as per your requirement, the investment spend will be less compare to manually arranging interviews. 

2.       Time spend to recruit the candidate will be less.
Without Applicant Tracking System if you are hiring, you are wasting so much of your time. All you are doing is arranging interview, collecting resumes and finalizing the candidate. Which is long process and time spent is more compare to using ATS. In a word “you can finish your hiring in less matter of time”

3.       Candidates will have best match for their role.
Going through each and every resume then looking for candidates will skills will take ages to select candidates to next round. By using Applicant Tracking System and its filtering option you can select candidate with adequate skills and relevant experience.

4.       No paper work, files will be stored in cloud.
We are in a generation where technology is leading entire human environment. If you still having hard copies for openings then you’re bit procrastinated, now is the time to change yourself and get benefited from technology.

5.       Export candidates from job portals.
No more wandering through job portals to get candidates’ details, with help of Applicant Tracking System you have to login in ATS and through which you can extract candidates from multiple job portals.

6.       Post your job openings directly on social networks.

Similar cases will occur when are posting your jobs on job portals, forget to login all portals and posting. Simply through ATS you post your openings on multiple job portals and candidates who applied can reach you your career page. 

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Things to consider while selecting ATS

Everyone knows how difficult is recruiting process, Hiring managers and Recruiters are people who struggle more in this process. These people will start with gathering resumes from portals and selecting suitable candidates and go through resumes to filter out duplicates. When candidates are selected recruiters will arrange interviews and proceed further to finalize candidate status. To overcome these obstacles, one needs an Applicant Tracking System in recruiting. 

Following are the things to consider while selecting an ATS




Career Page:

You have an opening in your firm and you want to post in careers page. ATS should provide career page where you can post jobs with relevant description and other requirements like experience and salary.

Extraction from job portals:

                When you post jobs on career page the chance of getting candidates’ profiles is less compared to resumes available on job portals. As a recruitment department you will have logins for major job portals, an Applicant Tracking System should let you to extract resumes from job portals.

Advanced Filtering:

                Most of recruitment process will delay when team gets more resumes to fill up position and filtering profiles manually will take more time and efforts. Where your ATS should provide the filtering like job applied for and job posted by also you should be able to create customized report to send resumes to client.

Outlook Integration:

                When organizations leave their email to get candidates resumes from website or job portals, will reach the recruiters outlook. Your ATS should provide integration with outlook so that recruiters can select the candidates from outlook with single click.

Reporting:

                Reporting will be major whether it may be internal or with candidates’ interview process. When your candidate reporting mostly called it as status is done with Applicant Tracking System your productivity will be more and time consumption will be less. Also your ATS should provide role-based reports and updates.

Market is full of ATS providers but your recruiting will be simple and easy when you select right ATS.