It’s no secret — enterprise companies continue to find it challenge to hire enough qualified candidates. With more than 8 million available jobs, talent teams are feeling the pressure to hire as quickly as possible despite the challenges.
A considerable number of businesses are looking to shift their recruiting strategies to impact their hiring process. Nearly 60% of talent acquisition professionals indicate they are taking chances on different ways to accelerate time to hire and reach candidates, according to the Employ Recruiter Nation Report.
Recruiting and talent acquisition professionals need intelligent and comprehensive technology that can handle the complexities of modern recruiting. Sophisticated talent teams are moving from disconnected, and sometimes frustrating, point solutions to a unified platform that can easily connect with quality candidates and bolster their hiring efforts.
But what does it take to leave behind the technology of the past and adopt a unified talent acquisition suite? Here we provide a sneak peek from the new Strategic Guide to Modern Talent Acquisition, so you can adopt a unified tech stack with the tools recruiters want and need to compete for talent and tackle potential roadblocks along the way.
Defining Centralized Talent Acquisition Technology
In today’s competitive labor market, simply having an applicant tracking system or a few other point solutions is no longer enough to help recruiting teams find and hire top talent. Recruiters need a fully integrated, end-to-end talent acquisition suite that allows them to optimize and automate their hiring process.
Centralized talent acquisition technology is a unified set of integrated solutions that empower recruiting teams to better attract and convert candidates across the entire candidate lifecycle — from first look to first day and beyond.
The best centralized technology manages the complexity of talent acquisition and delivers improved hiring outcomes in challenging hiring environments, including:
A platform of centralized talent acquisition technology should include capabilities for:
- Career Sites
- Candidate Relationship Management
- Applicant Tracking System and Onboarding
- Job Broadcast
- DEI Solutions
- Intelligent Messaging
- Video Screening
- Internal Mobility
- Employee Referral Tools
- Analytics
Without these capabilities, recruiters are forced to waste time on tedious tasks that could be automated. By investing in a unified talent acquisition suite, you can give your recruiters the tools they need to be successful and keep them happy at your company. In short, if they don’t have great technology with your company, they’ll find a place that does.
Benefits of Centralizing Talent Acquisition Technology
Recruiting teams need a solution that manages the complexity of today’s labor market and delivers improved hiring outcomes. Whether looking to solve today’s problems or plan for future hiring, centralizing your talent acquisition technology will help deliver better recruiting results. A unified talent acquisition suite addresses the entire candidate lifecycle and helps improve the experience at every touchpoint.
Centralizing your recruitment technology can help:
- Save time on manual tasks: Recruiters are working harder than ever to find quality candidates in the highly competitive market. Help them save time on administrative tasks with centralized automation and AI software that can more easily source, screen, and engage candidates.
- Bolster key recruiting metrics: Enhancing your recruiting program starts with measuring it. Agile talent teams are seeing results in key recruiting metrics like quality-of-hire, time-to-hire, and applicant conversion rate with centralized technology that can make talent acquisition a strategic driver of business performance.
- Improve communication and collaboration: Recruiting teams need strong communication to find and hire the right talent. Centralized technology opens channels between recruiters, hiring teams, business leaders, and candidates, enhancing collaboration and relationships between each group.
- Improve ROI: A unified portal helps talent acquisition teams transform their recruiting by learning about their processes in real time. This allows them to easily pivot when needed and make improvements for quicker results. Use data to improve the candidate, recruiter, and employee experiences and maximize return on recruiting investment.
Where to Start Your Journey
Take Inventory
Not sure if your talent team is ready to consolidate and centralize your recruiting tech stack? Evaluate your current program and see what can be done to improve before making changes. Talk to recruiters and other talent acquisition professionals to gauge their needs and get to know their day-to-day roles. Use this data to decide if centralizing is the right move. Get to know solutions that could work best for your teams and explore what the team needs before searching for the right centralized solution.
Evaluate Talent Acquisition Software
Not all talent acquisition platforms are created equal. Be sure to carefully evaluate the possibilities before committing to a centralized technology stack. Have everyone on the talent team identify the manual daily tasks that could be automated and prioritize the tools that they would use the most.
This list of priorities, goals, tasks, and tools should be the guide when evaluating potential recruitment software solutions. A centralized platform should seamlessly integrate with any technology and offer automation and AI to streamline tedious manual tasks. Be sure to include recruiters in the final decision-making process as they’ll be using the tools on a daily basis.
Evaluating a new technology platform can take anywhere from weeks to months. Take a look at user reviews on trusted sites like G2 to see what real users have to say about a product. Don’t be afraid to use your point of contact for any software that you’re previewing — ask questions and make comparisons before deciding.
Decide and Implement
Take the time to evaluate the right platform, but don’t let indecision keep your team stuck with disconnected recruiting solutions. Adopting new technology can be tricky for even the most efficient teams. It takes communication, goal and expectation alignment, and hard work. There are several ways to improve user adoption of recruiting technology, but the most important is getting the entire team’s buy-in of the new software. Adoption will go much more smoothly when the whole team buys into changing technology.
Ready to unify your talent acquisition technology and realize the benefits of what a holistic solution can do for your talent acquisition function? Learn more about Jobvite’s Talent Acquisition Suite.
