Hiring practices have also had to evolve with a constantly changing business environment. Innovative companies use various tools to help them find and engage candidates and evaluate them quickly and effectively, all while offering a positive candidate experience.

A key feature is collaboration. These platforms enable recruiters, hiring managers, and teams to work together on tasks and create consistent touchpoints with candidates.

Integrations with Social Media

Integrating hiring tools like applicant tracking systems with social media platforms paves the way for two-way communication. It allows employees to discuss their opinions about the organization via social profiles publicly and helps build a positive company image.

This integration also encourages recruiters to post jobs on multiple platforms. Moreover, it makes it easier for candidates to find job listings and saves them the hassle of logging in with different usernames and passwords. It also enables recruiters to nurture passive candidates for later hires, which can be a great asset in the long run.

Most ATSes come with integrated social media platforms. This allows recruiters to target potential candidates based on demographics, interests, and behaviors. This way, they can reach out to candidates with a more personalized message and improve their chances of making an impact on the candidate. Furthermore, these tools allow recruiters to schedule posts and track performance.

Integrations

Often, HR departments must manually move data between their different systems. However, a more efficient way to automate this process is through integrations. This ensures that a change to one system is immediately reflected in the other, eliminating the need for costly human errors.

It’s also essential that all data is synchronized so that new hire information is consistent across the board. To make this happen, ATS vendors should offer multiple types of integrations.

For example, a pre-hire assessment integration can help recruiters and hiring managers understand whether or not an applicant is the right fit for your company. Similarly, an eSignature integration can expedite the signing process and reduce time-to-hire for all stakeholders.

This will help you delight candidates, empower your recruiting team, and maximize productivity. And with an ATS integration, you can set up new employees with the apps and equipment they need on day one to start working.

Automation

Automation helps recruiters focus on higher-value tasks that improve the employer brand and candidate experience. It frees them from time-consuming manual processes and allows them to work smarter instead of more challenging so they can hire more efficiently and effectively.

For example, automated scheduling tools help recruiters stay on schedule by removing the need to send out interview invites manually and to check for availability. Automating internal comms tools enables teams to share feedback on candidates in one central place rather than having team members email or text each other individually.

Additionally, intelligent screening software powered by AI enables hiring teams to automatically screen resumes and parse candidate data to make better hiring decisions. This eliminates human bias and focuses on predictive factors for job success, like proven skills and qualifications. It also reduces the time it takes to process and review applications.

Reporting

Recruiters must be able to make decisions based on the evidence they see. They should be able to read reports that gather information from all the systems they use in one place to help them decide which candidate is best for the role.

Some of these algorithms are old techniques in new technology, like knockout questions or resume parsing. Other tools incorporate machine learning to predict which applicants will succeed, supposedly eliminating bias often arising in human evaluations.

Whether used at the sourcing, screening, or hiring phase, predictive hiring tools must be tested for bias across the entire process to identify where latent bias may still be lurking. This is where regulatory guidelines and industry best practices can help. But until these are in place, we must rely on self-assessment by vendors and employers to make sure that their tools promote equity. This can be a challenging task, given the complexity of human decision-making.