In an increasingly employee-centric job market where businesses are vying for the same talented candidates, accommodating applicant software can help you improve talent acquisition, expedite time-to-hire, reduce cost-to-hire expenses, and distinguish your company in a crowded hiring environment. As with the onboarding process, job seekers want their application process to involve as few steps as possible and unfold within a modern system that facilitates a positive, hassle-free, and efficient submission of applicant credentials.
Applicant software provided through Cello HR Talent Acquisition is integrated into a comprehensive HCM platform, allowing you to simplify job requisitions, streamline candidate sourcing, and immediately transfer applicant information into the employee record once an applicant is hired. Along the way, you can track applicant status and use an extensive range of tools designed to help you locate the candidates who can immediately contribute to your business’ success.
In this article, we’ll explore just some of the benefits of using applicant software for your business to reduce administrative tasks and optimize your hiring of high-performance employees. We’ll also offer some best practices and recommendations to improve your hiring and recruitment strategy.
Reduce Labor Costs and Centralize Resources
Managing recruitment without applicant software likely means crowded inboxes, disorganized desktop folders, disjointed scheduling, and frustrated HR employees burdened by inefficiencies in the hiring process. With 44% of employers reporting that automation software saves them time on key work-related processes, including recruitment, it’s clear why applicant software is an increasingly popular choice among companies seeking to streamline talent acquisition.
Whether it’s enjoying access to an integrated company-wide calendar or utilizing customizable hiring workflows, applicant software empowers small and medium-sized businesses to use a single digital tool to optimize hiring, even with a modest HR staff. Other features of applicant software (once experienced) are indispensable: filtering candidates by hiring stage, monitoring the popularity/traffic of job postings, and having all of your key applicant data stored in a single, consolidated platform.
Simplify Job Posting
Interested in posting your job openings on a range of platforms at once, sparing you the tedium of rewriting or copying the same job descriptions on a variety of sites and templates? Applicant software not only facilitates easy posting, but grants you access to engagement data that reveals where your jobs are being most frequently viewed and revisited. This provides your business with valuable insights regarding where to concentrate online marketing efforts and frees up time to refine job descriptions and help your postings resonate with job seekers.
As the applications come in and you’ve found promising candidates, applicant software can help you streamline processing by reducing paperwork, digitizing document management and allowing you to complete e-verifications of key hiring-related documents.
Emphasize Workforce Readiness
Beyond standard credentials like resumes, degrees, certifications, or recommendations, some businesses incorporate workforce readiness checklists into their screening and applicant tracking processes. Applicant software allows you to store and review the workforce readiness evaluations of any job applicant, including notes or comments from interviewers, as well as assessments of the applicant’s problem-solving abilities, leadership potential, and other qualities. With quick digital access to this information in a single digital platform, hiring managers can more quickly gauge a potential hire’s readiness to successfully contribute to the company.
Onboarding Made Easy
Applicant software helps you quickly bridge the gap between an applicant’s acceptance of employment and their successful integration into your workforce. Whether you’d like to share company policies, set up payroll, introduce benefits through online training, or grant the new employee access to their employee profile, applicant software included with Cello HR’s HCM technology helps your business launch (and automate) the onboarding process immediately after hiring.
Additionally, instead of entering a new hire’s personal information, files, and other documents manually, all employee data is transferred into a single HR file and relevant information is integrated into the employee’s personalized profile for easy access.
When it comes to compliance concerns at the onboarding phase, applicant software is also incredibly helpful in ensuring adherence to labor laws, payroll procedures, tax requirements, and sending alerts or modules for necessary HR training. This extra layer of automated protection against fines or penalties for noncompliance (typically a byproduct of unintentional human error) is invaluable to businesses that want to minimize stress over legal requirements.
Optimize Hiring and Recruitment with Cello HR
Cello HR Talent Acquisition helps you streamline the hiring and recruiting process to effectively attract top talent while achieving all of your business time-to-hire and cost-per-hire goals. From multi-platform job posting to screening, onboarding, and training, Cello HR’s HCM technology can help you successfully source, track, and hire top talent. Ready to automate your talent acquisition process and leave paperwork and manual entry behind? Contact us today to start our collaboration.