In the current day and age, automating your recruitment process opens up interesting and significant opportunities for employers. With the help of some of the most sophisticated software solutions, employers can be able to refine their processes, mitigate biases, eliminate inefficiencies, and also engage with top talent quicker than ever before. In fact, according to recent statistics in Singapore, over 70% of employers are of the opinion that technology is going to play a bigger role in the recruitment process in the near future. What’s more, the majority of the recruiters agree that automating their hiring process will boost their productivity. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the different ways employers can automate their recruitment processes.

Pre-screening candidates – AI-based automation significantly reduces the candidates’ screening time. As you know, the shortage of job opportunities in the country means that every job vacancy that a company advertises attracts hundreds of applications, the majority of which are not even relevant to that position. Now, with an AI system, you will be able to run through all the applications, which is how you will separate the relevant CVs from those that aren’t – and by that, we mean in terms of skills and experience. In the end, the recruiter will end up with a pre-selected list of candidates. In addition, the AI will send personalized messages to the candidates informing them whether their application has been picked or not. The system can also rate the candidates in terms of CV relevance and professionalism.

Pre-employment assessment – let’s say you decide to give the candidates a test task, the AI can help you assess the results and then grade them. What’s more, automation systems can provide comprehensive pre-hiring assessment statistics, where it stores the ratings and individual details on each candidate’s profile. Whenever the HR manager requires an update on a certain candidate, that information is available with just a click.

Interview scheduling – given that the HR’s work schedule is automated, it is very easy for the system to find a time window where it allots calls automatically. All the HR manager needs to do is to confirm the scheduled date on the system, and the platform will send a personalized message to the candidate, automatically. And if the candidate offers a different date, the system will record that info and will notify the manager immediately.

Automate the offer process – the automation system can create new job offers based on offers your company posted in the past or those posted by your competitors. After creating the offer, the platform will then send it to the HR team for approval, where there will be able to perform some final tweaks here and there.

Bottom line

Automating the recruitment is a worthy and long-term investment that is set to bring quick tangible results. Recruiters and HRs are able to decrease the time spent on the hiring tasks. As a matter of fact, automating your recruitment process allows your team to focus more on scalable tasks such as boosting your online presence as well as optimizing the hiring process.