How to Use ATS to Improve Your Recruiting Strategy
Introduction
The ATS is a great tool for recruiters because it helps them automate their hiring processes and save time. You can use an ATS to manage your candidate database, track job market trends, evaluate applicants, conduct thorough background checks, and more. However, not all ATSs are created equal. While some might work well for some companies or industries, others may not be right for yours especially if you’re looking to hire new talent quickly or need specific features built into your software package.
Automate your hiring process.
Automating your hiring process is a great way to reduce the time spent on hiring, as well as the number of steps required in the process. This can also help you cut down on costs by reducing the number of people involved in the hiring process, reducing document requirements, and streamlining documents.
For example, if you have multiple people who work across departments at your company collecting resumes from candidates who are interested in working at one specific department within your organization, ATS will provide an efficient solution for organizing these resumes into groups based on commonalities between them so that they can be sent together instead of separately or with different delivery times depending on who’s reviewing each copy.
Assess candidate fit before your interview.
The evaluation of appropriateness is a significant stage in the interview process. The best way to do this is by using ATS, which allows you to see how well a candidate matches your job description before you even begin interviewing them. If they don’t match, there’s no need for an interview saving time and reducing costs are just some of the benefits of getting this information up front!
If they do match though if they’re exactly what we’re looking for you can use the ATS again while conducting your interviews to get more information on their background and experience level. This will allow both parties in a conversation access into each other’s mindsets so that everyone understands where each other stands with regards to expectations before making any commitments or decisions regarding future employment opportunities related thereto.”
Build a diverse talent pool.
Diverse talent is good for business, the economy, and society. Here’s why:
- Diversity helps with problem-solving. When you have people from different backgrounds working together in your team or company, they can help each other think through problems from different angles. This can lead to better solutions than would be possible if only one employee had been involved in every decision because of their background or experience level.
- It encourages creativity as well as innovation in problem-solving (a key skill for success). ATS tools allow recruiters to see what other companies are doing well so that they can learn from them instead of copying them blindly which sometimes happens when hiring managers rely solely on referrals without checking into other candidates’ backgrounds first before giving out offers!
Conduct more thorough background checks.
Conducting more thorough background checks is a great way to improve your recruiting strategy. With an ATS, you can verify the status of candidates’ credentials, references, and other information that may be missing on a resume or in their LinkedIn profile.
It’s also useful for verifying drug use and driving records if they’re relevant to the position you’re hiring for. For example, if someone is applying for an executive assistant role at a law firm with offices around the world, it would make sense for them to have their own car so they can drive themselves between appointments without having someone else pick them up from home every day. But if this person has been convicted of drunk driving charges in New York state five years ago (which means he’ll have difficulty getting hired), then this could become an issue during the interview process especially since most recruiters won’t want any part of being associated with someone who has had such serious issues with alcohol consumption!
Keep tabs on job market trends to better compensate employees and find new recruits.
It’s important to keep tabs on your own company’s job market trends, but it’s also helpful to see what other companies are paying and what they’re looking for. ATS enables you to do this by tracking information from many different sources, including LinkedIn and Indeed.
If you’re not sure where to start with this kind of research, there are some great tools available on ATS that can help:
- Job Board – Track the average salary range for jobs in your industry by location or skill set, as well as how many people applied/were hired/left within a specific time frame. This will give an idea of how competitive salaries currently are in your sector so that next time around when hiring someone new doesn’t feel like they need top dollar because someone else got paid less per hour because chances are their experience level didn’t match yours either!
ATS can help recruiters stay more organized and find more qualified candidates for less time spent searching.
As a recruiter, you are aware that finding qualified applicants is made simpler the more organized you are. ATS makes this process much more efficient by helping you run your searches more efficiently and help you stay organized throughout the entire recruitment process.
Let’s take the scenario where your business needs to hire two new salespeople. You can use ATS as a filter by setting up non-traditional criteria such as location or experience level in order to narrow down your search results so they’re relevant only within certain regions or industries. Once these filters are set up on the ATS platform then when candidates come across those criteria during their search through the site they will automatically be displayed based on those settings no need for manually sorting through hundreds of applicants who might not fit what we’re looking for! They’ll also show up above any other types of filters like skillsets or experience levels since these have already been defined beforehand so there won’t be any confusion between them either!
In comparison to manual techniques, an ATS can assist you in finding qualified applicants more quickly and effectively.
The hiring process can be drawn out and frustrating when an employer is seeking a new employee. With an ATS, however, employers can quickly find qualified candidates who match their needs by accessing information from many different sources simultaneously.
ATS also saves time because it allows employers to filter through large amounts of data in a short amount of time saving them from having to do additional research or spending hours combing through piles of resumes on hand at their offices or other locations where they may have been previously gathering applicants’ cover letters and resumes themselves.
Conclusion
If you’re looking for a job, it’s tempting to go through the same old rituals. But a good applicant tracking system can streamline your recruiting process and make it more efficient which means you’ll spend less time searching and more time finding qualified candidates. Not only that, but an ATS also helps you keep track of trends in the job market so that you know what types of compensation are being offered at any given time. In short, an ATS can save you both time and money by helping you find qualified candidates faster than ever before!