9 Essentials for Recruitment Success Today
9 Essentials for Recruitment Success Today
How to improve the speed and quality of talent acquisition with fewer resources The new world of recruiting is forcing companies to rethink their recruitment strategy. Choosing the right recruiting platform to optimize quality candidates and hires as well as drive greater hiring efficiencies – all while reducing costs – can help companies of all sizes achieve success never like before. Based on requirements from our customers and feedback from industry experts, this essentials guide will help you determine the value of new recruiting technologies for your company. The 9 essentials for recruiting success today are: • Social recruiting – gain access to relevant talent through social connections
• Candidate relationship management – build and engage a talent pool for your company.
• Employee referrals – increase high quality, low cost hires through employee networks
• Candidate sourcing and development – find passive candidates for your jobs.
• Applicant tracking – improve productivity, increase quality and improve candidate experience
• Career site – kick off a great candidate experience with an engaging career site.
• Email and productivity – enable your team to collaborate easily and get the information they need
• Recruiting intelligence – see what’s working with one integrated view of key recruiting data.
• Promoting job openings – attract quality talent by promoting job openings across the web.
SOCIAL RECRUITING
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Does the product allow anyone to share job openings with their contacts in social networks and email?
YES
NO
Business reason: Sharing job information in social networks is an efficient, inexpensive method of targeting quality talent and expanding talent networks.
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Can recipients directly apply or forward a job invitation to extend reach in talent networks?
YES
NO
Business reason: Giving recipients the ability to easily extend the job invitation to their own networks creates a viral marketing program for your jobs within the networks of employees and their contacts.
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Can you target contacts or broadcast to multiple networks from one place?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having the flexibility to target contacts or broadcast to multiple networks from one place makes it fast and easy for users and their contacts – which increases usage and social referrals.
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Is there matching technology to suggest relevant contacts for the job based on social profile information?
YES
NO
Business reason: With advanced matching technology, it’s easier to find the right talent for job openings – and saves time; employees are more likely to actively refer when it’s fast and easy to do so.
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Can you automate the publishing of jobs to social networks any time?
YES
NO
Business reason: By automating the process of publishing jobs to social networks any time you expedite time to market job openings – and it’s effortless for everyone to help out.
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SOCIAL RECRUITING (cont’)
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Are you able to track how job invitations are shared in 300 social networks, communities and blogging platforms?
YES
NO
Business reason: Tracking all the job information in hundreds of social channels gives you insight on what’s working and not working.
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Can you publish branded job information in social networks?
YES
NO
Business reason: Featuring your company’s brand prominently in social networks builds value for your employment brand.
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Does the product allow anyone to reach prospects on Facebook by easily installing and using Work with Us on a Facebook page or fan page ?
YES
NO
Business reason: Being able to add a Work with Us on a Facebook page helps you broaden your reach to prospective candidates and bring them back to your career site.
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Can any friend on Facebook browse current jobs at your company, apply and forward job invitations?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having a presence on Facebook is cost effective and enables people to easily browse jobs at your company, apply and forward job invitations.
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Are the jobs automatically kept up to date and all referrals tracked?
YES
NO
Business reason: Automating job updates and tracking referrals through Facebook Work with Us saves time and helps you know what’s working.
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Can any employee contribute to recruiting through social networks?
YES
NO
Business reason: By empowering employees to easily invite their social network contacts, your company gains access to a large and growing, but targeted, pool of talent.
EMPLOYEE REFERRALS
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Are you able to manage your employee referral program, track referrals and recognize employee contributions?
YES
NO
Business reason: Effective management and tracking of referrals will help you recognize and reward employees, thus increasing participation and quality referrals generated; and referrals are the highest quality, least expensive source of hire.
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Is it easy for all employees to send job invitations to their contacts and social networks and see what happened as a result of their efforts?
YES
NO
Business reason: Making it easy for employees to send job invitations and track their referrals increases adoption and drives up referrals.
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EMPLOYEE REFERRALS (cont’)
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Does the product generate recommendations to you on which employees to target for referral help?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having an automated recommendation on which employees to target for referral help saves you time and increases productivity.
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Do you have consistent, easy ways to communicate with employees about job openings and for employees to communicate with you about referrals?
YES
NO
Business reason: An intuitive, practical, consistently used platform helps you build a culture that drives and rewards referrals in your company.
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Are employees – as well as the recruiting team and hiring managers – easily able to tap their social networks with social recruiting tools?
YES
NO
Business reason: By providing intuitive, fast ways for employees to tap their social networks, you vastly expand the pool of talent your company can reach.
APPLICANT TRACKING
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Are you able to configure workflows and forms to fit your business processes?
YES
NO
Business reason: With a configurable recruiting technology you have an efficient hiring process that meets your organization’s specific business needs.
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Are you able to prepare and route requisition and offer approvals online?
YES
NO
Business reason: Preparing and routing approvals online saves time, provides accountabilty and ensures approval processes are followed.
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Can you autopopulate requisition fields based on business rules?
YES
NO
Business reason: Autopopulating selected fields saves time and ensures that the requisition is consistent with business guidelines.
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Are your approvals automatically routed based on your organizational structure and your business rules?
YES
NO
Business reason: Automatic approval routing keeps the process moving and shortens time to approval.
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Can you automatically draft offer letters using selected data from your requisition and candidate records?
YES
NO
Business reason: Automatically populating offer letters with relevant data saves time and eliminates errors from manual data entry.
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APPLICANT TRACKING (cont’)
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Can you share pipeline and candidate information with hiring managers via email and self-service?
YES
NO
Business reason: Giving hiring managers better access and insights into relevant recruiting activities raises productivity and elevates collaboration.
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Does the product have a robust, searchable candidate database with data import and resume parsing?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having a robust, searchable candidate database makes it easy to surface the information you need, when you need it.
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Can you get a single view of all candidate activities and communications in real-time?
YES
NO
Business reason: A single view of all candidate activities and communications keeps everyone on the same page, maintains a professional candidate experience and saves time for everyone.
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Can you customize your evaluation forms for different types of interviews or requisitions?
YES
NO
Business reason: Providing relevant evaluation forms raises the level of feedback and quality of dialog about the candidate.
EMAIL AND PRODUCTIVITY
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Do you have a shared platform that’s easy to use for everyone involved – hiring managers, approvers, interviewers, schedulers?
YES
NO
Business reason: With a shared platform, barriers to hiring productivity are removed – no paper, no email silos, no delays; everyone can collaborate easily on making quality hires.
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Can you schedule interviews, prepare your team, follow up and collect candidate evaluation feedback online?
YES
NO
Business reason: A consistent and easy online process for interviewing and evaluation raises quality and increases productivity.
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Can everyone automatically receive recruiting information in email or on mobile devices?
YES
NO
Business reason: Gaining immediate access to recruiting information via email or mobile devices increases efficiency, reduces delays and makes it easy to take action.
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Can you automatically invite candidates and send all relevant information and forms – in one click?
YES
NO
Business reason: Increases productivity by eliminating repetitive tasks and ensures everyone has the information they need.
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Are you able to schedule interviews via 2-way Outlook calendar integration?
YES
NO
Business reason: Being able to easily check open times in Outlook calendars reduces steps and saves time for anyone scheduling interviews.
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PROMOTING JOB OPENINGS
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Does the product enable automated feed of your current job openings to free job search engines like Indeed and Simply Hired?
YES
NO
Business reason: Automating the feed of current job openings to free job search engines is cost-effective and ensures that jobseekers will find your job listing.
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Can you publish your jobs anywhere on the web and track with unlimited URLs?
YES
NO
Business reason: Being able to promote job openings anywhere on the web helps you broaden your reach of potential candidates.
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Are URLs or job links automatically generated?
YES
NO
Business reason: Automatically generating URLs ensures viewers don’t get broken or out of date job links which can occur when manually cutting and pasting job URLs.
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Are you able to automate distribution of jobs on Twitter channels with short, trackable URLs and hashtags?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having automated distribution of jobs on Twitter channels with short, trackable URLs and hashtags saves time and makes it easy for you to see what’s working.
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Does the product allow anyone at your company to share job information with Facebook friends or fans with an easy to install and use Facebook application?
YES
NO
Business reason: Being able to add the Work with Us application on a Facebook page helps you broaden your reach to prospective candidates and bring them back to your career site.
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Can any friend or fan on Facebook browse current jobs at your company, apply and forward job invitations?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having a recruiting presence on Facebook is cost effective to vastly expand your reach and enables people to easily find and share job information or apply.
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Are the jobs on Facebook automatically kept up to date and all referrals tracked?
YES
NO
Business reason: Automating job updates and tracking referrals through Work with Us saves time and helps you know what’s working.
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CANDIDATE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
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Are you able to import and organize leads from all sourcing activities?
YES
NO
Business reason: Ensures that important leads and information don’t slip through the cracks, making your recruiting team more effective and efficient at developing a pool of talent for future jobs or a pipeline for current jobs.
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Do you have a shared platform for sharing prospects and sourcing information among your recruiting team?
YES
NO
Business reason: A shared platform gives your team the resources to contribute seamlessly and the visibility into progress against business goals.
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Can you find contacts in your database with tagging and advanced search?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having the ability to tag and do advance search in your database helps you get value out of your contact database, saves you time and increases productivity.
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Does the product allow you to manage your pipeline effectively with reminders, activity logs and communication capabilities?
YES
NO
Business reason: The recruiter CRM facilitates communication and pipeline management to increase sourcing productivity and create a seamless, professional experience for candidates and prospects.
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Are you able to get a real-time feed of public social profile information about your leads?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having real-time feed of public social profile information about your leads helps you save time on candidate research.
CANDIDATE SOURCING AND DEVELOPMENT
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Are you able to efficiently search professional profiles in social networks, your own database and on the web from one place?
YES
NO
Business reason: Searching professional profiles via multiple ways – social media, own database and web – helps you build a strong talent pool at little or no cost.
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Can you easily focus your search on profile information, then filter and refine by keyword?
YES
NO
Business reason: Filtering out irrelevant data and refining your search by keyword or source eliminates wasted time and provides better data about potential candidates.
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Can you click to import profiles from the web into your CRM?
YES
NO
Business reason: Having the ability to import profiles into your CRM with one click makes sourcing more productive.
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Can you see results scored and ranked by relevance?
YES
NO
Business reason: Being able to see candidate results scored and ranked by relevancy saves time in prioritizing the prospects you want to engage.
9 Essentials for Recruitment Success Today
CAREER SITE
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Is the career site designed to fit your website look-and-feel and to communicate what it’s like to work at your company?
YES
NO
Business reason: Your career site will capture more interest (and applications) when you provide an engaging candidate experience that communicates what’s special about working with your company.
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Does your career site make it easy for people to apply without complicated registration barriers?
YES
NO
Business reason: Adding barriers and extra steps can discourage people from applying, reducing the number and quality of applicants for your jobs.
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Are you able to configure your career site withcustom applications and screening forms, or even multiple career sites?
YES
NO
Business reason: Being able to customize, brand and configure your career site helps you meet your business needs.
Is your career site fully configurable with requisition-based prescreening questions?
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Is it easy for prospective candidates join your talent network and get information about jobs at your company?
YES
NO
Business reason: Making it easy for candidates to stay in touch with you keeps them in your pool for potential future engagement.
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Can candidates apply with a LinkedIn profile or see who they know with LinkedIn Company Insider?
YES
NO
Business reason: Providing candidates with ability to apply with LinkedIn profile or see who they know with LinkedIn Company Insider makes it easy for them to apply.
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Can visitors send job invitations to their contacts?
YES
NO
Business reason: Giving visitors an easy way to send job invitations to their contacts is cost effective.
INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS
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Does the product provide personalized dashboards to give each user relevant information specific to their needs?
YES
NO
Business reason: Getting a personalized, snapshot of relevant data empowers users to target recruiting investments and eliminate spending waste and provides executives with visibility to allocate resources to achieve business goals.
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Does the product enable accurate, automated, real-time metrics and tracking of candidate sources?
YES
NO
Business reason: Real-time, accurate tracking and metrics helps you pinpoint effective sources, mechanism and individuals with highly productive networks.
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INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS (cont’)
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Can you track results of job information sharing in and across social networks?
YES
NO
Business reason: Tracking how job information is shared in and across social networks helps you understand which channel yields better results.
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Are you able to get career site reports and microsite traffic data as well as benchmark comparisons?
YES
NO
Business reason: Understanding career site and microsite traffic performance with benchmark comparisons helps you optimize your career site.
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Does the product enable data integration from multiple sources into one intuitive view of recruiting results?
YES
NO
Business reason: The automatic integration of data from multiple sources saves time and provides valuable insights.
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Are you able to create an unlimited number of custom reports with drag and drop interface and advance analytics?
YES
NO
Business reason: Easy drag and drop capabilities coupled with advanced analytics provides insights to raise quality, lower cost and increase efficiency.
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Does the product provide out-of-the-box standard sourcing, pipeline, candidate, requisition and hiring reports?
YES
NO
Business reason: Commonly used reports instantly save the recruiting team significant time and provide valuable data on a real-time basis.
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Does the product provide reports for EEO and OFCCP compliance?
YES
NO
Business reason: Using automated reports for compliance eliminates errors from manual data entry and saves significant time.
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Can you automate the end-to-end tracking of candidate sources and referrals?
YES
NO
Business reason: Gaining an end-to-end tracking of candidate sources and referrals empowers you to know what’s working and not working.
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Are you able to export any report to Excel?
YES
NO
Business reason: Exporting any report to Excel gives you the flexibility to further analyze or combine with other corporate data.
9 Essentials for Recruitment Success Today
We hope you found this checklist useful. Depending on your business needs, Jobvite can help with two product offerings: Jobvite Hire is an easy-to-use and practical intuitive web-based platform that helps you effectively manage every stage of hiring. It’s the only social recruiting and applicant tracking solution that makes it easy for everyone to work together on hiring. With Jobvite Hire, you can improve the speed and quality of talent acquisition, create a great candidate experience, increase referral and social network hires – all while using fewer resources. • Highly efficient management of the entire recruiting process • Improved productivity for everyone involved in hiring • Increase high quality employee referral hires • Connect with relevant talent through social recruiting • Actionable intelligence and analytics on all efforts
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Jobvite Source, is an easy-to-use and practical intuitive web-based application that can help you achieve your recruitment sourcing goals today. It’s the only social sourcing and candidate relationship management application that helps you target relevant talent through employee referrals, social networks and the web – then build and engage your talent pool. Jobvite Source is one intuitive platform to manage all sourcing programs and see the results. • Get results with social recruiting • Build and engage your talent pool • Target relevant talent anywhere on the web • See what’s working with personalized dashboards • Gain better intelligence to target the right talent while reducing costs Plus, Jobvite Source works independently or with other applicant tracking and recruiting software you have now without complex, lengthy integration.
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