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Why you should not go for manual recruitment process | FastCollab | Blog

WHY YOU SHOULD NOT GO FOR MANUAL RECRUITMENT PROCESS August 22, 2014 Naresh Komirishetty

Manual Recruitment has been an old practice and still continues in many companies, industries and sectors. Even with the advent of new technologies every now and then companies however are not ready to adopt the online recruitment process.

“Upcoming recruitment agencies are willing to try and use such recruitment or talent management softwares over tedious manual work. In this article, we have tried to put together few important situations which will make our readers understand the exact areas where the manual recruitment process lags behind the online recruitment process.”

Risk for Loss of Data Recruitment refers to a lot of profiles coming to you, maintaining bio data, checklists and many other important documents of candidates. Handling so many papers is the first indication

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that you are making your task more risky. There are many cases when recruiters have lost resumes. You maintain folders and folders of resumes in your system, but lose the track of it when there is another job opening months later. On the other hand, you can receive and maintain the folders of resumes within online talent management software. Every profile is automatically stored in the new applicant tracking system for you to refer to it anytime in future.

Time Taking Factor Receiving resumes means overflowed email boxes, and each time it’s a manual activity to collect those resumes, followed by maintaining clumsy excel sheets to record the applicants details with you. The Human Resource Department of a company is not supposed to do only recruitments throughout a month. They also have to manage other important company activities under their responsibility. Thus their job is on a versatile area, which requires the proper time management. In such situations, new Applicant Tracking System is more handy where it parses the resumes and create an automated excel sheet of applicants’ bio­data. The best part is your email boxes are now for more meaningful communications.

The tedious Written Assessment Test Many companies are still stuck with the old habit of conducting pen­and­paper assessment test, as their initial screening round. Does your HRs have a full day to handle such events?

You need to arrange papers, location, handlers and then check all responses. Come out of these age­old practices. Shift to Online assessment tools where tests can be taken by a candidate at the place of his/her convenience. It is more convenient while conducting recruitment drives or campus hiring as talent management software will automatically correct the submitted answers, leaving HRs for more meaningful activities.

The long task of Sorting Candidates Going ahead with further stages of hiring, filtering and sorting out the candidates are two important stages in the recruitment process. Filtering out the suitable applications and then sorting them out as per required job openings itself is a long task. To save the time of HRs stuck in these activities talent management softwares are the best survival platforms. Not only you can filter applicants as per job openings, but you can also track the performance of each applicant for various stages like assessment test, interview etc. on new applicant tracking system.

Budget Tolerance Another factor in the manual recruitment is the excess expenditure of money and time put in chasing the candidates in your talent pool. Companies are in the habit of purchasing applicants’ database for any job openings they have. Majority of them end up giving a negative interest with your job offer. Calling all the candidates for the interview and making a

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bucket from the pool incurs a useless cost, which can easily be done through online new Applicant Tracking System. The system helps you to build your own talent pool of genuine job seekers, which increases chances of success in your hiring process exponentially.

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