Does it truly simplify our processes?
Despite it being shiny and modern, it’s important to consider how much the recruitment platform truly adds to your processes. Although it may add to efficiency, ultimately if it is too difficult to use and extra training is required in order to use it, it might end up causing more complications than solving them. Given how much time we each spend on our phones, considering which browsers the platform works on and checking whether it is available as an app or works on a tablet, is important. It’s also important to consider how it creates a seamless internal process between your front and back-office, as well as its efficiency and ability to work across departments in your business.
2. Does it maintain your employer brand?
It’s important that your recruitment platform links back to your career site. Your company’s career site is one of the key elements of your employer brand, and therefore it’s important that the two are connected. In addition, it’s vital to ensure that the recruitment platform that you are buying offers background check functionality. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimated that CV fraud costs employers approximately £456 billion annually, and so not only can accurate, automated screening software save you time, but it can also save your bottom line and your brand’s reputation. Effective screening software can prevent your company from making mistakes in the hiring process putting your relationships with clients and staff at risk. It’s also damaging to that same employer brand and your reputation in the market.
3. Does it foster collaborative relationships and communication?
Integrating a collaborative recruitment platforms allows you to maintain and control visibility over your company’s recruitment process and what each of your departments are doing, whilst implementing a clear and connected pathway between every point of the business. This is an essential feature to consider when looking for a platform suitable for your company. Not only does it break down silos in your business but ultimately having information more readily available between departments will speed up your processes and strengthen relationships between departments and employees. A foundation of good communication results in increased financial success, and a recruitment platform that facilitates this is an effective weapon in any agency’s arsenal.
4. Does it improve candidate experience?
As the world is changing so quickly these days, your company should always be future-focused. When choosing the right recruitment platform for your organisation, it’s key to consider not only how it affects your staff in the short term but also how it affects prospective candidates in the long term. A recruitment platform that increases efficiency enough to allow your staff more time to foster positive candidate relationships is good, yes. However, is this more important than using a recruitment platform that effectively collates and analyses data about prospective candidates and job seekers which allows for your staff to build a more bespoke and personalised candidate experience? When considering a new platform, it’s essential to know that you can and should have it all.
5. Does it give you everything you need?
As the need for screening, CRMs, ATSs and other software requirements continue to come into the recruitment sector, ask yourself if your recruitment platform is giving you everything you need, or are you having to plug in different applications, or bounce out of your system into other ones? With advanced technology at our fingertips you should be in a position to have all your recruitment software needs in one platform, integrated, working together and accessible from a single sign on. An all in one platform ensures everything is working together like one well-oiled machine, giving you the best chance of success across your entire agency.
Before investing in a recruitment platform, an important first step would be to ensure that the software not checks each of these but if you’re in need of a little more advice just get in touch to speak to one of our recruitment specialists today.