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Finding the best talent for the organization that too at time of need is very difficult and if as a recruiter of you are operating on a shoestring budget, you must apply some clever hacks in order to recruit and retain top talent. Be it the big players or the new startups spending a fortune for hiring new employees does not make sense all the time. At the same time it also does not imply that a recruiter will have to settle with something very low. Instead by integrating the recruitment process with the six following tips below maximize your reach and hire talent for your company needs, without exceeding the budget.

Enhance Online Presence

In the age of digitalization, the internet can speak volumes about your organization. From the company’s website to official social media pages and blogs of employees, prospective candidates can have access to a lot of information about the company and its work culture before they even join the organization. Hence it is very important that as a recruiter you use the online presence your organization as an advantage in recruitment. However, you must make sure that your company’s online presence is telling the right story. Create an employer brand with the company’s website and social media presence by sharing amusing narrations, praising valued employees and communicating the values that are important to your organization.

Using Recruitment Software in Hiring

Hiring the right talent for the organization can be chaotic and time-consuming, but with the help of technological advancements the recruitment process can be easily streamlined. AI in recruitment technology can automate a major part of the process, analyzing a large volume of data in order to create a pool of potential recruits and categorize those who are best fit for the job.

Always choose quality over quantity

It is common practice to cast a hiring net as wide as possible while looking for new recruits, but this approach comes with numerous problems. A large candidate pool night make the recruiter miss a great candidate. Hence, focusing or targeting only on highly qualified candidates will surely allow you to maximize the use of your resources, develop a better relationship with each applicant, reducing the chances of the wrong hire.

Providing a positive candidate experience to the prospective candidate

As a recruiter it is very important that you create the best impression as a company the moment a candidate arrives at the organization. A best recruiter is the one who understands that an interview is similar to an audition for both the candidate and the company as well.

In order to hire the top talent, you must make them feel welcomed by being the host and indulge in activities like offering a tour of the organization apart from getting him acquainted with the things that will be covered during the interview process. If it is possible you can ask someone from the concerned department with whom the recruit would be directly working to conduct a portion of the interview. Peer-conducted interviews can give the candidate a much better insight of the company culture and operations of the business, which makes the candidates more inclined in trusting those who are on the similar professional level.

As a recruiter, you must probably know that it is increasingly getting very important than ever to engage candidates and give them a positive candidate experience. But most of the recruiters are perplexed on how to provide this positive candidate experience to the candidates or how to provide real-time experience to the expectation of the candidates. An applicant tracking system (ATS) can be of great help in such a situation. So here are five ways by which ATS can directly influence the candidate experience.

1) An ATS can send Text messages to engage your candidates

If you want to reach out to the shortlisted candidates easily, it is better to reach out to them through the modes they use the most which are mobiles and you can either place a call or send a text message. But if you have an urgent message to communicate to your candidates, a text message is undoubtedly one of the easiest and guaranteed ways to confirm their receipt.

Studies show that while email has an open rate of 20 percent, text messages have a much higher open rate which is 98 percent. A good applicant tracking system like RecruitX offers SMS integration so that you can send text messages promptly to keep your shortlisted candidates engaged. Some ATS provide an added bonus, and that is to track your text activity as part of your communication history with the candidate.

2) ATS Personalizes your emails

If your email starts with, “Dear candidate” it is a clear sign that you hardly care for your candidates. Most of the recruiters are of the opinion that one of the greatest enemies of good communication with the candidate is time. Though as a recruiter you might want to write great personal letters to every candidate, to do so for every individual candidate at the suitable frequency would take you thousand lifetimes.

The solution for such a situation is to use an ATS that has the feature of mass mailing tool. The mass mailing function allows you to reach out as many candidates as you want with one message. A good ATS further uses the data from your database so that you can personalize each message without any extra effort.

3) Reach out to the candidates at the right time with an Applicant Tracking System

A major part of the candidate-recruiter relationship depends on time. An applicant tracking system is enabled with predictive or artificial intelligence that takes out the prediction work on your part so that you can reach out to candidates in the required time.

4) An ATS helps in streamlining the onboarding process

The candidate experience does not only end with placement it rather it starts with it. Like the onboarding experience of the candidate, if it is miserable, he or she will remember it throughout their life. There are a lot of things that can go wrong during the onboarding process. Communication with the candidate can die down or the paperwork can also slow down during the process and in a worst case, candidates will withdraw joining in the period between the offer roll out and the start date. Using an ATS for the onboarding integration to get rid of the paperwork that can make starting a new job less difficult is the best suggestion for the recruiters.

Finding the best talent for the organization that too at time of need is very difficult and if as a recruiter of you are operating on a shoestring budget, you must apply some clever hacks in order to recruit and retain top talent. Be it the big players or the new startups spending a fortune for hiring new employees does not make sense all the time. At the same time it also does not imply that a recruiter will have to settle with something very low. Instead by integrating the recruitment process with the six following tips below maximize your reach and hire talent for your company needs, without exceeding the budget.

Enhance Online Presence

In the age of digitalization, the internet can speak volumes about your organization. From the company’s website to official social media pages and blogs of employees, prospective candidates can have access to a lot of information about the company and its work culture before they even join the organization. Hence it is very important that as a recruiter you use the online presence your organization as an advantage in recruitment. However, you must make sure that your company’s online presence is telling the right story. Create an employer brand with the company’s website and social media presence by sharing amusing narrations, praising valued employees and communicating the values that are important to your organization.

Using Recruitment Software in Hiring

Hiring the right talent for the organization can be chaotic and time-consuming, but with the help of technological advancements the recruitment process can be easily streamlined. AI in recruitment technology can automate a major part of the process, analyzing a large volume of data in order to create a pool of potential recruits and categorize those who are best fit for the job.

Always choose quality over quantity

It is common practice to cast a hiring net as wide as possible while looking for new recruits, but this approach comes with numerous problems. A large candidate pool night make the recruiter miss a great candidate. Hence, focusing or targeting only on highly qualified candidates will surely allow you to maximize the use of your resources, develop better relationship with each applicant, reducing the chances of the wrong hire.

Providing a positive candidate experience to the prospective candidate

As a recruiter it is very important that you create the best impression as a company the moment a candidate arrives at the organization. A best recruiter is the one who understands that an interview is similar to an audition for both the candidate and the company as well.

In order to hire the top talent, you must make them feel welcomed by being the host and indulge in activities like offering a tour of the organization apart from getting him acquainted with the things that will be covered during the interview process. If it is possible you can ask someone from the concerned department with whom the recruit would be directly working to conduct a portion of the interview. Peer-conducted interviews can give the candidate a much better insight of the company culture and operations of the business, which makes the candidates more inclined in trusting those who are on the similar professional level.

Summary - If you are recruiter who is on a shoestring budget to hire a candidate, there must be some clever hacks that you must apply to your recruitment strategy. This article points 4 ways of recruiting tip quality talent even with a low budget.