How Technology Will Change Recruitment In The Future

The recruitment process has been elevated over recent years thanks to an adoption of emerging and developing technologies.

These technologies have helped hiring managers, HR and recruiters to streamline their process and increase return-on-investment in their hiring efforts.

But where how will technology change the recruitment process in the future?

Will Martin gives us insight into how technology will transform recruitment:

“Recruitment technology has grown massively in the past few years.

Advancement of databases, video technologies for interviews, job boards, advertising and more have accelerated over recent years.

The most current example of how recruitment has been impacted by technology is the improvement in the databases.

We know have the ability to track candidate applications across multiple opportunities. All of the information around their personal profiles, salary expectations, their current position in the placement. You can now look up a profile and understand quickly where that candidate is in the hiring process without having to talk to a colleague.

Advancement in database technologies has made the process far easier and more transparent, increasing return-on-investment and employee productivity.

For management the ability to track KPIs across the business, revenue against budgets and team performance is helped by these databases. It allows them to quickly see where employees need support and where processes within the business can be improved.

So what for the future of recruitment technology?

Video technologies are becoming a major tool in the recruitment process. It is helping to reduce time-to-hire by enabling hiring managers to view videos of candidates answering a short series of questions prior to interview. It essentially becomes your first stage interview, which gives time back to both the hiring managers and candidates in the process. It reduces calendar conflicts, as well as the necessity to run interviews on-site.

Time-to-hire has drastically reduced within businesses that have adopted video technologies in their recruitment process.

This is also the case for those who are using data and artificial intelligence to maximum effect.

The rise of data services across recruitment and advertising allows businesses to tap into a wider market of potential candidates, as well as making their process more efficient.

This is particularly pertinent if you’re searching for the ever-elusive passive candidate, outstanding individuals are not active on the market but can be targeted through the use of sponsored advertising and data across platforms such as social media and job boards.

Technology within the recruitment process offers many tangible benefits to all businesses looking to hire the best candidates on the market.”