- Sourcing techniques
- AI assistance
- Assess and evaluate
- Candidate experience
- Applicant tracking
- Recruiting automation
Sourcing Techniques
It is a given that the quality of candidates hired is directly dependent on the quality of the applicant pool. For this reason, it becomes essential to reach out to all potential candidates and leave no stone unturned. Once that is done, you need to sift through the resumes and pick the perfect match for you. For all this, Zoho Recruit has baked some neat features into their software.
Job Postings
You no longer need to manually create a job posting on the world’s leading job boards. Enter the details once, and it gets pushed onto all major job boards to find the best candidates.
The software also leverages the power of social media to reach out to candidates. LinkedIn and Facebook are two massive platforms where several people search for jobs. You can make use of the ‘Apply With LinkedIn’ feature and/or the ‘Facebook Jobs’ section of the social media platform. All of these circles back to the original theme of leaving no stone unturned.
Candidate Shortlisting
Analyzing a candidate begins with their resume. To greatly simplify this process, the software lets you search across all applicants and narrow down the best-fit candidates. To achieve this, you can access their resume and initiate further processing based on what you’re looking for.
You can also standardize your company’s resume format by parsing the applicants’ resumes. Tools like Resume Inbox, Resume Extractor, and Formatted Resume prove indispensable for this purpose.
Employee Referral Portal
This feature lets you use your employees to expand your sourcing network. Corporate HRs can manage all such referrals and evaluate the applicants. This feature dramatically increases the reach of your posting to multiple circles and increases your chances of finding the perfect match!
Vendor Portal
You can use this feature to improve the relationship between you and your vendors. You can customize the portal to reflect your vendor’s branding and let recruiters add applicants. You can then consider these candidates for job openings.
AI Assistance
It is more than just a buzzword in today’s era. The proliferation of AI has lent its hand into massive developments across many fronts. This software also uses the power of AI to find the right candidates with minimal effort.
Perfect Candidate Matches
Zoho’s AI assistant, Zia, helps you get your work done exponentially quicker. The AI assistant goes through the applicant resumes and gives you a ranked list of potential candidates. They are also graded based on how much they meet the job requirements.
Additionally, you can set must-have and nice-to-have skills before publishing the job posting itself. Once the applications file in, Zia scours through them and calculates the applicants’ skill scores. This feature helps you identify potential hires instantly.
Increased Search Accuracy
The AI engine also helps improve the accuracy of your searches. It uses semantic search to match all the key criteria that are outlined in your job description. This process gets done in just a few milliseconds irrespective of the size of your applicant pool.
Zoho Recruit’s ‘Smart Search’ feature acts very similar to Google Search. It begins to scan your database the moment you start typing. This way, you are presented with the desired results even before you finish typing. It may not sound like much, but it does drastically reduce time-to-hire.
Assess And Evaluate
A good recruiter must be able to choose from the pool of applicants and effectively evaluate talent. Besides, each company has its assessment strategies to fit its operations. Using the software, you can set templates and ensure consistency across all hires.
Client Portal
As a hiring agency, your clients’ satisfaction is paramount to your success. The software offers a dedicated portal for your client, where they can create new job openings. Furthermore, they can give feedback about the candidates submitted and make well-informed decisions.
This facility allows you to maintain your relationship with your clients, in turn, driving more business. The feedback feature also lets you gauge your decisions and tweak them as required. It forms a self-sustaining loop of sorts that improves the overall quality of the applicants.
Comprehensive Evaluation Of Candidates
The software understands that a candidate is more than just two sides of an A4 sheet. Resumes seldom give the entire picture of a candidate. For this purpose alone, you can create pre-screening assessments to measure candidates’ skills. This step helps you direct them to roles that best suit their profile.
The software also lets you evaluate the background of a candidate using the built-in background checker. You can thus maintain compliant and safe hiring practices in your firm. The background checker offers multiple checking packages to cater to the needs of your organization.
Digital Signature On Documents
Candidate acceptance can now be made digital. You can use services like Zoho Sign, DocuSign, or Adobe Sign to get digital signatures. With just a few clicks, you can also send offer letters with your digital signature on the document.
This digitization reduces paperwork and the time associated with it. Hence, the hiring of candidates becomes a quick and hassle-free affair. This situation is ideal for corporate HRs who deal with multiple openings daily.
Candidate Experience
In today’s day and age, it is imperative to leave a good impression in the minds of your candidates. For this reason, they must have a pleasant end-to-end experience. Zoho Recruit has some tailor-made features to make this experience a breeze.
Build An Employer Brand
The software lets you build a custom ‘Careers’ page on your website. This way, candidates can look for job openings that are perfect for them. Furthermore, it increases the brand value of your website, and in turn, your company.
You can also manage your entire email marketing process from within the software. You can track responses from your candidates and clients while also analyzing campaign data. Furthermore, you can generate more effective campaigns for more reach.
For The Candidates
The software lets you build a dedicated platform for the candidates. This way, you can bring them directly to the recruitment process in your company. From there, they can apply to the job openings that they desire and leave their information for future use. They can also view the status of their applications.
The software lets you implement out-of-the-box strategies to contact candidates by using smart integrations. You can reach out to them via SMS or phone calls using integration solutions. You can also send notifications to clients and candidates through these channels.
Applicant Tracking
It is common knowledge that numbers do not lie. The more data-driven your recruitment is, the more robust the results will be. Zoho Recruit offers many tools to help you on this front.
Almighty Analytics
The software lets you compile the numbers from various job boards. This data helps you get a picture of your sourcing numbers and how successful they are. Also, you get a list of perfect candidates from the applicant pool, all in one place.
You can also generate comprehensive reports from the data that Recruit churns out. Moreover, you optimize the recruiting process by tracking the KPIs relevant to your firm. All this ensures a steady level of quality of operations.
Candidate Hiring Pipeline
It always helps to have a snapshot of your hiring pipeline. The software neatly lays out the openings and the status of each opportunity. The information is presented in a panoramic manner, and this helps improve the overall recruiting experience.
Recruiting Automation
Zoho Recruit allows you to speed up your recruitment process end-to-end. You can achieve this by automating all mundane tasks. The software will enable you to set up automated notifications, emails, alerts, etc.
Structured Hiring
The importance of having a well-defined hiring process is essential for any company. However, most of the processes happen offline. The software offers blueprinting solutions to help integrate this into your workflow. This way, you can capture all relevant details of your hiring process to ensure consistency.
Furthermore, corporate HRs can define a reporting hierarchy for the organization. This strategy allows you to control data access based on your organizational structure. As a result, you have full control over data privacy and access.
Unparalleled Flexibility
The software allows you to automate individual sections of your recruitment. You can trigger specific actions based on rules defined by you. Also, fields will get updated, and alerts will be sent based on these rules.
The flexibility does not stop there. The software lets you customize your experience and make it ideal for your use cases. You can personalize all the organization settings and set it up the way you want it. This customization is a nice touch to make sure that all users are satisfied with their experience.
