My Recruiting Blog

Human resources are synonymous with what is commonly known as the hiring process. It is a tedious one which requires due diligence in order to locate, recruit, acquire, train, and retain top talent. For this reason, every human resource professional must be diligent in the organizational effort of recruiting new talent.

While competition for the most skillful upper rung talent is increasing at a quickening pace, the demands on the employers are also increasing. For this reason, having a well defined, highly secure, reliable applicant tracking is crucial to the success of any organization. Without a seamless and integrated system of organization, maintaining document, and reporting systematically within the corporate infrastructure, numerous human person-hours will be wasted searching and seeking that which new applicant tracking systems can produce in a matter of seconds or minutes.

Prompt retrieval of electronically stored documents, such as questionnaires, resumes, employment applications, salary history and 401K matching, multitudes of manpower calculated in human hours labored would result in certain bankruptcy for even the most organized companies without the aid of communication technology, software and hardware.

At best, the monopolistic might survive but likely not many smaller corporations can possibly thrive. Add to this enormous paper mound (if indeed we had not switched to a new paperless office for such employer required actions and accounting, compensation rates and performance reviews, even governmental compliance almost guarantees some type of informational or data loss. This can easily translate to an inability to retain valuable employees in the long term if an applicant tracking system is not promptly integrated.

However, if information is within reach when needed, it can tremendously improve overall productivity and inboarding. Knowing when and what positions are available are critical to the role of a human resource professional. Gone are the days when interested parties simply mailed in resumes in a job search or sat down to complete a simple application in hopes of obtaining an interview.

Nowadays along with new communication technologies comes the opportunity to have any pertinent piece of information within reach within seconds rather than hours or days. Moreover, most ATS applications are essentially paperless so there is no office clutter. For these and other reasons, applicant tracking systems, can make even the smallest of companies much more efficient and productive.

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