With an increasing shortage of talent, recruiters are facing new classes of challenges. Clients want candidates with perfect skill sets to onboard as fast as possible, and candidates looking for assignments often have their pick of roles from several competing agencies. 

AI-driven solutions have become the go-to option for solving those problems. Automated processes and chatbots have become mainstream and have expedited the time and energy it takes to find the right fit, engage with candidates, and measure performance. 

But one challenge remains that not every AI platform can solve: giving candidates and clients the personal touch that can set one recruiter apart from the others. 

As any staffing veteran will tell you, making a human connection is critical when it comes to getting candidates to sign on, and getting clients to feel comfortable bringing workers onto their team. It also builds trust that accrues over time and builds into repeat assignments for workers and clients alike. 

But in a remote recruiting world – making that human connection isn’t always easy. Here are four ways that staffing can get personal and make a difference for your team. 

It's a candidate's market right now which means that employees have an abundance of opportunities to choose from and can leverage the best one. It’s a power shift from the traditional hiring model where candidates – not hiring managers – have the upper hand. This puts pressure on companies to present the best offer to candidates. If candidates feel indecisive, they can also move between jobs quickly causing sudden labor shortages. As a result, recruiters must get creative to sell a job because workers can be selective right now.

Business Technology Today

Today, technology and business move extremely fast. I mean, extremely fast, on a global scale.

Globalization means we can conduct business on both sides of the globe. Think of it like a chain reaction. As certain things in business and technology change, related things change, too. With the global economy, these changes ping-pong across the globe faster than they ever have. We’re interconnected.

Applicant Tracking Software Powering Success

Advances in recruitment technology continue apace.

The products and services offered by software innovators make the lives of hiring professionals much easier.

JobDiva provides an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and a suite of related solutions.

If you aren’t sure what an ATS is, essentially it’s a tool that automates the entire recruitment process, capturing candidate information along the way. You can then use this information to review and manage candidates and rank them in order of relevancy.

Diya Obeid, JobDiva’s Founder and CEO, will address how to avoid pitfalls when selecting the right ATS at Staffing Industry Analysts Executive Forum North America in San Diego, CA in February. His address will take place at 10 AM on Wednesday, February 15th.

You have important work to do, and managing your recruiting firm’s tools can become a job in itself. Your staff recruiting needs are critical to your success, and you don’t have the time to fuss with onerous data management systems. That’s why JobDiva’s saas recruiting software is ideal for your human resources and staffing needs.

The staffing and recruitment industry is going from strength to strength. With a projected annual growth of 4%, and predicted revenue of $145 billion in 2017, it’s clear that more and more businesses are outsourcing their hiring and recruitment needs. That’s no surprise – The hiring economy is changing. Embedded HR departments have to adapt fast to keep up, or outsource their hiring needs to experts.

Updated, July 2019: Since we initially published this post, it has become clear that recruiting professionals are seeking automation for tasks such as sourcing, candidate care and job posting. This is evidenced in Staffing Industry Analysts’ (SIA) recently published “North America Internal Staff Survey 2019,” in which recruiting and hiring professionals provided a “wishlist,” via survey, for task automation. Clearly, organizations which procure the software which automates for these tasks will win the future.

JobDiva provides such a product—the leading platform on the planet for Talent Acquisition innovators, leaders and thought leaders.

Read on to learn more about Global Talent Management in today’s world.