The last year and a half has revealed that the hiring industry and the systems that support the exchange of human capital are simply not built with a digital lens in mind.
In 2021, despite calls for and efforts towards digital transformation for several years, many companies’ hiring operations are still burdened with systems that make daily tasks complicated and the candidate experience cumbersome:
Systems that don’t talk: Multiple disparate, disconnected systems become difficult for recruiters to manage, too complex for candidates to easily navigate, and can result in compromised data.
Systems and processes that can’t scale: Managing paperwork and manual tasks throughout hiring and onboarding ultimately becomes an impediment to scaling processes across the organization.
Systems that put compliance at risk: There are a significant amount of ever-changing federal, state, and local laws and regulations related to staffing and employment. Outdated systems and practices can leave your entire organization at risk for fines and lawsuits.
Systems that don’t put the candidate first: Delivering a human-centric experience is incredibly important for hiring technology, as 60% of candidates drop out of the recruiting process due to lengthy and complicated applications.
Despite these challenges and what can seem like a slow move to progress, you can still implement a hiring journey that feels complete, connected, and seamless from end-to-end. In fact, by using automations and integrations to optimize your hiring tech stack, delivering a top-tier candidate experience can come naturally.
Related: 3 HCM integrations worth implementing
Automate to pre-board candidates seamlessly
The business impact of effective onboarding is well established. Case in point: A great onboarding experience can improve employee retention by 82%. And while automation helps to ensure that new hires receive a positive onboarding experience, it can also benefit recruiters.
Checks and balances: Automated reminders, assigned tasks, and checklists allow recruiters to focus less on busy work, and more on finding and engaging with new talent. In addition, recruiters can ensure that required items don’t fall through the cracks, as human intervention is only a notification away.
Moving the needle: Streamlined and customized workflows provide a simplified process for candidates. It keeps them consistently engaged and on track, lessening their likelihood of dropping-off and allowing recruiters to improve their organization’s time-to-hire, among other productivity metrics.
Compliance made easy: Automation across systems creates an overall secure and trusted experience for remote workers, particularly when completing the Form I-9 and E-Verify process remotely. As a result, recruiters can feel confident that they are meeting state and federal compliance requirements, regardless of a candidate’s location.
Integrate to deliver a complete experience
A great hiring experience requires meeting the candidate at every step of the hiring journey—and integration is the key to completing the picture.
Building a connected hiring tech stack will allow your teams to effortlessly maintain the other HR solutions they know and love, while also eliminating the need for candidates to engage with a string of disconnected systems.
For example, Able’s new integration platform, Able Unify, empowers teams to bring together all the tech providers that are critical to hiring new talent to deliver one, united candidate experience.
A solution enabling out-of-the-box and custom integrations and automation workflows to multiple systems, Able Unify optimizes how teams can get the most out of their internal hiring tech and operations:
Simple connections with major impact: Since integrations aren’t built with code and use a simple “if this, then that” logic instead, anyone from recruiters to hiring managers to administrators can jump in to build their team’s complete hiring tech stack. As a result, massive IT resources are left undisturbed while implementation moves full steam ahead.
Trusted data and processes that scale: Automatically sharing data across applications, ensures data integrity and accuracy, while also creating a more secure experience for candidates. Additionally, with consistent data comes the opportunity for standardizing business processes, enabling scale and compliance across the organization.
Integrations with options: Whether choosing from a library of pre-built integrations, a more custom workflow, or a mixture of both, teams can tailor their hiring tech stack to fit the exact needs of their day-to-day operations and the desired experience for their candidates.
