5 Ways to Improve Your Recruiting Strategy With AI and HR Software

Streamlining your hiring process is essential in finding the best candidates for the job posting. However, getting it right is not that easy. It’s difficult to process a large number of applications in a short time and make sure you pick the right applicants.

That’s why recruitment can often be lengthy and stressful. Not only will this cost you a lot of money, but the candidates may get discouraged. After all, this stage will mold their first impression of your company, and 63% of applicants will reject a job offer if they had a poor candidate experience.

Thanks to advancements in AI technology and HR software, you can now improve your hiring process significantly. Here’s how.

Improve Your Reach

Where do you search for new talent? Do you post on various job boards and wait for eager applications or scour social media for potential candidates? No matter your overall recruitment strategy, the first step — sourcing — is vital for your success.

However, covering multiple sources and tapping into many different candidate pools can be extremely strenuous and time-consuming if done manually. Luckily, there’s now AI-powered software that can do this automatically and with great success.

The software can look for candidates across many different channels and analyze thousands and even millions of LinkedIn profiles, for example, to find great matches for the job postings. A great example of this software is Hiretual, which can help you get a steady stream of candidates from all around the web.

This type of program can help you reach the farthest corners of the internet and make sure you miss no opportunities. What’s more, the software can work on the sourcing process nonstop and not just when you’re looking for candidates. This way, you’ll have a database ready at any time and won’t have to do it all over again each time you need to hire someone new.

The smart HR software can even reach out to potential candidates with personalized messages to spark their interest.

Better Matching

Having a large pool of candidates to work with is great, but how do you determine the best matches among them? The more of them there are, the more impossible this task is for HR.

AI-based software can help here as well, especially thanks to its natural language processing (NLP) capabilities. First, it can help you tailor your job requisitions so that they target just the right people for the job. The software does this by analyzing vast amounts of recruitment data and job ads to determine the right keywords and phrases that will attract the best crowd.

The HR department often makes the ad way too general or doesn’t provide enough information, simply because the job is too technical, and they’re not familiar enough with it. AI can bypass these problems to create a perfectly worded requisition.

Second, AI programs such as eightfold can analyze candidate profiles much more closely than any person, no matter how skilled. That’s because it doesn’t only hunt for the keywords relevant for the job, but it also analyses the overall education, skills, and experience of a candidate to infer qualities they might possess based on these qualifications.


New Hires Engagement

New hires can put a lot of stress on HR and take up huge amounts of their time. This can be a problem, especially if there are many new recruits in training or on probation, and they all require your attention.

At this stage, you can benefit from implementing a smart AI-based HR chatbot. These bots can integrate with all your systems and communication channels to provide the best possible assistance to your new employees.

They function as self-service HR agents, which can answer any queries and provide help in many HR- and even IT-related issues. Thanks to NLP, they can lead natural conversations with recruits and guide them just like a human HR manager would.

This chatbot can cater to all the recruits at the same time if necessary, and they are available 24/7, so even if new employees have any questions after hours, they can engage with the bot. If the chatbot is unable to solve the problem or provide assistance, it can refer them to a human HR manager.

This useful tool improves employee access and reduces human HR interactions, which means everyone benefits from it.

Automation and Time-Saving

As it’s clear by now, AI and HR software can automate a lot of repetitive and time-consuming tasks that take HR people forever to do. Starting from the sourcing process all the way to employee engagement, it can streamline many parts of the recruitment journey and let HR managers deal with the most important stages.

In fact, by automating repetitive tasks, smart software can save 50–60% of the time HR managers spend on these processes. That’s many hours they can put into dealing with employees one-on-one instead of wasting that time tackling logistics.

One such applicant tracking system (ATS) is CEIPAL TalentHire, which helps recruiters automate their workflow and manage their time better.

More Inclusive Recruitment

Inclusion and diversity in the workplace are major topics in the business world these days. Companies go to great lengths to prove they don’t tolerate intolerance and welcome people of all backgrounds and profiles.

It’s interesting to note that diverse businesses generally perform better and earn more than those that are not. This could be the case for a variety of reasons, but when employees feel accepted and valued, they tend to be happier and perform better. Whatever the actual reason may be, the point is — it pays to be an inclusive business.

However, people can have internalized and deeply rooted biases they can act on during the recruitment process unconsciously and without malicious intent. This way, we can favor some candidates over others who are equally, if not more suitable for the job.

Luckily, AI can help here too, as it only focuses on the actual candidate qualifications as opposed to their ethnicity, gender, age, etc. It can be a true ally in curbing our prejudices and fostering a more open and diverse company culture.

HR software has existed for a while now, but the addition of the AI component has transformed and improved it manifold. Thanks to this kind of software, your recruitment process can become better, more efficient, and more fair than ever.

Michael has been working in marketing for almost a decade and has worked with a huge range of clients, which has made him knowledgeable on many different subjects. He has recently rediscovered a passion for writing and hopes to make it a daily habit. You can read more of Michael's work at Qeedle.