Why automate your hiring process?

Posted by Nesreen Bakheit, January-5-2012

Finding and hiring the best talent is a key aspect of talent management for every company, large or small. Everyone should be working to improve the process. It is not just a matter of making the hiring function faster, easier and cheaper, it’s also about delivering the best-quality candidates to fill various jobs. The emergence of automated recruitment technology has helped large organizations who have both the money and resources to make huge strides in the war for talent but what about the little guy? Small to mid-size companies often can’t afford the technology to move toward this goal. Yet they are losing ground to their larger rivals.

According to a recent report from research house Aberdeen, based on more than 400 survey respondents to the firm’s talent acquisition strategies study; automation is having an impact on both the quality of hires and the quality of the hiring process. According to Aberdeen, quality of hire was rated the most valuable overall metric when assessing the effectiveness of talent acquisition. Since quality can be an ambiguous concept, Aberdeen says, respondents were also asked which elements define quality of hire.  The findings reveal that hiring manager satisfaction and efficient use of time are the top of the list.Those organizations that either fully or partially automated their recruitment process had more new hires reach their first productivity milestones than did organizations using only manual processes.

The need for a recruitment system focused on the smaller employer, that is most companies with up to 3000 employees, to automate recruitment, is acute. This will allow them to compete effectively and efficiently for talent on an equal footing to larger organisations. MyPeopleBiz aims to be the champion of the smaller-mid sizers by providing intuitive, easy to use interactive functionality to help companies forge better relationships with agencies and candidates, enhancing their employer brand and enabling them to become an employer of choice in the market for talent. In addition, there is no need to fret about cost asthe return on investment is recouped within year one.