Taking to the streets to recruit new candidates is a thing of the past

Recruiting suitable candidates is a big challenge. Wendy van Dijk can tell you more about this: in the TV programme Over de Roooie (about the driving) Wendy went looking for people who were willing to carry out the craziest assignments for a redback (a thousand guilders). How do you get people to comb their hair with a toilet brush? Can you get them to do the search work for you? And how do you find these people? No idea what we are talking about?

Organisations also spend a lot of money on recruitment methods - and they now have countless options to choose from. Traditional recruitment methods are often time-consuming and may even be ineffective in reaching the less effective to reach the new generation of workers. Fortunately, there are now various HR-tech tools available to make your recruitment process more efficient and effective. Want to know where to start? Unfurl and People's First Group will help you on your way with this handy overview:

1. We Want You!

A new trend in the HR field is programmatic job advertising. This means that organisations use software to advertise their vacancies online, allowing them to target a specific audience. With programmatic job advertising , the entire internet is at your disposal, instead of just the popular job sites that are flooded with competing offers. Moreover, with these online advertisements you also reach passive candidates. These are candidates who are not actively looking for a new job, but who might be open to a nice new challenge. The advantages at a glance:

• Enlarge your reach

• Targeting Ideal Candidates 

• Generating useful insights 

2. Use your own network 

As an organisation, you can of course also use your own network to recruit new candidates. Your colleagues are the ambassadors of the organisation and they might have interesting candidates in their own network. With online referral colleagues share theemployer brand and vacancies on social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook, but also on communication platforms like WhatsApp and Slack. Nowadays there is also online referral tooling available, with which you can set up and execute the referral process even more efficiently and effectively. The advantages? 

• Make use of your ambassadors 

• Automated reward system 

• Referrals are simple and effective

3. Let A.I. do the work 

Scouring the internet for new candidates on your own is a time-consuming process. Fortunately, these days you can also have A.I. do this work for you. A.I. will search for candidates who fit your vacancies, are open to a new job and can be reached by phone and/or e-mail. All you have to do is create a search query and the search results - screened by A. I. - will be sent to you automatically. Moreover, these technologies are very easy to link to your ATS system. This way you can easily continue working from the ATS system, while it is automatically filled with screened candidates. The benefits: 

• Have A.I. recruit and screen candidates

• Integrates with your ATS system 

• Optimises on the basis of data 

4. Make use of what you have 

Many organisations have already digitised their recruitment process with an ATS system. Yet not all organisations are aware of the possibilities that an ATS offers. For the recruitment of new candidates you can for example also use talent pools, which you can manage in your ATS system. Talent pools consist of candidates who have been recruited before and who have been qualified and categorised. You can see it as a candidate database - and like any database, you need to build it, maintain it and nurture it. Maintaining a healthy pool of candidates has a number of attractive benefits: 

• Save time on recruiting when a new position is opened

• Reduce recruitment costs by recruiting candidates from your network

• Keep qualified talent involved in your organisation 

Are you ready to Unfurl?

Nowadays, you fortunately no longer need to go out on the streets to recruit new candidates. The online world offers organisations countless opportunities. With the right HR-tech tools in house, you can make optimal use of this and you will easily have a good pool of candidates at your disposal. 

Do you want to know more about selecting the right tooling? Or would you like to know more about digitising your recruitment process? We would love to drink a digital cup of coffee with you! Click on 'Let's Unfurl' and we will contact you.