To achieve that, each successful recruitment team will need to focus on four crucial areas of work:
To help your recruitment team carry out these four crucial areas of work, here are the must-have apps for successful recruiting.
The professional social network LinkedIn currently has more than 750 million members across 200 countries. So, it stands to reason that recruitment teams would want to explore it to search for prospective job candidates. To help you find what you’re looking for faster, LinkedIn offers a specialized app for finding talent — LinkedIn Recruiter.
This recruiting mobile app for Apple and Android devices is a simple solution that allows you to find and connect with top-notch candidates quicker and easier.
Once you get a paid LinkedIn subscription for a Recruiter or Recruiter Lite account, you’ll get to enjoy the following benefits:
What’s best, the system eventually learns what profiles you usually look for. So, you’ll start getting customized matches for the profiles you need.
The key to a successful recruitment team lies in successful collaboration. And, the key to successful collaboration lies in timely communication. After all, timely communication helps:
This is where apps for team communication such as Pumble come into play.
Pumble is a business communication platform for instant messaging between individuals and groups that functions as a free alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams. You get to enjoy real-time communication via individual and group direct messages, as well as via topic-based private and public channels. But, you get more features for free — such as the options to add unlimited users to a workspace and search your entire chat history.
There is also a paid self-hosted version of the app that allows you to host your workspaces on your own servers for maximum privacy and security.
As a recruitment team looking to improve communication and collaboration via Pumble, you can:
Pumble helps you communicate with teammates and organize information about the recruitment processes. Trello helps you track the progress you are making with the said recruitment processes.
This free project management tool is based on the Kanban principle. A board represents your recruitment projects, while cards represent individual recruiting tasks. You move cards across aptly named columns to indicate the status of the tasks.
For example, a Trello board of a recruitment team can have 5 columns:
The above-listed example of a Trello recruiting board is only one of the app’s possible uses. You can also create columns and cards to track separate recruitment processes, such as the interview progress of individual candidates.
When it comes to the efforts of a recruitment team, successful interviews are a crucial step on the road to successful hires. After all, a well-organized and well-conducted interview will help you land the top-notch candidates you are looking for. And, Interview Assistant is exactly the type of versatile app you’ll want to use if you want to streamline your team’s interview processes.
This free mobile app offers features that will help you prepare, conduct, document, and review candidate interviews with ease.
The process of organizing an interview with Interview Assistant is simple:
When it comes to the questions, this recruiting app offers several possibilities, so, you’ll be able to:
The “Careers” feature is another special treat. It allows you to document the progress of several interviews and rate them after completion. This way, you’ll have a quick overview of your satisfaction with the candidates.
*Bonus solution for tech organizations — Yoh
First-class tech professionals are in high demand — which may make it appear like they are in low supply in a highly competitive job market.
In a way, they are. Research shows that 41% of IT hiring managers say finding tech talent is becoming harder. This is where Yoh can help you.
This specialized recruiting and integrated workforce solution helps you boost your current recruiting team through additional recruiting expertise that will help you increase your recruiting reach and capabilities.
Essentially, Yoh matches tech talent with tech organizations. The platform helps you find technology professionals via:
The industries you can search through include, but are not limited to:
The key to a successful business is having the right employees. With the help of the above-listed apps, you’ll gain access to suitable candidates, streamline teamwork in your recruitment team, better organize and track the workload, and make a giant leap towards the right hires.
About the Author: Marija Kojic is a researcher and writer specialized in team communication and collaboration. She enjoys helping people discover meaningful and effective ways to communicate and collaborate smarter.