There is no uncertainty that recruiting talents who can fulfill new roles or positions that organizations seek is very crucial. And hiring candidates through thousands of resumes is also making this process time-consuming and more difficult for recruiters. However, with the advent of digital technologies, companies are now making their way towards leveraging digital tools to advance talent acquisition.

These new-age technologies such as AI, automation, big data and more are reshaping the recruitment sector in significant ways, assisting employers to make better and more informed hiring decisions.

Some other disruptive applications like data science is used to optimize job postings and natural language processing (NLP) to classify keywords or phrases. Conversely, chatbots are being leveraged to improve customer services for job applications. With these emerging technologies, organizations are able to attract candidates to employment posting.

Looking at industry statistics, nearly 73 percent of employers are experiencing difficulty in finding skilled candidates, while around 45 percent have concerned about finding employees with the necessary talents.

Recruitment Process Influenced by Digital Technologies

The enhanced use of digital technologies has transformed the ways of talent acquisition processes companies HR department performed. Today, human resource professionals are opting for several methods to ease the bottlenecks of hiring desired talent. And this regard, social media is playing a significant role by reaching possible candidates and letting them know about the latest job opportunities.

Leveraging social media to the talent acquisition is considered to be imperative as it provides a very unique, never seen, informal hue to recruiters. HR managers now are able to explore more about their candidates through the information available on social media.

Another technology helping recruitment teams is automation software, such as RPA. It can select candidates that companies are looking for by filtering applicants’ curriculum vitae and search for key terms and attributes to comprehend whether the application is suitable for the job role.

Companies are also attempting different ways where they can lower the recruitment budget. And to do so, they make use of phone and video interviews that saves time and money for both employers and candidates as well. Phone interviews are perceived as a convenient process, easy to conduct first-stage interviews. This interviewing process can pick up on delicate emotional clues and body language.

However, it doesn’t mean this should replace face-to-face interviews, but its pace and convenience enable candidates who have geographical restrictions to appear for the interview in real-time.

Moreover, the cloud also has opened paths for organizations where they can keep optimizing talent management with the changing needs of the workplace. It provides a vast database of candidates to hiring managers, along with easy accessibility and flexibility. The technology has also proven to be an imperative tool for companies with remote working policies. By leveraging cloud-enabled software, organizations can acquire talent from any part of the world for positions they require.

Thus, as technology has evolved and advanced with time, companies now need to strategize their policies in order to recruit desired talents as well as to vie in this highly competitive market of talent hunting.