How Technology is Changing the Recruiting LandScape
India is the second largest smartphone market in the world with over 220 million smartphone users as observed in 2016. With the number of smartphone users soaring with each passing year, candidates are looking for easier and smarter ways to access job openings within the industry. A global report suggests that, 70 percent of high-potential employees are drawn to organizations with a mobile recruitment option and about 75 percent of people use mobile devices today to search for relevant jobs. The recruitment space has witnessed tremendous transformation over the last few years. Today, hiring a candidate is not a pain anymore for recruiters and job seekers. In fact, thanks to the internet, today looking for a job or looking for a suitable candidate has become extremely easy for the recruiters as well as the organizations. Candidates can access career related website on mobile phones, apply for jobs or even communicate with the recruiters or hiring managers using their mobile phones, while on the other hand, with one click organizations can access a vast data base of job seekers across different domains and verticals. In short, mobile recruitment has the potential to change the game for recruitment in India, in a fiercely competitive talent acquisition environment.Technology has strengthened the recruitment space completely. Earlier recruiters were dependent on traditional ways for hiring candidates and similarly job seekers were dependent on the traditional ways when looking out for a job, but today,with the evolution of technology, everything is available online. Online recruitment portals are rapidly making its way ahead in the market.
Some of the major benefits of online job portals include:
1. One can create a resume and upload it
online, which in turn allows various hiring managers to notice the candidate’s profiles
2. Jobseeker can not only apply for domestic requirements but also apply for international openings
3. Job seeker can receive relevant and filtered jobs in his / her registered email address
4. Jobseekers can get their resume well drafted and formatted by availing services of various recruitment portals
5. A jobseeker can apply to numerous jobs in one click
6. A jobseeker can get his query / clarification resolved from the hiring manager before applying
Online recruitment platforms save a lot of time, money and energy of both the candidate as well as the recruiter. For SMEs and startups, online recruitment portals are extremely important in saving their cost, time and energy. Since, most companies operate on a limited cost with minimum timeline in hand; online recruitment portal can act as a huge savior for such companies who have to break even fast. Job portals can fetch you millions of data but how to get the relevant and best suited profile aligned with company’s budget is the yardstick by which efficacy of HR function can be measured. Recruiters who aren’t using modern techniques of online recruitment platforms are bound to remain behind in the race and will have to put in more efforts, more money and more time in getting a desired candidate which in turn would affect his / her productivity heavily.
Time and technology wait for none. With each passing year there is a new technology or a new trend coming up in the industry.A glance around us and it is a clear indication of how rapidly changes are taking place. The recruitment sector is also under going changes. Today,smart use of internet and mobile technology has made manual form fillings and paper resume obsolete. In about a decade’s time, job portals will be the one stop recruitment solution opted by almost all government and non-government companies. Job portals will play an important role in interview and assessment part as well. Which means companies can get their candidates assessed through job portal’s innovative assessment tools and various customized technical tests that would help an organization in getting a 360 degree report on a candidate’s personality and effectiveness.
While it is essential to keep up with the technological development, sustainable advantage cannot be achieved merely on the basis of technology. The approach should be to understand a candidate's behavior and use a combination of human intervention and technology to bring out the best offer. To conclude, while the future of recruitment industry relies mostly on mobility, personalization and predictive intelligence, adding candidate’s experience to it will do marvels.
2. Jobseeker can not only apply for domestic requirements but also apply for international openings
3. Job seeker can receive relevant and filtered jobs in his / her registered email address
4. Jobseekers can get their resume well drafted and formatted by availing services of various recruitment portals
5. A jobseeker can apply to numerous jobs in one click
6. A jobseeker can get his query / clarification resolved from the hiring manager before applying
For SMEs and start-ups, online recruitment portals are extremely important in saving their cost, time and energy
Online recruitment platforms save a lot of time, money and energy of both the candidate as well as the recruiter. For SMEs and startups, online recruitment portals are extremely important in saving their cost, time and energy. Since, most companies operate on a limited cost with minimum timeline in hand; online recruitment portal can act as a huge savior for such companies who have to break even fast. Job portals can fetch you millions of data but how to get the relevant and best suited profile aligned with company’s budget is the yardstick by which efficacy of HR function can be measured. Recruiters who aren’t using modern techniques of online recruitment platforms are bound to remain behind in the race and will have to put in more efforts, more money and more time in getting a desired candidate which in turn would affect his / her productivity heavily.
Time and technology wait for none. With each passing year there is a new technology or a new trend coming up in the industry.A glance around us and it is a clear indication of how rapidly changes are taking place. The recruitment sector is also under going changes. Today,smart use of internet and mobile technology has made manual form fillings and paper resume obsolete. In about a decade’s time, job portals will be the one stop recruitment solution opted by almost all government and non-government companies. Job portals will play an important role in interview and assessment part as well. Which means companies can get their candidates assessed through job portal’s innovative assessment tools and various customized technical tests that would help an organization in getting a 360 degree report on a candidate’s personality and effectiveness.
While it is essential to keep up with the technological development, sustainable advantage cannot be achieved merely on the basis of technology. The approach should be to understand a candidate's behavior and use a combination of human intervention and technology to bring out the best offer. To conclude, while the future of recruitment industry relies mostly on mobility, personalization and predictive intelligence, adding candidate’s experience to it will do marvels.
