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March 11, 2019

Tech Trends That Play An Important Role In Attracting Top Talents



The employment sector is hugely candidate-driven. It is very challenging to attract top talents from numerous under-qualified applicants. In addition, digital disrupting technologies like AI, cloud, and social media are altering the way how HR strategizes the recruitment tasks.



Fortunately, with advanced technology SMBs and startups can compete for same talent with MNCs. To everyone’s disappointment there are few high skill professionals available, so recruiters and companies need to toil hard to locate, engage, hire and hold the top talents.

Consequently, recruiters are enforced to use technology as solace. Actually, 75% of HR are currently depending on ATS [Applicant Tracking System] software to enhance their hiring process. This means that HR personnel need to fasten their seatbelt as the ride will be bumpy, if you don’t understand recruitment sector’s future tech trends. Learn about the future tech trends and tips to use them on newmillennia.co.uk.

Tech trends to play on to attract top talents

Big data analysis

Data has been used for talent acquisition even in the past but increased data volume that gets churned out can be analyzed extremely fast. Therefore, it is a very helpful tool for HR managers. Data helps the talent managers to make strategic hiring decisions. Leveraging data helps large organizations to find, hire, nurture and retain high skilled professionals.

Artificial Intelligence – A covert slogger

AI usage is the top trend businesses are admiring. It is slowly spreading its foothold in the recruiting sector. According to survey, 15% HR leaders around the globe feel that automation and AI is responsible for improving the hire process.

Unconscious bias is eliminated with AI like race, language, gender, and other aspects are not considered, while shortlisting.

With AI, automated CV evaluation process is hassle-free, even if there are numerous resumes to be analyzed. The applicants get automatically categorized on the basis of provided job specification. The recruiters can get proper candidates that match the give criteria very quickly.

Chatbots is another AI-based technology, which helps HR managers to interact queries of different candidates and thus automates 75% of recruitment process. AI reduces workload, especially the dull and repetitive tasks. Your job gets simplified, customer experience improves, and this causes huge saving of time.

Social media recruitment

According to survey, 70% employers check potential candidate’s social media presence. HR managers can use social media channels in their candidate screening process before interview phase.

Recruiters gain wide scope to locate the top talent if they get an insight if the candidate shares current news and niche topics or have personal blogs or is regularly active online. All these display that the candidate is interested in keeping oneself updated and aim to make progress in their field.

Use ATS [Applicant Tracing Software]

ATS is a recruitment software, which helps HR staff to increase efficiency in their hiring process. ATS helps to sort as well as manage hundreds of candidates. ATS can be used to post job openings, analyze CVs, and track candidates in hiring pipeline. CVs can be imported directly within the software, so that they get organized as per skill levels.

Teleconferencing

Global talent pool can be tapped because internet allows to stay interconnected with the world. Around 60%, companies are opting video interview in their recruitment process. Face to face interviews allow the HR staff to easily review candidates.



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