How An Applicant Tracking System Can Improve Your Hiring

 Mar 02, 2020

Hiring the right people is crucial to your company or your client employers success. You need to find people who have the skills and drive to contribute to your or your client’s growth.

But this can be a long and complicated process. You must involve different people and carry out various steps to find the right person for the job.

Fortunately, the right applicant tracking system can simplify the process. Find out how an automated recruitment system can help you hire the best people for your job openings.

 

Look Back On Previous Applicants

If you are still into keeping paper records, reviewing past applicants is time consuming and inefficient. However, with a recruitment software assistant, posting a new job opening and accepting fresh applicants is the best option. 

Using a recruitment management software like MyRA, you can maintain a database of each applicant that is easy to search through. A unique candidate profile will be created when a person applies to your company for the first time. If you don’t hire them but still like their background, you can archive their profile in your database for future consideration. And as new positions open, you can easily comb through all your profiles and find someone who meets the job or the employer’s criteria.
 

Use Keywords to Find The Right Candidate Faster

Instead of painstakingly going through paper resumes or email to look for every applicant who has submitted an application and is interested in a certain job opening, you can simply search in My Recruitment Assistant or MyRA using a keyword. 

Attach keywords to the applicant profile to help you zero in the certain candidate for the specific job opening. Use a word or a few words to find the applicant profile more easily than going through the haystack of thousands of candidates. 

And aside from using a keyword, you can also filter your search by choosing how they’ve applied i.e. by social media, website, job fair, etc. It’s fast, easy and accurate.  

 

Replicate Your Established Workflow in MyRA

Your company likely already has an established workflow for hiring and your applicant tracking system should have the flexibility to support that process. MyRA can help you set up this in the system. Plot your schedules in the interview calendar, send email or SMS notifications to applicants, put remarks in their profiles for internal notes and assign stages of your workflow to the different people involved. 

My Recruitment Assistant  (MyRA) can also be your internal communication hub for your team. Everyone will receive automated notifications when it’s their turn to get involved and give feedback. They can reply directly through email and their comments will automatically be imported into the right candidate profile in the applicant tracking system.

 

Keep Track of Candidates As They Progress

It can be tough to keep tabs on all your applicants once you start interviewing them, asking them to submit documents and processing their applications. It is difficult since you want to keep a steady pace so positions get filled in a timely manner. And more often than not, this is what most recruitment companies in the Philippines are having a hard time of. 

An applicant tracking system like MyRA will give you insight into the status of your job openings and the people who have applied for them. You can drill down to the candidate level and see the positions they’ve applied for and the stage they’re at in the workflow. Your automated recruitment system will also help you evaluate specific jobs and see how many candidates have applied and where each one is at.

My Recruitment assistant or MyRA will give you an at-glance overview of all your pending jobs and candidates with the ability to narrow in on specific details. You can also check on what documents have been submitted and those that are not yet completed. See how far they are in the recruitment process and identify stages that are stalled so you can respond accordingly and keep your hiring moving forward.

Here in the Philippines, an applicant tracking system like My Recruitment Assistant (MyRA) is the key to a streamlined recruiting and hiring process. Instead of getting caught up reviewing resumes and scheduling interviews, you can devote your time and energy to finding the right candidate for your job opening. 

 

Contact us now to experience MyRA and its efficiency for your company.