Is your hiring stuck in the past? One simple solution to future-proof your talent acquisition

With so many different solutions in the market for finding, attracting, and managing the right candidates, choosing the best platform for your company can be tedious and costly. Here is an overview of the most common categories in the hiring solutions space to bring you up to speed.

Job Boards

Job boards are the most common tool for getting jobs out to potential candidates. Although some job boards now offer better search functions or enable you to add more flavour to your job ads through photos and videos, they haven’t evolved much from their offline predecessors. Job boards can be a good solution if you know that people are actively looking for your company or role, but they offer little in terms of discovery. It is also easy to get lost in a large pool of jobs and hard to really stand out as a potential employer.

Career Networks

Although career networks may not have as many members as Facebook, they have been growing steadily and offer an essential solution in the social space. They allow professionals to connect with others, inform themselves through their news feed, discuss in industry groups and also potentially find their next role or be discovered by a recruiter. For companies, career networks can be useful across different industries, for advertising roles, and for actively looking for the right candidates. However, the noise and information overload can make it hard to stand out. In addition to this, many are still the domain of the white collar workforce. So, while you may be able to find salespeople, it can be near impossible to find a head chef for your restaurant, a costume designer for a theatre and many other roles. The limitation is the size of the network as opposed to the size of the overall talent pool in any given location. Finally, scouring through profiles of passive talent on a career network can be time consuming as there is little indication they may be interested in your company.

Careers or Jobs Section on your website

Having a “Jobs” or “Careers” section on your website lets you showcase your employer brand, advertise open roles and provide a destination for interested candidates. However, there are two important drawbacks in using this as your primary channel for talent acquisition. Firstly, only talent who already know about your company will land on this site. Secondly,  developing and maintaining your careers page can be very costly. Career or jobs sections are an integral part of any hiring strategy, many don’t receive enough quality visits to work as a standalone solution for all your hiring needs and often don’t receive regular attention from the web developer, so they become outdated and unattractive quickly.

Applicant Tracking Systems

After a pool of candidates have been identified, it is now about picking the perfect hire from this cohort. This is where Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) come in. In recent times, there has been a huge surge in available ATS options. There are many great platforms out there that help with managing screenings, interviews and assessments, all the way to making a hire. Some even offer HR-functionality to track and retain your talent after they become employees. Sounds appealing? Sure, but they still fall short when it comes to distributing and advertising your open roles and getting the right candidate profiles to feed into your ATS in the first place.

Why choose?

While job boards, social networks, a careers section on your website and an ATS can help with attracting, connecting with and organising prospective hires respectively, none of them cover the full process.

An integrated solution makes the life of recruiters and hiring managers easier from start to finish. Utilise targeted job distribution across a variety of generic and industry-focused job boards specific to the job location with the click of a button, showcase your employer brand via a beautiful multimedia and social-enabled careers page updated with all your live job openings, seamlessly integrate this into your own website and funnel all applicants through a state-of-the-art, searchable and shareable ATS. All to make the hiring process seamless and save time.

Jobbio is a holistic solution that does not fall into any of the categories mentioned above, but instead provides the benefits of all of them at a significantly lower price point, thus not only saving money, but also time. It connects you with live talent instead of outdated paper CVs and functions the same on mobile and desktop so you can attract, review and manage your talent pool on the go.

Contact us today and try out the future of hiring!