Every company invests in technology as part of their recruitment strategy. A web portal, document sharing, and now video interviews have all become a standard part of hiring today’s professionals. For companies that hire on a large scale, there are useful technologies like automated listing placements and predictive hiring analytics. But technology is also essential on the interface level.
The top talent in any industry is looking for a tech-integrated employer. They can predict your comfort with- and use of back-end technology by how it is used during recruitment. A recruitment website or portal is a good sign. Virtual skill tests and casual use of chat platforms is an even better sign. For the upper echelons of professionals, a high-tech hiring process indicates a cutting-edge employer.
1. Full-Service Recruitment Website
Like everything in the modern business world, it all starts with your web presence. Candidates– whether found by recruiters, job boards, or independent interest — will head to your business website to investigate you as an employer. They will check the top-bar navigation, then the footer site-map for a ‘Careers’ link. They will skim their e-mail for a link to your candidate portal.
You want to fulfill that expectation. Modern candidates expect a section of your website to be dedicated to recruitment and applicants. Impress them by exceeding their expectations.
2. Recruitment Mobile App
Candidates expect a web portal, but they truly appreciate a mobile app. An app for candidates, or candidate-access to your business app, will impress any industry professional. This is especially true if the app is well-tested and streamlined to provide specific intended functions. If the app is designed to help candidates through a mapped hiring process, word of your high-tech recruitment will casually spread through professional channels.
3. Virtual Skill Tests and Collaborations
Virtual skill tests were, as recently as 2019, a sign of a high-tech employer or an extremely technical role. However, since the COVID situation, virtual skill-testing has become a new must-have. The level of ease and acuity with which you wield the virtual skill testing will indicate your company’s comfort with virtual projects and products in the future as well.
Get your candidates showing their best work in a virtual skill test or pair them in remote collaborations to show the high-tech flexibility they can expect as an employee.
4. Cloud Documents and Signing
Cloud document management and virtual signatures are another new must-have. While many employers around the world struggle to get direct-deposit paychecks online, you can show the top talent that your brand is on the ball. Cloud documents tell high-tech candidates two things: The first is that your business knows how to handle their content and projects remotely. This bodes well for a post-COVID employer and flexible work conditions. The second thing is that you can handle things like contracts, salary, and general business wirelessly – that there will be a minimal hassle with things like mailing paper checks or faxing human-notarized signatures.
5. Smooth Video Interview Platform & Process
Everyone is recruiting through video interviews right now – but now all companies are comfortable with the process. Interviews wrought with technical problems and awkward handling of the new technology are the norm. By smoothly hosting, trouble-shooting, and conducting video interviews, you can impress top talent and show them that you, as an employer, are not among those scrambling to adapt.
6. Applicant Access to Company Software
Like document sharing, candidates are also looking out for quick or provisional access to the company’s software stack. These days, everyone has the preferred industry software they like to work with — a preferred communication platform, CRM, or billing manager. They also have preferred workflows – ways of interacting with coworkers. Applicant access to the company stack – even with limited or provisional accounts – gives your talent a glimpse into the future workflow and will persuade those that would naturally enjoy your environment.
7. Ongoing Virtual Collaboration
Similarly, the way your current staff interact and conduct projects can also influence talent who are looking for the right fit. If you have cloud-based projects and remote team collaborations already ongoing, this is a heartening sign that working with your team would not only be high-tech, but also casual and flexible. Ongoing virtual projects and casual online communication bode well for remote professionals, those staying at home for safety, and those talented professionals who may need circumstance flexibility.
8. Virtual Tours & Virtual Workplaces
A virtual tour is a cherry on top of your candidate-facing recruitment technology. Modern 3D camera technology has made it possible to fully visually map what it would be like to walk through your company’s workplaces and venues. You can recreate the experience of working in the office for remote recruits, applicants, and then employees.
This is a great way to give tours during remote hiring and even provide site-specific virtual onboarding and training.
Of course, with virtualization, you also don’t need a great physical workplace to start with. You can also create a simulated virtual workplace – whatever you think might be best. The possibilities that virtual tours have opened have not yet been fully explored – this is currently the cutting edge of recruitment technology.
