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What technology is there?

Automated job postings and social media
When a company is looking to hire, they often flood the market with job postings and updates. Contacting old employees, former applicants, and new candidates about the position takes up valuable time for the recruiters. Through automated posting platforms, recruiters can schedule job postings over an allotted period of time without any hassle. Moreover, access to accounts like LinkedIn helps market the company and its job post, while also giving the recruiter greater access and insight into the candidates applying. Social media accounts give them a chance to put a face with a name. Additionally, these accounts may have valuable information about an applicant that a CV or resume might not have, like location, phone number, etc.Resume screening automation
The most commonly used automation throughout the recruitment process is for resume screening. Being the most time-consuming part of the recruitment process, screening resumes desperately needed a streamlining mechanism to make it easier. Recruiters and experts estimate that out of a pool of applicants, at least 75% are usually unqualified. This means that for one position, a recruiter spends three-quarters of their valuable time reviewing applicants that are unfit or inadequate for the advertised role. Just recently, the much-desired technology emerged and now recruiters can streamline this formidable part of the hiring process. The most common type of screening automation focuses on keyword screening. Keyword screening rifles through the submitted resumes, essentially searching for the keywords the employer included in the advertisement. If an applicant’s resume doesn’t include the word, or a related one, the system removes them from the pool. This makes it so the recruiter only has to review the qualified applicants, ultimately saving them loads of time.Interview automation
Considerably one of the most important parts of the recruitment process, interviews give both the recruiter and the applicant a chance to get to know each other on a deeper level. Before this stage, each party is only known as far as the bullet points on the job posting or the CV.
Company-wide processes
Going beyond just external automated platforms, there are internal, company-wide changes that can be implemented to improve overall functionality. Specifically, a uniform program across the company can especially help the human resources department and its recruiting efforts. A well-known automated approach to this idea is an overarching intranet for a company. An intranet allows employees to connect and work together over one common medium, ultimately facilitating the job at hand. Within an intranet, there can be automated templates and processes associated with the hiring process. For example, generating a job post, a job offer, and even an employment contract can all be streamlined and done through a clear, easy-to-use, intranet system. Additionally, the intranet can host on-boarding and training processes for new hires. This saves the company time and resources because the recruiter doesn’t have to catch the employee up on simple things. The employee can find what to expect, who the company is, and a preview of company culture in an intranet on-boarding process.Challenges to automation

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