How to identify and recruit skilled individuals with expertise in cutting-edge technologies?
In today’s fiercely competitive labor market, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find and retain qualified employees. One way that technology has streamlined the hiring process is using digital platforms. When technology with automation and AI capabilities is applied, the hiring process is expedited. The hiring team could complete several recruitment duties rapidly if they had a dependable and efficient hiring platform. For instance, conversational AI can be used early in the hiring process to assess applicant resumes and provide skills-based pre-screening questions while gathering information based on applicant responses. The hiring team can work together even when they are not all in the same place thanks to a common digital platform.
Chatbots, interactive video Q&A sessions, and live group chats are a few examples of chat-based digital platforms that can greatly enhance both the candidate experience and a company’s ratio of successful hiring. Today’s chatbots may respond to any question a prospective employee could normally ask and give them all the details they need to submit an application for a particular position.
The adoption of several technologies, such as applicant tracking systems and automation in the HR sector, can help with effective hiring.
The most typical hiring error you should avert:
A common error employers should avoid is using outdated and incompatible recruiting methods. Today’s candidates have more options than ever, and employers who can move them through the hiring funnel faster— meaning they can source, screen, interview, hire and onboard them — will outperform those with a slower hiring process. By assessing their hiring technology and ensuring their recruiting methods are aligned with their target audience, employers can avoid losing qualified candidates to competitors.
. Using traditional methods, finding applicants, screening them, conducting interviews, and hiring them can be time-intensive. The use of technology has greatly sped up the modern hiring process, but as recruiters have become more reliant on it, job seekers have also adjusted their resumes, social media profiles, and portfolios to include keywords and qualifications that they are aware of being sought after by recruiters. As a result, you may incidentally hire or shortlist a candidate based on talents they don’t actually possess.
Opinions on using digital technology to hire the proper talent:
Digital technology should help, not hinder, your efforts to hire qualified talent. Your hiring technology should carefully examine candidate skills and qualifications, eliminate mundane and repetitive recruiter tasks, and expedite the hiring process.
(The author is OmPrakash Muppirala, VP of Engineering & Head of Fountain India, and the views expressed in this article are his own)
