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3 Stats to Help AI Have a Purpose in the Recruitment Process

Recruiters' inboxes are either crowded with the wrong job applications, or ironically empty. They're potentially wasting 13 hours a week screening candidates that are not worthy of their jobs, and they all want AI, but don't know where to start.2021 has to be a year where recruiters engage more with tech, data, and systems, so that they can engage better with their candidates, clients, and colleagues. How can AI (artificial intelligence) help?My Interview with Gareth Christian at ReciiI spoke with Gareth Christian at Recii. They specialise in conversational AI - wow that sounds cool! It's basically where your website helps screen out the candidates you don't want to apply for your jobs, and helps the ones that do, get through to you. I asked Gareth 3 questions about how conversational AI can help recruiters be more productive.1. Gareth, if 50% of candidate applications are a poor fit, how can we make sure that this doesn't bottleneck a recruiter's inbox?The last 12 months has seen a fundamental shift in the recruitment world from a candidate driven market to a role driven space. There’s been a 10-fold increase of job applications - some recruiters can now receive as many as 500 applications.Hence the knock-on effect is that more time is needed for screening. The recruitment process becomes bottled necked at the front, and there’s little time for the rest of the process. This is creating poor candidate (and colleague) experience.It affects sales, too - time to hire is increased and this impacts the consultant’s ability to generate sustainable revenue.Think about how can AI help “declutter” this part of the process.2. Gareth, if 13 hours spent screening candidates each week, with little time for candidate care, and this negatively impacts on candidate experience?With the massive increase in job applications, recruiters need to ensure they are speaking with the correct candidates. With application volumes increasing this can mean less time focusing on processes that can generate revenue.Conversational AI can speak to 000’s of candidates every minute, working through a database and applications to ensure each candidate file is updated, accurate and compliant. It can also remove unconscious basis through screening standardisation, suitability grading and soft skill assessment. A great help for D&I improvements.3. 76% of recruiters believe AI will have an impact on recruitment yet currently, only 10% embrace some form of AI - thoughts Gareth?The coronavirus pandemic has forced the recruitment industry to adopt new ways of working – working from home, technological and agile approaches to recruitment are key.The recruitment industry has always focussed on human interaction, and AI has been seen as “anti-recruiter” – when in fact it could be the driver of better candidate, client, and colleague experience. The key is understanding where in the recruitment process AI is best sat, and how it can boost the rest of the process.---Every piece of tech in your recruitment business needs to serve a purpose, and not simply be a cost. It needs a job to do - and it needs to deliver. AI and automation can take a lot of pain away in 2021 - where is your pain? No time, too many candidates, recruiters doing too much admin, dirty data, not enough jobs? How can tech help?Talking of Recruiters Having More Time and Making More Sales...Could you save your recruiters an hour a day, which is 6 weeks a year? Plus hire less staff than you think you need?Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines, and recruitment marketers attract, engage, and retain candidates, generate leads, and colleagues (3Cs).TRY RECRUITMENT HIIT 7 DAYS FOR FREEREAD ABOUT OUR RECRUITMENT TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING

Herefish Automations - Bullhorn Recruitment on Speed

Recruitment automation is the new black - it's become a deal maker for many recruitment businesses especially during this time of need for more effective sourcing and sales.I'm delighted that Barclay Jones is now working with recruitment companies to not simply implement Herefish, but help our clients effectively integrate it into their workflows to improve speed and pipeline. Recruitment Automation - The Ultimate ROI?Recruitment leaders, and their marketers and recruiters, who want to work more smart with the data and systems they have will see automation as a life saver. In fact, Herefish's ROI calculator gives you an idea of how many Tesla you could buy with it's ROI!It's never been more important to work with what you have, and simply "monetise" it.You're likely to have all of the data you need, in fact 72% of candidates placed last year, you already had, but spent time and money sourcing them elsewhere (facepalm!) And you're 60-70% more likely to reconvert an existing client, than make money from new clients.But still, the chase is what's comfy; sourcing for 13 hours a week and not following up 80% of leads is the norm. Effective recruitment process is in the eye of the beholder. A lot is being left to chance.Recruitment Automation = No Need for More Recruiters?The recruitment sales model has always been to hire more people. When automation is mentioned as an enabler, recruiters frown at the thought of being replaced by robots. But automation isn't about replacing recruiters - it's about doing the recruitment jobs you don't have time (or people) to do. Best practice can be achieved!Being part of a team who has worked in recruitment tech, training and marketing for 20 years, I'm often frustrated with how recruitment tech can unwittingly turn sales people into admin. Surely tech is supposed to do the heavy lifting?Recruitment Automation = A Time SaverWhat do you want to do, but don't have time? What should your recruiters be doing but don't do?What can you automate that makes time for you to place more, bill more, sleep more?We'd all love to go back to pre-Covid and gear up for the lockdowns, but without time-machine tech, all we can do is be more effective with the future. I'm on a mission to save every recruiter 1 hour a day (30 days a year) so that they have more time to bill. Herefish sits well within my team's arsenal.Recruitment Automation Case StudyI have a client who uses Bullhorn and Herefish, and we deliver all of his Bullhorn and Induction training. He had his best ever month this April (yes, this April... ) and is hiring his 3rd 2020 cohort. Herefish is embedded into his recruitment workflow. Recruiters simply select who they want to have calls with and Herefish does the heavy lifting. Glorious!How to Get Your Recruitment Automated? READ ABOUT OUR BULLHORN TRAINING AND HEREFISH ROIBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS BULLHORN AND HEREFISHPS: Listen to my podcast with Jason from Herefish - we talked about recruitment automation, and look at our latest Herefish tips.