7 Recruiting Technologies to Hire the Right Professionals

Recruitment technologies can bring many advantages to the HR sector, such as process optimization, information integration, and greater assertiveness in selection procedures.

When the human resources department uses its full potential, it can contribute much more to the company's success. Google, for example, has the recruitment of employees as one of the most important issues in the business.

Technologies can greatly facilitate recruitment processes, however, it must be kept in mind that not all of them will suit the needs of the company. Before implementing a new solution, it is essential to be sure that its use will be positive at the moment.

A good recruiting experience sets the tone for the candidate experience as well as building your Employer Branding. With the right recruitment process, you can secure the best talent ahead of competitors, even in such a competitive market. Strategic recruiting can be time-consuming and expensive. But if managed well, it can save precious resources and free up time to focus on other strategies and projects.

In this article, we'll introduce you to 7 recruiting technologies to keep an eye out for in the HR industry. Check them out!

1. Slack
2. Zoom
3. LinkedIn
4. PipeDrive
5. Indeed
6. Glassdoor
7. 99Hunters

The 7 Recruitment Technologies

1. Slack 

Slack lets you set up chats for different departments in your business. Slack can be useful in all aspects of the business, but it can be even more effective for recruiting. This tool can be used to help introduce new employees to the rest of the team and help clear up any doubts at the beginning of the selection process.

Here are some perks of using Slack:

1. Create a channel dedicated to your vacancy;
2. Find important information faster and keep candidates informed;
3. Coordinate interviews and feedback
   Get recruiting updates and job vacancy reviews in Slack
4. Track candidates through to hiring

2. Zoom

Many companies may be familiar with Zoom thanks to lockdown and remote working, but Zoom doesn't just have to be used for team meetings. The tool can also be used to conduct interviews. In fact, more and more companies are joining the platform because it tends to be more convenient for remote interviews.

From a candidate's perspective, Zoom interviews make logistics easier and stress-free. While for companies, Zoom calls are smoother, reducing the time and money needed to find the right person. Practical, easy to use and free tool.

Here are some advantages of using Zoom:

1. Provides real conversations;
2. You can record the interviews;
3. Possibility of international hiring.

3. LinkedIn

A while ago, only a few players in the market like Monster, CareerBuilder and Craigslist were options to recruit online. Recruiters received thousands of messages and even spam, making the recruitment process almost a nightmare due to the lack of organization.

Times have changed, and now social media has opened up a whole new world of opportunity. LinkedIn has 450 million members and 32% of people employed are active LinkedIn users. This opens up more opportunities for recruiters to find the right candidates faster. As a result, LinkedIn has become the preferred recruiting method for companies.

Here are some advantages of using LinkedIn:

1. Greater agility and assertiveness in the selection processes;
2. Greater networking for job placement;
3. Helps your company to position itself better in the market

4. PipeDrive

O PipeDrive is a sales software that can be very useful for recruiting. Some recruitment tools are very complex, difficult to use, and require extensive training to use. But PipeDrive's simplicity has caught the attention of recruiting professionals.

The horizontal view of the pipeline gives an overview of how many candidates are participating at each stage of the hiring process.
You can drag and drop prospects from one stage to the next without having to change their status. And you can also book an interview time directly in the app and get reminders, making your time management much more efficient.

The tool also connects with your email. When you send or receive an email, the message is automatically displayed in the app. In a broader sense, there are a few other ways to organize your workload:

1. Allows having a different pipeline for each function;
2. Can customize each stage of the process as their names;
3. Can take notes, attach CV and previous contact history for a potential customer;
4. Everyone involved in the hiring process is able to stay informed about the vacancy in progress.

5. Indeed

Indeed is a job aggregator that pulls job postings from elsewhere and displays them on its own website, targeting candidates who are looking for jobs. If you browse the site a bit, you'll notice that some of your ads probably already appear there.

But the platform also works for recruiters. It is free to advertise jobs on the platform, and it also has the paid version with some extra features that will help you to promote your ads more easily.

The tool has an ATS built into the site to help recruiters manage the hiring process, providing some interesting insights into competing salaries and companies that are also advertising jobs in the same industry. Having all this information available means the recruiter can create a more personalized job ad for the right candidates.

6. Glassdoor

Your organization's success depends on recruiting highly qualified people for open positions. Glassdor is an excellent opportunity to connect with these people. On average, 50 million people use the tool every month to look for a job.

The platform offers a variety of options for customizing search capabilities to target your vacancies to the right candidates. You can select in and out of the search location (country, city, and state), search competing pages, and even scale up your diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Glassdor is a great opportunity to boost the value of your brand, through a profile full of valuable content, such as showing dynamic videos, highlighting your culture, values, and benefits. Company evaluation is critical to increasing your brand's credibility and attracting new talent.

Here are some advantages of using Glassdoor:

1. Highlight your brand;
2. Recruit highly qualified and diverse talent;
3. Inform candidates;
4. Intuitive analysis.

7. 99Hunters

99Hunters is the largest marketplace for headhunters and recruitment consultancies in Latin America. It connects self-employed professionals and consultancies, with recruitment challenges from partner companies. It's a great solution for overworked HRs. At a time when HR is starting to play a more strategic role, with a more business-oriented view, functions such as research, receiving and sorting resumes and other operational activities, end up taking precious time away from the department. Through active recruitment and networking, profiles approved on the platform are able to achieve much greater volume and reach than traditional executive search consultancies.

With the advancement of technology, the emergence of new professions and, above all, the high competitiveness of the market for qualified professionals, 99Hunters emerges as an ideal partner to conduct the most operational stages of selection processes and give the HR department a breath. It is possible to follow all the stages of the process in real time through the platform and also to count on the advisory service of a specialist, who will evaluate all the profiles presented in the process, guaranteeing the assertiveness in the indications, and making the HR to be able to focus on the most crucial steps in the process.

Here are some advantages of using 99Hunters

1. Assertiveness and agility of active recruitment;
2. Up to 7 times more search reach;
3. Great value for money.