What is Recruitment Automation? Everything You Need to Know

Before now, recruitment was time-consuming, labour-intensive, and prone to human errors—without any tools or technology to help. 

With automation, a new era of efficiency, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making is changing the way agencies attract, assess, and hire talent.

For Talisman users, automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks saves time. It allows them to focus on the most important task a recruiter has—finding the right candidate for their clients.

So, what exactly is recruitment automation, and how does it benefit you and your agency? 

The talent pool today outnumbers the available vacancies and opportunities - which means that many recruitment agencies are competing to fill a small number of positions and secure long-term clients. 

What Recruitment Automation does is simple - it gives you more than to focus on strategic ways to get ahead of the competition. 

Recruitment Automation is the automation of recruiting workflows and processes that would usually be done manually. This can include candidate sourcing, candidate engagement, CV formatting, candidate assessment and compliance and much more. 

5 Benefits of Recruitment Automation 

• Save Time 

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For recruiters' day-to-day tasks and the duration it takes to find and hire the right candidate, Recruitment automation is all about giving you back time spent that can be used to do other things and turn around more candidates for your clients. 

13 hours a week of recruiter's time is spent on candidate sourcing for a single role  - multiply that by the number of roles required to be filled and the number of clients. 

There are too many things to do to spend all that time on one task. 

• Improved Candidate Sourcing and Screening

  

One of the primary challenges faced by recruiters has always been finding the right candidates from a large pool of applicants. Automation can significantly improve this with AI-powered algorithms to search through databases and identify potential candidates that match the job requirements. 

This not only saves time but also enhances the chances of finding highly qualified individuals who manual efforts may have overlooked.

Automation also allows for the creation of customised screening questionnaires, video interviews, and assessment tests that can be administered remotely to effectively filter out unsuitable candidates. 

This approach ensures that only the most relevant applicants move forward in the selection process, reducing the burden on recruiters and making their tasks easier.

• Enhanced Candidate Engagement and Experience

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Thanks to automation, candidates can experience a seamless and user-friendly process from the initial application submission to the final hiring decision. With automated communication tools, candidates receive timely updates and feedback, reducing uncertainty and maintaining a positive impression of your agency.

Read more about Automated Candidate Engagement. 

• Data-Driven Decision Making

Data Driven Decisions

The recruitment process generates a huge amount of data. But unless this data is used and managed effectively, it does not mean much. 

Automation tools can easily analyse this data and provide valuable insights for making informed hiring decisions -  a view of your recruitment funnel, including sources of successful hires, areas of improvement, and potential bottlenecks.

By leveraging data analytics, recruiters can identify patterns and trends, leading to more objective and fair candidate selection. 

These data-driven decisions not only optimise the hiring process but also help in identifying the most effective recruitment channels and strategies.

• Mitigating Bias and Promoting Diversity

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Unconscious biases in the recruitment process have long been a concern, leading to the exclusion of talented individuals from diverse backgrounds. Automation can help reduce such biases by focusing on candidates' qualifications and skills rather than personal characteristics.

AI-driven tools can strip away identifying information, such as names, ages, and genders, from applications during the initial screening stages. This "blind recruitment" approach ensures that candidates are evaluated solely based on their merits, promoting a more diverse and inclusive workforce.

Automation has become an indispensable tool in the recruitment industry, offering many benefits to recruiters and job seekers. It saves time and resources, allowing recruiters to focus on building relationships with potential hires.

With Talisman's Talimate feature, recruiters are able to do more in less time, automating your workflows and freeing up recruiters to do more with their time.

Talimate operates through a "triggers and actions" system in which the user sets different trigger events that have a corresponding response. For example, Talimate can automatically send recruiters reminders about key developments like hot leads or if a candidate hasn't placed a booking in a certain period of time. With this feature, managing candidate engagement becomes much easier.