What Are the Benefits of Using Technology in Recruitment?

Technology is important for providing the most efficient and effective staffing strategy for your business. Whether it is utilising its ability to forecast future staffing needs or quickly reduce applicants so that only the most valuable candidates are interviewed.

Benefits of using technology in recruitment

Streamline Processes

When it comes to automating tasks, technology can speed up processes, removing the issues of human error while accurately performing manual tasks. These tasks, which can often be time-consuming and costly, include CV screening and scheduling interviews. By removing the requirement for hands-on repetitive tasks, we can spend longer providing a high-quality touch to the steps that count – such as candidate selection and onboarding.

Enhanced Candidate Experience

Technology can be used to improve the overall candidate experience, setting your company apart as a preferred employer within your industry and region. Mobile apps and online portals make it easier for candidates to find job postings, apply, and interact with regular recruitment activity for temporary positions. By making the process more accessible for a range of talent, you can improve the experience for your candidates, while ensuring you get access to the quality of talent your business needs.

Data-Driven Decision Making

Making the most of your staffing activity and budget means making fully informed decisions. Our technology is specialised in providing you with easily accessible, understandable data with regular reporting to ensure you can make the best decisions for your business needs. Our data transparency includes metrics such as time-to-fill and cost-to-hire so that you can better control your agency spending and quality.

Wider Talent Pool

Access a diverse workforce of quality talent by expanding your staffing outreach with our solutions. Our technology is designed to maximise the use of various job boards, our SEO performance, selected social media platforms, and AI-powered sourcing tools to optimise your candidate attraction. By reaching quality talent in this way, we ensure that you’re getting the best skills for each role.

Improved Compliance

Maintaining legal compliance is necessary for every business. Our solutions prioritise both standard and industry-specific compliance needs for your business with technology designed to flag non-compliance, including out-of-date right-to-work documentation and unverified identities. Reduce the risk of non-compliance and associated penalties with technology-powered compliance you can trust.

Cost Efficiency

Optimising your staffing processes and ensuring the best quality vendor management are steps in reducing your overall recruitment expenditure. By utilising technology in this way, you can reduce staffing hire time, as well as the price per head associated with bad hiring practices, onboarding inefficiencies, and the wrong candidates.

Scalability

Technology offers you the ability to better scale your staffing efforts to complement business growth and initiative. Whether you’re implementing a new service and require a skilled team to step in or recruiting volume candidates across a range of UK-based locations, technology can support efficient and scalable efforts – ensuring that your business always has the right talent nearby.

Enhanced Collaboration

Efficient staffing needs effective communication. Technology such as cloud-based platforms and communication tools are perfect for ensuring direct collaboration between all stakeholders – including HR teams, hiring managers, and recruitment agencies. This allows us to work quickly to provide the staff you need, including facilitating any ad-hoc requests and urgent changes required to ensure the productivity of your business.

Why partner with Blue Arrow?

We don’t just provide people, we curate unique talent workforces to improve productivity and reduce costs through cutting-edge systems and processes. Our technology stack has been developed with over 65 years of recruitment experience behind it to provide the optimal outcomes for our clients.

We’ve taken all we know about your sectors to develop a process backed by the most efficient technology in the market to provide bespoke workforces with high-quality talent, designed to work towards your business goals. Our people-first approach powered by technology means that we can provide efficient, money-saving workforce strategies which are designed around you.