What Are Our Top Recruitment Technology Features for Streamline Hiring?

With Blue Arrow you will have access to a wide range of advanced technological features that will help you fulfil your recruitment needs. From efficient candidate matching to automated compliance management, these features streamline your hiring process, improve efficiency and enhance the candidate experience.

Explore the key recruitment technology features below to see how they can support you with your hiring strategy.

Find Work

Our "Find Work" feature leverages a pool of registered candidates and workers who have fully adopted our technology, allowing them to input their work preferences such as travel distance, pay rates, and more.

By matching clients and candidates in this way, we can ensure candidate enthusiasm, higher levels of fulfilment, and reduced attrition for our client.

This means that you can benefit from:

Efficient Matching

Quickly find workers whose preferences align with your job requirements, ensuring a better fit and higher satisfaction.

Preferred Worker Placement

If a candidate is a preferred worker for your organisation, they are automatically assigned to the shift upon expressing interest, reducing administrative overhead, and ensuring consistency in your workforce.

Enhanced Flexibility

Access a dynamic and responsive labour pool that provides you with the right workers at the right time, with minimal input necessary.

Open Shift

Open Shift is our candidate sourcing feature, used by our recruitment experts, that has been helping businesses across the UK find the unique talent necessary for their vacancies. This utilises candidate data across our 180,000+ wide talent community to seek the right people for your positions.

We understand that backfilling unexpected staffing gaps, often comes with urgency, so our solutions are designed around making sure that talent ready to work are seeing your shift needs quickly. This feature has helped businesses across the UK manage their workforce needs through:

Supporting fast fulfilment

Our Open Shift feature is a sophisticated algorithm that helps our recruitment consultants match candidates quickly, ensuring that you get the right candidates, when you need them.

Delivering diversity

Our skill and location-based matching allows for non-biased recruitment decisions, supporting diversity and inclusion strategies for businesses across the UK.

Managing your workforce in a cost-effective and efficient way

The automated components of Open Shift make the process cost-effective and efficient, reducing the overheads of long-term administration effort, and supporting quick backfill activity.

Supplying returning candidates

Candidates who have previously worked in your business are matched and prioritised with a higher suitability rating, to save training time and increase peace of mind by finding candidates you know and trust.

Maintaining compliance

The system ensures that only candidates who meet your compliance requirements are considered. Any candidates who fall below your regulation needs are filtered from matched candidate results, so that you can recruit with confidence by choosing only legally compliant candidates.

Utilising market intelligence

Our Open Shift feature quickly gauges the level of interest in each job, providing an early indication of recruitment challenges and market trends so that we can provide a reactive approach to your recruitment needs.

Providing consistency

Through this feature, we provide consistency of service delivery across all Blue Arrow teams, 24/7. So, every time that you hire with us, you know what to expect and can rely on our outcomes.

Talent Watchdog

Our Talent Watchdog feature is perfect for finding and retaining the quality talent within your sector. Based on 65 years of recruitment experience, we understand sourcing talent can be difficult, that is why we aim to make spotting quality candidates easier for our clients.

Several ways we do this include:

Fast access to candidates

Through this feature, you can quickly access new candidates with desirable skills suited to your vacancies – so that they never get lost among volume applicant responses.

Notifications for niche skills

Our recruitment consultants can set up notifications for niche skills, ensuring Blue Arrow’s clients never miss a key candidate. These notifications make sure that we always find and prioritise people with the best skills for your positions, as soon as they apply to your vacancy.

Quick secure high-quality candidates

Top candidates often apply to multiple job adverts as soon as they enter the job market, making them quickly placed in other roles. Our instant notification means that our recruitment consultants can respond at the peak of candidate interest and intent—right at the point of application – securing this talent for your business before competitors.

Early indication of recruitment challenges

Recruitment consultants can quickly gauge the level of interest in each job, providing an earlier indication of recruitment challenges. By identifying issues early, we can quickly develop a candidate attraction approach to ensure that you get the number of applicants needed for your positions.

Finding candidates when others can't

Our Talent Watchdog feature is developed to ensure our consultant find talent faster when other candidate attraction methods fail. If you’re struggling to attract the right talent to your business, we can find the skilled talent you need.

RecruiterBot

Our RecruiterBot technology is a cutting-edge tool utilising chatbot technology to engage with high volumes of candidates. This technology is perfectly curated for temporary staffing, where urgent requests and large quantities of candidates are necessary to fulfil vacancies and ensure productivity.

By using chatbots we can:

Quickly fulfil urgent demands: whether you have a role that needs backfilling or an urgent uplift in demand, we can quickly fulfil vacancy demands with chatbots specifically tailored to rapidly screen and assess candidate suitability.
Cut down on costs: due to the speed and automation available with this feature, we can reduce the administration time, and costs, associated with high volume, high-touch recruitment processes.
Improve accuracies: this automated method of RecruiterBot reduces the chance of human error, making sure that you get the right person for your vacancies based on bespoke matching metrics.

My Blue Arrow App

Our Blue Arrow app is designed to offer our candidates a quick, easy, and accessible way into work – meaning that we can provide your business with the best talent on your doorstep, with helpful dashboards to help candidates and businesses keep track of work hours, shifts, and fulfilment.

This mobile app can enhance workforce management by empowering candidates to:

Update and manage availability

Candidates can quickly and easily update their availability, ensuring they are considered for suitable shifts. This allows you to fill shifts quicker, with people available to work on the day, reducing your levels of absenteeism and non-attendance.

GPS-enabled time and attendance

This feature improves timesheet management and your invoice accuracy, ensuring that the hours worked are verified, so that you pay for the work you receive. This ensures timely and accurate payments, making your payroll easier to manage while maintaining candidate morale with efficient and reliable payment.

Manage work patterns and preferences

Candidates can better align their working patterns with their preferences and personal schedules, allowing your business to fulfil shifts with candidates who reliably choose the working hours that work for them.

Accept shift invitations

You can quickly fill open vacancies by allowing candidates to accept shifts directly through the app. By offering shifts through an easy-to-use, mobile application, candidates can find work on-the-go, making filling your shifts easier for everyone.

Find suitable work opportunities

The app matches candidates with jobs that align with their skills, experience, qualifications, location, and preferred shift patterns. By using these metrics, we ensure a better fit for both the candidate and the client.

Our Client Portal

Accessing your staffing information in real-time is vital for businesses looking to get a better grasp on their recruitment activity and ensure that their shifts are being fulfilled to improve productivity and efficiency. As cost-savings become more crucial for businesses going forward, being able to understand and access your data with a fully customisable and transparent dashboard is necessary for flexible, reliable staffing:

Through our client portal you can ensure smooth operations and make fully informed decisions by:

Manage timesheets

Ensure that you’re only paying for the work you receive with timesheets logged and managed in one location. This allows you to see in real-time how your shifts are being filled and executed.

Manage invoices

This is a reliable capture of your invoices, allowing you to better understand where your staffing budget is going so that you have full visibility of your candidate spend across site locations and shifts.

Track staffing demand

Whether you’re looking for a real-time trend or forecasting for the future, knowing your staffing demand is vital for understanding the growth of your business and the individual needs of each location.

Monitor spending

Ensure cost-effective staffing strategies with your candidate spend at your fingertips. You have full control and flexibility over how your budget is aligned with your staffing needs through transparent spend information.