9 Exciting Recruitment Tools for Managers

There are no shortcuts to finding the right candidate, but with the right recruitment tools, managers can shave time and costs from an extensive hiring process.

If you’re in charge of hiring people, then you already know how challenging it can be. From writing job descriptions to conducting interviews and (finally) hiring someone and onboarding them, it’s a process that represents a significant investment.

In fact, hiring a new employee costs around $4,000 and takes about 42 days to do. If you hire the wrong person, you’re back to square one starting over — and you don’t have time for that.

There are tools for just about anything, but you need to find ones that will complement and improve your processes, not make it harder.

9 Top Recruitment Tools for Managers (Organized by Category)

Finding the perfect tools for your recruiting tool kit can be a challenge. There are so many out there that deciding which ones will make the most significant impact on your processes is time-consuming. 

Let us help you get started by introducing you to 9 tools you can start using today to ramp up recruitment and fill your open positions faster than ever before. 

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

AI is used to streamline the recruitment process by automating tasks and improving your overall recruitment workflow.

“Recruiters spend an average of 14 hours per week, manually completing tasks, and 96% of recruiters believe that AI can greatly enhance talent acquisition and retention.”

What are the benefits of using AI for recruiting? 

AI saves the recruiter’s time by automating repetitive, high volume tasks. You can use it to:

• Screen resumes and derive meaningful insights automatically.
• Schedule interviews with candidates and send reminders.
• Answer questions in a conversational manner.
• Standardize the matching between a potential employees’ experience, knowledge, and skills compared to the requirements of the job.

What AI Recruitment Tools Are Available?

Some examples of AI-powered recruitment tools you can employ for your company are:

1. Recruiter Chatbots

AI-powered chatbots, like Ari, can provide real-time interaction with potential employees by answering their questions, asking questions based on the requirements of the job, providing feedback, updates, next steps, and suggestions. As a recruiter, you can review their answers in an easy-to-read report and save time.

2. Intelligent Screening Software

AI-powered software like CVViZ can be used to compare resumes based on experience, skills, and data from public sources — such as previous employers and public social media profiles. 

It ranks the resumes to provide you with a list that has the strongest candidates featured at the top. The software also learns which hires move on to become successful employees based on their performance, tenure, and turnover rates. It will use this knowledge to improve its employee success forecasting.

3. Digitized Interviews

You can use AI-powered software, like Hire Vue, to conduct interviews and assess applicants’ word choices, speech patterns, and facial expressions to determine if they would be a good match for your company’s environment and culture.

“55% of HR managers see evidence that AI will become a regular part of HR in the next 5 years.”

Implementing AI in your recruitment processes frees up your recruiters to conduct a more proactive hiring strategy vs. spending the majority of their time on reactive backfilling. They will also have more time to spend with applicants in person and be able to use data to show recruiting KPIs — like quality of hire.  

Social Media

42% of the population — approximately 3.2 billion people — use social media in their daily lives. 85% of companies are using social media for recruitment, and 55% of job seekers find social and professional networks to be the best resources when job searching. If you aren’t using social media marketing to find potential hires and promote your brand, you are missing out!

What Are the Benefits of Using Social Media for Recruitment?

Social media sites are a great place to find applicants that are loyal to your brand and would make an excellent fit for your company. Your employees can help you build trust with followers by sharing behind the scenes looks at your company, and encouraging interested applicants to reach out with questions. 

You can turn your existing workforce into social media brand ambassadors by implementing a referral program for your employees. This gives them extra incentive to share job postings with their friends and family and help you fill open positions sooner.

What Tools Are Available to Help Integrate Social Media in Your Recruiting Processes?

Recruiterly and SourceHub are two of the most useful tools to help you integrate social media marketing strategies into your recruiting efforts.

4. Recruiterly

Recruiterly’s social media scheduler, marketplace analytics, profile views and traffic sources, company analytics, scheduled social posts, and job postings will help you leverage social media to your advantage with ease. They even include a live activity feed that shows you who has visited your profile and when, new reviews, new followers, new comments, and more.

5. SourceHub

SourceHub is a boolean string builder that helps you find potential candidates by searching the major social media platforms — LinkedIn, Xray of LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Bing, Stackoverflow, Github, Pinterest, and more. Facebook is not integrated with SourceHub, however. 

For example, if you start a search for Java Developer, you will be given results for candidates that match that query on any of the social sites listed above. Save your searches and come back to them any time at the click of a button with the Chrome extension.

Pre-Hire Assessments

Hard skill tests, work sample tests, structured and unstructured interviews, cognitive ability tests, and personality tests are all types of pre-hire assessments you can use to screen applicants. 

What Are the Benefits of Using Pre-Hire Assessments to Screen Applicants?

Implementing a combination of these test types in your hiring process can help you reduce turnover rates and results in more productive employees.

“78% of resumes are misleading, 46% contain lies, and companies who use pre-hire assessments report a 39% decrease in their turnover rate.” 

What Pre-Assessment Tools Are Available?

There are more tools available than we can list in this one article — but the following is a round-up of some of the best ones to get you started.

6. Adaface

This AI-powered software automates the interview process and evaluates applicants for the role.

7. Aspiring Minds

Aspiring minds offers a wide range of assessment tests. You can create cognitive ability tests, personality tests, job simulations, sales ability tests, and more.

8. McQuaig

McQuaig has been around for 50 years. Build job profiles or use one of their pre-built profiles to evaluate candidates and create personality and cognitive ability tests.

SMS (Short Message Service / Text Messaging)

66% of job seekers consider contact via text from a recruiter acceptable, and text messages are opened and read almost 138% more than email. Investing in text message marketing can ramp up your recruitment efforts and help you fill open positions with qualified candidates much faster.

What Are the Benefits of Using SMS for Recruitment?

Introducing text messaging into your recruitment processes will help you automate and streamline interviews, scheduling, and follow-ups.

SMS can help you:

• Send out alerts for new job openings to potential applicants on your list.
• Remind potential employees when it’s close to time for their interview.
• Send updates to candidates as they make their way through your hiring process.
• Send important documents as attachments to your texts.
• Encourage applicants to ask questions with real-time communication via two-way texting.

“Even I was surprised at the high engagement rate text messaging delivered! Almost no opt-outs, lots of follow-up, and very positive impact on recruitment.”

— Haley Lanigan, Recruiting Manager for Fidelis Freight (Case Study)

What Tools are Available for SMS?

Text marketing tools help you communicate with your recruits much faster and easier than you could if you were trying to text one-on-one from your phone. They offer bulk management and messaging features that will save you time.

9. EZ Texting

EZ Texting has been helping clients since 2004. We have helped our clients send over 4 billion text messages — and counting. 

Sign up for your free trial and test out our full suite of features for yourself. You’ll have access to all the tools you need to create drip campaigns, send interview reminders, alert candidates of new job openings, allow them to submit their resumes, schedule for interviews, and more.

Start your free trial now to send out your first 100 texts for free!

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