If you need to find the best new staff, these are the best recruitment options on the market.
It can be hard to know where to start if you need to find staff, with so many websites, products, and services that promise to find the best talent without costing the earth. You should be aware of two key product categories if you’re on the hunt for some help with your recruitment. The first, an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), is a full service that takes most of the recruitment work out of your hands – it handles and automates many of the tasks needed and can post your job vacancies to hundreds of sites. These products often come from wider ranges of HR services, too, so you can use them for all your HR operations. They’re more expensive, but more powerful. If you’d rather not buy an ATS, you can also head to one of the big job sites and register as an employee or recruiter. You’ll have to do more of the work yourself, but job sites have loads of powerful features, and their recruitment plans are usually cheaper than complete ATS packages. We’ve picked six of the best from each category here – so all you need to do is work out which is better for your business. Zoho Recruit is one of the world’s most popular ATS systems, and it has an impressive range of features in three products – one for companies, another for recruitment agencies, and a third designed for people who want to hire temporary staff. Corporate customers can use Zoho to post vacancies to hundreds of job boards, and the system uses AI to find and rank candidates based on specific traits and requirements. You can establish employee referral portals, run background screening, and ask candidates to complete assessments. Zoho also has great candidate tracking and analysis options alongside rock-solid customization and branding tools. Elsewhere, recruitment agencies can access powerful client portals, and people on the hunt for temporary staff can deploy robust scheduling and timesheet tools. Zoho Recruit has integrations with Outlook, LinkedIn, Google Suite, and other products, but some rivals have more integrations. Zoho also doesn’t have as many candidate testing options as some products. It’s got plenty of excellent features for all kinds of recruitment situations, though, and the firm has transparent pricing and the ability to sync with the rest of Zoho’s products. It’s an excellent service. Read the full review: Zoho Recruit Freshteam has one of the most impressive feature sets of any dedicated recruitment product. It serves up one-click job posting to hundreds of job boards, and your entire recruiting workflow can be customized. You can select job boards, manage your social profiles and accept employee referrals, and the product also has more than 100 job description templates. This service has plenty of automation options alongside loads of data points that can be used for analysis, and recruiters can build talent archives, use pre-written responses, and integrate Freshteam with email apps. Elsewhere, Freshteam deploys pre-assessment tests, Skype and Google Hangout integrations, Android and iOS apps, and a full suite of onboarding features. Freshteam also works with the wider Freshworks family of HR products, and there’s a generous free version of the product available. This HR system doesn’t have as many compliance or background screening options as some rivals, but it’s a competitive and impressive recruitment tool in every other area. Read the full review: Freshteam LinkedIn Talent Solutions houses the social network’s recruitment tools, and LinkedIn Recruiter is one of the best tools around for finding staff. LinkedIn has a vast database of users, of course, and HR staff can use powerful search options to discover the right people. Elsewhere, users can deploy bulk messaging, intuitive reporting options, and AI-based recommendations for ideal candidates, and there are Android and iOS apps to help keep the process moving. LinkedIn ties in with existing ATS insights and works with other LinkedIn HR products. LinkedIn’s recruitment tools are available in two different tools. The Lite package is affordable but basic and more restrictive. In contrast, the Professional and Corporate packages are far more powerful – easily the better choice for anyone serious about recruitment, even if you still don’t get unlimited messaging and search alerts. LinkedIn’s website doesn’t have pricing details, and word of mouth suggests that the firm’s recruitment tools can be pricey. That said, the vast database, impressive social options, and broad range of features make LinkedIn worth it.
