Recruit employees quickly: How to speed up recruitment

Recruitment is a time-based game; the quicker you can screen, interview, and hire candidates, the more likely you are to secure the best talent. Here we discuss how employers can speed up recruitment, making the process easier for their HR team and their candidates.

How can I recruit quickly?

There are many intuitive ways to speed up recruitment – from technology to simple strategy changes. Here are some of the best ways to recruit quickly…

1- Automate candidate communications/updates

Communicating with candidates is important; it ensures your applicants remain in the loop, and engaged with your employer brand. However, this can be incredibly time consuming for your HR team, making automation in this area crucial in order to speed up recruitment. 

Comms automations within your ATS allow you to plan, schedule, and distribute personalised updates to your applicants. This helps to promote a positive hiring journey, while reducing recruitment admin for your HR team.

2- Use video screening/interviewing 

Video screening/interviewing are great tools for speeding up recruitment. Utilising these allows your team to process more applicants over a shorter period of time – enabling them to identify the strongest candidates, and hire new employees quickly.

Video interviewing also promotes accessibility within your hiring process, providing flexibility for candidates who may struggle to make in-person appointments. This increases your reach to attract more top talent, while processing your candidates more effectively. 

3- Build a talent pool to source engaged candidates

By pooling previous applicants into ‘talent pools’, you gain on-demand access to an engaged group of relevant talent. While it’s impossible for every candidate to be successful in their initial application, keeping them engaged for future opportunities will help to speed up recruitment.

Furthermore, talent pools help to drastically decrease your candidate attraction costs – helping to promote cheaper, more cost-effective hiring.

4- Utilise applicant tracking software

Applicant tracking software (ATS) is a crucial tool for companies looking to speed up recruitment. The systems enable your HR team to attract, manage, and progress applicants in a simplified manner. This not only speeds up the hiring process, but promotes a positive candidate journey. 

Utilising an ATS promotes automation within your recruitment process, helping to reduce admin, and lift pressure from your hiring team.

With Talos, you gain access to a next-generation applicant tracking system, ensuring applicant data is secure, accessible, and well-managed. This promotes speed and efficiency throughout every aspect of your hiring process.

Introducing…

Talos ATS: Speed up recruitment easily

Want an easier way to speed up your hiring process? Talos ATS is the answer!

Talos ATS is an all-in-one solution for in-house recruitment, giving you all the tools you need to achieve fast & effective hiring. 

Time-saving automations

The platform provides a range of easy-access automations to promote speed and efficiency in your recruitment process. These include:

• Intelligent CV screening automations
• Automatic progression of your strongest applicants
• Email/SMS communication automations
• ATS-integrated application forms/careers site for seamless data capture

Intuitive Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

With Talos, it has never been easier for employers to confidently recruit new talent using their own HR team.

The next-generation ATS allows for a cost-effective, streamlined approach to attracting, managing, and hiring the best talent.

Talos ATS includes:

• Intuitive Applicant Tracking Suite 
• Video screening/interviewing platform 
• Automated SMS/email communication 
• Recruitment advertising management 
• Job-posting tools across multiple platforms 

Discover our quick and easy recruitment software toolkit:

In summary

The speed and efficiency of your recruitment process is an important factor in attracting key talent. The quicker you can attract, screen, and progress applicants, the more likely you are to secure the strongest candidates.

There are many ways to speed up recruitment, from embracing technology, to making strategic changes. These include:

• Automating candidate communication (SMS/email)
• Using video screening/interviewing
• Building talent pools of previous applicants for future engagement
• Utilising applicant tracking software

By embracing the above tools and practices, you can provide a smooth recruitment journey for both your candidates, and your HR team.