The impact of COVID-19 has hit businesses in multiple ways, and recruitment is no exception. Unlike devastating blow to other industries, the recruitment is experiencing a turning point.
Today’s recruiting environment has never been more challenging. According to the research, although financial markets remain volatile, companies in many fields like healthy, telecom as well as technology continue to engage in mass hiring. These lead thousands of recruiters turn to new technologies to meet explosive growth in demand across these filed.
Popularity of ATS and Integrated Social Media Recruiting
ATS, an intelligent automation solution for the recruitment sector, will prove to be most important turning point for recruiters due to the COVID-19. How ATS transfer the recruitment to online automotive process? As we know, Applicant Tracking systems is type of software that scans, sorts, and ranks applicants during a firm’s hiring process. The ATS will use the built-in AI system to screen out qualified candidates, and automatically send rejection letters to job applicants who do not meet the requirements.
In this particular period, traditional built-in AI system ATS obviously could not satisfied the recruiters, so they are more expect the ATS tools that can be integrated with digital footprint across all social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. This ATS-Integrated system even automatically expands the scope of the audience for a job, and thereby helps gain more applicants.
Virtual Interview Been a New Trend in Recruitment
It is easy to foresee the coronavirus crisis will not be end in within one year, more and more recruiters shift to virtual interview right now. For many big companies, hiring may bring challenges to them because it will increase the workload of human resources and cause financial pressure.
In this circumstance, virtual interview / AI powered Interview can help. After the candidate completes the interview, artificial intelligence powered ATS will provide recruiters with these predictive analyses and some feedbacks. In the meanwhile, A hire score will be generated automatically by the ATS. Hiring manager will arrange real interview for the qualified candidates if their score exceed the threshold which is created by ATS.
In a nutshell, Artificial intelligence powered ATS make the recruitment process more efficient and reduce financial burden, which will be the trend in pandemic.