avoiding recruiter burnout with an applicant tracking system

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Applicant Tracking System: 4 Easy Ways to Avoid Burnout

September 18, 2022

Tima Rassool

Tima Rassool

Content Writer

Picture this: you and your recruiting team are always working around the clock to recruit the best talent for your company. You’re missing breaks, you never leave work on time, you take your work back home with you, and the next thing you know – you’re all burnt out. Does this paint a real picture of what you and your team are currently going through? Recruiter burnout can occur for many reasons. But most predominately, it occurs when recruiters don’t have an advanced applicant tracking system. If you find yourself juggling between mountains of tasks, spreadsheets, and piles of paperwork, then this blog is for you.

Here are four easy ways to avoid recruiter burnout with an applicant tracking system.

Automate time-consuming tasks

If you’re a recruiter that doesn’t have an applicant tracking system, then you’re probably doing a lot of things manually. Such as responding to candidates, updating spreadsheets, filtering through mountains of resumes, or organizing your file cabinet. Long story short: It’s no walk in the park. You know you’re great at what you do. You know how to manually source candidates, call a mass number of candidates a day, keep your manager in the loop, and communicate with your teammates. But when all of that is done manually, on a recurring basis, it’s only natural that you get burnt out sooner or later. On the bright side, an applicant tracking system like EVA-REC automates the hiring process entirely. It helps you manage and customize pipelines based on your own needs and preferences. You can even create automated stage actions. Where candidates will receive an automated email that updates them on their application status. Not only that, but an applicant tracking system allows you to automatically create a centralized resume database. All you have to do is simply drag and drop a large pile of resumes into the ATS, and EVA-REC will automatically parse the information, create a profile for each candidate, and match these resumes to pre-existing job posts or resumes. More than 17 hours of hard work can be done in a few seconds with EVA-REC! By automating the admin, an applicant tracking system leaves recruiters with more time to focus on high-level tasks, and what really matters.

Find and recruit top talent with zero effort

Pinpointing top talent will always be a big challenge for recruiters. First, they need to write engaging job descriptions, find the right job boards, post jobs manually, filter hundreds of resumes, shortlist top talent, interview candidates, solicit feedback from managers, and finally make the right hire. Let’s be real here, who wouldn’t get burnt out from doing all those manual tasks, every single day? Exactly. This is why an applicant tracking system will always come to the rescue. First of all, an applicant tracking system allows you to post your jobs on a variety of job boards, channels, and niche sites. Not only that, but it can even recommend the best job boards and channels for each and every job. This way you can cast a wider net and lure top talent from all across the globe to apply to your jobs. What’s more, the applicant tracking system enables you to filter through your candidates in a variety of ways. Such as through keywords or based on the criteria that matter the most to you. Plus, you can even rank candidates in order of qualifications to easily find the best candidate for the job.

Collaborate with teammates in one place

Oftentimes, the reason why recruiters are on the verge of burnout is that they don’t collaborate enough with their team. In fact, recruitment will probably start to feel like a one-man job. Which is not the right way to go about it. If you have to wait 17 hours to solicit interview feedback or chase after your manager for approval – then it’s time to spruce things up with an applicant tracking system. With an applicant tracking system like EVA-REC, you can invite your teams and managers to collaborate and support you throughout the hiring process. Where you can evaluate candidates, rate profiles, share feedback, give comments, and engage in discussions that flow in real-time. This way, managers can assign tasks, roles, and permissions for specific teammates and keep an eye out for their progress. Plus, they can instantly get notified when you move a candidate from one stage to the other or require approval for a specific workflow. Even better, an applicant tracking system like EVA-REC enables you to get an update on every task that your teammates are handling. This way, you and your team can collaborate together in one single place, move faster through the hiring process, and mitigate burnout.

Get access to advanced analytics and reports

Oftentimes, recruiters are typically left with little to no data to work with. This is also known as analysis paralysis. When recruiters are asked to create recruiting reports, it’s not unusual for them to build them with the wrong data. Since there are numerous data points and information to consider, it becomes strenuously harder for recruiters to calculate metrics from existing data. This eventually leads recruiters to feel ‘’paralyzed’’ by all the analysis that needs to be done on their end. Luckily, an applicant tracking system allows you to track all your important recruitment metrics, such as time-to-hire, cost-of-hire, to the source of candidates – and many more. This way, from one single dashboard, you’ll be able to easily spot bottlenecks in your hiring process and find areas for improvement. Plus, you can get advanced analytics and insights on all your candidates, team members, and jobs. For example, with our award-winning applicant tracking system, you can even specify the time period from which you want to extract these insights. Last but not least, you can get an overview of candidate sources, the total number of candidates disqualified and all the candidates who were hired. You will also get deeper insights on the time saved, cost saved, time-to-disqualify, and time-to-hire.

Keeping it short

Growing recruiters have a lot on their plates. And with little to no downtime, burnout is only imminent. But with the right applicant tracking system in your tool belt, you can save time, boost efficiency, ramp up productivity levels, and build a stellar hiring process – without the hassle or fuss. Looking to make recruiter burnout a thing of the past? We can help with that. EVA-REC is an award-winning ATS that automates and improves the hiring process through next-generation AI technology. Small businesses to industry leaders rely on EVA-REC to find and hire the people they can depend on. With EVA-REC’s world-class features, companies can seamlessly ramp up team collaboration, streamline the hiring process, and create an immersive experience for recruiters and candidates alike. Request a free walk-through demo today!

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Tima Rassool

Tima Rassool

A wordsmith, storyteller, and content strategist – Tima is an MBA graduate with 6+ years of experience in the world of HR. With over 2,000 blogs under her belt, Tima's expertise and insights have helped businesses across the globe take their recruitment to the next level and stay ahead of the curve.

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