How to Find Qualified Candidates Amidst Thousands of CVs with EVA-REC

Are you looking to find qualified candidates and recruit them for your team?

But there’s probably one thing holding you back: the mass number of CVs overflowing in your inbox, file cabinet, and desktop.

So, is there a secret, magical way to find top candidates quickly?

The short answer is – yes!

Getting hundreds—or thousands—of resumes can be both a nightmare and a blessing in disguise. On the one hand, you’re glad that many candidates are applying to your open vacancies, and on the other, you don’t know how you’ll sift through all the CVs in less time.

So, if you receive tens of thousands of CVs, learning how to find candidates for jobs effectively and efficiently is crucial.

And if you’re not sure where to start, don’t worry.

Our award-winning applicant tracking system (ATS) is designed to help you hire and find job candidates in a fraction of the time through AI and cutting-edge technology.

Let’s explore how!

Outsmart the Challenge of Finding Qualified Candidates

If you were asked to pinpoint the single most common hiring headache, what would it be? Your answers might vary depending on the size of the company you work with or the roles you’re hiring for. However, at the core of these challenges lies the daunting task of finding qualified candidates amidst a sea of applications. The hurdles are numerous, and navigating them requires a mix of strategy, technology, and intuition. 

Let’s delve into some of these challenges and explore practical solutions:

• Attracting the Right Candidates: The quality of candidates trumps quantity. Crafting clear job ads with concise role descriptions and including knockout questions can streamline the selection process. This approach ensures only the most suitable candidates proceed.

• Engaging Qualified Candidates: Top talent often juggles multiple offers, so personalizing your approach is key. Understanding what motivates a candidate and tailoring your communication can set you apart from competitors.

• Hiring Fast: Vacant positions are costly. To speed up hiring, evaluate the necessity of each step in your process and leverage recruiting metrics from your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to optimize.

• Using Data-Driven Recruitment: Efficient data management is crucial. Utilize an ATS or similar system for accurate tracking and reporting, focusing on key metrics that align with your goals.

• Building a Strong Employer Brand: A compelling employer brand attracts better candidates. Engage in active online reputation management, empower employees to share their experiences, and ensure your practices reflect your company’s values.

• Ensuring a Good Candidate Experience: The recruitment process mirrors your company culture. Maintain transparent communication and ensure a smooth interview process to leave a positive impression.

• Recruiting Fairly: Unconscious bias can hinder diversity. Implement objective hiring techniques like structured interviews and blind hiring practices to promote fairness and inclusivity.

• Creating an Efficient Recruiting Process: Seamless communication and coordination are essential. Investing in an ATS can simplify administrative tasks and foster better collaboration among hiring teams.

5 Proven Steps to Finding the Right Candidates with EVA-REC

Recruiting in today’s fast-paced world presents a unique set of challenges. With leaner teams and budgets, the pressure to deliver outstanding results has never been higher.

Enter EVA-REC, an end-to-end applicant tracking system designed to revolutionize the hiring process. Leveraging AI and cutting-edge technology, along with over 2,000 world-class integrations, EVA-REC empowers companies worldwide to source, attract, and hire the best talent efficiently. But how exactly does it facilitate the best way to find candidates? This guide will unveil the dynamic steps enabled by EVA-REC to transform your talent acquisition strategy, ensuring you not only meet but exceed your recruitment objectives.

Filter and parse a mass number of resumes fast

It goes without saying that filtering and parsing a mass number of resumes is one of the most daunting tasks for any recruiter. With outdated recruitment, recruiters have to go through large chunks of information and manually update Excel sheets that derail their recruitment efforts.

But applicant tracking systems have changed the ballgame altogether. An ATS like EVA-REC takes the pain out of parsing resumes and helps you sort and filter your resume database in one click. Within seconds, our ATS helps you scan and parse all CVs based on the job description and your company’s specific requirements.

For example, on average, every job vacancy can attract around 250 applications per job. So, if you’ve got 4 or 5 job vacancies, we’re talking about thousands of CVs that are slipping into the bottom of your inbox.

Our AI-powered ATS helps you turn your offline database into an online and searchable one. Where you can seamlessly search and filter through an endless sea of resumes and find top candidates with ease. By simply dragging and dropping a large number of CVs, EVA-REC will automatically create a profile for each candidate.

And if you’re looking for a candidate with specific skill sets or experience, you can search for them by using specific keywords related to the job title, career level, country, industry, major, or skills.

Afterward, EVA-REC will instantly filter through the CVs and show you at a glance the candidates that meet your requirements! So with one simple drag-and-drop, EVA-REC can turn your offline database into one that is fully accessible, searchable, and shareable with your team. With no data entry required!

Apply weights to the criteria most important to you

It’s easy to miss out on top talent if you’re still relying on outdated software, Excel sheets, or notepads to filter through a mass number of CVs.

In the midst of today’s talent crunch, you need to move fast if you want to recruit and find good candidates for your company. This means you need to filter through your candidates based on the criteria that matter the most to you.

For example, our cutting-edge ATS, EVA-REC, enables recruiters to seamlessly zip through the recruitment process fast and find top candidates for the job based on their skills, experience, know-how, and job requirements. Meaning, that recruiters can allocate weights to the criteria most important to them. The criteria can be related to location, skills, experience, willingness to travel, industry – and much more. For example, let’s say a recruiter is looking for a Content Writer. They might apply more weight to the experience criteria than the willingness to travel criteria.

After the recruiter allocates weights to each criterion, EVA-REC will filter through the candidates and help recruiters find top candidates for the role.

This will help recruiters reduce the cost per screening by 80%, save up to 17 hours per hire, and improve the quality of hire by 85%.

Match candidates to the right jobs in one click

When dealing with a mass number of resumes, you might wish you were able to magically and automatically discover top talent who seamlessly match your open roles.

We’re here to tell you that it’s completely possible with our all-in-one ATS!

EVA-REC can help you find qualified candidates through incredible AI technology that matches candidates to open vacancies in one single click. It doesn’t matter what job you’re hiring for, the AI will find the best matching candidates for every job. Our matching algorithm will help you find top candidates in your database fast and save more than 90% of your valuable time and money.

So for example, after parsing the CVs, you can proceed by matching candidates to pre-existing job posts that you have. You can even match the CVs with any specific job description that you don’t want to publish yet. Just attach the job description of your choice and match it to the best candidates in seconds.

Then, a matching percentage will then appear next to each candidate’s profile. This matching percentage signifies how well the candidate’s profile matches the job requirements. Therefore helping you spot and find top candidates at a glance.

Automatically rank candidates in order of qualification

Relying on gut feeling is something that occurs a lot in the world of HR. Sometimes recruiters just get this strong instinct that tells them, “This is the candidate!”

But is your awesome on-paper candidate awesome in reality too?

Unfortunately, our gut feelings can disappoint us. Especially when we end up making the wrong hire. For every position, you might dwindle down your shortlist to a couple of qualified candidates. But from that point – how do you know which one to choose?

The answer is simple. EVA-REC can help you select and choose the star candidate for the job – by ranking all candidates in order of qualification. This ranking is all based on how the candidates meet your defined criteria. It also gives you an at-a-glance view of who is the closest match to the job vacancy. 

So, how does this ranking feature help you? It enables you to instantly find top candidates and invite them in for a final interview – or send the job offer.

This will save you a whole lot of time because you won’t have to interview every single candidate in your pipeline. Instead, you can spend more time with the qualified ones who are more suitable fits for the position.

Collaborate together as a team – in one place

In the past, recruitment was traditionally more of a top-down process. Where HR managers were the ultimate decision-makers. However, in the past few years, recruitment has incredibly evolved into a more collaborative approach. In fact, collaborative hiring is one of the hottest trends in recruitment right now.

Nowadays, recruiting is a team sport. It takes more than one teammate to help make the hiring process more seamless and smooth sailing. This means that if you want to find top candidates, you’ll need the support of your teammates, HR manager, executives, or other departments at one stage or another.

Luckily, EVA-REC can help with that!

Our leading ATS helps your hiring team easily collaborate and make better decisions together. Where teammates can collaborate and communicate in real time and eliminate the endless back-and-forth emails. Gone are the days when teammates had to wait for days to solicit feedback or get approvals from managers. Now, with an ATS, you can communicate with teammates in one place to rate, evaluate, discuss, and decide on which candidates to move forward with.

Through EVA-REC, teammates will be assigned different tasks and given specific permissions throughout the hiring process. Recruiting teams can even collaborate with marketing teams, sales teams, developers, and more – even when everyone is working remotely. This brings team collaboration into one place, centralizes communication, and helps you find top candidates faster and easier than ever before.

Find Qualified Candidates Seamlessly with EVA-REC

When the competition for top candidates is high – you have to take the extra mile to find the caliber of talent that your company needs to grow and succeed. By leveraging an ATS, you will be able to effortlessly increase your chances of building a team of rockstars—all while making the process more streamlined and efficient.

EVA-REC is an award-winning applicant tracking system that helps companies from all across the globe source, attract, and hire top talent at scale. Where in one centralized place, HR teams can collaborate with company staff and use advanced analytics to evaluate candidates fairly and equitably. Through AI, cutting-edge technology, and 2,000+ world-class integrations – EVA-REC helps companies slash their hiring costs by up to 96%, reduce time-to-hire by 80%, improve the quality of hire by 85%, ramp up the candidate experience, and save more than 17 hours per hire. Request a free demo today! 

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