How to Shake Up Your Recruitment by Integrating Slack with Your ATS

Nowadays, Slack seems to exist in almost every growing organization. It might be your team’s favorite tool to send Baby Yoda GIFs, share emojis, discuss tasks, and ask who’s having what for lunch. But what does it have to do with recruitment? Or even, your ATS? Slack is trickling into the world of recruitment. Now, not only can you chat with your team about work – but you can also pair it with your ATS to take your recruiting to the next level. So if you’re looking for creative ways to reach passive candidates, broadcast vacancies, solicit feedback, and communicate with teams – you need to integrate this powerhouse software with your ATS.

So grab your favorite drink or snack, and let’s go over how integrating Slack with your ATS can shake up your recruitment.

Pinpoint documents you need and keep candidates in the loop

We all know how recruitment can generate a plethora of documents in so many different formats. Whether it be ads, cover letters, applications, job offers, surveys, questionnaires, and more. It can be quite of a pickle to track, manage, and store these documents. Or even worse, find them. Luckily, by integrating Slack with your ATS you can easily store all your documents in one centralized place. This means that you can easily whip out the most important documents whenever, wherever you need them. Not only that, but you can even keep candidates in the loop on their application status. Since you have such quick access to information, you can effortlessly let them know where they stand in the hiring process. Were they rejected? Did they advance to the next stage? You can seamlessly let them know in a matter of seconds. Ultimately, integrating with Slack gives you the ability to align and finalize job requirements, set reminders, share information about the position, and give interview feedback. Which helps candidates stay in the know and simultaneously ramp up their hiring experience.

Easily broadcast your job vacancies

Sometimes, when a new vacancy pops out, you might be enticed to share it with everybody in your network. Or even family. You just want to get the word out. On the bright side, Slack is a great channel to broadcast your latest job openings. So by integrating Slack with your ATS, you can share your job with the people who are interested. Where you can even create a private channel related to the vacancy that you want to fill – and name it something like #hiring – [job title]. Then, once you find the right candidates, you can reach out to them individually and send them a direct message. Allowing you to openly discuss the vacancy and answer all their pressing queries. Not only that, but it also allows you to have in-depth discussions and conversations with your talent acquisition team. Plus, you can even pin this vacancy to your channel. You will be able to apply restrictions, invite the recruiters who need to be involved, allocate the deadlines for the tasks, and give an overview of the channel’s purpose.

You can communicate with your team in real-time

If there’s one crucial component in recruitment, it’s communication. Integrating your ATS with Slack allows teams from different departments to collaborate in real-time. Through such free-flowing conversations, it will be far easier to solicit feedback, discuss candidates, follow up on tasks, and decide which candidates to move forward with. How is this different from traditional methods of communication? Well, for starters, it’s easy for in-person meetings to take a tangent. Where recruiters tend to digress off topic and engage more time in the discussion than planned. Not to mention, there’s always going to be that one teammate who can’t make it to the meeting and needs to be looped in straight after. This is where Slack takes the hassle out of disorganized team discussions. So by integrating Slack with your ATS, you can seamlessly coordinate with remote hiring teams. You can simply create a channel in your Slack workspace and invite all your teammates to collaborate there. This will help you effortlessly update everyone involved on the latest updates, and ask for their feedback.

Coordinate interviews and solicit feedback

Does scheduling interviews feel like a never-ending calendar Tetris? Are you always trying to find common time vacancies between all recruiters? This is where integrating Slack with your ATS can put an end to that. Slack essentially eliminates the need to have pre-interview meetings to decide on a suitable time for everyone. Instead, you can create a temporary Slack channel where you can quickly agree with your fellow teammates on the most suitable interview times. Then, after the time is set, you can set up reminders within Slack. This will help all interviewees get an alert prior to the interview time. Later on, after the interview is done, you can seamlessly solicit and submit feedback. Perhaps you’re giving your two cents on the candidate, giving a quick score, or maybe sharing some in-depth written feedback. And at last, you can quickly hear back from managers and solicit their feedback faster than ever before. No more scheduling hassles, or chasing after managers for advice. From one centralized place, your ATS will help you arrange interviews and get the feedback you need in a fraction of the time.

Tying it all together

Yes, Slack is “where work happens”. But were you previously aware of how it can take your recruitment to the very next level? If you’re part of a busy recruiting team that is looking for a seamless way to collaborate, communicate, and hire top talent – integrating Slack with your ATS should be your next big move. Modern recruiting teams across the world are already making the most of Slack for their recruitment. It’s time for you to do the same. EVA-REC is a multi-award-winning ATS that helps small businesses to enterprises build skillful workforces and hire top talent at scale. It makes it far easier for recruiters to find, attract, and hire the right people, every time. With world-class integrations and AI features, EVA-REC creates a rich and immersive hiring experience for HR teams and candidates alike. See how our hiring platform is integrated with world-class technology providers like Slack! Request a free demo today.

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