5 Awesome Ways an ATS with AI Can Help You Recruit Winning Teams Faster

As a recruiter, you must have read numerous headlines and blogs on how AI is changing the future of work. Maybe even about how AI is revolutionizing the world of recruitment as we know it.

In many ways, these blogs are speaking the truth. AI is transforming many industries across the world – in particular HR.

So how can recruiters stay on top of their game in this technological era?

Through an AI-powered ATS!

Now, many companies across the globe are already using an ATS to recruit candidates. But because of the limitations within most of their applicant tracking system, they can’t seem to recruit winning teams. These limitations could be outdated candidate data, inefficient processes, inadequate candidate engagement, or insufficient sourcing capabilities.

So in today’s blog post, we shine a light on the importance of leveraging an AI-powered ATS and how it can help you hire a thriving workforce today, tomorrow, and every day.

Align your sourcing efforts in one single location

For many recruiters, sourcing great candidates is like searching for a needle in a large haystack. Why? Simply because many recruiters are not equipped with the right resources or ATS to take their sourcing efforts to the very next level. Now, one of the best advantages of leveraging an AI-powered ATS, is that it helps you unearth top talent seamlessly across hundreds – or even thousands – of sources in a fraction of the time. Allowing you to recruit the best candidates for your open vacancies, even when your hands are tied to tasks.

Let’s take our award-winning ATS as an example. With EVA-REC, recruiters can exponentially increase their outreach by integrating with a suite of 2,000+ job boards, channels, and social media sites. With easy access to a global portfolio of renowned job boards, recruiting teams can seamlessly target job ads based on the job’s function, title, industry, or region. So with a more targeted approach, recruiters can seamlessly recruit the best possible candidates for the role.

Not only that but if you’re spending a large amount of time trying to find the best job boards to post your jobs at, then an ATS like EVA-REC can help.

In fact, it makes publishing jobs on the right channels a seamless process. No more posting jobs manually, or guessing which channels are best for reaching top talent. It provides data-driven recommendations that help you target the right candidates on the right job boards – helping you shave valuable hours off research time.

All in all, an applicant tracking system like EVA-REC gives you quick access to a diversified set of job boards and makes it far easier for you to identify top talent across multiple providers, with advanced recommendations, competitive pricing, and pay-as-you-go flexibility.

Rank candidates in order of qualification, fast

Oftentimes, recruiters can get around 250 applications for a single job vacancy. That’s over 200 people to phone screen, interview, assess, and communicate with. Not only does this tedious process take a significant amount of time, but it also leaves room for more mistakes. This is where candidate ranking comes to the rescue.

So what exactly is candidate ranking? Candidate ranking is the process of utilizing a scoring system in your hiring process to rank candidates in order of qualification. Where each candidate gets a designated score or percentage that dictates how well they meet the job’s criteria. With that being said, let’s dive deeper into how an AI-powered ATS can help you rank candidates fast, without even lifting a finger.

For starters, many applicant tracking systems can stack-rank your top candidates with a simple click of a button. They rank the candidates based on the criteria that are most important to you such as work experience, skills, background, willingness to travel, language proficiency, and so much more!

With an ATS like EVA-REC, all you’ve got to do is allocate weights to such criteria and the AI will instantly filter through the candidates and rank them for you in order of qualification. So with the glimpse of an eye, you can see your top candidates right before you, and invite them to an interview or move them through the hiring process at the speed of light. Sparing you from relying on your gut feeling, intuition, or judgment to move the right candidates forward.

Make better decisions through advanced analytics

We’ve already established how an AI-powered ATS can help you source top candidates and rank them from highest to lowest fit. But is that all? Far from it! All of this talk brings us to one core use of AI in an applicant tracking system: providing accurate and abundant recruiting analytics, reports, and metrics.

In the past, acquiring such powerful recruitment insights was not easily obtainable. Simply because recruiters had to crunch the numbers, chase after metrics, and do the analytics part on their own.

But that time was yesterday.

Today, recruiters can get one single dashboard that turns their existing recruitment data into actionable insights that drive real business results. Essentially speaking, AI is only as good as the data that you feed it. So the more you feed the ATS with recruitment data, the more analytics and reports you can extract.

For example, an ATS like EVA-REC intelligently breaks down your recruitment metrics in one visually appealing dashboard. Where in seconds you can instantly view all the data related to your jobs, how long they’ve been open, and how many candidates they’ve attracted. You can even track and get an overview of candidate sources, the total number of candidates disqualified and the candidates hired. What’s more, with such advanced analytics at your fingertips, easily monitor core recruitment metrics that matter most to your business, and alter your strategy to ensure that you’re crushing all your hiring goals.

Alleviate bias in the hiring process exponentially

Whether we’re aware of it or not, hiring bias is all around us. And at one point or another, we must have fallen victim to it. In fact, this could be the biggest issue holding you back from recruiting a thriving workforce. Think about it this way, even if top talent makes it to the last recruiting round but spots a hint of bias, they’ll drop out instantly without even batting an eye.

Why? Because candidates today don’t tolerate bias in any of its forms.

Luckily, an ATS powered by AI enables you to eliminate any chance of unfairly leaving out top talent due to their age, gender, religion, or age. Not only that but it’s also being used to mitigate the simple errors and omissions in the hiring process. Putting it into perspective, when recruiters get a sheer volume of resumes, it’s easy for things to fall through the cracks. Especially when they’re using unintuitive filtration systems that don’t entirely understand spelling mistakes or abbreviations. As a result, they unfairly rule out top talent.

However, an AI ATS identifies these errors and ensures that it doesn’t disqualify candidates as a result. Not only does that mitigate bias when filtering through resumes, but also allows candidates to rest assured that they’re taking part in a friendly, fair, and equitable hiring process.

Engage top talent at every touchpoint

Now, artificial intelligence is not only revolutionizing the recruiter’s world, but it’s also giving candidates a superb experience. As we mentioned, since AI can incredibly rank candidates and match them to the right jobs, it pushes them through the pipeline faster which therefore improves their experience and engagement at every touchpoint.

Plus, an AI-powered ATS automates communication with candidates and enables you to keep them in the loop at every stage. And when candidates receive updates regarding their application process, they will be more enticed and compelled to stick with you to the very end. So essentially speaking, AI has the powerful ability to keep top talent on their toes by automating the hiring process in a very innovative and modern way.

But that’s not only it. An AI-powered applicant tracking system allows you to give candidates a fast and mobile-friendly application process. Where in a couple of minutes, candidates can fill in the forms and apply to jobs on the go – wherever they are.

Last but not least, AI applicant tracking systems like EVA-REC can recommend online courses by Coursera and Udemy to candidates. These recommendations will help prospective candidates enhance or fine-tune any missing or required skills that are required for the job. As a result, this will help you seamlessly ramp up the candidate experience exponentially and recruit legions of talented people for your teams.

Parting advice

The examples we’ve listed in this blog post, depict just a few ways an AI-powered ATS can help you hire winning teams faster. In truth, there are a plethora of benefits you are yet to discover from leveraging such an innovative technology for your business.

So if you’re struggling to keep your recruiting efforts in tact or allocating enough time to recruit the best talent in less time – it’s time to shake things up with an AI-powered applicant tracking system.

EVA-REC is a multi-award-winning ATS that helps small businesses to corporate giants 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.

To learn more about our AI-powered ATS and how it can accelerate your hiring efforts, request a free interactive demo with our product experts today!

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