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5 Main Ways an AI-powered ATS Can Create a Better Work-Life for Your Teams

June 17, 2022

Tima Rassool

Tima Rassool

Content Writer

Stop us if this sounds familiar, but as a startup or small business, is your recruiting team burnt out?
Perhaps you’re till receiving resumes as Word documents and your file cabinets are cluttering up with mountains of papers. Because they don’t have a great ATS at your disposal. So you might promise yourself that you’ll “filter through them today.” (But that never happens)

You play phone tag with candidates or an email wormhole just to schedule a suitable time for an interview. After several rounds, and several gut feelings you feel like you’re ready to make a decision. Only you have to Google “how to send a job offer email template” because you need a little refresher.
If we just pained a vivid picture of a day-in-the-life of your recruiting team, then it’s evidently a hot mess.

Luckily, an AI-powered ATS can revolutionize the way you hire and help your recruiters achieve the work-life balance that they deserve!

Cultivate stronger bonds with managers

Recruiting is all about connecting and bonding with people on both an internal and external level. Sadly, when those connections seize to exist, it puts a big strain on recruiting teams.

Especially when there’s no centralized place to communicate and collaborate. Imagine if the hiring managers are constantly asking you for updates on the hiring process. Keeping them in the loop might take a large amount of time, especially in the midst of your busy schedule. But an AI-powered ATS will make your life easier and workflows a lot more productive. As a single source of truth for your entire team, this intuitive and enterprise-grade technology allows you to work with managers in one central place. Where managers can get involved, allocate tasks, oversee the status of each pipeline, suggest areas for improvements, leave comments, and share feedback.

What’s more, managers can give their teams access to delete, update, create or view a variety of processes. Such as managing emails, sending offers, building pipelines, sending out interviews, or managing users on the ATS. Which means, the manager won’t have to continuously communicate with each individual recruiter to brief them on what they can or cannot do. As a result, this will enable you you build a stronger, more collaborative relationship with managers, without the hassle.

Create a bias-free recruiting process

Usually, biased decisions tend to go undetected. This primarily means that candidates from specific backgrounds or demographics might receive preferential treatment. Now, evidently, hiring bias thrives in workplaces that lack diversity.

Biased hiring can lead to trouble in the workplace and heightened stress amongst team members. Simply because one recruiter’s biased decision could be related to another recruiter.

Luckily, an ATS powered by AI can put an end to that. Modern ATS like EVA-REC isis a trusted, safe, and unbiased tool that enables you to source and screen candidates in a fraction of the time. Sparing more than 80% of your time, an AI-powered ATS gives you the chance to focus more on what really matters.

Which is the human aspect of screening, evaluating, and hiring candidates. No more second-guessing your decisions or using your gut feeling as your trusted guide.

Instead, an ATS can automatically leverage keyword and Boolean search algorithms to help you scan through resumes and unravel the qualified candidates that you are looking for.
All you’ve got to do is allocate weights to the criteria most important to you, and the AI will instantly filter through the candidates and rank them for you in order of qualification. This criterion is completely objective and could be related to experience, willingness to travel, job type, industry, language proficiency, or skillsets.

All in all, the ATS will superbly help make your first round of screening 80% faster, fairer, and more equitable.

Quickly surface the best candidates for the job

Imagine your HR manager approached you one day, panic-stricken that a top-performing employee just handed in their resignation letter. They might ask you to find a candidate that matches this employee’s qualifications. To ease everyone’s distress, you can use an advanced, ultra-fast, and intuitive ATS that has intelligent talent matching.

With an applicant tracking system, you can effortlessly upload all the resumes that you have with a simple drag-and-drop. Got a hundred – or a thousand – resumes? Easy. Just upload them in the ATS and it will instantly parse them all, create a profile for each candidate, and create a centralized place for you to store and retrieve resumes.

An ATS like EVA-REC enables you to match hundreds of resumes with any job posts or job descriptions that you have! So if there’s one technology that you magically help you find the perfect match between job and fit – it’s here. Where in one single click you can instantly find your star candidate and ease your manager’s stress load!

Achieve a higher ROI without the hassle

If you’re currently in the process of optimizing and improving your ROI, it’s crucially important to keep an eye out for your ROI. After all, you need to see if your hard work is yielding great results. However, determining your ROI can be exhausting for you and your recruiting team, especially when the data has to be extracted and calculated manually.

To spare recruiting teams from this HR nightmare, leverage an ATS instead.

An ATS ensures that you can boost your ROI and measure it effortlessly whenever you want. For starters, it helps you improve core recruitment metrics like time-to-fill, time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and more. It does that by automating and centralizing all your core recruitment processes under one umbrella. Allowing you to save up to 96% of your hiring costs and improve the quality of hire by up to 90%!

These potential savings can be found in the following areas:

  •  Since the ATS allows you to identify your best candidate sources which improve your sourcing efforts and the way you allocate your budget. Which enables you to shave off any extra unnecessary costs.
  • Since an ATS allows you to build a talent pool in advance, you have top-notch, quality candidates to dip into whenever you want. This enables you to increase the quality of your hiring and lower turnover rates to boost ROI.

Collaborate seamlessly with all your teammates

Naturally enough, recruiters who experience less stress tend to have better work-life balance. This enables your team to be happier and more efficient. When teams are more productive, your company will tend to maintain good retention rates and appeal to top talent who share the same values.

Recruiting is strategic, and deserves a seat at the table. On the bright side, a hiring platform eliminates communication gaps between employees and helps them collaborate in one place. It also makes them more efficient and frees up the rest of their time for strategic efforts. Bear in mind, that teams from different departments can also collaborate.

Basically, an ATS like EVA-REC improves teamwork between various departments. Where recruiters can create and invite their teammates across different departments to support them in the hiring process. These teammates can be assigned different tasks and given specific permissions throughout the hiring process. Recruiting teams can now simply collaborate with marketing teams, sales teams, developers, and more – even if everyone is working remotely. This can bring team collaboration into one place and centralize communication like never before.

Putting it all together

Imagine if you had your recruitment on track, decisions made accurately, your workflows more productive, and your work-life balance a reality. Life would be smooth, wouldn’t it?
The fact is, an ATS can help you achieve all that and allow you to do more with less. By adding an ATS to your existing tech stack, you and your recruiting team can seamlessly meet and exceed your organization’s overall hiring goals.

Looking for such an ATS? We got you covered!

EVA-REC is an end-to-end applicant tracking system that helps companies of all sizes and shapes automate the hiring process, eliminate manual tasks, and transform the way they find, attract, and hire top talent. Companies that use EVA-REC can build branded career pages fast, integrate with world-class technology providers, post jobs across 2,000+ different job boards, filter resumes, rank candidates, and smoothly collaborate with teammates – all in one complete solution. Claim your free demo here and get to see EVA-REC in action!

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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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