What do organizations really want from their Talent Acquisition Systems?
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Rajnish S
Recruitment Manager @ Fiserv
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Talent Acquisition professionals are on the cutting-edge of the latest and greatest in recruitment technology. Many best practice organizations are turning their backs on traditional sourcing tools in favor of mobile recruiting, social networking, and search engine optimization. One thing is certain: the talent acquisition system market is one of dramatic change and innovation. Both during strong and weak economies, investment in talent acquisition systems remains a priority for best practice companies looking to gain competitive advantage and secure a solid talent pipeline of both active and passive candidates. When it comes to technology, companies have a unique advantage in today’s economy. They are in a position to ask more from their current technology providers and competitive options abound.
Traditional Improvements :
Many organizations are not interested in advanced features available in talent acquisition systems. Organizations need to consider their unique hiring needs and overall talent processes before feeling pressured by the glitz and glam of today’s talent acquisition systems. Many companies want the basics — requisition management, improved user interface, applicant tracking, and search capabilities. Improvements in ease of use and configurability remain a priority for the majority of organizations.
Innovative Improvements:
The use of social media has exploded in the talent acquisition arena over the past few years. While most solution providers avoided this area in the past, they are beginning to see customer demand in support for features leveraging video, social networking, and RSS feeds. Web 2.0 capabilities are a “must have” when it comes to advanced features. While Web 2.0 capabilities, particularly integration with social networking, are one way to improve employer branding, talent acquisition departments are also beginning to recognize the benefits of search engine optimization when improving the quality and volume of traffic to your corporate career site.
As today’s talent acquisition system market continues to evolve, solution providers are making dramatic changes to their product roadmaps in order to meet the current and future needs of their customers. Companies are looking to technology solution providers to act as partners rather than suppliers.
Hope this helps.
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Rajnish Sinha
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Josh C
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Talent?
A continuing stream of people who possess the skills that the company will need.
Josh.
Amanda K
HR Professional - Lead Generalist/Manager at SEEKING NEXT OPPORTUNITY
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What do they really want?.....
1. A system that finds candidates automatically without having to pre-screen, back ground check or even interview people.
2. A system that guarantees candidates will actually do the job they are hired for.
3. A system the measures the attitude and intelligence of candidates at the touch of a button. Or maybe placing a small strip on the forehead that turns green if the candidate is right for the job.
4. A system that automatically finds that top notch professional that REALLY wants to earn an entry level salary. Or better yet volunteer to work for free.
5. A system that guarantees good talent won't leave once hired and not so good talent will just disappear.
Oh and all of this has to work within 24 hours AND it has to be free.
Sounds unrealistic I know. But as a corporate staffing professional it's amazing what I've seen hiring managers try to do to avoid going through the steps of an effective staffing process.
No matter what system you have, at some point you're going to have to actually deal face-to-face with people effectively. And, work through all the complexities humans have.
Amanda
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TAS needs a SME with B2B/B2C/C2B/C2C background and specialty in SEO cloud SaaS. Fortune 50 companies are using twitter and viral marketing over social media to generate leads. Anyone who wants to future-proof their C-level suit needs and MBA with SCM concentration. LinkedIn certification is a must!
Just my 2 cents ... best of luck with TAS!
Talent acquision system is the back bone of every organization as they bring in the pool of people or the new blood in the organization, they are responsible to hire the best resource who will be productive and effective so that they are aliened with thye culture of the organization and they think in terms of the Vision and mission of the organization.
Many times hiring fiascos ends up in brinting the wrong candidate for the post and this leads in a lot of idle time to the company. So they expect teh Talent systems to hire the right candidate for the right job.
Shankar B
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Mohit,
Positive Differentiators.
Keep well ~ Shankar
Anil A
Business Development Manager at ChangeWorkNow
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Hi Mohit,
Good question that has given a varity of answers so for what it's worth here is my take.
Each organisations demands something different from a TAS but the bottom line is the recognition that technology can help them in the recruitmemt orocess in some way. Once this step has been taken hen the coragisations actually needs to work with a vendor who can understand what they want. Too mnay organisations talk about needing everything but in reality Web 2.0, social media like twitter, you tube and a range of other fashionable routes to candidates are a waste of time and monety if the candidates an organisations is loking for are not using these channels.
The answer is to find a vendor you like and trust to work with, any vendor should be looking to form a long lasting partnership and built a solution sthat actually mirrors the work flow already in place but introducing technology to save time and money, release the recruiters from some of the more mundane elements of their jobs and give candidates a positive on line experience when they apply for a job.
If your vendor cannot match all of these requirements then get shot, look around and find someone else.
TAS solutions are not rocket science although some sales people like to think they are !!!
All the best
Anil.
