The hiring process can be a complicated undertaking, for both employers and job seekers. Especially when it comes to the application process, employers face the challenge of managing countless submissions, organizing files, comparing top candidates, and efficiently communicating with their peers on the hiring team. Similarly, job applicants face their own obstacles when applying to various opportunities each with different submission guidelines. For the effective hiring team. streamlining the application process will not only optimize internal firm operations, but it will also ensure that promising candidates don’t slip through the cracks as a result of avoidable mishaps. 

This is the sixth in our How to Craft an Effective Job Ad series. Be sure to check out all of the articles for a comprehensive look at composing the perfect Job Ad.

Tackling the costs of hiring

“Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

- Peter Drucker

Talent acquisition is expensive. It’s no secret to employers, and the goal for most is to procure the most promising candidate in the least amount of time with the least amount of non-billable hours. This is the benefit of recruiters, they save you time, but their time doesn’t come cheap. On the contrary, many firms set out to hire without recruiters in an effort to save money or to have more control over the process. Whatever the reason, the demands of projects, clients, and one’s internal team don’t let up during this process. With an already busy schedule, your time is stretched. How does one effectively seek talent and successfully keep up with daily duties? The seasoned talent seeker knows that when it comes to the hiring process, efficiency and organization are key. 

Less is more

As you’ve prepared your Archinect Job Advertisement, you should have already optimized your Archinect Firm Profile, two tools essential to a successful job campaign. The next step is addressing the need to streamline your application process. This is the answer to the conundrum of stretched schedules — how we enable ourselves to be more efficient and effective. This is best achieved by utilizing Archinect’s Application Center, your hub for receiving, managing, and organizing all of your submitted applications for your job ads.

The Application Center removes the headache and nuanced time-intensive tasks associated with this process. Some of the benefits firms can take advantage of are:

• Browse and manage applications in a consistent format.

• Access applications to active AND expired job ads.

• Instead of rummaging through emails or folders on a local shared drive, you can manage your hiring tools on a single reliable platform

• Say you hire a Job Captain and that ad expires, but later you find the team required another Job Captain. You will be able to revisit your previous job post and review all of the past submissions.

• Notate applications and share with members of your team 

• Sort received applications by rating and starring candidates

• Send bulk-emails to all of your job’s applicants or send emails to groups of applicants based on rating

• Capitalize on the Archinect People Profile community

• Employers can view applicants’ Archinect profiles to see job history, work samples, education, photo, and linked websites and social media, establishing a level of trust lost in cold applications.

After you complete a new job post simply select the option to use the Application Center at the bottom of the form and you will have access at no extra cost. Employers who utilize this tool save themselves time and capture a piece of mind of a trusted community of professionals here on Archinect. Applicants will thank you for optimizing their job-seeking process and you inadvertently display your focus on them, heightening the potential of a promising future with your practice.

Incentivize your future team member

In our job market today, where job seekers have the luxury of picking and choosing from an abundance of opportunities it is more important than ever for employers to incentivize candidates to apply for their firms. It can be especially frustrating when you don’t receive the number of applications you had hoped for, losing to a competing firm or missing a chance at catching a candidate’s attention. When you streamline your process you make it harder for a prospective hire to pass you up. If the process is simple, job seekers will be more likely to apply for your job opening, giving you the opportunity to bring them in for an interview and make an impression on them. 

Capitalize on all of your options to incentivize your future team members, earning yourself that opportunity to make that impression.

Firms are competing more in our current market for the attention of job seekers. “If I could only get my foot in the door” is a common saying amongst those looking for work. Perhaps not appearing impressive at first glance, candidates say this to express this desire to meet and make an impression on an employer to show them that there is more to them than just their resume. It’s the same for firms, sometimes a competing firm might seem more impressive, but there may be things you offer that aren’t apparent at face value. Capitalize on all of your options to incentivize your future team members, earning yourself that opportunity to make that impression.

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