eRecruiting Made Easy: Five Simple Steps

Advertising open positions. Sifting through piles of resumes. Scheduling interviews. Shuffling paperwork. Recruiters have a tough job. Manual steps make it even tougher.

Now the power of the Internet makes it possible to get rid of the paper. Automate and become an eRecruiter. But how do you get there? Do you have to buy expensive software? Hire costly consultants? Learn another computer program?

Actually, it's a lot easier and affordable than you might think. There is no software to buy because eRecruiting is a complete online service—including an easy-to-use hosted career site on the Internet. You can set it up in an hour, configure in minutes, and process applicants immediately. And basic service costs about the same as a café latte per day.

The Internet has revolutionized HR. Now any organization—regardless of size or resources—can take advantage of eRecruiting to fill open jobs faster at less cost. Thousands of HR managers and recruiters use eRecruiting. They are saving lots of time and money. You can too.

Here are the five simple steps:

1. Establish Your Career Site
   Your online career website is your new eRecruiting information hub and becomes your organization's one-stop hiring shop on the Internet.



2. Post Your Open Position Requisitions
   Stop the spending on expensive print advertising. Post positions online. Going online can more than pay for itself. Think of the money you'll save!



3. Receive and Route Resumes Electronically
   Manage responses, track applicants, identify candidates, route resumes, and control it all from your own custom eRecruiting dashboard.



4. Connect Candidates and Hiring Managers
   Send candidate emails and log actions for future reference. Interview scheduling and reminders are a snap with automated interview, event, task, and calendar management—integrated with Microsoft Outlook.



5. Get New Hires More Productive Faster
   Send offer letters, approval notifications, start date reminders, and new employee welcome letters with onboarding information.

Get More Organized

When you leave the manual process behind, you get more organized. Now you can automate and combine these seven key recruiting functions with eRecruiting:

• Careers Website Management
• Requisition Management
• Candidate Management
• Interview Management
• Task & Event Management
• Account Management
• Contact Management

Save Time and Money

Automation of manual tasks means you save both time and money. Plus you have more time to fill open positions. eRecruiting helps you automate and centralize tasks as diverse as resume search, application form distribution, offer letters, approval processes, mass emails, ranking and prescreening, and coordinating interviews using shared calendars.

Manage Your Recruiting Process Your Way

Once you've set up your own eRecruiting system, you'll learn new ways to connect and automate other tasks. You can customize your process to fit the way you work. Add custom fields, layouts, and workflows to match your processes. You can even configure specific views for your administrators, recruiters, and hiring managers.

See Bottom Line Results

The bottom line is that you can fill jobs faster with better results at less cost. You can be up and running in less than 48 hours with your custom career site and immediately start managing applicants, resumes, and requisitions. Many solutions offer a low annual subscription rate that starts at around $3 per day. If you are still using a paper system, you can't afford not to make the change to eRecruiting.