Resumes are never scarce if you’re a recruiter. While candidate applications flow in from everywhere, sorting through them manually and ranking them based on their qualification for a job opening isn’t always as rewarding as you want it to be.

Traditionally, the resume-filtering process used to be automated using keyword matching (like SEO), a method that proved to be unreliable because it gave way to various loopholes and hacks candidates would use to exploit the filtering process.

This exploitation hurt a firm’s brand as hundreds of job searchers would be unhappy with the hiring process, and resumes that made it past the initial screening wouldn’t represent great candidates.

AI automates recruitment

With the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI), there was suddenly a surge of technological advancements being incorporated into recruitment solutions, giving process automation a new meaning. Initially, a wave of chat bots, web bots, and automatic video tools took candidate engagement to a new level.

Although these solutions were one-dimensional, they proved to be a blessing for recruiters around the globe as they could converse with candidates and source information without actually having to talk to them.

However, these enhancements to candidate engagement and information sourcing weren’t enough as resumes were still piling up, and all recruiters had to manage this issue were outdated and unreliable screening methods.

On the bright side, AI solutions were escalating and getting smarter, to an extent that it slowly became a part of our day-to-day routine.

From language translators and face recognition in photo apps to email spam filters and online product recommendations, we hardly notice how much we use AI in our daily lives. You could even call it the “AI epoch.” This advancement in technology and the demand for increased AI adoption in recruitment solutions gave rise to the modern resume screening method.

The age of machine learning 

Thus began the age of machine learning—a machine’s ability to learn useful functions from manually classified past examples.

Today’s AI solutions are so smart that they scan and rank a candidate’s qualifications and skills in order to grade them convincingly. With the use of machine learning, recruitment solutions were able to use the previous actions of recruiters to become smarter and infallible.

Moreover, this enhancement brought down time-to-fill by almost 75% compared to older methods, reduced time spent on manual tasks significantly, and also help recruiters rediscover past candidates.

Recruiters were then able to concentrate more on tasks that weren’t successfully addressed by AI—those that imply cognitive skills and emotional intelligence. Meanwhile, recruitment systems were getting smarter using their actions and were able to:

• Learn to find the right candidate.

• Filter job applications better.

• Retain top talent and dismiss unqualified candidates from the talent pool.

Along with resume screening methods, AI has also improved areas where recruiters urgently demanded automation be implemented, like web bots that extensively search for passive candidates and prescriptive analytics that help recruiters understand their candidate pool better in order to find the best course of action for a given situation.

All this talk about AI must have got you wondering about what’s next for Zoho Recruit, right? Your brilliant question is about to be matched with a fitting answer.

Candidate matching with AI

Finding the perfect candidates for a job opening is now more straightforward than ever thanks to the evolution of AI matching.

Recruit uses Zia, an AI assistant built for the business world, to consider candidates based on their whole career rather than just scanning for certain words in a resume.

This enables her to find “the perfect match” for your job openings by matching their experiences, skills, and proficiencies with your requirements and grading them accordingly.

Assume you have 100 eligible candidate records in your Zoho Recruit accounts for five active job openings. Going through every candidate record and vetting them can be wearisome and repetitious.

With Zia’s help, you’re able to match and associate the right candidates exponentially quicker because she presents you with a list of candidates that are graded and ranked based on how much they match with the job requirements

AI candidate matching helps you be insightful, one step ahead, and ready to recruit.

If you think AI and candidate matching will help transform your recruiting process, try the completely overhauled Zoho Recruit today.

Zoho Recruit turns 10 this year, and we are dedicating this special milestone to our huge family of happy recruiters. Being part of the recruitment industry and understanding the impact a profession like this can create, is out-of-this-world. It’s also one that grows on you. 

When we started out in 2009 to build a solution that helps recruiters and HRs streamline hiring, little did we know that we’d become part of a dynamic industry that demands technological advancements to be competitive and in sync with the changing trends in the market. Five version upgrades, multiple features, and hundreds of functionalities and enhancements later, we have to admit that we’re proud of this journey.

What we have for you today is undoubtedly one of the most advanced hiring platforms. No two businesses are the same, and neither are their hiring requirements, so we’ve tailor-made our product to adapt to your needs.

The all-new Zoho Recruit is everything you’ve always wanted. Let’s take a closer look.

ZIA comes on board to reduce hiring time

ZIA (Zoho’s Intelligent Assistant) in Zoho Recruit is every recruiter’s dream. She understands candidates as humans with career profiles instead of a string of keywords on their resume. This enables her to find the best candidate for a job opening by matching their experiences, skills, and proficiencies with the job’s requirements and grading them accordingly.

Extend your talent supply chain with our brand new Vendor Portal

Why limit your candidate sourcing channels, when you can build and manage a complete vendor network to get the best candidates for your jobs? Zoho Recruit’s Vendor Portal allows recruiters to invite third-party recruitment agencies to submit candidates for your open jobs into your database for processing. You can also provide them with a self-service log and enable them to track the progress of the candidates they’ve submitted.

A dedicated portal for all your clients

Give your clients the power to track their jobs with Zoho Recruit’s Client Portal. Clients can add jobs in the portal and track their progress. Once a recruiter submits a candidate for review, clients can add notes, view resume attachments and files, schedule calls, and self-manage every stage of the recruiting process. 

Employee referral forums for stronger teams

Finding ideal candidates has become demanding for recruiters in a candidate-driven market. But with Zoho Recruit’s employee referral forum, corporate hiring teams can leverage their own employee network to refer people who are the right fit for a job. As well as being multifaceted, employee referrals draw a high volume of qualified candidates who can be retained for longer.

Incorporate Organizational Hierarchies

The Reporting Hierarchy feature lays out a clear organizational blueprint, by incorporating your organization ladder into your recruitment process. How? Zoho Recruithttp://spanish.creatorscripts.com/recursos-humanos.html  enables you to assign reporting managers to the users in your organization for efficient record accessibility and data sharing. This structure ensures controlled access to information for users within the organization and also ascertains that a user has only one reporting manager.

Build and sell applications with the Developer Console

Zoho Recruit’s Developer Console is a free cloud platform for developers to create ready-to-deploy cloud applications on top of the Zoho Recruit platform. Unlike conventional cloud platforms, Recruit lets you quickly build enterprise-level applications through easy-to-use drag-and-drop tools.

Inclusive and accessible candidate experience

We wanted to ensure that even our software echoed our company’s vision of equal opportunities for everyone. When recruitment is completely digital in nature, the application process must also be made friendly for differently-abled applicants. Our web forms are now ADA-compliant, powered with screen reading functionalities and interactive keyboard shortcuts to ensure that the application process is not a challenge anymore.

Candidate Portal 

Empower your candidates with a self-service portal where they can apply for jobs quickly and skip the trouble of filling out lengthy application forms. The portal lets them create their applicant profiles, apply for multiple jobs, and be informed of their progress. They can also keep their resume details updated to ensure all the information available for recruiters to process their application is up to date

Dynamic workforce sourcing 

Zoho Recruit is now a recognized Facebook ATS Partner and a certified LinkedIN ATS partner. Recruit’s integration with Facebook will enable you to sync your organization’s Facebook account and post jobs to one of the largest social networks in the world. With the “Apply with LinkedIn” functionality, recruiters can now allow candidates to authorize information to be auto-filled from their LinkedIn profiles while applying for a job.

A comprehensive Interview Tool Kit

Get access to interview tools with just one click, including a candidate’s basic information, their resume attachment, prescreening assessment details, interview details, the assigned interviewer, their feedback, and more. The interview tool kit has individual and detailed dashboards for every interview.

There are many other small surprises to be discovered when you start exploring Zoho Recruit. Our aim has always been to build a highly resilient and versatile tool to make the hiring processes simple, foolproof, and guided. We encourage you to take a tour of these features and let us know what you think.

Stay tuned! We have more announcements coming up soon.

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