Optimizing Your Talent Recruitment Process with Screening and Interview Management

How to optimise your talent recruitment process with screening and management tools

Most restaurant and hotel owners and managers readily admit recruiting new talent is a frustrating process. Fret not, as Harri is here to help. Our applicant tracking system makes it easy to connect with the best talent through screening and interview management tools. 

Optimize the new hire recruiting process at your hospitality business and you’ll save money, effort, and time. Moreover, our applicant tracking system also enhances the introductory experience for the candidates added to your business. The result is mutual benefit for both the new additions to your team and the business itself.

Introduction to Talent Recruitment Optimization

The success of your restaurant or hotel hinges on your ability to identify the best candidates for open roles and add them before the competition. What matters most is that you make a well-informed decision that sets up your business for success. Use technology to optimize the talent recruitment process and you’ll make hiring decisions based on fact as opposed to guesswork or gut instinct.

Screening and interview management tools are now available to do much of the talent recruitment work on your behalf. As detailed below, the prudent use of tech innovation creates a seamless recruiting process that benefits new additions to your team and your enterprise as a collective. Here’s a quick look at hospitality staffing solutions that will help your business remain fully staffed with the best talent and hardest workers in your area.

The Challenges in Talent Recruitment

Recruiting the best fit for your hotel, restaurant or other hospitality business isn’t easy. Recognize it is difficult to identify the best of the applicants, take full advantage of Harri’s applicant tracking system and you’ll find overcoming the challenge of talent recruitment is that much easier. 

As an example, plucking applicants with the required experience and skills from the pool of applicants is inherently challenging. Some candidates lack experience while others have avoided the hospitality industry as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath. 

AI helps sort through the field of candidates, automating the screening and interview coordination processes so hiring managers can focus on solving problems that cannot be overcome with the use of tech. Moreover, it is important to recognize that turnover in the industry is high, partially because of the pandemic and also because Generation Z is quick to flee to potentially greener pastures. 

Instead of hiring any warm body or rushing through the screening and interview processes, let our applicant tracking system sort through the pool of applicants to find those most likely to stay on board for the long haul.

Unpacking the Screening Process

The screening component of finding candidates suitable for open positions needs to be addressed, hastened, or simplified simply because there is an incorrect assumption that most people are capable of excelling in the hospitality industry. Though working in a hotel or restaurant does not require a college degree, plenty of candidates fail to thrive after hire for various reasons. 

Focus on the quality and efficiency of your screening process and you’ll highlight the best possible candidates for hire. Our applicant tracking software is here to help you find the cream of the crop in as little time as possible. Give our hospitality staffing solutions a try, let it organize applicants then filter them based on your selected criteria and it won’t take long to highlight the best of the bunch. 

Harri’s system empowers you to assign individual tags, create groups and add notes to candidate profiles. The rapid screening capability makes it easy to accept/reject job-seekers in mere seconds. It is even possible to simplify interview scheduling by letting prospects select availability for interviews through digital self-select forms. 

Efficient Interview Management

Take a moment to think back to your last round of interviews. Chances are you recall those discussions with a tinge of regret, likely because they didn’t go as efficiently as desired. The bottom line is interviews take up a significant amount of time. It is imperative that you organize these initial discussions and manage them with efficiency. Applicant tracking systems empower you to make the most of your limited time. 

Use Harri’s applicant tracking system and you’ll find scheduling interviews and tracking candidates is that much easier. Our technology helps business owners and managers to manage and schedule video interviews with integrated background checks for a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Streamline your recruiting through our hospitality staffing solutions, let the tech sort through the pool of candidates and you’ll be able to accept/reject candidates in mere seconds. 

Our hospitality staffing solutions expedite and simplify the interviewing process by empowering prospects to select time slots for video or in-person interviews. This is the modern approach to interviewing you’ve been waiting for. 

In summary, our applicant tracking system:

  • Decreases the time invested in the hiring process
  • Replaces calendar coordination
  • Expedites resume reviews
  • Performs candidate screening with automation

The end result is an easier and quicker path to choosing the right candidates.

The Power of an Applicant Tracking System

The days of tracking candidates with paper files in a filing cabinet or an Excel spreadsheet have faded away. Embrace technology to the fullest by implementing an applicant tracking system, and you’ll find it much easier to find the best candidates and keep them interested as the employee search process takes shape. 

Applicant tracking software boosts efficiency, ultimately enhancing the experience of the new addition from the moment they apply through onboarding. Even if you already have an applicant tracking system, it is likely outdated. Break away from your antiquated system, add the latest tech and you’ll find the change is a massive step forward for your organization as well as its new hires. 

Applicant tracking systems have replaced manual processes with automated ones, improving the accuracy and speed of candidate addition. This is your opportunity to highlight the best candidates from a consolidated platform for hiring.

Harri’s applicant tracking system records information about new openings ranging from required experience to the necessary skills, job title, etc. The tech then generates a profile for the optimal candidate. Job-seekers then apply for the open position. The tracking system searches for the desired criteria, sorts candidates, and determines which are the optimal fits based on data inputs. 

Compare the efficiency of this system to your current hiring process and you’ll find the tech shortcut makes a world of a difference. Applicant tracking systems are also held in high regard by managers and owners of hospitality businesses as they facilitate the application process for job-seekers, empowering them to use a litany of devices, and ultimately expanding the prospect pool all the more for hotels and restaurants in need of labor.

Best Practices for Leveraging Screening and Interview Management Tools

The manner in which you use interview management tools shapes the ensuing screening process and interviews. Abide by a set of best practices for using an applicant tracking system the right way and you’ll get the most out of this technology, using it to pinpoint the best new hires, onboarding them, and retain them. 

In particular, it will help to develop accurate job descriptions and update them accordingly as roles change. Add keywords and phrases to your job descriptions and let the system match them to prospects’ applications, cover letters, and resumes. 

When transitioning from screening candidates to interviews and offers, try to make the process as seamless as possible. AI and automated tools help you gracefully transition from screening to interviews and evaluations promptly. AI has advanced to the point that it is now capable of highlighting the best possible candidates through social media data mining. Recruiting is that much easier with an automated screening process and tools for assessment. 

Tech tools also parse through resumes to find exactly what you are looking for:

  • Keywords
  • Key phrases
  • Education level
  • Work experience

Moreover, tech has advanced to the point that it can automatically email candidates, schedule interviews, and provide updates throughout the candidate search process. 

Automate tasks as much as possible and you will be liberated to focus on the internal candidate discussion before extending an offer, the nuances of the ensuing onboarding process, employee training, and other complex problems.

Transform Hospitality Talent Acquisition with Harri

Harri’s tools optimize the employee search process, helping business owners and managers in the hospitality industry find the best new hires and retain them. Our technology makes it easy to prioritize your hardworking team, encouraging them to spread the word about the merits of your restaurant or hotel as an employer. 

Take the initial step to optimize the talent recruitment process with Harri’s technology and you’ll agree these tools do make a meaningful difference in human capital and the bottom line. Your path toward a better and more productive workforce begins with a demo of our tech tools for hospitality business owners and managers.

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