{"id":649,"date":"2007-03-07T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2007-03-07T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T09:00:34","slug":"does-recruiting-software-make-hr-more-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Does Recruiting Software Make HR More Effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alana Post<\/a> recently wrote some biting criticism of HR technology, most specifically recruiting software.\u00a0\u00a0 ((Since the post has been removed, I won\u2019t go into specifics other than to say that her post was extremely interesting to me and I\u2019ll try to hit the high points without revealing anything she may have decided to keep private.))\u00a0 It brings to question how much more effective we really are utilizing recruiting software, and whether the substitution of people for technology is a good or bad thing.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m a defender of talent acquisition and think I understand some of the trade-offs.\u00a0 But there is a realization that a great many good candidates will be eliminated in the initial automated screening.\u00a0 The idea is that the huge majority of eliminated candidates were actually not qualified for the job.\u00a0 The tradeoff is a great deal of recruiter time that was not spent looking at resumes for 30 seconds each.\u00a0 At the same time, it\u2019s assumed that a computer can do a better job objectively evaluating the content of a resume (without the frills of paper, writing, and formatting) than a recruiter can do in said 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

The more serious trade-off is that the recruiting software may have given some organizations too much allowance to remove people from the equation.\u00a0 We\u2019ve gone to delivering automated e-mails and postcards and eliminated personal communications from 99% of our recruiting contacts at large organizations.\u00a0 It impacts not only the recruiting process, but also the brand that we display to the various publics.\u00a0 The tradeoff again is that it\u2019s almost impossible to evaluate and disposition as many inquiries as we get without some distancing of the staff through technology.<\/p>\n

My question to the readership is to ask if we think we have the right levels of tradeoffs, and where we think we can do better.\u00a0 Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alana Post recently wrote some biting criticism of HR technology, most specifically recruiting software.\u00a0\u00a0 ((Since the post has been removed, I won\u2019t go into specifics other than to say that her post was extremely interesting to me and I\u2019ll try…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-technology","category-service-delivery","category-talent-acquisition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}