{"id":70643,"date":"2020-12-04T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bullhorn.com\/au\/?post_type=customer_blog&p=70643"},"modified":"2020-12-02T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T06:01:50","slug":"automation-drives-innovation-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"customer_blog","link":"https:\/\/www.bullhorn.com\/au\/customer-blog\/automation-drives-innovation-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment Agencies Have to Automate Today to Drive Innovation Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recruitment businesses are exposed to enormous amounts of information every day. The more understanding they have of their consultants, candidates, clients, and jobs, the better equipped they are to turn opportunities into revenue. Leveraging automation is the cost-effective and time-sensible way to take all the data we encounter and turn it into useful action. Especially when you consider that insight drives innovation and deeper insights allow for bigger innovation.<\/p>\n

It all comes back to the information you have to work with in front of you and how agencies are harnessing automation and good processes to get it there.<\/p>\n

Automation is making us more human<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We\u2019re not here to compete with machines on their strengths, but we should double down on what makes us uniquely human and leverage machines in doing so. In recruitment, leveraging machines is likely to remove the tasks that are high-volume and low-value. The cumbersome, burdensome, but necessary actions that take consultants away from what they do best. Connecting the right people, with the right roles, at the right time.<\/p>\n

Automation will have a major impact in the sifting, screening, scheduling, and pre-qualification of candidates during the early stages of the recruitment journey. Its biggest value, however, will be felt in how agencies manage their data. How they record, process, report, and analyse data to give themselves a greater opportunity to innovate.<\/p>\n

Automation has the opportunity to restructure entire workflows. By capturing activity when it happens and delivering insights at the point of need to make better decisions. Embracing the advantages of automation is inevitable progress. It\u2019s not a question of if\u2014but rather of when\u2014and the early adopters will extend the longest leads.<\/p>\n

Data intelligent recruitment<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Automation has an opportunity to address the challenges of data quality caused by human error. For consultants, these challenges include:<\/p>\n