Cloud-based recruitment solutions

BANGALORE, INDIA: The key to any organization's success is quality manpower, which is the most difficult asset to find, build, and retain. Luckily, there's software available to make the job of recruiting people easier. Moreover, it is now available in a SaaS-based cloud, so you don't have to worry about setting it up, or about the hardware, software, or upgrade costs.

You get the latest features all the time. It's available from anywhere and on any device, including your mobile, so long as it can connect to the Internet. Most cloud based recruitment software can be customized with your company logo and name. Moreover, they allow job posting to your website as well as on different social media sites to promote job vacancies. You can import candidate profiles from your desktop, add notes to them, and even send replies from the recruitment software itself. All this helps you in identifying the best talent for your organization.

Cloud-based recruitment software today have become a complete management system that offer everything from marketing your jobs, to attracting candidates and managing the whole recruitment process. But here again, there are several cloud-based offerings, making the job of finding a suitable one for your organization quite challenging.

Several factors need to be considered--the number of people you typically hire, your budget, and the nature of your business. Others include: whether it allows you to choose your own domain name, what sort of an interface does it provide for applicants, whether it allows applicants to post their resumes online in various formats, etc.

After all, to draw the best talent, you need to have a professional looking interface that allows you to post your job requirements and allow applicants to submit their resumes.

Here, we've compared four cloud-based recruitment solutions.

JobPage-Applicant Tracking System and Social Recruitment Platform

A software to help you publish, promote, and track applications, so that you can finally recruit the right talent.

JobPage is an on-demand recruitment software to help companies hire IT professionals directly, without the need to go to an agency. The software provides a very nice user interface, which is so easy to use that it can be used effectively even by a non-recruitment team member of your company. It provides you all the tools needed to recruit the best talent in for your company.

To post a job opening you need to register on their website and in a few clicks you can create an attractive job page according to your company's need. Interested applicants can apply by answering a few questions. This is interesting, because the software does the first level of screening for you. Applicants can also add their LinkedIn account information along with their CV and email address. Using the JobPage recruitment service, you can promote your job opening to a number of social networking sites. It allows you to make your choice of sub-domain and publish your job there with your company name and logo on it.

You can create tasks and to-do lists to help you manage your recruitment more effectively. It does your job of marketing automatically by re-posting your jobs to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. For tracking applicants, it gives you an analytical view on how your jobs are performing and who has applied when, which makes this software more interesting and user-friendly. The recruitment team can rank candidates, which can be seen by other members to follow the best candidate for the job. You can search applicants, and send emails from the software itself.

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