If your whole recruiting process is built upon your inbox, spreadsheets, or even worse, paper to manage candidates, it’s undoubtedly time for a change. There is no denying these methods serve their purpose in the early days of any agency. They allow you to move quickly, offer familiarity, and are a convenient option for those with limited budgets.
But, these tools quickly outgrow their usefulness. Inboxes become bloated, spreadsheets become unmanageable, and papers get lost in the shuffle. A good ATS quickly solves these pains and allows you to manage all of your work from one platform.
Are you planning on growing your team in the coming year? If you are, it’s important to remember that what works at your current size may be unscalable as your team grows.
Nothing is more frustrating to owners and employees alike than feeling stalled because you don’t have the resources to scale your growth. Your ability to be proactive will be instrumental to how quickly and easily you navigate each phase. Instead of waiting until you start experiencing growing pains, be bold and choose the right tool, an ATS, that will scale up with growth.
Data entry is a fact of life for anyone who spends at least part of their day working on a computer. It doesn’t matter where you are on an org chart. We all have our fair share to do. However, improvements in technology have automated the amount of data entry required of us, if not almost eliminated.
If you spend most of your day copying and pasting between screens, it’s time for an ATS. Modern ATS dramatically cut down on the amount of time you spend entering information, freeing you up to focus on what you do best — recruiting.
Take a moment and think about your current recruiting efforts. How many open roles are you currently working on? How many candidates are you engaging for each position? It’s incredible how quickly the numbers add up. Now, imagine if your clients we’re to calling you at this exact moment asking for updates on the status of each role, including information on individual candidates. If the thought of this happening induces anxiety at spending hours manually compiling data, it’s time for a change.
You never have to spend hours on this task again with an ATS. Instead, run a report on your open roles or check out your hiring pipeline to quickly find the information you need.
Imagine driving a car on a dark road late at night without headlights. Hopefully, it’s difficult to imagine because you would never take that risk. Each turn, hole, or change in direction presents new challenges that are difficult, if not impossible, to navigate.
While a lot less complicated, recruiting without visibility into the overall performance of your efforts is essentially the same. You’ll navigate a few roadblocks successfully, but your overall performance will suffer. There will be multiple inefficiencies, and parts of your process will be ineffective. An ATS allows you to easily identify these obstacles so that you can quickly address them and move forward without spending more time on a task that is failing to produce results.
Your Legacy ATS System Is more trouble than it’s worth!
If your current system can’t keep up with the trends and functionality that the modern recruiter needs, then it is time to make a change. The days of the need to integrate a million different tools to get the full functionality you need for your everyday efforts are long gone, and now you can get ONE solution to manage your entire workflow and sourcing efforts. Why pay for more software when you don’t have to? Add Loxo to your wish list this holiday season and treat yourself to a shiny new ATS!
