If you’re like us, you’ll be keeping tabs on the innovative tech and tools making their mark on the Talent landscape this year. There are some seriously cool platforms being built out there to support how we attract, engage, hire and develop our teams. From AI-powered recruitment platforms to skills-based hiring tech, the future of talent acquisition is brimming with innovation – and we’re here for it.
Benefits of Using Talent Acquisition Tools and Technology
As a recruiter or hiring manager, you’ve got a lot on your plate.
Continually keeping the talent pool full of quality candidates requires time and effort, including crafting the perfect job description, leveraging social media, screening for skills, scheduling interviews, managing your employer brand, and keeping candidates informed throughout the hiring process.
Recruiting tools can help automate a lot of those tasks (and, in some cases, handle them entirely for you) – driving efficiencies across your hiring process and creating a better recruiter and candidate experience.
AI-Powered Recruitment Platforms: Streamlining the Hiring Process
In a world where time is of the essence, AI-powered recruitment platforms are proving to be invaluable assets for talent professionals. These innovative tools leverage the power of artificial intelligence to streamline the hiring process, from sourcing candidates to conducting initial screenings.
One such platform gaining traction is eightfold. Powered by deep-learning AI, their Talent Intelligence Platform shows you what you need, when you need it. Whether you’re finding or developing talent, their skills-driven approach backed by our unparalleled talent insights enables the outcomes you need to stay ahead. We love their tagline of “pairing people with possibilities” and the below quote from Cloudflare shows the impact the platform has had on a global company going through hypergrowth.
“I firmly believe that the most productive and the leading companies of the future have to be diverse companies. Eightfold is the best – for sourcing diverse talent. It provides the ability to efficiently source diverse talent and provides clear data around the diversity of the pipeline with its diversity metrics.” – Scott Tomtania, VP and Head of Global Talent Acquisition, CloudFlare.
Interactive Assessments: Making Interviewing Fun and Engaging
Gone are the days of dry, boring assessments that leave candidates feeling uninspired. In 2024, interactive assessments are injecting a dose of fun and excitement into the hiring process, while still providing valuable insights into candidates’ skills and capabilities.
Companies like TestGorilla leveraging interactive tech to create immersive assessment experiences that challenge candidates to solve problems, demonstrate teamwork, and think creatively. From programming, to personality and culture, and cognitive capability – they have an array of “skills tests to hire the best” – saving you time and money when it comes to evaluating talent.
Scaleups like Revolut sing the praises of TestGorilla, with the Services Recruitment Manager there commenting “we believe that TestGorilla is helping us to speed up hiring for language-support roles, evaluate candidates more objectively, and hire more efficiently”.
Metaview: Revolutionising Video Interviewing with AI Insights
Metaview is a super cool bit of tech that writes your recruiting notes for you so you can save time nad focus on high-quality interactions with candidates and hiring teams. From intake meetings to interviews and candidate debriefs, Metaview’s AI automates the toil of note-taking and sharing feedback with hiring teams, so you can focus on what you’re amazing at.
Making Skills-Based Hiring a Breeze
The skills gap crisis is an $11.5 trillion problem. The demand for skilled workers far outstrips supply. The world’s largest companies are responding by adopting a new operating model for work. One that puts skills, rather than jobs, as the fundamental building blocks of workforce management.
And it just so happens that one of Scede’s valued customers – Spotted Zebra – has built an epic piece of tech to power skills-based hiring and solve for the challenge. Spotted Zebra creates a contextualised skills cloud, embedding your values and language alongside their science to ensure each people decision you make drives future performance. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people.
As we look ahead to the rest of 2024 and beyond, one thing is clear: there are plenty of exciting Talent tech platforms to support teams as they continue to drive for efficiency and performance, enabling them to do more with less – with a bunch of cool tools in their arsenal to tap into.