8 Of The Best Recruiting Tools
Recruiting is a multifaceted process, requiring a range of tasks and skills at different stages – from sourcing top talent to interviewing and hiring. It’s also commonly the case that Recruitment or Talent Acquisition professionals will be expected to work across all of those stages, and master the requirements of those stages.
“Increasingly, TA pros can be expected to be “full-stack” recruiters who can work seamlessly across different functions and stages of the hiring process.” – LinkedIn, Future of Recruiting 2024
Luckily, in large part thanks to the growth (and smart applications) of AI, there are smarter and smarter tools for pretty much every part of the hiring process. These tools make it easy to find and hire better quality candidates, faster – and carve out more time for the creative parts of your job.
62% of the talent professionals surveyed by LinkedIn are optimistic about AI in recruitment, and the number of recruiters who added AI skills to their profiles jumped 14% last year.
Here’s a breakdown of some of the best recruiting tools available today, categorized by their strengths in various stages of the hiring process.
Sourcing & Researching the Market 👀
1. LinkedIn Recruiter
It would be completely wild not to mention the power of LinkedIn for recruiting in 2024. LinkedIn Recruiter is one of the most widely used tools for talent sourcing, and for good reason. Providing access to “over 1 billion professionals”, it offers powerful search and outreach features to help recruiters find and engage with top talent.
LinkedIn has added AI functionality to its Recruiter tool, to let users write highly personalized InMails and easily automate messages and follow-ups to potential candidates. AI is also improving the search functionality: when you type in your hiring needs, it will pre-populate the right search filters to match your criteria, and give you suggestions to optimize your results.
2. Beamery
Beamery offers a robust CRM (candidate relationship management) platform that helps recruiters stay organized and efficient. It allows you to build talent pipelines, engage candidates, and track their journey from initial contact to hire – providing a “single source of truth” for TA teams who handle a large volume of vacancies.
Beamery’s ethical, explainable AI helps you source and qualify candidates with little manual effort, offering recommendations for suitable profiles within your talent pool. It also helps you keep prospects “warm”, nurturing them with personalized content and campaigns.
As well as identifying strong matches based on the skills needed for a given role, Beamery’s AI can infer people’s potential and adjacent skills – enriching the profiles of candidates, silver medallists and other sourced prospects, as well as existing employees and alumni.
Build pipelines of quality talent with ease, thanks to AI that helps you find the people with the right skills to succeed, faster, alongside dynamic data about the nature of jobs at your organization, and the wider labor market.
Interviewing & Candidate Experience 🤩
3. GoodTime
Scheduling interviews can be a major pain point in the recruitment process. GoodTime streamlines this by automating interview scheduling, ensuring that both candidates and hiring managers have a smooth experience.
They are also utilizing the power of AI to make hiring processes more efficient: “automating 90% of interview scheduling tasks — for any role, in any place, at any scale.” Their human-centric AI can solve scheduling issues that a human would struggle with, coordinating single and multi-day interviews, and suggesting the best-fit interviewer (and backup) based on their skills and their availability.
Their tool allows you to see the status of every interview at a glance, spot if human intervention is needed, and get recommendations when there’s a conflict, cancellation, or SLA issue.
4. Metaview
Metaview specializes in interview intelligence. It records and transcribes interviews, providing insights into the quality of the interviews and helping improve both the interviewer’s skills and the candidate's experience.
They automatically capture interviews through your calendar, ATS, GoodTime, Calendly, and more, and it works with all video conferencing platforms and mobile calls. Describing themselves as “The world’s #1 AI scribe for recruiting”, Metaview’s AI writes, summarizes, and structures interview notes, pre-populate scorecards, and captures key points from intakes and debriefs.
5. Guide.co
Guide.co enhances the candidate experience by offering personalized candidate journey platforms. From the first interview to onboarding, it ensures every candidate feels informed, engaged, and valued throughout the hiring process.
They automate the sharing of prep materials, interviewer bios, documents, links and more; give candidates visibility into your interview process; and help you streamline candidate communications.
6. Hackerrank
Believing that “skills speak louder than words”, Hackerrank helps customers run technical interviews that are consistent and collaborative, where teams can evaluate code live.
Their browser-based IDE (Integrated Development Environment) offers code repositories for 40+ languages across all of tech’s most in-demand skills.
Hiring: References & Salary Benchmarking 📊
7. Screenloop
Screenloop is a powerful tool for references and background checks, ensuring that you’re making informed decisions before extending an offer. It also provides post-hiring analytics, helping you continuously improve your recruitment process.
Automating reference handling, and getting candidate references back to you in just 48 hours, Screenloop integrates easily with other HR systems.
8. Pave
Pave assists in salary benchmarking, ensuring that you offer competitive compensation packages.
Connect your HRIS and equity management systems and access real-time compensation benchmarks from over 7,500 top companies, and stay within market standards.
Suitable for global companies, Pave lets you access benchmarks for over 55 countries and 90 international cities, and offers deep insights around how other companies are structuring their equity programs.
These tools streamline various aspects of the recruitment process, helping you improve talent acquisition efficiency and effectiveness.
Whether you need help sourcing candidates, improving the interview experience, or managing offers and compensation, the right technology can give your recruitment team a significant edge. Tools that integrate well with your existing systems are a real bonus, so be sure to work out how compatible they are with your tech stack.