Why are you still using spreadsheets to manage your recruitment?

We’re continually surprised at how many in-house recruitment teams still use spreadsheets to manage their recruitment process. If you’re only making a few hires a year, then maybe you can control your process with a spreadsheet.

And it’s understandable to see why spreadsheets can benefit the recruitment process

1.       Spreadsheet are low cost and ubiquitous
2.       Spreadsheets make data transfer easy
3.       Everyone knows how to use a spreadsheet
4.       Spreadsheets have Charts & Graphs

But unlike purpose-built recruitment software, spreadsheets don’t scale too well. Increased volume means the spreadsheet becomes increasingly complex and those benefits seem less convincing: