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Keep on hiring like a robot and get the candidates without personality!

Keep on hiring like a robot and get the candidates without personality!
Keep on hiring like a robot and get the candidates without personality!

The modern recruitment platform gives us a plenty of opportunities for efficient search among thousands of candidates and millions of profiles. Professional recruiters know that the use of recruitment platform, for example, SignalHire, makes it easier to search resumes, use databases and social networks, filter out the candidates with the various skills, geolocation or experience in the required field, choose keywords to weed out candidates who do not correspond to the criteria assigned to a particular job. But do we really believe that the use of the platform for searching needs or sending emails is the right use of technology?

 Have you ever caught yourself or your colleagues at the daily working with a large number of profiles and positions turns in the soulless screening? Recruiters use such platforms as SignalHire only as a technical tool. Of course, usually platforms support this, but let’s be the people, but not the machines!

Every day, the recruiter gets into a dangerous situation. What will you choose? An applicant who meets all the criteria of the selection when we use filtering tools for skills and keywords. Or maybe you will build a network of candidates, based on the history of working with them for another vacancy and create a certain image of a human being with the advantages, disadvantages and possible prospects for professional growth.

 Humans or data

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