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Talent Enablement Technology: Mobile Apps are Driving Candidate Engagement and Optimizing Workflows in Staffing
By Avionte
Finding, engaging, and retaining qualified talent have always been the top challenges in the staffing industry. The talent shortage was a major issue years before the pandemic and it’s expected to be for years to come. But its rapid growth, combined with unprecedented attrition, has every agency looking for innovative ways to differentiate their candidate experience from beginning to end.
Staffing leaders talk about the candidate journey as their agency’s own path to success and growth. And that path is increasingly leading to one place – talent enablement technology. The pandemic forced agencies to adopt a more tech-focused mindset overnight to keep candidates engaged and the long-term benefits have become clear.
63 percent of leaders say COVID-19 made their organizations embrace digital transformation sooner than they had expected.
Talent Enablement Lets Candidates Own Their Experience
Staffing firms of all sizes and stages of growth use a CRM to automate recruiting tasks and an ATS to source and onboard candidates. Many use other tools for background screening, engagement, interviewing, onboarding, human resources, payment, and business intelligence.
Often these systems are not integrated, hurting work and sales flows, costing the agency efficiency, productivity, and money. Finding solutions to better integrate tech or even ones that can do it all on one platform is a major focus for staffing agencies these days. But there’s another tech investment agencies are starting to make.
The candidate journey has many steps. Each one is a chance for talent to engage or disengage with your firm. The goal is to make the process as easy, smooth, and fast as possible.
