Most companies and businesses are using mobile phones these days, to recruit new talent. A study has revealed that in India, 80 percent of small and medium scale companies are opting to use mobile phones to fill vacancies.
How this works is simple. Most job searches are conducted by job seekers on their phones, so recruiters and companies have just upped their mobile phone recruitment and referral presence. They have built mobile friendly interfaces to engage talent looking for their kind of opening and use fun ways to elicit information from them. This helps shortlist candidates. Tech tools and analytical software can further help match the right talent with the right job.
This kind of tech hiring is cost effective, cuts down human labor, and is also quite effective. It narrows the possibility for biased hiring. If used as a standard HR practice, it can do away with nepotism. Also, when machines match skill sets to job requirements, the primary criteria for hiring is sure to be met. Better transparency and more fairness in hirings build better trust between job seekers and companies.
Social platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook are also fast becoming the most favored sources of talent information. These sites work as catalysts in making the process of hiring faster by facilitating filtered information about candidates.
So all you guys looking for jobs, up the tech quotient in your life. Use the available frontiers well to showcase your skills and abilities. Opportunities are knocking on your Windows and Android!
