Getting Candidates Job-Ready: Finding the Balance Between Efficiency & Experience

Balance is everything. Striking a wonderful median of quick, efficient processes and delivering a positive experience can be tricky to achieve for any business. 

 

So, how do recruitment and staffing agencies gain a competitive edge while ensuring that candidates receive a great experience? By reducing the operational and administrative workload around screening and onboarding so candidates are job-ready to facilitate placements faster. 

  

The time spent on doing background checks manually, sending multiple emails for licence and ticket verification, or facilitating eLearning with traditional methods may mean drawing out the recruitment process for much longer than necessary and potentially losing out on onboarding candidates within target dates. Manual administration also puts recruiters at risk of double handling data and the errors that go along with it especially when using multiple systems to complete hiring and onboarding processes. 

 

The first step to finding the perfect balance between efficiency and experience is streamlining systems. Using only one system for pre-screening, recruiting, onboarding and automating ongoing compliance tasks a seamless experience, helps you screen and onboard efficiently while still ensuring a painless and positive experience for candidates. 

 

Ensure that you are facilitating talent mobility. This expedites your time-to-hire and minimises, risk, repetition and induction fatigue for your candidate and team – a business essential for fast-moving recruitment requirements. 

  

What WorkPro’s smart HR tech does is automate pre-employment screening, onboarding, and ongoing compliance monitoring, and it does it all in one central dashboard.  

 

WorkPro’s smart compliance solutions help to eliminate manual paperwork and alleviate the strain on costs and timeframes when trying to get candidates compliant and job-ready. By streamlining the onboarding processes, recruiters can reduce time to hire so they can focus more time on providing a quick and easy process for their candidates. 



Here are just a few examples of how WorkPro can do the heavy lifting when it comes to the high-volume, manual workload the staffing and recruitment industry faces every day: 


Work Fast with Confidence


WorkPro’s automated background checks, eLearning and compliance monitoring tools are continually optimised by subject matter experts and are updated to sector standards. Allowing staffing and recruitment firms to meet legislative compliance requirements while ensuring candidates are job-ready from day one. 


Be Audit-Ready Always with Smart Insights


WorkPro’s smart tech transparent dashboard with company-wide reporting and smart insights make it easy to constantly be audit-ready. All of WorkPro’s solutions reflect changes and up to date results almost instantaneously, ensuring the information is always up to date. 


Integrated & Supported


It’s so easy to leverage WorkPro’s smart technology effortlessly. The WorkPro platform integrates with the best HR systems seamlessly and securely with a support team ready to customise solutions as they’re needed. 

 

While finding the perfect balance between efficient processes and providing a positive candidate experience might seem like a hard task to achieve. WorkPro’s automated smart HR tech solution allows the staffing and recruitment industry to streamline fundamental onboarding tasks they complete every single day, which in turn makes the onboarding and screening process for the candidate a positive experience. 

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