Are You Still Using Excel For Recruiting?

Excel sheets are used by almost all white-collar workers to do some part of their work: Making a list of leads, Tracking Revenue, Managing a To-Do List & pretty much anything you can think of.

Excel sheets have been a recruiter’s best friend for the past 20+ years. Tools for recruiters have gotten a lot more advanced today, maybe its time to move on to something better than excel.

As you can imagine, This is pretty painful and a lot of data gets lost in the cracks. What's worse is you end up delivering a bad experience to both your clients & candidates!

Today, there are better ways to run your business & improve productivity! All you need is a modern Applicant Tracking System, Basically some awesome Recruitment Agency Software that unlike excel, is designed especially for an agency recruiter!

Specialized Recruiting Software Is A Game-Changer

The big difference between using excel sheets and a dedicated ATS system is that you get everything you need at one place. This reduces the pain of juggling multiple tools and helps you stay more organized.

Major Differences Between Excel Sheets & ATS System

This is the main reason why you should switch to a dedicated ATS.

Recruiters are moving away from spreadsheets like excel sheets or Google Docs because they weren’t designed with a recruiter’s needs in mind.

An Example:

We will take a look at one example where you can see a recruitment agency software in action.

ABC Search

So, Ryan owns ABC Search, they have 4 recruiters. Unfortunately, they are still using google docs or excel sheets to manage their candidate database.

Scenario 1

Ryan wants to know who placed a candidate named “John Doe”, but since they are using excel sheets, Ryan has to do some digging in order to find out. After searching through multiple files, he eventually finds what he was searching for.

Time wasted — 15–20 mins.

Solution — With an ATS system in place, Ryan would have easily got hold of the details by just typing John’s name in the search box and checking his candidate profile.

Scenario 2

After following up for 3 months, Ryan got a new client (Apple) but since Ryan doesn’t use any type of CRM, he can’t keep track of all conversations that happened between different hiring managers at Apple and him over the last 3 months.

Ryan ends up digging through his Gmail account to pull up emails from months ago.

Time wasted — 10 mins

Solution — With a Recruitment Agency CRM in place, Ryan would have easily read all the conversations he’s had with recruiters at Apple on one page.1

Scenario 3

ABC Search receives a ton of email from candidates with resumes since they have no database in place, Ryan’s recruiters spend a lot of time going through resumes and entering data in Google Docs.

Time wasted — Hours every week, depending on the number of resumes.

Solution — With the software in place, Ryan would have parsed & stored the resumes directly into his company database from his email inbox.

Just like the above scenarios, there are many more scenarios where the software would have come in handy and saved Ryan’s team a lot of valuable time and helped them be more productivity!

This Is Why Software Exists!

Dedicated Recruitment ATS & CRM systems are helping firms all over the world get more productive by reducing data entry and keeping the team in sync.

Each ATS systems is designed for a different set of use cases, We’ve built Recruit CRM to make recruiting more organized, stress-free and fun.

So if you want to try an ATS today, Give our free trial a shot. Click here to signup.

Don’t be Ryan and start taking your business to the next level today!

Originally published at https://recruitcrm.io.