Recruiting is tough, and this year will be more challenging than ever. Talent teams have big goals this year, with critical hiring and diversity targets, intense time-pressure, and serious competition for the best candidates. But those big goals aren’t coming with big budgets. In fact, teams today are growing leaner, making it essential to maximize every dollar spent and every hour of a team member’s time.

But while talent teams work hard to build their brands and get qualified applicants for their roles, low bandwidth and high volume of unqualified applicants make it extremely hard to get the most out of their efforts. Candidates, facing an uncertain economy, expect to submit 100+ applications each to fewer available positions, over-burdening already lean talent teams. In fact, nearly one-third of candidates expect to submit more than 200+ applications before finding a role, according to a recent RippleMatch survey.

But there’s a better way to hit your targets, reduce costs, and future-proof your team and brand. RippleMatch changes the game by supercharging your talent team. RippleMatch automates applicant review to save you time and allow you to make the most of your pipeline. Plus, RippleMatch also provides you with advanced analytics so you can view the composition of your entire pipeline — and understand where your hires are actually coming from.

Below we’ll walk you through the three main issues plaguing talent teams this year — and how a recruiting software like RippleMatch can help you craft standout candidate experiences that win over top job seekers.

1. Unmanageable Applicant Volume

Recruiters have always struggled with applicant review, but the recruitment landscape and introduction of AI driven applications has escalated this perennial problem.

Candidates today are losing confidence in their ability to land a good job, and as a result are taking a spray-and-pray approach to their search, submitting hundreds of applications each. At the same time, economic uncertainty has led some industries to slow hiring and operate with lean talent teams, meaning those applications will be sent to a smaller number of positions with less manpower to review them. Without the ability to provide candidates with a tight feedback loop, employers risk a negative association with their brand and losing candidates to their competitors. In fact, through a recent survey we discovered that candidates today start to lose interest in an opportunity within two weeks of submitting their application.

RippleMatch brings all of your candidates to one place, gives priority to the best-fit applicants, flags unqualified candidates, and arms you with powerful tools for filtering, advancing, and rejecting candidates. In other words, we’ll slash your applicant review time by 70%, which means you’ll spend less time reviewing resumes and more time building relationships with top candidates and keeping them engaged.

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