Mobile Apps for Recruiting

Effective recruiting means using the latest technology and spending time in social media where a majority of top candidates are. It also means doing more with less and that’s where mobile apps come in handy. The booming mobile app development industry has created an app to make almost anything better, faster and more economical. Mobile apps and mobile recruiting strategy are must-have tools for successful workforce development today.

Why Go Mobile?

Just a year ago, more than half of American adults had a smart phone according to the Pew Internet Project. Now they use their phones for a myriad of everyday activities such as checking voicemail and text and email messages, listening to music, surfing the Internet, and yes, looking for a new job. This is where the candidates are spending their time, and where you need to be to recruit them. And many employers are using mobile app development to create easy ways for candidates to find their openings and apply with their mobile devices.

Mobile Apps As Tools for Recruiting

Recruiters aren’t sitting at their desks opening the mail and stacking up resumes in their in-bins anymore. In a lot of cases, they’re not even using paper resumes much. They are in LinkedIn looking at professional profiles and using their company applicant tracking systems and employee referral programs to find candidates. The biggest global corporations are using video interviewing to save time and money, paying attention to candidate experience, and analyzing big data.

To keep up with evolving recruiting practices and changing workforce paradigms, recruiters need to use every new tool available, especially mobile apps. Apps are the tools that help them get there faster, find the top candidates they need, and refine their recruiting processes to get better results.

Best Mobile Apps for Recruiting

The LinkedIn Recruiter mobile app lets recruiters who have paid LinkedIn Recruiter seats to quickly and easily access the candidates they follow in LinkedIn. They can get updates on candidate activity, view mobile-optimized profiles, organize project files, and message candidates. With the LinkedIn Recruiter mobile app, recruiters can share candidate profiles with hiring managers while they’re traveling, from a job fair booth, or while they’re getting a cup of coffee.

Instajob mobile app turns iPhone photos of the company, employees, managers, and business operations into instant job ads that are as have much more impact than any text ad ever could. Use the Instajob app to turn photos into advertising and promote your job openings.

Talent Xray mobile app puts the power of Boolean search in your pocket. When you’re not in the office but still need to find candidates, Talent Xray lets you start sourcing anywhere, any time.

The Ladders Recruiting App is a totally free platform for both recruiters and candidates. It makes contacting candidates a much faster, easier, and almost intuitive recruiting activity by letting recruiters scroll through candidates by simply swiping, keeping track of candidates recruiters have already called, and letting recruiters assign desired candidate attributes to job openings for easy matching.

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