What is the Recruitment Management System? 

A Recruitment Management System (RMS) is software that automates a company’s hiring process. The recruitment management software helps to publish job postings, share in different job listing websites, shortlist candidates, schedule interviews – all from one place.

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Features to look for in a recruitment management system

Ability to automate repetitive tasks

A smart recruitment management system can free up around 75% of recruiters time by automating repetitive and transactional tasks. This includes candidate sourcing, screening, follow-ups, feedback emails, updating information on other integrated systems – leaving more time for strategic and meaningful interactions.

An intuitive and user-friendly UI

An intuitive user interface or UI, simplifies your job, makes it easy for your team to adapt, and gives everyone involved an impeccable tech experience. This helps make your life easier and can help elevate your team's productivity.

Value-based pricing (preferably starting with a free plan)

Check if the software is available on custom plans that take into account your HR needs at each growth stage. Take time to understand the ROI. Or you can schedule a demo and have all your pricing questions answered for you. Sign up for a trial and simplify your recruitment process. 

Intelligent reporting

Easily facilitate data tracking and insights with the use of in-built candidate sourcing reports, candidate pipeline reports, offer rejection reasons reports, interview reports, plus many more. These will help you to understand the health of the recruiting processes better and indicate suggested improvements.

Seamless software integrations

Our recruitment management system allows you to streamline your work by managing different platforms all from one place. With in-built interface connectivity, our system allows you to have your video interview tools, job boards software, pre-assessment test providers, productivity tools and calendars all connected. This ensures streamlining and helps improve your team synergy.

A support team that gets you

We are on hand to help you with any questions you have. During the initial interactions or demo, we’ll clarify any questions you have. Investing in a good recruitment management system is crucial, and so is signing up for business with people who understand your business and respond with expertise and care.

Top 8 benefits of recruitment management software

10X faster candidate sourcing

Post your vacancies to many job boards with one click. Use custom application forms for each job (to screen faster based on relevant information) besides requesting resumes. When candidates apply, they automatically enter the recruitment system as candidate profiles that are shareable with your hiring team.

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Screen applications at rocket speed

Automate the screening process to go through all applications, regardless of when they came in. With sole manual application of this process, it’s easy to fall into the trap of picking the first best profile you encounter. The automatic filtration allows you to see all, whilst selecting the best candidates quickly.

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Ask the right questions when candidates apply

By providing a form for prospective candidates to fill out, you can filter out those most suited. The form can target questions which they may not cover in the resume. This helps to speed up your hiring process.

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Every job can have its own hiring workflow

With Freshteam, you can customize the hiring workflow for every job posting in your recruitment management system to match your hiring process. Everything from the number of hiring stages to the hiring team working on it depends on the experience level and the kind of job function you’re hiring for.

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Modify hiring stages to suit your hiring process

Add and remove hiring stages from your employee recruitment process, as per your job’s requirements. Freshteam’s recruitment management process allows the segmentation according to the stage you’re at. For example, Directors of Marketing have more face-to-face interview rounds than marketing interns, hence our categorization is ideal to filter this.

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Gather structured interview feedback

Collect qualitative feedback online from your panel members, after every interview. The allocated scores give an average of the total compiled. Interview scorecards are customizable on a job-specific level so you can be as specific as you’d like for every job.

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Offer Management

The offer management templates make it easy for you to roll out offers as soon as you find out that the interviewing panel show interest in a candidate. You'll be rolling out an attractive offer in minutes and onboarding the new hire sooner than think. Faster time-to-hire, faster time-to-productivity, and happy hiring managers.

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Powerful reporting and insights

Our reporting function provides easy to interpret dashboards, automatic report generation and scheduling options based on your activity. This data is useable in meetings to support strategic decision making. 

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Features of an online recruitment management software

Set up a hiring team

Add the hiring manager and panel members to job postings so they can participate in the recruitment management process as well.

Choose the right status

You can post jobs publicly on a career site, made available internally on employee portal or saved as private for top secret purposes.

Add from talent pool

Archive candidate profiles that you want to look up in the future so that Freshteam can resurface them when similar jobs open up.

50+ job description templates

Don’t waste time writing job descriptions. You can choose from one of our 50+ freely available job description templates to create a job posting right away.

Customise your career site

Make your career site feel like a part of your website. Upload your logo, add sections and customize elements to entice candidates.

FAQs about a recruitment management system

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