Why Switch to Conversational Recruiting in 2021?

The key to the successful functioning of an organization lies in how effectively it can establish open channels of communication, but for some reason, communication is exactly where we choose to compromise on quality. It sounds like a pretty simple thing to establish, but poor communication has the power to potentially ruin a whole business or company! When it comes to hiring fresh employees, recruiters often forget the importance of actually talking and connecting with candidates. No one wants to feel like a robot working in the corporate world; human connections are very important! In this article, we’re going to highlight the importance of conversational recruiting to tell you how it is the future of the hiring process.

The term is quite self-explanatory and probably means exactly what you think it does. Conversational recruiting is the process adopted by recruiters in which they engage and attract potential candidates by conversing with them on a deeper level. It’s a very high-tech strategy and can very easily speed up the hiring process as well as hugely improve the relationships that employers have with their employees.
Instead of the boring and formal natured traditional interviews, conversational recruiting is more laid back and relaxed; it focuses on connecting with people on a more personal level. This is the perfect way for recruiters to develop good connections with potential employees much before the official interview process even begins to take place. The secret to being successful at this is very simple: clear and consistent communication using a series of different means. It probably sounds exhausting, but we assure you it’s worth the effort!

Conversational Recruiting is an important part of RecruitmentBot’s screening strategy. We aim to create an environment that is both professional and relaxed to ensure that candidates always perform their best. We understand how intimidating the hiring process can be from the candidates’ end and how tiresome it can be from the employer’s end, which is why we have come up with the perfect solution: RecruitmentBot, that asks all the right questions and get the information hiring managers to need, but through a system that is designed to accommodate candidates and make sure they perform their absolute best.

We wouldn’t recommend such an elaborate hiring method unless we were sure that the results would be promising! Especially with the huge guiding force of technology, conversational recruiting is becoming a fast-growing trend. Below we have listed the 5 main benefits that this method gives to recruiters as well as employees:

It’s human nature for people to lose interest in things very quickly. Contrary to the popular belief, not many people have great attention spans! If candidates do not get quick and clear recruiters’ responses, they are bound to feel unwanted and ignored. No matter what stage of the hiring process you are at, it’s necessary to make sure that your candidate is still intrigued by the idea of working with you.
Technology is truly doing wonders because AI chatbots are serving this purpose in the most efficient and precise way. These chatbots keep candidates interested by engaging them in a series of predetermined questions such that a conversation starts going; this conversation gives recruiters exactly the information that they are looking for. Talk about quick and convenient!

Besides, here at RecruitmentBot, we value both speed and efficiency in our screening system, which is why our AI is not only programmed to find you the best matches but also do it in the most convenient way possible. Meaning that any candidates that go through our system never have to deal with long and dreary questions that bore them or reduce their level of interest, rather we prefer to keep things simple and produce quick and great results, just so the hiring process is all the smoother for our clients.

An ideal recruiter thinks objectively, and makes rational and logical decisions - however, the ideal recruiter does not exist! Humans are prone to make errors, and one type of those errors are called biases. There are so many ways in which a person can be biased; the recruiter could subconsciously favour a candidate because they went to the same school, or maybe even just because they have a similar fashion sense. The human mind is very weird, and most of the time people aren’t even aware of how their personal biases end up clouding their judgement.
Conversational AI bots are a huge step in overcoming the prevailing bias issue. These automated bots ask questions that make it possible to screen candidates solely based on their skills, abilities and qualifications, rather than other irrelevant factors like their age, gender, and appearance. The less focus is given to factors unrelated to the job, the more likely your decision is going to be bias-free.

And for those of you who think that you’re too self-aware to ever be biased… think again! Bias within the human system is so unconscious that we fail to even recognise its presence. And of course, where there is bias, there is always a very strong chance of a mis-hire. But the very simple solution to this is Chatbots, particularly RecruitmentBot, which has been specially designed to ensure no bias makes its way to the screening process and that only the right employee is hired.

The way that recruiters treat candidates is what candidates believe they will be treated like as employees. Or to put it in simpler terms, the candidate experience gives insight into the employee experience - if someone feels like they are going unnoticed and their questions are being ignored, then it is very much possible that they will feel demotivated. Understandably, no one wants to put themselves in an environment where they don’t feel appreciated.
Through the active implementation of conversational recruiting, potential job candidates start feeling like valuable individuals who can contribute greatly to your company, and when people feel recognized, they tend to be more likely to stick around - even if they don’t land the job title they were aiming for! After all, we all want to be acknowledged for the value we add to the things surrounding us, and this method leaves candidates wanting the opportunity to simply do more.

For instance, RecruitmentBot has been modelled in a way that both candidates and employers benefit, and we know how de-humanizing the hiring process can be for candidates, whether it's through a system that's too mechanized or because of hiring managers that are too tough. This is why despite the fact that our Chatbot is indeed a bot, it has been manufactured to recreate the human experience in such a way that candidates feel valued, at ease and still encouraged to perform their best.

With the influx of better technology, companies have started taking measures that allow them to reach much more diverse pools of talent, with people who may have been left out of the hiring process if recruiters continued to rely on conventional methods. Slowly but surely people have begun to realize that drafting a misleading resume and then supporting it with an even more misleading interview is a bit too easy.
Hiring people is a strenuous task that demands insane amounts of time and effort. Recruiters should limit their extensively detailed questions and interviews for the shortlisted candidates rather than on every single applicant that applies for a position; it’s only the more efficient thing to do.
To make the recruiter’s time more available to make deep, meaningful connections with promising candidates, it’s smarter to allocate the initial testing to technology. AI-based technology, especially chatbots, are vital in this respect; they create an automated process for screening job candidates. And how does this benefit the recruiters and the organization? They can now fully invest in connecting with those people who are well along the stages of the hiring process - the people who are likely to be responsible for the future of the company!

Practically speaking, every hiring manager would trade an arm and a leg to devise a hiring system that would make them perform their best. Yet, there is only so much the human mind can manage. RecruitmentBot on the other hand was invented to do what the human mind cannot. Not only does it do the mind-numbing part of the process, so that hiring managers can concentrate their energy on where it is needed the most, but the responses provided to the chatbot are made available to interviewers so they can streamline the process, even more, saving time, money and getting the best employee, all at once.

The hiring process isn’t just about the organization cherry-picking the most qualified people for the job, instead, it’s a two-way process. Just like the applicants choose the company, the company also needs to win over the candidates so that when an offer is extended, they are interested enough to accept it.

By keeping an open communication channel between recruiters and candidates, conversational recruiting ends up monumentally improving the candidate experience. Word of mouth holds the most value - if your candidates are happy, then you’ll get even better ones coming in soon after! From start to finish, recruiters need to keep candidates thoroughly engaged; it is a requirement rather than a plus point.

The RecruitmentBot in specific, through its intelligent technology and its cloud platform, not only produces the best matches, but it's easy to use and is the best way to organize the entire process through its easily deployable nature. And more importantly, it does exactly what it is needed to, making the whole idea of getting the perfect employee as simple as possible.

Yes, this all sounds very interesting but why should we invest so much energy into a practice that isn’t even exercised over here? The recruitment process in Pakistan is far from perfect, to say the least. We often rely on personal connections to land a job, whereas employers don’t hesitate in using their instinct as a valid metric to judge the value of a candidate. However, the absence of revolutionizing concepts like conversational AI bots is exactly the reason why conversational recruiting is so important and relevant in Pakistan. The demand has begun to be felt, and the supply is following.

Us Pakistanis are generally wary of change - especially in routine. However, we are slowly learning to come out of our shells and explore the wondrous opportunities that technology continues to bring forth to us. With the new wave of awareness that’s sweeping the youth, the new faces stepping into the corporate world have a huge appetite for innovation! Pakistanis are gradually opening their eyes to acknowledge that time saved in one regard means more development in another. If we stop using unnecessary human force on mundane tasks like shortlisting job applicants, we could begin to focus on the exciting prospects that beg to be explored. While larger organizations have adopted this time and cost-efficient method of AI chatbots, smaller ones are following soon after. Very soon, the Pakistani corporate world will be in a frenzy of AI conversational bots!

And while change may be slow and gradual, RecruitmentBot is still out there, contributing in whatever way we possibly can. We not only know the issues of hiring systems, but because we are a locally based organization, we understand the nuances of the Pakistani hiring systems. Even when in situations where there is no bias, favouritism, nepotism etc, hiring managers tend to make the whole situation so eerie and daunting, completely forgetting how this may negatively affect the quality of hire. But that’s what RecruitmentBot is here for, we know what to ask and how to ask it in a way that is easy, conversational but also gets the job done.

We have gone on and on about the magical effects of AI chatbots on the hiring process, but don’t worry we’re finally going to tell you how to go about the implementation! RecruitmentBot is artificial intelligence and rule-based chatbot which is essentially the solution to most of your hiring problems. The chatbot asks candidates a series of automated questions, analyzes the responses within a minute, and calculates compatibility scores to establish which candidate is suitable for which position. And the best part? The results are based on all the things that genuinely matter in the recruitment process; potential, aptitude, skills and behaviour.

RecruitmentBot, being as objective in decision making as it can be, eliminates the chances of human error and bias. It allows candidates to feel like there is a more human and personal connection with the employers, and it allows employers to truly grasp the personality of who it is they are considering to hire. And to put a cherry on top… it’s so much easier!