How One Pixar Film (and a Few Free Chrome Extensions) Can Make You a Better Recruiter
After watching the Pixar film Ratatouille about 15 times in the past year, I’ve learned two things. The first is that I desperately need to get out of my house. The second is that recruiters can up their talent acquisition games with the right tips and tricks.
How did I come to that latter conclusion from an animated film?
In the movie, there’s a famous scene where veteran chef Collette is teaching newcomer Remy some professional cooking hacks. These include how to identify quality ingredients, tips for minimizing cuts and burns, and most notably, the importance of keeping one’s station clear. Remy was already an immensely talented chef, but after learning these hacks, he was able to take his skills and efficiency to the next level.
While I don’t have any cooking insights for you (nor can I find you a genius cooking rat), I do have five free Chrome extensions that can be the Collette to your recruiting Remy.
1. Hiretual’s Chrome Extension
Socrates once said that it is “better [to] do little well, than a great deal badly.” As it turns out, though, Hiretual’s Chrome extension does a great deal remarkably well.
Hiretual’s Chrome extension capabilities include:
Contact Finder
There is nothing more frustrating than finding your ideal candidate and not having their contact information. With an industry-leading 90 percent contact-finding rate, Hiretual’s Chrome extension can help you uncover almost any of your desired candidates’ personal and professional contact information.
Boolean Builder
Hiretual provides Boolean support by building Boolean strings based on your preferences. These Boolean strings can be as comprehensive or simple as you like, based on job titles, locations, skills, companies, and more. If you don’t feel like entering all of that information yourself, you can let the Chrome extension do it for you. Just insert your job description, and Hiretual’s AI will parse it for keywords to generate your Boolean strings.
G Suite Features
Hiretual’s Chrome extension offers a few integrations with Google’s services. These include Google Search Results Enhancement and Gmail Assistant. Google Search Results Enhancement enriches searches with candidate information from the open web. Gmail Assistant helps recruiters manage the engagement aspects of the recruitment process. And there are even more features coming soon!
2. Buffer
Social media is an important mode of communication for recruitment teams and organizations. It allows recruiters to promote an employer’s brand, keep candidates engaged, and interact with their networks. However, it can be tricky and time-consuming to manage multiple social media platforms at once.
Instead, recruiters can use Buffer. This Chrome extension makes it easier for recruiters to stay active and organized on social media. Whether you want to post a job opening or share a story about your organization, Buffer helps you post on multiple social media platforms with the click of a button. Let Buffer automate those tedious posting tasks while you make more time for other aspects of your recruiting responsibilities.
3. Streak
If you want to manage your customer relationship management (CRM) efforts right from Google, Streak is the Chrome extension for you. With a customizable workflow to fit your needs, Streak’s capabilities are impressive. These include tracking applicant information, managing your pipeline, viewing engagement and email metrics, sharing documents with teammates, and so much more.
4. Humantic AI
As you know, there is no one right way to engage a candidate. There are many puzzle pieces to consider, including candidate interests, crafting outreach messages, determining how often to engage, and more. Why not let predictive technology and people analytics help you solve that puzzle?
Humantic’s AI analyzes and predicts a candidate’s behavior, preferences, and personality based on available data, including resumes, open web information, and more. The result? It is able to personalize engagement with that candidate. In a world where our modes of communication have evolved significantly, it is important to have a tool that will help you cut through the clutter and successfully engage talent.
5. Ultidash
We can all agree that the recruiting game is very deadline-driven. Whether you’re scouring for candidate contact information or coordinating multiple social media posts, you want to waste as little time as possible. It doesn’t help that we’ve all been working from home over the past year, where the potential for additional distractions is astronomical.
Thankfully, Ultidash can help keep you on track. With site trackers to measure your web activity, site blockers to mitigate distractions, customizable to-do lists to help you meet your goals, and Gmail integrations to keep you informed of interactions, Ultidash is the perfect sidekick to optimize your time.
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In the words of Chef Gusteau, “If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.”
With these Chrome extensions, you can simplify how you manage those little tasks that tend to pile up into big time-suckers. Now you won’t have to spend all your time scrambling for missing pieces, and you can instead keep your eyes locked on the goals you’re working toward in 2021.
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