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How Much Is Your Time Worth To You? Are you tired of spending days reviewing resumes from people who are not qualified for the position you advertised? Are you frustrated by these “time-wasters”? Wouldn’t you rather spend your valuable time reviewing resumes of qualified applicants and selecting the best of the best for interviews? If you’re a recruiter, you’ve probably running lean and mean like so many others in this economy, spending too many precious hours reading over resumes and ultimately, applications.
If you use popular job boards like CareerBuilder and Monster, you’re likely to get more non-qualified applicants than ever before. These sites are great for advertising to the masses, but they have limited capabilities when it comes to spotlighting top candidates and weeding out non-qualified applicants. One recruiter told me the other day that he received over 4,200 applications for one job posting. Some job boards do offer pre-screening functionality, but they clearly state they do not offer an applicant tracking system as part of their service. The bottom line is if you utilize the services of a popular job board, you still need a quality ATS system. Otherwise, you may be buried in resumes and paperwork for days on end. Our Galileo Applicant Tracking System will help you save time, remain compliant, and become more efficient. You’ll spend more time on the interviewing and hiring than the sorting and discarding. The critical word in “applicant tracking system” is “applicant,” which means an “application” is involved. Job boards fall short of having a candidate complete an application. They collect resumes and cover letters. The application is important because the job seeker is legally making certain claims, whereas the resume and cover letter are often full of subjective statements and “fluff.” You cannot eliminate the application from the hiring process, and this is one of the reasons you must use a quality applicant tracking system when you advertise jobs. Think about it. Have you ever taken a pile of resumes home to read over in the evening or over the weekend because you were falling behind? Do you stare at electronic copies of resumes and cover letters on your computer screen until your eyes glaze over? Are you reading through resumes to find keywords to identify possible candidates for positions where they didn’t apply? How much time do you spend doing processes that can easily be handled with technology? After all of this hard work, are you potentially missing the best candidates? Please don’t misunderstand. We could never eliminate the “human” aspect of human resources and recruiting. Ultimately, you will narrow your search to two or three applicants and you will make a judgment concerning which individual will be offered the job. Technology will never replace the wisdom, instincts and skills that you have honed through your hands-on experience. However, technology can easily help you filter through tons of resumes, identifying and eliminating non-qualified, undesirable candidates, doing it faster than you possibly could. Time is of the essence! Consider the hours wasted interviewing “wrong” applicants. Have you ever lost out on your first choice because he or she found a job elsewhere while you were spending your time interviewing 15 candidates for a position instead of just five? Our Galileo ATS will help you find the candidates you want through the use of clever pre-screening questions and other sorting options. Although we have many neat functions within the Galileo ATS, our primary focus when we developed the product was to save recruiters’ time by automating the mundane tasks (the boring parts) of the job. We’ve actually saved one client more than 50 personnel hours each week in the HR Department. Our goal is to use technology where it’s practical to increase your value to your company as well as make you look good to your superiors by enabling you to quickly identify the best applicants and snatch them up before they get away. To learn more about the Galileo Applicant Tracking System and how it can save you time and money, call us at 800-969-4300 or 513-388-4300 in the Greater Cincinnati area. You also can send an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to ask any questions you may have about this innovative, time-saving, dynamic recruiting tool.
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