ZipRecruiter: A Strong Addition to Any Recruitment Arsenal
“There are so many great jobs boards out there that it’s difficult to keep up with them all,” ZipRecruiter CEO Ian Siegel, said. “Recruiters who post jobs to only one or two boards run the risk of missing top candidates, yet those who utilize every relevant board will spend hours posting jobs and organizing applicants. It’s a lose-lose situation that we decided to change.”
ZipRecruiter began by distributing to free job boards only (Indeed, SimplyHired, eBay Classifieds, and so on), but now offers the option to “supercharge” your results by opting into Monster, craigslist, and sponsored listings on Indeed. As for social networks, it takes just a few seconds to publicize jobs on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
While simultaneous posting to multiple job boards is ZipRecruiter’s most popular feature, the benefits of the service don’t end there. Because such a wide reach can bring in a large volume of candidates, ZipRecruiter offers features to screen, track, and organize candidates.
One such feature is the optional and customizable online quiz.
The “candidate screening interview,” as ZipRecruiter refers to it, allows hiring managers to place real-world business questions directly into the online application. Responses provide an easy and efficient way to assess applicant knowledge and to eliminate unqualified job seekers.
“I was very pleased and also surprised by the large volume of candidates that we received beginning almost immediately after our posting on your site, most of them being highly qualified for the available positions,” Lisa Weeks, owner of Love Thyself Day Spa, said. “With such a large response, the opportunity to post preliminary interview questions as well as rank the candidates was very beneficial.”
Steve Caldwell, CTO of CampusExplorer, agrees. “The part that hooked me was the candidate screening. We only asked four questions and the best candidates literally leapt out at us. I wound up reading just a handful of resumes.”
To streamline organization and collaboration, ZipRecruiter aggregates job applicants from all sources into a single list, where hiring teams can work together to identify their top candidates.
“Deciding on new hires is a team effort, so we made it as easy as possible to start collaborating from the start,” Siegel explained. “Every member of your recruiting team can rate and comment on job applicants from a single ZipRecruiter account, thereby providing you with efficient, eco-friendly, and effortless organization.”
All in all, ZipRecruiter provides an excellent stand-alone or add-on service for any recruiter or hiring manager.
“I’ve been recruiting for 17 years and am pretty hard to impress when it comes to job boards,” said Del’Esa C. Lee, Field Sales Recruiter at Nationwide Insurance. “[ZipRecruiter] is extremely progressive in its design, very user-friendly, intuitive, quick, and downright fun to play around with.”
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