What happens when recruiters lack the tools they need to do their jobs? The consequences go beyond mere frustration. Recruiters who lack high-quality technology spend too much time and effort on administrative tasks instead of strategic initiatives. In other words, good tools allow recruiters to develop an effective and efficient hiring workflow so they can focus on the tasks that matter most.
Consider the use of Chrome extensions in recruiting. This tool illustrates how modern technology enhances the recruitment workflow. Recruiters who use Chrome extensions will:
- Enhance their search for talent.
- Cultivate better candidate data.
- Accelerate their productivity.
Chrome extensions offer another important benefit: they elevate candidate quality. Read on to learn more about how something as simple as a Chrome extension is transforming talent acquisition.
Chrome extensions expand the candidate search
Most recruiters are painfully aware of how talent shortages can complicate the recruiting workflow. When the search for candidates turns up few possibilities, recruiters are forced to settle for lower-quality applicants or leave open roles vacant for longer.
Chrome extensions can help recruiters avoid this situation by vastly expanding their search for qualified candidates. Instead of being frustrated by the challenges created by talent shortages, recruiters can instead cast a wider net and optimize their hiring workflow.
Here’s how: Chrome extensions integrate with job boards, social media sites and networking platforms that candidates know and love. Recruiters using these extensions can quickly search through these platforms for candidates with the skills and experience they need.
LinkedIn is a great example of how extensions simplify your recruitment workflow. These extensions help recruiters highlight promising candidate profiles and receive suggestions for similar profiles — not just on LinkedIn, but also on other websites and platforms like X and Handshake.
As recruiters continue to use extensions, their talent pools expand without increasing the time and effort required for candidate sourcing. The result is a candidate pool with more diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds, which elevates the quality of the final hire.
Chrome extensions bring order to the hiring workflow
The candidate search is often chaotic. Each potential hire comes with a host of information, including their name, contact information, current position and relevant experience. Many recruiters attempt to store this information in a spreadsheet, but that requires tedious manual entry and is difficult to share with other stakeholders in real time. It’s easy for discrepancies in candidate information to emerge, creating chaos and confusion in the recruiting workflow.
Chrome extensions bring order to the chaos of candidate tracking. Equipped with an extension, recruiters no longer need to copy and paste candidate information into a dizzyingly detailed spreadsheet. Instead, high-quality extensions extract key information from online sources. This small automation alone saves recruiters significant time and effort.
Next, these extensions organize the information pulled from candidate profiles. Examples include:
- Collecting a candidate’s contact details, from their email and phone number to their social media handle and professional website.
- Creating a picture of a candidate’s work experience. Extensions can also collect each candidate’s skills, from the coding languages they know to the leadership skills they offer.
- Documenting a candidate’s educational background, including graduation years, level of higher education obtained and relevant candidate’s licenses and certifications — a useful feature for recruiters looking for skilled and certified labor.
Some extensions also allow recruiters to quickly categorize and tag candidates, helping recruiters effortlessly search and filter through even the largest applicant databases.
Experience the power of Chrome extensions with Deep Reach
At Bear Claw, we’ve developed the market’s most powerful recruiting Chrome extension: Deep Reach. Deep Reach equips recruiters to unearth talent they didn’t know existed, expand their talent pools, increase the quality of their final hires and streamline the recruitment process workflow.
Here are a few examples of what Deep Reach can do:
- Deep Reach scrapes and grabs profiles across candidates’ go-to job boards and networks, including both LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter.
- Deep Reach adds profiles to automatic workflows, kicking off the process of candidate outreach.
- Deep Reach captures all relevant information to create a full candidate profile from the get-go.
Most importantly, Deep Reach operates with extreme speed. It outpaces other solutions, making sure recruitment workflows operate with the utmost efficiency as you search for the talent you need today.
Schedule your Deep Reach demo today
Chrome extensions like Deep Reach help recruiters bring better talent into their organization. To discover how Deep Reach can transform your organization’s hiring workflow, schedule a demo with Bear Claw today.