Let’s consider the plight of the HR manager. The HR manager, among many other things, is tasked with helping managers uncover hiring needs, identify the requirements to fill the need, crafting job ads to attract multiple qualified candidates to possibly fill the need, reduce the pool of candidates who have expressed an interest to those who could be a good fit, schedule an initial contact, perform that first interview, further reduce the pool to those best qualified and schedule interviews with the hiring manager, and manage this process for multiple candidates and multiple positions. Sounds like the potential for multi-tasking discombobulation, right? Well, UKG Ready and Textmetrics deliver powerful recruiting tools, enabling businesses to streamline their talent search processes. UKG Ready Recruiting provides recruiters with the means to manage the entire process and candidates with a highly interactive, engaging application experience so that candidates feel “seen” and less anonymous to the business. And Textmetrics’ AI writing assistant helps recruiters craft appealing, effective, targeted job descriptions, getting a jump on competitors. A pairing of the two tools allows applicants the ability to locate posts quickly and apply for their desired jobs online, with the device of their choice, making it accessible and convenient. UKG Ready also provides a flexible career site that can be customized to reflect the organization’s brand and culture. For high-volume or high-turnover roles, UKG Ready offers quick apply options, reducing the risk of quality candidates dropping out due to lengthy application processes.
To help the recruiter create and manage requisitions and track applicants through the hiring process, UKG Ready comes with tools for creating job requisitions, an applicant tracker for monitoring candidates at the different hiring stages, and functionality for interview scheduling and management. The two-way text message communication platform for recruiters and applicants to stay in contact with each other is easy to operate and increases both applicant-to-hire and return-on-engagement rates. To help both recruiting and hiring managers, UKG Ready provides a job requisition tool for internal and external listing authoring. These functions can be supplemented by using the Job Ad Generator from Textmetrics to help in writing effective, inclusive job descriptions delivering accuracy, quality, and lack of bias. Once the optimized job descriptions are created, recruiters post them through the connections that UKG Ready has built with the most well-known and popular job boards such as Indeed and LinkedIn.
UKG Ready Recruiting adds another layer of improvement to the recruiter’s experience through talent analytics and insights. With tools like sentiment analysis, organizations can make use of interviewer feedback on candidates to provide continuous improvement in the hiring process. UKG Ready provides insight metrics for recruiting, such as cost and time to hire, top recruiting channels, and turnover rates, among others while Textmetrics provides centralized control through management dashboards and analytics of use patterns and user improvements. By combining these analytics and optimization tools, recruiters optimize their job postings and overall recruitment strategy.
So that recruiters can make the most of their busy days, UKG Ready offers integration and automation. It easily integrates with LinkedIn and other job boards such as Indeed to ease the hassle of posting on multiple job boards. It includes resume parsing and background screening; Work Opportunity Tax Credit Integrations fast track the transition of applicant information into new employee records for hired applicants. While UKG Ready provides a more centralized recruiting workspace, Textmetrics enhances that platform to create, check, correct, and publish job vacancies and optimize SEO. The integration of such tools offers a smooth workflow from creating an advertisement for a job opening to candidate hire, reducing administrative workload while raising efficiency in the process.
Marketing departments can get behind UKG Ready Recruiting because recruiting is as public facing as is marketing itself. The branded, configurable Ready career site allows the organization to showcase its unique culture and values. UKG Ready increases efficiency in the recruiting processes and builds an inclusive, purpose-driven business culture. Both UKG Ready and Textmetrics both focus on the proper use of employer branding and communications style. UKG Ready and Textmetrics provide a configurable career site that mirrors the organization’s brand and culture. Textmetrics’ Job Ad Generator injects the company’s branding, tone of voice, and rulesets into the job ads it creates. With these two tools combined, companies display uniform, attractive employer branding throughout all recruiting touch points.
Where the combination of UKG Ready and Textmetrics is most effective is in the experience curated for the candidate. The recruiting tools within UKG Ready offer several features to improve the candidate experience during the application and hiring process. Applicants are directed to a branded career landing page for easy browsing of job requisitions and applications. There are two application options for the candidate when applying for open positions: either quick apply for accelerated applications or full online application for gathering detailed information. This flexibility allows applicants to apply with the most suitable method per the requirements of a particular position. For the recruiter, the power of the customization of applications is in gathering required information that defines candidates’ evaluation, making certain that candidates provide details necessary to enable an effective evaluation process for both applicants and recruiters alike.
By making the career site and application process of UKG Ready mobile-friendly, it makes searching for and applying to positions convenient for candidates, easy, and possible anywhere and with any device. The platform allows smooth communication between the recruiters and the candidates, with email and SMS communications through which the recruiter can update the candidates at various stages of the hiring process. This regular communication keeps candidate engagement high in what can be a stressful experience for the candidate, especially if they are applying for multiple positions at multiple companies. If the candidate feels “seen” by this employer and receives multiple offers, this high level of engagement can be that “one thing” that sways the candidate’s decision to accept the position.
To make recruiters’ work more efficient, UKG Ready schedules and manages interviews simplifing the interview process, allowing candidates to coordinate with potential employers more easily and avoiding chances of schedule conflicts. In order to better qualify the pool of candidates, recruiters can create qualifying questionnaires inside the platform to pre-screen candidates against the qualifications, so that applicants fit the positions they are applying for, saving time both for applicants and recruiters.
In the case of successful applicants, UKG Ready allows for seamless transition from ‘Apply’ to ‘Hire’ and finally ‘Onboard.’ This type of continuity makes for a good experience for the new hire to begin their journey in the company. With these features, the UKG Ready recruiting tools offer candidates a positive, efficient and engaging experience throughout the recruitment process.
Integration of UKG Ready comprehensive recruiting tools with the AI-powered Textmetrics’ Job Ad Generator will create a more potent, efficient, and inclusive recruitment process. This combination allows the creation of quality job ads, consistent employer branding, a first-in-class candidate experience, and data-driven optimization of recruitment strategies. Together, they can be crafted into a seamless and engaging experience for the candidate from posting to application and beyond.
