{"id":874,"date":"2019-02-08T16:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2019-02-08T16:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:51:29","slug":"brexit-hiring-priorities-and-the-role-of-software-in-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/brexit-hiring-priorities-and-the-role-of-software-in-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit, hiring priorities and the role of software in recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To start February rolling we\u2019ve got a mash-up of the biggest stories in recruitment right now, and it turns out they have a linking thread\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Deal? No deal? Backstop? Everybody\u2019s feeling confused about where we stand and what happens next, which is why the recent comments by Neil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment &amp; Employment Confederation are significant. \u201cA no deal Brexit is not a tolerable way forward,\u201d he said, before pointing out that \u201cPolitical paralysis is already impacting firms \u2013 slowing down investment decisions and damaging our reputation globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, no recruitment software can provide certainty about our future, but one thing that online recruitment software can provide is flexibility. A recent survey by CV-Library reveals that while 72% of UK organisations are planning to work harder on recruitment in 2019, over 80% of recruitment professionals are experiencing a lack of \u2018relevant talent\u2019 which bring us to the question of the role of software (and even hardware!) in recruitment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The arrival of AI has been much discussed, but you only need to look at some AI activity &#8211; such as <a href=\"https:\/\/inspirobot.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inspirobot<\/a> &#8211; to discover that things can go hideously awry. While Inspirobot is definitely tongue in cheek, it proves that an AI can never do what a dedicated recruitment consultant can and should. A couple of recent examples that we\u2019ve heard about from <a href=\"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recruit So Simple<\/a> software users to explain what we mean:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A senior recruiter suggested that a geographer specialising in plate tectonics might be the ideal addition to an interdisciplinary team working in nanotechnology &#8211; he was right and they now have a major patent pending<\/li>\n<li>A relatively junior recruitment consultant matched a fifty-something female administrator with a group of young but high-flying derivatives sales traders. They were expecting to hire a male geek with algorithmic skills, and yet their new team admin hasn\u2019t just helped increase business, she\u2019s nearly doubled their customer satisfaction ratings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In each case the consultant looked at the talent gap and made an imaginative leap through deep knowledge of their candidate base. For this to happen, recruiters need to be freed from the tyranny of endless paper work and database updates, so they can focus on understanding both clients and candidates. They also need recruitment database software that allows them to parse data in ways that will support intuitive understanding of client need, and respond to queries based on that intuitive grasp of individuals and organisations that no AI will ever master. Or, as Inspirobot so pertinently puts it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-875 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/inspirobot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/inspirobot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/inspirobot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/inspirobot.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start February rolling we\u2019ve got a mash-up of the biggest stories in recruitment right now, and it turns out they have a linking thread\u2026 Deal? No deal? Backstop? Everybody\u2019s feeling confused about where we stand and what happens next, which is why the recent comments by Neil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}