Issue 1

🔎Introduction + 5 new tools for you to check out!

October 20, 2023

Welcome!

Welcome to the first edition of Talent Tools newsletter. If you’ve subscribed and got the welcome email you'll know that we cover all that’s new in the world of technology, specifically for recruiters and talent acquisition teams.

Why have we decided to this I hear you ask? As recruiters our selves we are always looking for ways to become more productive, efficient, and, well, make our jobs a lot easier.

The number of new tools that come into the market every year for recruiters can be daunting. I’m sure you receive the daily LinkedIn messages from builders on a weekly if not daily basis trying to sell you the latest platform.

Talent Tools will now go searching and research the latest tools out there and present them back to you in a bite sized 3-5 minute newsletter.

We’ll bring to you the latest in:

  • Automation

  • Integrations

  • Analytics

  • Job Boards

  • ATS/CRM

  • Scheduling

  • Marketing

  • Interviewing

  • Sourcing

  • Screening

  • Testing

  • Employee Branding

  • Communication

    ….And so much more

🛠️Tools of the Week🛠️

 đź’ˇHireflow - In their words:

Source smarter, not harder with Hireflow's light weight sourcing platform. Get strong candidates suggested by AI daily, seamlessly find contact info, and send your outreach in seconds.

The result? Consistent and repeatable hiring, all integrated with your ATS.

What we like about Hireflow: Automation and workflows. Hireflows system not only searches for relevant candidates on your behalf, but also finds their relevant contact details and contacts them as you, putting them into a workflow that automatically follows up, so you don’t have to. It literally takes away the candidate sourcing side of the job

đź’ˇHiresweet - In their own words:

We created HireSweet in 2016 to help companies hire for roles where they lack applicants. Both our products solve that problem, each in a unique way:

HireSweet Marketplace - Our Talent Acquisition team searches and assesses top tech talent so companies don’t have to. Every Monday, we showcase a selection of ~800 software engineers (and growing) open to opportunities.

We are also dogfooding our second product (HireSweet CRM) to help us be way more efficient in nurturing relationships with thousands of people at a time.

HireSweet CRM - Recruiting teams use us on top of their ATS to be 10X more efficient with outbound recruiting (to find people faster and get more replies) - which includes managing talent pools, cold outreach, searching inside the ATS, etc.

What we like about Hiresweet: The automated shortlist of candidates that the system produces with a new project. The real-time syncing with current ATS and the real-time reporting and analytics.

đź’ˇTestGorilla: In their own words

TestGorilla works. CVs don’t. We’re placing people in dream jobs with talent assessments that identify the best candidates at the start of the recruitment process.

With TestGorilla, our customers save valuable time, make hiring decisions objectively, and avoid expensive mishires.

Our affordable tests replace subjective, incomplete, and often inflated resumes with objective, reliable, and fair results that measure aptitude, practical job skills, culture add, and motivation.

Our wide-ranging, scientifically supported assessments help recruiters and HR managers to hire top talent faster, easier, and bias-free.

What we like about TestGorilla: We love the fact you can build your own bespoke assessments and candidate answers can include video responses.

It could be a great way to beat some bias that creep in when just going off a CV / resume review

đź’ˇSourceWhale: In their own words:

SourceWhale is the leading business development and headhunting platform for recruiters. Our platform empowers teams to drive better engagement, book more meetings and achieve higher revenue.

  • Automate tasks like data syncing, activity tracking and follow-ups to spend more time on what matters - personalized approaches across phone, email, LinkedIn and more.

  • Access real-time data on what’s working and what isn’t, so you can scale best practices across your business.

  • Leverage our suite of AI features including WhaleGPT, Content Coach and sentiment analysis to drive even better results.

What we like about SourceWhale: As recruiters we are often dealing with number of tasks at once, and tasks as simple as getting back to candidates can easily be missed. We like that SourceWhale automates important administrative tasks that help streamline existing workflows. The system provides automatic updates, to-do's and reminders, letting you get back to priority task.

đź’ˇScreenLoop: In their own words

Screenloop is an all-in-one talent operations platform that analyses your data and provides objective insights to help you make better hiring decisions.

We do this by providing:

  • Insight into the efficiency of your hiring team. Hire all your first-choice candidates faster and more efficiently than your competitors.

  • Predictions on the success of new hires. With candidate insights at your fingertips, you'll be able to design more successful hiring processes and predict who will stay on to become a top performer.

  • Drive decisions without bias. With unprecedented insight into metrics and analysis around the consistency of your processes, you can assess candidates fairly and objectively.

Make better hiring decisions, so you can build a better workforce.

What we like about ScreenLoop: Its got to be the AI note taking feature which auto-transcribes your video interviews, so you don’t miss anything. We like how this feature helps you maintain a fair level of consistency throughout your interviews