Contact organization and management is the name of the game in the recruitment world. From the talent acquisition department within a company to recruitment agencies, keeping track of applicants, qualified candidates, interviews, placements, and job listings is no easy feat.
With a robust customer relationship management (CRM) system like Nutshell, recruiting teams have the contact management, workflow automation, communication, and pipeline management tools they need to simplify and enhance their processes.
Managing applicants, candidates, and stakeholders with a vested interest in applicant placements calls for exceptional relationship nurturing and organizational capabilities. Even the world’s most skilled recruiters would be forgiven for missing an appointment, overlooking a candidate, or failing to update a client without the right tools.
Your recruitment team or agency needs the right software to help you manage the long sales cycles inherent to recruiting. This software should improve contact data and document organization and storage, applicant progress tracking, and roleplayer communication throughout the process.
Implementing a good CRM system can do all this and more, helping you boost team efficiency, customer experiences, and overall revenue. With an advanced CRM solution in place, your talent acquisition team can:
It’s true—A great CRM platform can do wonders for your recruitment and talent management efforts. But when you set out to find the right CRM fit for your business needs, it’s essential to know which features to look for and how to use these features to ensure successful recruitment processes.
Contact management should be at the top of your list of priorities, as well as applicant and candidate life cycle management, including effective nurturing and relationship building. The same goes for the clients you recruit for if you operate a recruitment agency. Tools that let you automate highly administrative or repetitive tasks to improve team efficiency are also a must.
The best CRM systems on the market offer a myriad of features that can benefit your recruitment team. The first step is to determine which features are most vital and beneficial for your recruiting processes.
Nutshell delivers a broad spectrum of essential recruitment features that streamline processes for recruiters. These are just a few of the core CRM features Nutshell provides to support your recruiting team in improving their overall productivity and success.
Let’s face it: saving your applicant, candidate, and client information in a spreadsheet won’t cut it. Your contact data is the foundation of your recruitment process, which means you need a CRM that takes contact management and organization to the next level.
With the right CRM, you should have the tools to record and link lead, people, and company information, easily monitor all interactions, and store related files. Nutshell gives recruiters like you the ability to manage contacts efficiently and effectively in the following ways:
Like any other department or business, your recruitment team has to deal with their fair share of repetitive, administrative, or just plain mundane tasks. While these tasks are essential to a successful recruitment process, they often take a significant amount of time to complete.
With Nutshell’s powerful automation features, your team can save time on highly administrative tasks and redirect it to more high-impact, customer-facing activities. Nutshell essentially helps streamline your talent acquisition and management activities, speeding up the recruitment process and making your team more productive.
Take advantage of the following benefits associated with Nutshell’s workflow automation features:
You can use a CRM pipeline to build more than just a basic sales process—You can use it to create workflows for almost anything your team does. For example, you could create custom workflow pipelines for processes like:
Nutshell lets you build tailored pipeline workflows to meet your recruiting needs, allowing you to set up custom stages, goals, activities, tasks, and automations to establish a detailed, easy-to-follow process outline. Choosing Nutshell as your recruitment team or agency CRM garners the following undeniable pipeline management benefits:
You must regularly engage with your candidates, clients, and other stakeholders to build solid and long-lasting relationships with them. Email offers an easy way to stay connected, but typing an email out to each and every contact would be extremely time-consuming and a fruitless exercise for teams managing an extensive contact database.
That’s where your CRM software comes in. With Nutshell, you can enjoy several nifty email-related features that help you stay in touch with candidates and clients. These features allow you to set up automated sequences, ensuring you continue to develop those relationships while you attend to more pressing matters.
Nutshell’s advanced email features give your recruiting team the ability to:
Nutshell is the best value for the money. The versatility and functionality make it a very easy and powerful product to use.
Mark M. Southwestern Scale Co.
I have used Act, Goldmine and Salesforce in the past, and I have found that Nutshell was the easiest to get started with and to set up custom fields. I would recommend Nutshell to others that are interested in an easy to learn and navigate CRM.
Craig C. Thermal-Tec
We left Hubspot for Nutshell because Hubspot was too complex. Nutshell makes software for humans.
Daniel H. EOS
When we were evaluating CRMs, the one deciding factor between Nutshell and Salesforce came down to spin up time and price. Nutshell wins on both counts (by a huge margin). Salesforce was 10 times as much per month for what we wanted.
Jason C. Arrow Container Corp
The capabilities associated with CRM software are undoubtedly impressive. But what if I told you that your recruitment company can benefit from more than the wealth of tools Nutshell has to offer? In fact, you can level up all spheres of your operation, bringing the tools you know and love together into a cohesive powerhouse tech stack supported by your CRM software.
Nutshell’s integrations give you the opportunity to connect the software integral to your business with your CRM system. This allows the apps to communicate with each other and lets you set up automations to collect data and complete tasks from your CRM platform.
As a recruitment team, you might benefit from the following types of app integrations possible with Nutshell:
If you want to link your ATS and CRM but don’t see your specific software listed, you can always speak to our engineering support team. We can offer alternatives that work with Nutshell or provide a custom quote to build a custom data connection between your software and Nutshell.
What makes Nutshell the best CRM for your recruitment team or agency? Well, several factors set Nutshell apart from other CRMs, particularly when it comes to bolstering your recruiting efforts.
Apart from the world-class features mentioned above, that are built to support long recruitment cycles, Nutshell offers you:
Our customers have lots to say about our CRM software. Check out our customer stories to learn more about how Nutshell has helped companies just like yours achieve and exceed their goals!
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Deliver top-tier recruitment solutions with Nutshell’s award-winning CRM in your arsenal. With the best in recruiting CRM features and customer support, there’s no better customer relationship management solution to enhance your talent management activities.
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