BirdDog Applicant Tracking System Recruitment & Hiring Simplified In today s challenging labor market, you need top talent to deliver exceptional customer value and grow your company. BirdDog s cloud-based recruitment and applicant tracking system (ATS) simplifies the hunt. By making job distribution, candidate management and reporting easy to access, navigate and implement, the BirdDog ATS solution helps you attract and hire today s most sought-after and highly skilled employees. The BirdDog ATS Recruitment & Hiring Process Flow With BirdDog it is easy to: EMPLOYMENT BRANDING REPORTING FOR EFFICIENCY & COMPLIANCE JOB DISTRIBUTION CANDIDATE MANAGEMENT Extend your company brand into recruitment Drive applicant flow from multiple sources Build an online talent community for future opportunities Solve immediate hiring needs or plan for future growth Reduce risk, total recruitment cost and time to hire Stay compliant with AAP and Department of Labor requirements
EMPLOYMENT BRANDING Your recruitment strategy isn t just about getting your jobs to the right places candidates need to know who you are and what they can expect from you as an employer. While you re evaluating the candidate for their fit in your organization, they re evaluating how well your company fits for them too. Keep your company top of mind with BirdDog ATS branding tools: CAREER PAGE Hosted Career Page with company branding, color theme and messaging Keyword and location Search Tool for easy searching of jobs posted Talent Community Sign Ups for job seekers allow them to receive notification of the job category they are interested in and load their resume to help build your talent pool CONSISTENT MESSAGING Branding every job posted and email sent with your company name and logo evokes brand recognition from candidates Branded apply process strengthens your employer brand with an easy-to-use application method VIDEO RECRUITMENT Add a video to each job posting making your posting more interesting and engaging Ask candidates to submit a video in the application process gain a whole new insight into candidates from the beginning of the process Eliminate the hassle of scheduling conflicts for prescreens through the fluid questioning format via video interview and screen more people in less time BUSINESS UNITS Keep branding for your different divisions or companies separate to prevent job seeker confusion Manage processes and candidates separately based on each division or company s preferences Partitioned data provides uncluttered information for your hiring managers Separate reporting for each brand powers strong understanding of how each division or company is meeting your recruitment goals Report at a master level to see total performance across all divisions or companies Give job seekers the ability to search your jobs on your Hosted Career Page. Branded just for you and housed on a www.yourname.ourcareerpages.com URL, link your careers tab to this page and start building your talent community.
JOB DISTRIBUTION Job distribution is imperative to the success of recruitment and hiring. If you don t get your positions to the right locations and in front of the top candidates, you ll never attract the best talent. Since 1996, BirdDog has been helping organizations target both active and passive job seekers. Your company benefits from our extensive experience in helping organizations manage a diverse online job distribution process that can include: Career page integration, job feed, build & set-up for a customized applicant experience Referral outreach groups (internal and external) which engage your best applicant sources Unlimited job distribution to state workforce websites to cast a wide net Unlimited job distribution to several free job boards that broaden your reach Optional job distribution to fee-based boards to target top talent Easy social sharing (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Plus) to extend distribution and make it viral Expanded job posting visibility via microsites and intranet integration (optional) The BirdDog ATS network includes top job destinations, including Indeed, SimplyHired, US.Jobs and specialized industry boards including unlimited free postings to BirdDogJobs.com and MEPjobs.com. Partnerships with Monster, CareerBuilder, and LinkedIn drive additional traffic to your jobs. Enter your company s account credentials into your BirdDog account and with your appropriate posting credits, you can seamlessly cross-post jobs to multiple resources. Building a talent community and networking has never been easier. Employees, vendors, training and other community organizations are notified of your opportunities with the click of a button. Investing in candidate relationships today pays off tomorrow.
CANDIDATE MANAGEMENT When top talent takes notice of your organization, your engagement with them sets the stage for your business relationship. As you assess if they are a good fit for your company today or tomorrow, it s a great investment to create a complete picture of the candidate and the potential fit in your organization. The BirdDog ATS can help you create consistent, compliant communication streams and process workflows for your candidates. The BirdDog ATS systematic recruitment process delivers: Simplified application process no applicant account required Job requisition creation & approval to ensure appropriate sign-offs Scoring, screening & stack ranking of candidates to increase speed to hire Prehire screening assessments to determine candidate fit Candidate labels for easy organization of candidates and future communication by label group Interview management with calendar integration including Outlook Email templates for consistent communication with new applicants, candidates in your current workflow, or past candidates Job and application templates for consistency among your own staff Interview question pool to help recruiters and hiring managers conduct effective and compliant interviews Background checking and drug tests ordered and tracked online in hours, not days (optional) Interview management allows organizations to schedule, track and record interview results without requiring hiring managers to log into the ATS. Communication emails are also mobile friendly. E-Verify is available to complete the candidate eligibility profile (optional) System guided dispositioning on-screen reminders prompt the user to update recruitment stages or set a final disposition for everyone who applies to an organization s job postings. Using a simple drop down of pre-populated disposition codes (or codes that administrators create themselves), recruiters and hiring managers are able to consistently update an applicant stage or disposition with the click of a button and report on it when needed. Prescreening candidates with questions builds consistency in your recruitment efforts. Add questions from your current application and use the BirdDog ATS scoring questions to automatically rate applicants against your requirements. Enhanced pre-hire surveys are also available. (optional)
REPORTING FOR EFFICIENCY & COMPLIANCE When you know how to reach top talent, you know how to grow your business. Gain insight into your top recruitment sources and combine that data with applicant activities, voluntary survey data and your own team s hiring effectiveness with on-demand reporting. Applicant Source Analytics identify the sources that are bringing you the most applicants so you can determine the return on your investments. Run reports by job posting, job title, city, state or zip code and enter the cost of each source. AAP Reporting enables quick access to build reports that satisfy internal Affirmative Action Plans or Contract Compliance Regulations. The Applicant Log Report tracks your organization s entire recruitment process. With this report showing job-specific applicant activities, filter data for AAP or OFCCP audits to demonstrate your hiring team s effectiveness. VEVRAA/Section 503 Reporting makes voluntary survey reporting for federal contractors and subcontractors easy and efficient. These requirements went into effect on March 24, 2014. ADMINISTRATION, ARCHITECTURE & DELIVERY To ensure that your organization is always recruiting the BirdDog ATS functionality is available via a cloud that you access online. Therefore, all aspects of the delivery, maintenance and service of the technology are provided by BirdDog. There is no hardware or software to buy, install or maintain. Your users only require access to the Internet. This hassle-free approach is a smarter, cost-effective alternative to the demands of traditional software system ownership, substantially reducing infrastructure and operational costs, as well as implementation time and allows BirdDog to quickly deliver new system features and updates including: Configurable Roles & Permissions Business Units/Sub-Portals & Custom Branding API integrations IMPLEMENTATION & SUPPORT The BirdDog ATS is the right tool for companies that require a systematic recruitment process that is simple to use, easy to implement, and provides a robust feature set to improve your talent acquisition process. You can be up and running in a matter of days. Migrating from another system? No problem, we can assist. BirdDog also offers unlimited coaching and support. Your BirdDog ATS software expert will coach you not only on how to best use the solution, but how to leverage other tools that will benefit your business, such as social media, talent communities and referral groups. There is no additional fee for this support and it is available during normal business hours with staff located at BirdDog s corporate headquarters.