Professional social network site LinkedIn launched
a new tool called "Scheduler" that will help ease the hiring process
both for recruiters and candidates as well as avoid fallouts.
"LinkedIn Scheduler" automates
initial interview scheduling for recruiters and candidates, directly via
InMail.
The new tool would help candidates and
recruiters save time spent on scheduling a meeting and help recruiters focus
their energies on hiring strategically and onboarding the best candidate, the
Microsoft-owned company said in a statement.
Using this feature, candidates or recruiters
can reach each other via InMail to see one's calendar availability and reserve
an interview time that works best for both.It also gives candidates the liberty
to feed in their contact information to accelerate this process.
"Our goal is to help you spend less time
on the back-and-forth-and a lot more time delighting, advising, and helping
candidates make the decision to join your company," said Peter Rigano,
Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn.
"LinkedIn 'Scheduler' is just the latest
way that we're working to make recruiters more productive, powerful, and
personal," Rigano added.To use the feature, recruiters first need to
automatically provide availability via InMail by syncing "Scheduler"
to Office 365 or Google calendar.This would automatically set the availability
for potential interview times.Then, using a new "InMail" message,
recruiters can easily send a scheduling link directly to the candidate of
interest.
The link shares a real-time view of the
recruiter's calendar availability with candidates who can then choose what time
works best for them, add their phone number and confirm the meeting.Further,
advance settings allow recruiters to
manage preferences such as time zones, availability, length of meetings and
same-day meetings.
LinkedIn has brightened Microsoft’s growth
prospects ever since the latter completed its acquisition in 2016. Since then,
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, who joined Microsoft’s senior leadership team as part
of the $26.2 billion acquisition has been exploring analytics, AI, bots and
other latest technologies to come up with strategies for talent acquisition
leader, HR managers and headhunters, changing the recruiting scenario across
the world.
Professional social network site LinkedIn launched
a new tool called "Scheduler" that will help ease the hiring process
both for recruiters and candidates as well as avoid fallouts.
"LinkedIn Scheduler" automates
initial interview scheduling for recruiters and candidates, directly via
InMail.
The new tool would help candidates and
recruiters save time spent on scheduling a meeting and help recruiters focus
their energies on hiring strategically and onboarding the best candidate, the
Microsoft-owned company said in a statement.
Using this feature, candidates or recruiters
can reach each other via InMail to see one's calendar availability and reserve
an interview time that works best for both.It also gives candidates the liberty
to feed in their contact information to accelerate this process.
"Our goal is to help you spend less time
on the back-and-forth-and a lot more time delighting, advising, and helping
candidates make the decision to join your company," said Peter Rigano,
Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn.
"LinkedIn 'Scheduler' is just the latest
way that we're working to make recruiters more productive, powerful, and
personal," Rigano added.To use the feature, recruiters first need to
automatically provide availability via InMail by syncing "Scheduler"
to Office 365 or Google calendar.This would automatically set the availability
for potential interview times.Then, using a new "InMail" message,
recruiters can easily send a scheduling link directly to the candidate of
interest.
The link shares a real-time view of the
recruiter's calendar availability with candidates who can then choose what time
works best for them, add their phone number and confirm the meeting.Further,
advance settings allow recruiters to
manage preferences such as time zones, availability, length of meetings and
same-day meetings.
