Essential Productivity Tools For Recruiters
Success as a recruiter depends on many things. Tenacity, talent, an unquenchable work ethic and a little bit of luck. But underpinning all of these is one thing. Organisation. How effectively we organise ourselves as recruiters is crucial.
Poor organisation results in lots of wasted time; time that could be spent bringing on new clients, or finding star candidates; both of which ultimately bringing money into the business.
A lack of organisational skills may have been an excuse at one time. But now, with the advent of new technology, much of it free (or cheap) to use, it’s easy to get yourself organised. Here are five apps that can seriously enhance your productivity.
Trello
Trello is a fantastically simple, yet immensely effective project management app. Free to use; it is essentially an online whiteboard that everyone in your organisation can collaborate on. You can have separate boards for different projects and multiple cards on each board to track everything that is going on with the project. An app that is available on both Android and IOS, it has to be experienced to see just how simple to use and effective it can be. An app every recruitment agency should at least try.
Available on: IOS, Android, Mac and PC
More information: www.trello.com
Evernote
Evernote is an online notebook that enables you to note down absolutely anything whenever and wherever you are, from your phone, app or computer. Manage and store handwritten notes articles from the web and photos, it’s an immensely powerful tool. Bringing your life and work together into one digital workspace, whether it’s a new idea you’ve thought of at 5am in the morning, or you need to jot down a new a list of potential clients you’ve thought of whilst travelling on the train, then Evernote is the app for you. Simple, easy and intuitive to use, you’ll wonder how you ever got by without it.
Available on Android, IOS, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Mac and PC
More information: www.evernote.com
Expensify
Sorting out your expenses each and every month can be a real bind. With a pocketful of receipts to go through, your time could be spent much more productively. This is where Expensify comes in. An extremely simple app to use, it gets the job done swiftly without costing you a penny. Simply take a picture of your receipt and Expensify quickly analyses it, extracts the relevant details and puts them (with an image of the receipt) into your records. Other handy features include tracking and logging your mileage using your phones GPS system. An essential tool that you will genuinely wonder how you managed without. Download it now!
Available on: Android, Windows Mobile, PC, Blackberry, IOS and Mac
More information: www.expensify.com
Using productivity apps such as these not only makes you more effective as a recruiter, but they can also give you something of great value: time. And you can never, ever have enough of that.
Till next time,
Cheryl