An Applicant Management Center Streamlines The Hiring Process And Saves Time

 

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An Applicant Management Center Streamlines The Hiring Process And Saves Time
     Filling open positions on a team can be a logistical nightmare for many reasons and the goal of Loss Prevention Systems Inc. is to assist you in making the process easier with their Applicant Management Center (AMC). The task of hiring becomes more burdensome for the smaller retailers that may not have a dedicated Human Resources Manager to manage all of the pieces involved. Filling position vacancies requires the posting of job ads and having all of the pertinent hiring paperwork ready and available for applicants. Added to that there is the issue of pre-employment screening and possible drug testing procedures. There are federal labor regulations an employer must be in compliance with such as following the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) rules when reviewing an applicant’s credit history. If you are managing your hiring process are you ensuring all I9 documentation is completed and submitted to the proper government agency? It is a lot of work to manage the process not to mention the time involved for a store owner or manager.
     The Applicant Management Center offers a number of benefits to clients. For starters an applicant tracking list makes the management of a candidate pool easier to navigate. Sorting through emails and attachments or paper applications is unwieldy. Emails may be received as spam and paper has a tendency to get lost in a shuffle. Is your current hiring process one that involves an applicant coming in and filling out documents? The Applicant Management Center gives you the ability to provide electronic forms and customizable options including a mouse signature to prospective new hires. All of your required forms and documents are stored in one location for each of your candidates. No more digging through file drawers and cabinets looking up information on a particular candidate.
      I mentioned earlier the requirement that employers must follow FCRA rules when conducting credit checks on applicants. Retailers should be completing pre-employment screening on all candidates being given serious consideration for a job. There are many reasons for this that will be discussed in future articles but suffice it to say that as a retailer you are hiring people to work with money and financial transaction information. As part of a background check a credit check should be part of this process. The Applicant Management Center will display appropriate FCRA notices to applicants as part of the application. There is no longer a need for managers to have to remember to remind applicants of these regulations and risk being out of compliance.
     How many times have you set up a job ad and an application with specific questions you would like to flag that would alert you that this is a person you automatically want to interview or disregard based on the answer to that question? The Applicant Management Center gives employers the ability to flag responses to streamline your interview process. It can be cumbersome to interview every applicant in those situations where a lot of people have applied for one position and many may not be qualified to work in that job. Having a weeding process reduces the time spent sifting through applications and trying to make the decision of who is really meeting your qualification expectations.
     Hiring is usually not a fun process and it requires a significant amount of time and effort on the part of a store owner or manager when there is not a Human Resources Department or Manager to take care of the task. Streamlining that process allows those owners to focus their attention on the operations of the store(s) that will drive sales and profits. Loss Prevention Systems Inc. CEO, Bill Bregar sees the problems this causes and is now offering AMC as a way to help those owners and managers avoid getting bogged down in hiring paperwork, pre-employment screening, unnecessary interviewing and direct their time where it needs to be on building a profitable business.
For more information about an Applicant Management Cystem contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 
 
       

Filling open positions on a team can be a logistical nightmare for many reasons and the goal of Loss Prevention Systems Inc. is to assist you in making the process easier with their Applicant Management Center (AMC). The task of hiring becomes more burdensome for the smaller retailers that may not have a dedicated Human Resources Manager to manage all of the pieces involved. Filling position vacancies requires the posting of job ads and having all of the pertinent hiring paperwork ready and available for applicants. Added to that there is the issue of pre-employment screening and possible drug testing procedures. There are federal labor regulations an employer must be in compliance with such as following the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) rules when reviewing an applicant’s credit history. If you are managing your hiring process are you ensuring all I9 documentation is completed and submitted to the proper government agency? It is a lot of work to manage the process not to mention the time involved for a store owner or manager.

The Applicant Management Center offers a number of benefits to clients. For starters an applicant tracking list makes the management of a candidate pool easier to navigate. Sorting through emails and attachments or paper applications is unwieldy. Emails may be received as spam and paper has a tendency to get lost in a shuffle. Is your current hiring process one that involves an applicant coming in and filling out documents? The Applicant Management Center gives you the ability to provide electronic forms and customizable options including a mouse signature to prospective new hires. All of your required forms and documents are stored in one location for each of your candidates. No more digging through file drawers and cabinets looking up information on a particular candidate.

I mentioned earlier the requirement that employers must follow FCRA rules when conducting credit checks on applicants. Retailers should be completing pre-employment screening on all candidates being given serious consideration for a job. There are many reasons for this that will be discussed in future articles but suffice it to say that as a retailer you are hiring people to work with money and financial transaction information. As part of a background check a credit check should be part of this process. The Applicant Management Center will display appropriate FCRA notices to applicants as part of the application. There is no longer a need for managers to have to remember to remind applicants of these regulations and risk being out of compliance.

How many times have you set up a job ad and an application with specific questions you would like to flag that would alert you that this is a person you automatically want to interview or disregard based on the answer to that question? The Applicant Management Center gives employers the ability to flag responses to streamline your interview process. It can be cumbersome to interview every applicant in those situations where a lot of people have applied for one position and many may not be qualified to work in that job. Having a weeding process reduces the time spent sifting through applications and trying to make the decision of who is really meeting your qualification expectations.

Hiring is usually not a fun process and it requires a significant amount of time and effort on the part of a store owner or manager when there is not a Human Resources Department or Manager to take care of the task. Streamlining that process allows those owners to focus their attention on the operations of the store(s) that will drive sales and profits. Loss Prevention Systems Inc. CEO, Bill Bregar sees the problems this causes and is now offering AMC as a way to help those owners and managers avoid getting bogged down in hiring paperwork, pre-employment screening, unnecessary interviewing and direct their time where it needs to be on building a profitable business.

 

For more information about an Applicant Management System, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547