Author: Matthew Hancock, HCM Consultant at Namos Solutions
In today’s fast-paced business environment, finding and retaining top talent is more critical than ever. As companies face increasing competition for skilled candidates, traditional recruitment methods may fall short. Enter ‘Oracle Recruiting Booster’, an innovative solution designed to expand the capabilities of Oracle Recruiting and help revolutionise your organisation’s hiring process.
In this blog, we’ll investigate the key features and benefits of Oracle Recruiting Booster and how it can transform your recruitment strategy.
What is Oracle Recruiting Booster?
Oracle Recruiting Booster enhances the Oracle Recruiting platform with expanded capabilities that help organisations promote and manage hiring events, converse with candidates over text and email, deliver a guided conversational experience to candidates through Oracle Digital Assistant, as well as create a streamlined and flexible interview scheduling process.
In response to the widespread talent shortage, many organisations have turned to a variety of standalone solutions for event management, messaging, and scheduling. This often results in the need to purchase and integrate multiple tools, leading to data inaccuracies, fragmented user experiences, and increased costs. Oracle Recruiting Booster consolidates these functions into a single, unified talent acquisition platform, ensuring a consistent experience and seamless integration with the entire Oracle Cloud HCM Suite.
Let’s see how….
Key Recruiting Booster Features
Hiring Events
Hiring Events allows Talent Acquisition Teams to promote open positions and recruiting events. Once Recruiting Booster is enabled, events are visible on the Hiring module alongside job requisitions, and posted events can be found along with jobs on your career site. This feature can help organisations build high-quality talent pipelines by expanding job awareness and engaging candidates at scale through the creation of event listings, registration pages, and pre-screening questionnaires for specific job openings. Talent Acquisition Teams can monitor registration and attendance, and utilise Oracle Recruiting’s built-in candidate relationship management tools to target and market events to particular candidate groups. Post-event the Talent Acquisition Team can then match attendees to open requisitions and measure its success against how many registered, how many attended and how many were matched to requisitions.
Enhanced Candidate Engagement
Oracle Recruiting Booster builds on the outbound messaging capabilities of Oracle Recruiting and enables two-way candidate messaging, allowing recruiters and hiring teams to send and receive SMS and email-based communications with external and internal candidates directly. This helps hiring teams quickly reach candidates through their preferred channels while making interactions between recruiters and future talent faster and more personal. Communications are automatically tracked, giving Talent Acquisition Teams full visibility into the engagement history with each candidate. Email conversations take place through your mail client and uses Oracle Recruiting’s existing vanity email capabilities to create an external email address for candidate communication, eliminating the need for the hiring team to share their direct contact information.
Recruiting Booster customers also get access to unlimited, intelligent resume/CV extraction through Oracle’s partnership with RChilli. This empowers candidates to swiftly complete applications with support for over 140 data fields and 20 different languages, facilitating a more inclusive and personalised application process.
The integration also powers the ‘recommended jobs’ widget, increasing apply rates and helping candidates uncover new opportunities on your career site.
Improved Interview Visibility and Efficiency
Oracle Recruiting Booster improves and automates the interview scheduling process, making it quicker and reduces the back-and-forth communication that typically delays setting up meetings. The Talent Acquisition Team can now search for and view interviews by candidate groups, requisitions, or events using the Co-ordinate Interviews area. All crucial interview details—such as scheduled interviews, calendars, hiring team availability, and candidate feedback—are centralised in this one location, streamlining interview management.
Talent Acquisition Teams can also create shared interview schedules, with shared interview time slots and interviewing teams between multiple requisitions. This prevents users needing to create similar interview schedules for each requisition.
If you are using the Microsoft Office 365 Calendar Integration then you can also leverage the ability to automatically identify the ideal times for interviews that align with the Hiring Teams availability. These are then shared with candidates for selection when booking their slot.
Expanded Oracle Digital Assistant Capabilities
Oracle Recruiting Assistant is a 24/7 chat bot that helps candidates with finding the right jobs.
Candidates can search for jobs based on location, job category, or function, view recommended jobs, check their job application status, withdraw their application, or join a talent pool to get regular updates.
The Recruiting Assistant is pre-trained to respond to questions about a requisition such as location, required education level, job responsibilities, skills, etc. which can be retrieved from standard requisition fields.
With Recruiting Booster, candidates can see job recommendations based on their CV using the parsing service (RChilli) and get answers to job-related questions.
Through these guided interactions, Oracle Digital Assistant becomes a one-stop shop for candidates to accomplish nearly all their hiring tasks, from finding a job to booking an interview, simplifying the hiring process for your candidates.
Benefits of Oracle Recruiting Booster
With the addition of Oracle Recruiting Booster, Oracle now offers customers one of the most comprehensive talent acquisition platforms available.
- Create and promote events to expand your opportunity and brand awareness
- Reach new candidate audiences and attract more talent
- Build stronger relationships with candidates through text and email
- Create conversational experiences for job discovery, applications and interviews
- Simplifies the interview management process
- Automates interview scheduling to set meetings faster
- Intelligent Resume/CV Extraction
- Unified with Oracle Recruiting and Oracle Cloud HCM
Get in Touch
If you want to know more about Recruiting Booster or how Namos Solutions can help you implement or support your existing Oracle Recruiting implementation, then please do get in touch.
