{"id":47847,"date":"2023-10-20T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/?p=47847"},"modified":"2023-10-20T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T11:39:00","slug":"rpa-in-recruiting-with-microsoft-power-platform-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/blog\/rpa-in-recruiting-with-microsoft-power-platform-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"RPA in Recruiting With Microsoft Power Platform Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>In this post, we will explore one of the biggest challenges in recruiting processes and how robotic process automation can help solve it.<\/h2>\n
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Robotic process automation (RPA) has the potential to transform human resources. HR is filled with repetitive, reusable and rules-based tasks that teams can easily automate. The departments\u2019 biggest culprit? Interview invitations.<\/p>\n

Recruiting teams are essential to any company. They\u2019re the first people to talk to potential new team members, and they\u2019re the first impression your organization has of any new hires. They need to be refreshed and prepared to talk to prospective employees every day, but that becomes difficult when there are also other time-consuming tasks to address.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where RPA can come in. In this post, we will explore one of the biggest process challenges within recruiting and how automation can help. We\u2019ll also review the exact technologies in this case, Microsoft Power Platform you can use to build the automation solution<\/a>, so your recruiting team can get back to what they\u2019re best at: talking to potential team members and helping to build the future of your organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Challenges in Recruiting: RPA to the Rescue<\/h2>\n

As part of our RPA center of excellence team, we have a general practice of looking out for automation capabilities within our internal organization. While reviewing the capabilities to help our HR team, we came across a recruiting process that involved doing the manual work of sending out interview invites to candidates.<\/p>\n

During our research, we found that almost 25 percent of a recruiter\u2019s time is spent on sending out interview invites. On average, it takes three to four minutes to send one interview invite. That means that if our company wants to send 150 Interview invites each week, our recruiters would need around seven-and-a-half to 10 hours to complete this task in one week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We studied this process to determine if it would be a good RPA candidate. Our criteria, as briefly mentioned above, is whether the task is:<\/p>\n