Being an effective, professional recruiter is more challenging now than ever. You are responsible for bringing the right candidates on the board and you must optimize your performance in order to bring the best you can.

To be a successful recruiter in today’s increasingly competitive market, you need to continually improve and sharpen your skills and attributes.

In this blog I am mentioning the productivity tools that you can use to become an effective recruiter.

Osclass: Manage your vacancies and candidates profiles from anywhere at any time, an absolutely free job board software that makes recruitment process easier.

Interview Mocha: This is the best-in-class tool to hire better candidates by filtering out the irrelevant candidates from your pool. Just select the desired skills from a library of 1000+ ready skills and the software will let you test the candidates online. Apply this tool early in your process and spend time with only the most relevant candidates.

Buffer : This tool will save a lot of your time and let you manage your social media efficiently. You can plan, schedule, publish and analyze your content with your candidates on all popular social platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, pinterest etc. 

TweetDeck: Twitter is a popular social media when it comes to recruiting, Smart recruiters use Twitter to its full potential and get great results. TweetDeck is a powerful tool for where you can track , organize, and engage with candidates on Twitter.

Tweetreach: With this tool you can measure how far your tweets traveled. You can monitor Tweets about all your topics – hashtags, brands, accounts, events – in real time, with comprehensive analytics.

Evernote: A much-loved productivity tool that lets you prioritize your to-do list, store all your notes, projects, ideas, read-later e-mails, and blogs.

Calendly: Recruiters spend a lot of time scheduling things. Calendly is a great scheduling app which you can use to easily manage your calls / meetings / skypes / interviews etc. You can send and share your calendar to your candidates or hiring managers and they can pick a time instead of the usual mail slinging which costs valuable time.

Boomerang: This is an amazing tool to schedule emails, reminded to be sent or returned at a later time. Follow up with your candidate and keep them warm.

Sidekick: Sidekick will let you track your emails. It is a free app from Hubspot that It will give you an idea when and how should you follow up.

SaneBox: SaneBox saves you from a cluttered inbox. It learns what emails are important to you and filters out what aren't.

Rapportive: This tool will help you know your candidate better. It reveals them across their entire social media presence. It shows you everything about your contacts directly in your inbox.