A new tool called “Scheduler” was launched by the professional social networking site LinkedIn, which will help in facilitating the hiring process for both recruiters and candidates to avoid spin-offs.
directly through InMail LinkedIn Scheduler “automates initial interview planning for recruiters and candidates.
The new tool “Scheduler” will help candidates and recruiters in saving their time when planning a meeting and also help recruiters focus on their energies on strategic hiring and integrating the best candidate, said by the company Microsoft in a statement.
With this feature “Scheduler”, candidates, recruiters can join via InMail to see the availability of their calendar and reserve a maintenance time that works best for both.
It also gives candidates the freedom to save their contact information to speed up this process.
Peter Rigano, Product Manager at LinkedIn, a blogpost said,”Our goal is to help you spend less time in sharing, and much more time in satisfying, advising and helping candidates make the decision to join your company,”.
Rigano said, “LinkedIn ‘Scheduler’ is the last way we are working to make recruiters more productive, powerful and personal”.
To use “Scheduler” tool, availability of InMail by synchronizing “Scheduler” with Google Calendar, Office 365 recruiters must first automatically provide.
This will automatically define the availability for potential interview times.
Then by using a new “InMail” message, recruiters can easily send a scheduling link directly to the interested candidate.
The link shares a real-time view of the recruiter’s calendar availability with candidates who can then choose the time that suits them convenient, add their phone number and confirm the meeting.
recruiters can also manage preferences such as time zones, availability, duration of meetings in advanced settings of “Scheduler” tool. Meetings will help candidates and recruiters in saving their time when planning a meeting which help recruiters to focus on their energies on strategic hiring and integrating the best candidate, said the company owned by Microsoft in a statement.
