Revolutionize Recruitment: Targeting Ideal Candidates with Edge Computing
Traditional recruiting doesn't cut it anymore. Today’s candidates have high expectations, meaning they crave efficiency and fewer paperwork delays. They expect timely and transparent communication and a mobile-friendly process. Ultimately, they want more than just a job offer—they're looking for a seamless, personalized experience from start to finish.
That's where Edge Computing comes in. Edge Computing is the secret sauce that can revolutionize your recruitment process, making it faster, more efficient, and responsive to the unique needs and expectations of the modern labor market—which is especially critical to those in the government and federal sectors.
In this blog, Monkton explores how the recruiting landscape has shifted and provides pointers on how you can stay ahead of the game.
1. Edge to the recruiting rescue: improving processes for everyone
Recruiting isn’t relegated to a desk. It happens during face-to-face interactions, including industry events, hiring fairs, or conferences. During times of mass engagement, Edge Computing capabilities are essential.
“Edge” refers to a distributed computing architecture that brings computation and data storage closer to the location where it is needed, such as the edge of a network.
Edge Computing benefits for recruiters include:
Faster processing: Speed up the processing and analysis of large amounts of candidate data by bringing computing resources closer to the source. This enables recruiters to make faster and more informed hiring decisions.
Improved data privacy and security: Enhance data privacy and security by processing sensitive data locally rather than sending it to a central data center. This reduces the risk of data breaches and ensures candidate data is protected.
Reduced network latency: Reduce network latency by processing data locally, which can be particularly beneficial for remote or mobile recruiting processes.
Increased scalability: Recruiters can scale their recruitment processes more efficiently by distributing computation and data storage across multiple locations.
Enhanced candidate experience: Recruiters can deliver a faster, more responsive, and personalized experience to candidates by processing data and providing feedback in real time.
With so much back and forth between recruit and recruiter, it’s important to leverage Edge Computing to streamline the process and improve the overall candidate experience.
2. Mobile-friendly recruitment: attracting talent anywhere with BYOD
To fix things faster and drive modernization forward, government agencies need talented and motivated individuals to champion change.
In today's digital age, mobile devices are ubiquitous. By adopting updated talent recruitment and retention strategies, such as bring your own device (“BYOD”) to the workplace—and allowing the use of that same device for professional development—government agencies are more likely to attract and retain top, tech-savvy talent.
This also can result in a wider talent pool for recruiters. As many job seekers now exclusively use mobile devices for job searching, offering a mobile-friendly application process can engage more people.
3. Secure mobile apps: smarter hiring now and into the future
Mobile apps have become an essential tool for recruiters to manage the full recruiting process on the go. While apps are synonymous with Edge Computing, they’re only beneficial if secured properly.
Due to the nature of recruitment, large amounts of sensitive candidate data, such as resumes, contact information, disability status, and military service, are constantly collected and stored. Secure mobile apps can help ensure this data is only accessible to authorized users—and authorized devices.
Secure mobile apps can help maintain data privacy by implementing appropriate security measures, such as encryption, remote wiping, and two-factor authentication. These extra measures help mitigate cybersecurity threats like phishing attacks and malware, especially when remote work is essential for recruiters who need to engage with candidates or clients in different locations.
Additionally, in the age of automation, people don’t hope for ease of use. They expect it. Automation during recruitment is no different. Building for the end user should always be the North Star, but in the case of recruiting, building for the recruiter is just as important. Robust recruiter automation, like automatic email follow ups, means qualified candidates never fall through the cracks. This also helps simplify the often cumbersome steps in a candidate journey.
Decrease candidate ghosting, save hours in application completion, and increase reply rates and response times through intentional design.
How Monkton can help with secure recruiting solutions
Recruiting success starts with a secure and proactive foundational data architecture.
No matter what Initial Operating Capabilities (“IOC”) are needed, Monkton builds with Digital Engineering and Machine Learning in mind to avoid challenges with maintaining legacy datasets.
Architecting a resilient recruiting infrastructure ready for the future means leveraging the cloud as well as Edge Computing to enable recruiters to collect and act on data rapidly. Properly architected recruitment building blocks can offer transparency and prediction.
Core IOCs can look like:
HTML 5 based, leveraging responsive HTML
Enabling recruits access via non-government furnished device (“GFE”)
Enabling advanced technologies provided by Amazon Web Services GovCloud (“AWS GovCloud”) and an implementation of the Department of Defense DevSecOps Playbook Reference Architecture (“DSOP RA”) to rapidly build future capabilities
Serverless architecture leveraging AWS’s Lambda Function as a Service “FaaS” to only pay for resources used
Enabling authentication via applicants personal devices and Fast Identity Online (FIDO) tokens so applicants can securely resume the application at any time
Integration of Zero Trust Architecture
Additionally, “Super Admin” capabilities with advanced data analytics on recruits to:
Search
Send invitations
View applications
Move applications on to voting
Control who and what individuals have access to
Edge Computing is the future of recruiting
Edge Computing solutions help governments and organizations save money by reducing time spent on manual, labor-intensive follow up processes.
With intentional recruiting for the right candidates, government and organizations can meet their missions faster. Edge Computing also allows for the distribution of computation and data storage across multiple locations, making it easier for recruiters to scale their processes as needed.
