Generate more leads with the Zoho Recruit + BulkSMS (SMS) integration

Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based recruitment application that is packed with customizable features to help companies find the right candidates quickly. The app also offers automated recruitment tools designed for small and mid-size businesses, as well as corporate HR departments and staffing agencies. Zoho Recruit helps source and reach candidates, create and publish job openings, handle resumes, and communicate more effectively with qualified applicants. At the same time, the web-based platform offers an activity stream which shows all the activities that happen within the hiring process. There are many applicant tracking and employee management benefits your company should expect from Zoho Recruit. As a decent representative of one of the largest business software producers in the world, this system is known by its user-friendliness and effectiveness, smart integrations, and flexible pricing.

Zoho Recruit will make hiring easier, as it automates all business-specific recruitment processes. It is customizable enough to match every single one of your organizational needs, assemble and categorize data quickly, and store it in a secure location where only allowed users will be able to access it. All active job openings are listed and displayed in chronological order, with target dates and open fields for the applicant to submit it immediately. For each opening, you can read the data of the recruiter, status, dates, locations, company and position information. As the recruiter, you can adjust the settings of your Zoho Recruit account to customize fields as you want them, add or remove openings.

The candidate pages of Zoho Recruit have a lot in common with job listings, and look like full applicants’ profiles where you can have all candidate data at a glance. It takes to click on the name of a candidate, and you will immediately see his name, profile pictures, contact data (email, phone, address), and social links. Once all records are in the system, Zoho Recruiter will manage candidates and current employees on your behalf, using their information stored in your database. As it is cloud-based, you can get it up and running immediately, and look forward to the fact that there are no complex downloads and expensive installations to worry about.

BulkSMS is a leading SMS messaging service provider offering two-way SMS communication services straight from your internet enabled computer. The Bulk SMS gateway connects to over 800 mobile network operators world-wide. Bulk SMS messaging is a description for application-to-person SMS messaging services. It refers specifically to the sending of large number of SMS messages to the mobile phones of a predetermined group of recipients.

A defining characteristic of Bulk SMS messaging is that businesses and organisations can make use of one or more solutions to send and receive SMS messages, namely; a mobile phone application, a software programme, a web interface, or integrate an SMS API with their website or system. These Bulk SMS messaging solutions interface with a service providers’ SMS gateway to ensure the delivery of messages to mobile phone numbers anywhere in the world.

An SMS gateway acts as a relay between the mobile network operators and a wireless applications service provider. These SMS gateways allow for SMS traffic to distributed via a direct connection to the SMSC (Short Message Service Centre) of a mobile network operation and then onto a recipient’s mobile phone number.