{"id":25191,"date":"2014-02-12T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/?p=25191"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:05:21","slug":"why-mobile-and-what-is-mobile-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/why-mobile-and-what-is-mobile-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mobile? And What is Mobile Hiring?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why do we build mobile apps? \u00a0That\u2019s a question that hardly calls for an answer these days. We really have no need to explain to anyone that Facebook without an iPhone app<\/a> is merely a service and not a lifestyle, and Salesforce without Android is like having to keep an old appointment book. With an answer to the need for mobile now being taken for granted, many of us stopped thinking about what mobile apps could do for the business. Mobile became the defacto move, the way of life, a must have without real thinking behind it.<\/p>\n

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Today we at SmartRecruiters are announcing the first Hiring productivity app<\/a> available now in the App Store. For us, building it was not a no brainer. \u00a0We wanted to make a difference and accomplish something new.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what we have done, and most importantly what we\u2019ve learned along the way\u2026<\/p>\n

Building mobile apps makes you rethink quite a bit about the web app associated with your product. Simple, limited real estate, cut down functional scope, rather limited navigation – all of these are hard pressed to land themselves on the list of best practices when it comes to building enterprise software<\/a>. \u00a0Confronted by wanting to be feature rich, powerful and configurable – any approach to building for the enterprise that is rooted in being \u201csuper simple\u201d doesn\u2019t come easy. Hiring is a good example. Multiple jobs, multiple people, many applicants in various stages – all of this quickly amounts to an app that has to support a process that isn\u2019t simple at all. So how should you do it? \u00a0This was our top challenge.<\/p>\n

We picked an approach that focused us on the most important real time component of the hiring process – candidate review and transparency. In order to be simple, beautiful and at the same time relevant and powerful, we chose to solve for only one problem that we felt was most relevant to a recruiter or a hiring manager in real time. You want to win the war for talent, well then you better be ready to fight it anywhere and anytime. Our CEO explains:<\/p>\n