How eSignatures make hiring and onboarding easy

Guest blog by RSign

Poor candidate experience has emerged as one of the biggest challenges for recruitment agencies and consultants in 2022. Research says 72% of job seekers spread the word if they have a bad candidate experience during recruitment while 75% consider this experience before taking a job. Agencies are losing so many hours in a week with all the recurring paperwork like NDAs, background-check permissions, job contracts, and staff onboarding forms.

Today, digitisation has made it easy to streamline the hiring and onboarding processes by reducing the amount of paperwork via electronic signatures, or eSignatures, as they are popularly called. Their use has skyrocketed in recent years, especially during the pandemic. eSignatures are also more preferred now than handwritten ones, especially when it comes to legal documents, which demand forgery-free and tamper-proof documents.

The UK currently has a high adoption rate of simple eSignatures. There’s no denying they are convenient and easy to use; however, they carry a higher risk of signature fraud. Plus, there is always the compliance risk as they don’t fully meet the extra requirements set out in the UK eIDAS Regulation Article 26.

RSign, a global eSignature solution from RPost, can help recruiters to become strategic partners in a business. The solution specialises in automating HR workflows to streamline the hiring process. Built on 20 years of leadership in email security and compliance, the feature-rich eSignatures are built to meet even the most obscure requirements.

There’s a lot that recruitment agencies can do with RSign. They can:

• Send PAYE Starter checklist, contracts, and documents for seamless onboarding
• Share NDAs and job offers to sign digitally to speed up the hiring process
• Automate workflows via templates to improve overall operations and recruitment satisfaction
• Streamline processes for referencing, right to work, and timesheets

Plus, RSign keeps the agencies on top of their game with GDPR, eIDAS compliances, and reduces legal costs with top-of-the-line features like bulk eSigning capabilities, signing order, and dynamic API integrations.

But above all, RSign helps recruitment agencies to minimise their carbon footprint with digitised processes and brings them closer to their net-zero goals.

A conversation with the RSign team could get you what you need for your business. Plus, RSign is much more affordable at scale! Contact us now or email rpost-uk@rpost.com  for a deep dive.

This is a guest blog contribution for the REC website. The views expressed by guest writers reflect the individual's personal opinions.