Low-Code, High Efficiency: Power Platform in Recruitment

This is a guest blog by REC Business Partner, Curo

Recruitment agencies are under constant pressure to deliver faster placements while keeping costs under control. Yet, much of a recruiter’s day is consumed by repetitive tasks: manual CV data entry, interview scheduling, and status updates. The good news? These bottlenecks can be eliminated without hiring a team of developers. Enter Microsoft Power Platform, a suite of low-code tools designed to empower even non-technical staff to build apps and automate workflows.

Why It Matters

Low-code automation isn’t just a tech trend, it’s a practical solution for recruitment businesses looking to stay competitive. By leveraging Power Apps and Power Automate, agencies can: Streamline candidate tracking, replacing clunky spreadsheets with simple apps that update in real time; Automate interview scheduling, using bots to handle calendar coordination, freeing recruiters from hours of admin; Capture CV data automatically, reducing errors and speed up shortlisting by extracting candidate details directly from your ATS. Agencies using Power Platform report significant time savings, cost reduction and improved accuracy.

Where to Begin

The beauty of Power Platform lies in its accessibility. With drag-and-drop interfaces and pre-built connectors, recruiters - not just IT teams - can create solutions tailored to their workflows. Start small: build a Power App for candidate status updates or a Power Automate flow for sending interview reminders. These incremental changes compound into major efficiency gains.

Case Study

There are many publicly available success stories, including a UK-based agency with over 30 years in the industry, faced a familiar challenge: manual processes were consuming valuable recruiter time and slowing placements. Tasks like interview scheduling, candidate status updates, and data entry were scattered across spreadsheets and emails, creating inefficiencies and errors.

To tackle this, they partnered with automation specialists to implement Microsoft Power Platform solutions:

Power Apps: Built a custom app to unify candidate tracking and requisition forms, replacing fragmented spreadsheets.

Power Automate: Introduced flows for interview scheduling and automated notifications, reducing delays and improving candidate engagement.

Integration with Existing Tools: Connected legacy systems to the new platform without disrupting day-to-day operations.

The impact? The agency reportedly reclaimed 50+ hours per week across its team, improved data accuracy, and created a scalable foundation for future enhancements. Recruiters now spend more time building relationships and less time on admin.

At Curo, we specialise in helping recruitment agencies harness the Power Platform to become more agile and productive. Whether it’s designing custom apps or advising on automation strategy, our goal is simple: free your team from repetitive tasks so they can focus on what matters, building relationships and closing placements.

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