The ABC of Recruitment - Part 3 Candidate Centric
It should go without saying; treating candidates with respect in a hiring process is as important as securing the best candidate for the position. Yet not everyone understands how important it is to be respectful towards all candidates.
Think about it:
You have 10 candidates in a process that have been properly wowed by the process and the people. What a great group of representatives that will speak highly of your company within their network……..
Or:
You have 10 candidates in a process that have not been impressed by the process and the people. This means you have 10 people that will speak negatively of your company within their network……
Yes, candidates can be a great missionary for your company. Even those who don’t get the job. Make sure you take advantage of this.
A Headhunter once told me something like “Erik, you cannot make all candidates happy. Those who do not make it through and who do not get the job will never be happy” This is as far from the truth as it can be. Every candidate can leave a hiring process with a positive impression of you and your company. It simply comes down to a few important principles:
Respect their time.
Be informative.
Respect the fact that they need to be “smitten” by you as much as the other way around.
Show them that you care and that you are genuinely interested.
Make the interview more of a meeting then an old-style hard-core interview. It should be a flowing conversation.
Keep the candidates up to speed on the process and progress.
Provide candidates with an individual rejection and give them some good and relevant feedback.
The list goes on…. and we would like to recommend a good friend of ours within the recruitment industry who shares a wealth of information around the importance of candidate centric recruitment. We would highly recommend that you follow her as she really sets the precedence for how candidates should be treated in 2023. Check out her profile. (2) Daisy Scribner 🇩🇰 | LinkedIn
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If you find this article series interesting, we will welcome the opportunity to discuss this and recruitment with you in more detail. Always great to learn more about companies and how they recruit, and perhaps we could tell you a bit about AvantGarde Search and how we aim to the disruptive force within recruitment.
We are also hosting a breakfast seminar in February of 2024 in Oslo and Copenhagen about Recruitment, the A, the B & The C. Please feel free to contact dominik@avantgardesearch.no to attend.