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Less hires. Less accepted offers. Negative Glassdoor reviews. Every recruiter’s nightmare.
Did you know? Candidates who are satisfied with their candidate experience are 38 per cent more likely to accept a job offer.
A good candidate experience gets people to talk about your company, appreciate your company's culture and power your employer brand but if it is not strategically crafted, it can quickly take a bad turn for a company and it definitely doesn’t look good.
The more we talk to hiring leaders, the more it becomes clear that creating a positive candidate experience is not as hard as we think it is.
A few steps in the right direction and you will be able to set up a perfect candidate experience for your next candidate.
Here are 10 actionable steps you can take right now to create an awesome candidate experience: take it with you as we build ourselves towards the best hiring practices.
Illustration by Anna Antipina from Ouch!
Time is one of the most important metrics to determine your recruitment success. We’ve very often experienced even the fastest companies aren’t fast enough.
When the time companies take to reach out to candidates is far more than expected, candidates take it as “I’ll look for another job”.
Companies should aim to move fast - with processing, scheduling, and making decisions.
When companies wait for candidates to reach out to them, they are setting themselves to lose out on a potential hire.