How A New Hire Survey Can Improve Your Hiring Process

In your career, and in life in general, you’re probably consistently asked to provide feedback, which enables continuous improvement. As an HR professional, it’s your job to make your organization as valuable and efficient as possible, starting with your HR processes. In order to continuously improve recruiting, hiring, and retaining employees among other tasks, feedback is needed. One of the best ways to get feedback is by asking your employees to fill out surveys. Surveys provide responses that are a product of personal experience or the vision of what someone would hope for, giving valuable insight on making something better. That is why a new hire survey would be valuable in providing feedback for making the onboarding process, new hire program, and the work environment as effective as possible.

How to Add Structure to Your Hiring Process

The hiring process is not an easy task. Not only is it time-consuming, but companies sometimes invest a lot of money during this process. This is why it needs to have structure. There is no perfect way to find the most qualified candidate to fill a position within your company; luckily, there are some tips and tricks that will help you streamline that process, make your job easier and more efficient, and even save you money in the long run!

The Benefits of Hiring Recent Graduates

As an HR professional, I am sure you are very aware of the long and arduous process of finding the perfect candidate to fill a position. Reading resumes, going over applications, checking in with references, interviewing, running background checks and so on are tasks that take a long time and keep you from focusing on other important responsibilities. It's a long process and we all wish we didn’t have to do it so often. Depending on the level of turnover at your company, some might be doing this more often than others. Is there a way to make this process easier? Does focusing on entry-level candidates help the process? Many employers believe that hiring experienced professionals is the smartest thing to do because they don’t need as much guidance or training, they have already worked in professional settings, and they know what they need to do in order to get things done in a timely manner. Whatever the reason may be, employers tend to prefer hiring experienced professionals rather than entry-level professionals. What employers need to realize is that there are many pros to hiring entry-level candidates over experienced professionals.

5 Ways Employers Can Benefit From an Applicant Tracking System

Previously I have shared with you the benefits of going paperless, or how technology can make your HR department’s life easier. The truth is that doing things the old fashioned way has little to no advantages nowadays, which is why technology has become much more advanced in order to streamline processes. When recruiting, HR departments get swamped with resumes and cover letters, and whether these are paper or electronic, they need to be stored somewhere. Does your company have a central location or database where the HR department can keep the company’s recruitment efforts? If your answer is “no”, then I encourage you to consider getting an ATS, or Applicant Tracking System. An ATS is a software that allows you to handle all of your recruitment needs electronically. It allows recruiters to collect and store candidate data and any other job-related data in order to track and monitor the process each candidate goes through during the hiring process. Having an ATS has many benefits for any company or even small business, and I’d like to share some of those with you.

Why Your Interview Process Should Be A Two-Way Street

Way too often the interview process is looked at as a way for the candidate to impress their prospective new employer, with no regard to how the employer should also be in ‘wooing’ mode. If you’re in the traditional mindset that an interview is structured so the candidate can win over the employer, you may need to rethink your motives here. What employers are failing to realize is the interview process is best compared to your dating experience. Think of it this way, during the first date you can get a pretty good idea of how well the two of you will mesh. You learn more about your date, their interests, hobbies, family, and values, and of course, they learn the same from you.

Human ResourcesMarketing TeamJanuary 20, 2017HR, Interviewing, Hiring, Hiring Process, Candidate ExperienceComment

Leveraging Your Company's Strengths to Attract New Candidates

The hiring process is just that, a process that we follow in order to find the right candidate to meet the needs of our organization. Sometimes this process, along with many others, fall so much into our ‘routine’ that we forget to challenge them. Why do we have three in-person interviews before putting an offer out to a candidate? Is the test we administer really necessary, or will we hire regardless of the results? Just because the path has been paved for you does not mean you should follow it. In fact, I challenge you to question your hiring process and use those around you to improve upon it.

Human ResourcesMarketing TeamJanuary 11, 2017Employee Onboarding, Onboarding, Hiring, Hiring Process, Talent RetentionComment