The Key to a Successful Interview Process
The key to having a successful interview process is ensuring you keep the candidates engaged. With today’s market being the most competitive it has been in many years, it is more important than ever to keep your interview processes as short as possible. The companies who are the most successful with new hires across 2021 are the companies who can complete their interview process within one week.
First Impressions Matter
Interviews may help you understand the candidate’s suitability better, however, don’t forget that during this process they are judging you and your company as well. First impressions are the most important, so you’ll want to make sure your interview process is perfect. If your process is full of delays, hurdles, tests, and in some cases repetition, this greatly increases the chances of the best candidates dropping out of the process.
Making Your Interview Process Efficient
Making sure your interview process is efficient is key. In reality, there is no such thing as the perfect interview process. However, what you can do is to make sure you have full control of your interview process by making it short. By doing this, you will ensure you learn more important details about each candidate quickly, resulting in more successful hires.
- A short interview process saves time and money
- Improves candidates’ experience
- Attracts better professionals
Improving the Interview Process
Companies constantly think that a longer and more difficult interview process results in finding better and more suitable candidates, however, with the current competitiveness in the market, this is no longer the case. Shorter interview processes are sealing offers quicker and resulting in more successful hires.
Steps to Improve Your Interview Process:
- Phone Screening Interview
- Technical Test / Interview
- Remote Video Interview
Interview process time management is fast becoming a huge deciding factor to potential candidates. If your interview process is lengthy and complicated, you may want to reconsider your strategy to compete for the best professionals.
If you would like to talk more about how to improve your interview process, feel free to contact me at Ben Quinn [email protected].
