6 essential hints to help ensure a top-quality hiring process

In this article, I will discuss the impressive success story of our company in the hiring process, particularly what steps have we taken during the last 6 months that resulted in hiring three times more employees than planned at DataArt.

Below you can find some of the essential hints which would undoubtedly be useful and practical for the companies that are facing challenges of enlarging the staff because of the difficult situation in the world nowadays. ??

Well, let’s start. ??

?1st step is to provide the candidates with maximally open, realistic, and detailed job descriptions as well as outline the professional opportunities for them at the company. In order to thrive in this digital and highly-competitive modern environment we live in, the companies should be maximally professional, responsive to changes, and detail-oriented, which helps them to reduce the waiting time of the candidates and speed up the decision-making process.

?2nd step is important to provide each candidate, regardless of their professional skills (middle, senior, or junior) with a well-defined professional path or a clear career map, where they could find answers to any issue that concerns them, as well as describe the steps that will contribute to their professional growth.

?3rd step is essential to ensure the feeling of long-term cooperation, as well as to create an image of a serious and sustainable employer. The candidate should get the sense of stability, security, and the guarantee of long-term cooperation offered by the company. Regardless of how high compensation offered by other companies in the market may be (this aspect may be a priority for a significant number of applicants, though), there are still applicants who tend to prioritize a secured and long-term cooperation.

?4th step is indispensable to manage to organize clear and meaningful hiring processes (purposeful interviews) in a fast-paced environment; you might as well try to shorten the duration of those processes or simply schedule several interviews within the same day or one after another, which would be a very wise decision and would help to avoid keeping the candidates waiting for a very long time.

For instance, we have introduced the “ALL in One” interview stage in DA since the COVID-19 period, which consists of 3 stages and involves conducting the interview within the same day during about 2-2.5 hours, trying to speed up the process and minimize the waiting time for the interviews and the provision of feedback to the candidates, making the process as efficient as possible.

?5th step is to acknowledge those candidates who have got tired of a fully remote job and would prefer to combine the flexibility and the opportunity to work from the office should be provided with flexibility and comfortable working conditions at the same time. Nowadays, only a small percentage of people are inclined towards a fully remote position, as it shatters the balance of their lives and doesn’t allow living to the fullest. Enabling the opportunity of a hybrid workplace, you grant your employees the best opportunity to find a work-life balance.

?6th step is to offer a tailor-made approach to the candidates and share with them the personal values that form a part of the corporate culture of your company.

The candidates attach importance to interpersonal relations (values) and the corporate culture just as much as they do to new professional challenges. No matter how much effort it will take and how much difficulty you might have to overcome to follow this hint, you should pay proper attention to it given that nowadays, regardless of everything, regardless of an impressive list of benefits offered, high salaries and high-quality office conditions, the employees find it vital to have a mentally healthy and a positive working environment, prioritizing the company's exclusively individual approach towards its employees based on human values.

?? One thing is for sure: the aforementioned point lies at the heart of one of the DA’s greatest achievements, given that during the decision-making process the candidates attach an utmost importance to DataArt’s 25-year-long corporate culture, which is genuinely personality-oriented and multinational, as well as the unique culture of DataArt Armenia (a special blend of taste and flavor of Eastern hospitality and Western open-mindedness)??

???I hope you have found the hints above sincerely useful.?

?? Feel free to share in the comments what innovative approaches you use in your companies to hire new employees.