How can you reduce your Time To Hire without sacrificing candidate quality?

Good employees are worth their weight in gold; nevertheless, many companies have a tough time finding and hiring good people because of how long it takes to fill an opening.?

Understanding how to hire quickly while maintaining quality is critical to growing and sustaining your company.?

Here are ways to fill your open positions quickly, so you can get back to focusing on the business at hand.

Time To Hire measures the time it takes for someone to move through the hiring process once they've applied. It is different from Time To Fill, which measures the time it takes to hire a candidate from when you put out vacancies.

For instance, if you put out a job ad on Day 1 and the candidate you ended up hiring applied on Day 10, and you closed the role on Day 20, your Time To Hire is 10 days while your Time To Fill is 20 days.

How can you reduce Time To Hire without losing candidate quality?

1. Start by identifying what makes your Time to Hire longer than expected. You can answer this question by digging into your HR data .

2. Don't put out a job vacancy that appropriate stakeholders have not approved.

3. Once you have some suitable candidates ready to go, move them forward. Don't wait till you have a huge number of candidates before reviewing applications.?

4. Build a talent pipeline in advance.

5. Make it easy to apply for your job openings.

Conclusion

There's no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the hiring process. You know your business and your team best, which means that you know what works for you.?

That said, we hope the ideas presented here can help you navigate the often murky waters of recruiting. If nothing else, take a moment to consider that even a tiny shift in what or how you're searching for candidates could lead to better hires—and an increased ROI from your HR efforts.?