How Recruiters can read between the lines

Finding a right talent for a right job in a timely manner at a given cost is a key objective of the Talent Acquisition function. It takes a lot to find and recruit talented candidates for given competencies, skill set and experience in today’s competitive environment. It becomes more crucial when the success of your business is driven by Talent.  

Candidate turns down the offer at the eleventh hour is surely an undesirable outcome of any recruitment process and it should be a collective responsibility shared by multiple stakeholders associated with the entire recruitment process. Multiple factors can be blamed for it like improper screening, inadequate clarity on job profile, failure in conveying proper job value proposition, employer branding & poor assessment of candidate’s needs/ goals/ expectations and so on.

From human/ process aspects companies can come with effective recruitment & evaluation process to avoid last minutes dropouts but from Technology perspective companies need to have robust recruitment/ Applicant tracking system which can have intelligent pre screening and ranking capabilities which can only throw relevant & best fit candidate profiles and keep those profiles away from recruiters which should not be part of the candidate list as they may not be right fit for the given position. 

Companies should also need to adopt paperless on boarding system which includes pre joining on boarding capabilities; like once candidate gets selected digital offer letter gets generated, candidate can accept offer letter digitally, selected candidate gets login details of an On-boarding portal to complete the pre on boarding formalities like uploading prerequisite documents, complete some pre joining trainings and go through job related documents. Other functionalities of on boarding portal can be tasks to be completed in first week, resources required for new employees and many others.  

Paperless on boarding system resonates well with company’s professional image, brand name, technology adoption and can give good candidate experience which can be a motivational factor for many candidates to join the organization. 

Also recruiters and hiring managers can see the progress of each selected candidate’s pre-joining activities on the on-boarding portal and can get a sense on how eager the candidate is to join the  organization ( Predictive analytics) and accordingly they can start working on next possible candidate for the given job or plan B.

Such technology can not only affirm your gut feeling but also can make your new employee productive from day one onward!!

Thanks !!

Jitu Patel