The Importance of an Efficient Hiring Process

72% of candidates say that the smoothness of a hiring process affects their decision on whether or not to accept a job offer. This process should be efficient and effective, not sacrificing quality for the sake of speed, but ensuring an equal balance of both elements for successful candidate and employer experience.

Recruitment and onboarding processes are essential to not only obtaining the best candidates but retaining them too, reducing your re-hiring costs and allowing talent to contribute to your business more quickly and successfully. Glassdoor’s 2018 study demonstrated this, with positive onboarding processes leading to a whopping 91% of employees feeling more connected to a company following a positive onboarding experience. Definitely worth the effort in our opinion!

If these statistics have you considering your own practices, it’s time to get the upper hand on your competition by ensuring a polished recruitment process and secure top talent with these simple steps.

Communicate

It’s an old cliché but communication really is key, especially in recruitment. Can’t get back to a candidate for a couple of days? Don’t say you’ll be in touch soon, give them a realistic timeline. Not only is it stressful to leave a potential employee hanging, but the lack of interaction may encourage them to look elsewhere or even accept a counteroffer form a company that have kept them in the loop, and, just like that, you’ve missed out on a great candidate.

Invest

You don’t need to part with your annual recruitment budget just for one vacancy, investment can also come in the form of time. No matter the size of your company, it is always worth spending some time considering exactly what you are looking for in your new hire and compose job descriptions that capture this. Without this crucial step, you will spend most of your time reading CVs or interviewing candidates that just don’t have that WOW factor you’re after!

Plan

Have a realistic timeline, not only for yourself, but also for your candidates. Communicate this timeline to them, as previously mentioned, and stick to it! Recruitment experts can help you to diarise and organise your interviews, and cut down the time you spend attracting and assessing candidates, meaning you can get on with your other responsibilities.

Partner Up!

Recruitment agencies are here to help. We are experts in talent acquisition and employee retention, and candidate experience is what we do best! We are efficient, whilst remaining personable and friendly, getting to know our candidates and clients to promote strong professional relationships that ensure a positive onboarding process. We do the leg-work only sending you suitable candidates, making the best use of your precious time.

Who are Brite?

We are a Cheltenham based recruitment agency, working with companies across the UK to deliver top talent. We pride ourselves on delivering an excellent candidate and client experience, optimising efficiency in your hiring processes, using decades of experience to inform every decision we make.

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