A lot of companies I talk to are struggling with their hiring process right now.
They’ve been thrown off-kilter by a sudden shift to remote interviewing. Their organization is changing in response to current events. Or they’re simply experiencing growing pains as they scale up.
Many companies start out with a somewhat haphazard hiring process. They need to fill a role, STAT, so they bring in a few candidates, ask ad hoc questions and attempt to go through the paces of hiring in the best way they know how.
As you grow and mature as a company, however, your hiring process has to grow and mature, too. For instance, to upgrade your hiring process, you might want to look at areas such as:
✅ Use of pre-hire assessments to assess job fit: a valid and reliable measurement of a candidate’s thinking styles, work behaviors, and interests against the performance requirements of a job
✅ Standardization of interview questions to avoid bias in hiring
✅ A routine circuit of people who interview for particular roles
✅ Perhaps most importantly, making sure everyone knows who is going to follow up with the candidate, whether or not you decide to extend a job offer
Working with The Source and Recruit Company® is an excellent way to begin to standardize and uplevel your hiring process. If you’d like to explore additional best practices and chat about how we can help, book a meeting with a member of our customer service team using the link below.
