Hiring Collaboration

Mastering Interview Feedback Management

Category: Hiring Collaboration, Interview Management, Simplicant blog, Structured Recruiting, Trending

Interview feedback management is the process of collecting, organizing, and using feedback from job interviews to improve the recruitment process and ultimately hire the best candidates for a company. A modern applicant tracking system (ATS) can greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of interview feedback management by providing a central platform for storing and organizing feedback, automating key processes, and enabling collaboration among recruiters and hiring managers. Use a Structured Interview Management Approach Structured interview management is a systematic approach to conducting and evaluating job interviews that aims to minimize bias and ensure a fair and objective assessment of candidates. Read more

Virtual Hiring Best Practices

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Hiring Collaboration, Simplicant blog

Virtual hiring has become increasingly popular in recent years due to the convenience and cost-effectiveness it offers. However, it is important for employers to stay abreast of evolving best practices in recruiting in order to ensure a smooth and successful process. Here are some virtual hiring best practices that employers can benefit from when using an applicant tracking system (ATS): Clearly communicate the virtual hiring process It is important to provide clear instructions and information to candidates about the virtual hiring process. This can include details on how to access the video call, what to expect during the interview, and Read more

7 Benefits Of A Great Applicant Tracking Platform

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Fast Hiring, Hiring Collaboration, Simplicant blog, Structured Recruiting

What is a great applicant tracking platform? And more importantly, how does good applicant tracking software really make a difference in a company’s hiring process? Finding and hiring the best talent is an ongoing challenge for growing organizations. Stiff competition for top talent continues to be a reason for HR anxiety for large as well as small companies trying to fill their open positions.  Getting the right people on board within given constraints of time and money may sometimes seem like wishful thinking. One of the best kept secrets of organizations that have their recruiting act together, however, is the quality of Read more

Does Your Hiring Culture Fit Your Company Strategy

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Best Practices And Tips, Hiring Collaboration, Modern Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog

When you are looking for new talent, how does your company’s hiring culture influence your recruiting process?  There are several qualities that are traditionally given more importance than others. Some of these include good time management, solid work history, being a team player and showing an overall strong resume. However, with recruiting trends undergoing major changes over the last few years, there is a whole new set of critical qualities that are now considered equally important, regardless of which industry you belong to. Along with these trends, the way in which hiring teams sort and manage candidates has also changed. How much does a candidate’s Read more

Tracking Your Recruiting Performance Metrics

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Fast Hiring, Hiring Collaboration, Simplicant blog

When you are hiring to fill critical positions for your company, you want easy access to basic metrics that can indicate your campaign’s progress and your recruiting performance. Keeping an eye on the performance of your operational activities such as the impact of job posts, social sharing and employee referrals – is an important part of keeping the process on track. With the help of a modern SaaS recruiting platform with advanced analytics, accurate measurements of that progress can be at your fingertips. Here are five things to look for when measuring your day to day recruiting performance metrics. 1. Number of Views Read more

How To Simplify Working With External Recruitment Agency Partners

Category: Hiring Collaboration, Modern Recruiting Software, Recruiting, recruitment agency, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring

As a growing business, you may have already worked with certain recruitment agency partners in bringing new talent on board. When you partner with agencies to help onboard new employees, you are looking to leverage their expertise, screening skills as well as networks to sample a wider pool of both active and passive applicants. In addition, you may have relationships with certain recruiting agencies or external recruiters where you prefer to have them work with you as full-time or part-time consultants, instead of hiring them as permanent staff in your HR organization. In all such cases, you want the flexibility and a robust Read more

Top 7 Tips For Making A Good Hiring Decision

Category: Hiring Collaboration, Interview Management, Recruiting, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring, Talent Acquisition

Who you choose to hire makes a big difference to the success of your organization. A hiring decision can have a long legacy, so be sure to set the stage for success. Planning, preparation and more efficient processes will save your company in the long run. A bad hire can be a very expensive mistake! Here are seven tips to making a Good Hiring Decision when you are looking to bring the best talent on board and need to do it fast. 1. Know What You Want The first step to making a good hiring decision is to know what you Read more

Hire Better With A Faster Job Offer Process

Category: Hiring Collaboration, Interview Management, job offer, Simplicant blog

How organized is your team when it comes to hiring? Do you have the job offer process in place to efficiently hire the talent you are seeking? A modern applicant tracking system can make your job offer process smooth, engaging and effective. It takes time to fill a vacant position with the right new employee. The US national average job vacancy varies greatly depending on the region, the industry and the size of the company. The average job vacancy duration for the largest US companies is 58 working days, according to the Dice-DFH Vacancy Duration Measure. Time is money and the Read more

Hire Faster From Employees’ Social Media Networks

Category: Employee Referral, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting, Talent Acquisition

Your co-workers have an average of 350 Facebook friends apiece. That might not seem like much to go on, as you search for your next great hire. But when you multiply it by only ten employees, that’s a potential reach of 3,500 prospects. Now factor in the fact that employee referrals constitute the number one source for both quality and quantity of new hires, and you’ve got a solid chance of recruiting success based on how you are able to leverage your employees’ social media networks. It’s one thing to know that the connections are out there, waiting for you, and Read more

Does Employee Referral System Work To Your Advantage

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Employee Referral, Hiring Collaboration, Recruitment System, Simplicant blog

According to HR experts, one of the most effective ways of finding and recruiting top talent is through an employee referral system.  Finding the right candidate via referrals is easier because the referring employees make sure that their referrals are qualified. Also, most prospects identified through employee referrals are passive candidates who are not aggressively on the lookout for new jobs. A study of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) by Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren and Giorgio Topa in May 2014 also showed that referred candidates have longer tenures in the firm compared to non referred candidates.  This not only Read more