Good employees are hard to find – and so are qualified applicants. If you think you’ve found the right candidate for a position, you don’t want to wait too long to make a job offer.
These days, job seekers are continuing to interview even after saying “yes” to a prospective employer.
Maybe the grass looks greener on the other side, or the fear of missing out is too strong. You can’t change any of that, but what you can do is streamline the application process so that you hire the right candidates faster.
Consider the case of a hospital that needs to hire staff but wants job applicants to enter the same information multiple times in their Applicant Tracking System.
It’s frustrating enough to be a medical patient who’s asked to describe your symptoms first to an intake specialist, then to a triage nurse, and finally to an ER doctor.
Job seekers who lose patience with the hospital’s hiring process don’t have to wait around for emergency care. They can look elsewhere and find a position where getting hired isn’t so painful.
Stop the Headaches
Unfortunately, some organizations seem to believe that any type of electronic system is strong enough medicine. Job seekers just need to paste or upload their resumes, and technology will take care of the rest.
Yet, copying and pasting text can be time-consuming and error-prone. Importing a resume seems easier, but the data doesn’t always reach the right fields. If the education section of a resume winds up in the employment fields, will the job seeker notice?
If not, it can cost you time and money to fix this.
There are also technology-based systems that don’t “talk” to each other. For example, you might use one system to record education and employment and another system to request consent for background checks.
Then, when confidential information is collected, it’s stored offshore. If the data is sent overseas, will it remain secure?
Time zone differences and language barriers can complicate and delay communications with both the candidate and the candidate’s employer.
Better Background Checks