Is your hiring process exciting for candidates?

Have you even asked yourself that before?

Is your hiring process exciting for candidates?

It’s not a trick question. If it’s hard to answer, it’s probably because you either:

1. Haven’t thought about it before. (Which is most people.)
2. Are laughing at the idea that interviewing – something everyone dreads! – is exciting to anyone.

But if you want job seekers to put everything else they’re looking at on the back burner and say ‘yes’ to your offer, that’s exactly what you need.

People shouldn’t get tunnel vision in their job search process, but they do. It’s not because of company prestige, big titles, crazy benefits, a cool office (lol), or high comp. (Ok, maybe the high comp.)

The main reason why people get excited about jobs: the company has their sh*t together in the interview process.

👉A well thought out process that provides a positive experience.

Value is conveyed. The steps make sense. Everything is laid out up front. Follow up actually happens.

There’s actually a plan. Structured, repeatable, reliable. And…

👉The hiring team trained to execute on that plan.

They’re nice. Thoughtful. Knowledgeable. Capable of anticipating and answering questions.

You know, the opposite of literally every interviewing horror story.

I bring this up because we’ve been seeing the hiring market improve considerably over the last 5-6 months. More and more companies are getting back to hiring.

And if this is you, and you notice you’re getting a lot of candidates declining offers or bowing out of the interview process: finding more candidates isn’t the solution.

Getting the ones you already have more excited about your company is.

👉Fun fact: Hirewell provides Talent Advisory services which do exactly that. If you don’t have anyone on your team who knows how to do this stuff, DM me. 👍

Full episode of The 10 Minute Talent Rant, episode 103 “Finding Candidates is the Easy Part” available here.

James Hornick

Partner at Hirewell. #3 Ranked Sarcastic Commenter on LinkedIn.