The Phone Screen:
The Phone Screen is the most important step of the hiring process. This is usually the first conversation with your company and sets the tone, sets expectations, and sets your company’s talent bar…
How do you ensure your recruiters create a great first impression?
Setting the Tone:
Your interview process says a lot about your organization. The interview process is a preview of what it’s like to work in the company. If the process is inefficient, unorganized, and takes a long time.. you’re going to lose top candidates. If a recruiter has low energy, sticks to basics, isn’t engaged, and doesn’t sound enthusiastic – these are all clear signs to a candidate that your company is not a first-choice employer. If your candidate screening process is cold or lacks luster, why would candidates prioritize your company?
Setting Expectations:
Your recruiting team is on the front lines of the war on talent and has the opportunity to make or break a candidate’s interview experience.
- If your recruiters cannot tell a story that resonates with the individual on the phone – you lose.
- If your recruiters cannot articulate the company’s hiring process, ensure a quick turnaround, and that they have a great relationship with the hiring manager – you lose.
- If your recruiters cannot articulate what’s unique, what’s challenging, and what’s fulfilling about a particular role – you lose.
- If your recruiters cannot articulate to hiring managers and stakeholders why a candidate is qualified, and why they are worth further conversations – you lose.
A thorough candidate screen is more than gathering the basics (work authorization, salary range, why a candidate’s looking, where they’re at in the process), it’s an opportunity to sell the candidate on the role, team, and vision of a company.
Setting Your Talent Bar:
First impressions matter. We often hear A-Players hire A-Players and that B-Players hire C-Players when we talk about hiring managers. But what about your Recruiters, are they A-Players? If not, it’s going to be difficult to convince candidates that your company does in fact hire A-Players.
Who you put on the phone with passive (or active) candidates speaks volumes about your company’s talent bar. As recruiters, we are salespeople and we are marketers, but we are not selling widgets. We are pitching an opportunity to change someone’s career trajectory, their life, and help them get one step closer to their dream job. In doing so, we are not just speaking on behalf of ourselves, we are representing the employment brand of a company. The words we say, the way we talk about open roles, and our understanding of the greater industry in which we compete for talent – are all signs of clues to whether or not our company hires A-players versus B-players.
Honeit Calls vs Phone Calls vs Zoom Calls:
Are your Recruiters A-Players and equipped to win the war for talent? Do they have the tools they need to build rapport, ask the right questions, pitch the company, explain the opportunity, and accelerate the interview experience?
Honeit makes it easy for recruiters to share interview intelligence, improve the candidate experience and simplify the hiring process.
Honeit is purpose-built candidate screening and interview technology (Phone, Video, SMS, VoIP) for recruiters and talent partners to automate scheduling, note-taking, and tedious candidate write-ups.
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