Every day a critical role stays open costs you money. Whether it means less patients can be cared for or less cars can be serviced, operating with a smaller than ideal team hurts morale and your bottom line. In today’s competitive job market, finding the perfect candidate for a critical role can be a daunting task. Revisiting past candidates can be a highly effective strategy, especially since 90+% of healthcare, automotive and hospitality applicants would consider working for a company for which they previously applied but didn’t receive an offer, and 85+% would be willing to work for a different location than the one they applied to. This means your past applicants are a great source for your future recruiting efforts, especially if you hire for the same roles in different, nearby locations or branches.
Known Quantity:
One of the significant advantages of revisiting past candidates is that if you have interviewed them, you already have a sense of their skills, experience, and cultural fit. This familiarity can significantly reduce the risk of a bad hire and expedite the hiring process. You also have a strong sense of what they are looking for in a role, like a preferred shift or role type. You can make things significantly easier on your future self by tagging candidates with this information as you screen them, capturing the information that extends beyond the resume so that you can find it later. Tags are searchable and will allow you to easily locate quality applicants already in your database.
Pre-Qualified Talent:
Every recruiter has the experience of screening an amazing candidate only to realize that they aren’t an exact fit for the role or finding that a hiring manager has already moved forward with another candidate in the hiring process. By making it a practice to search your past candidates for your new roles, you can find ways to re-engage those past candidates and get them through the door. When you revisit past candidates, you’re essentially tapping into a pool of pre-qualified talent. You’ve already evaluated their qualifications and potential fit for the company. Best of all, you save time and resources on initial screening and interviews, filling the role faster.
Sometimes the opposite can be true and a candidate can make a strong negative impression by missing an interview or being rude during the process. Whether positive or negative, marking the candidate with a disposition code, like Failed to Show to Interview or Seeking Management Role can make things easier for your future self when searching through your past applicants, as you can use them to filter your results.
Stronger Candidate Relationships:
Revisiting past candidates allows you to leverage existing relationships and build upon the rapport you’ve already established. This can increase engagement and improve the likelihood of candidates responding positively to your outreach. They are already familiar with your company and employer brand, so they are more likely to respond.
How Hireology Can Help
Candidate Search can be a powerful recruiting tool. Whether you are trying to find a candidate quickly or looking to optimize past applicants for current openings, Hireology Candidate Search can make this process a light lift. Searching past job applicants can save you money and time. In many cases you’ve already reviewed and interviewed them, and know their skill sets and preferences, so hiring them could be faster and cheaper.
Hireology Candidate Search is an AI-powered way to search through both applications and through skills in resumes. This can be helpful if you are not sure who you’re looking for or if you only remember minor details about a past applicant, like their first name. If you use tags and disposition codes, you can quickly find the right person for the right job from your existing candidate pool, speeding up your hiring process. You can fill critical roles quickly and stay fully staffed, increase business efficiency, improve customer service and satisfaction, and improve the morale of your existing workforce.
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