Ignore spammed resumes; focus on highly interested candidates.

Unfortunately, it’s not unusual for 75% of today’s received resumes to come from individuals who aren’t even slightly interested in your company.

In fact, other than its name, many of these spam applicants may literally know nothing else about your company. And that’s a problem, because smart hiring managers shouldn’t be wasting time on these disinterested applicants.

Instead, they should be focusing on top applicants who are so good at what they do that they can literally work almost anywhere. As a result, after they’ve completed their thorough company research, they are only interested in a handful of companies that they now know will be a perfect fit with their skills and interests. So, your job is to identify those applicants with the strongest interest in your specific company.

Fortunately, there are multiple indicators that can help a recruiter or hiring manager identify their “perfect fit” candidates who are clearly interested in working at your company. I have found that this best identification approach only requires that you put together a checklist of the many behaviors and actions that should be observed to identify which of your candidates are the most committed to working at your company.

Typical indicators of a candidate’s high level of interest and commitment include personalized communications and cover letters, being highly responsive and on time, and asking in-depth questions about the company during their interviews.

The goal of the remainder of this article is to provide hiring managers and recruiters with a basic checklist that they can use to quickly assess and then prioritize the qualified candidates who have the highest level of interest and commitment to working for your company.

A Checklist – Indicators That A Candidate Has A Strong Interest In Working For Your Company

The strongest indicators that a candidate has a high level of commitment to working at your company can be broken into six categories. Below you will find each of these indicator factors slotted into its appropriate checklist category.

Category 1 – How they applied – how the candidate applied to your job is often the first indicator of a deep interest in working at your company.

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