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Today, attracting talent in a tight labor market is crucial. In many cases, candidates are interviewing for several jobs at once, comparing their experience with you against other employers. Your interview process needs to vet your candidates and also woo them into choosing your company over their other opportunities.
In this article, we’ll help answer the questions:
Today’s job seekers are shopping the labor market like career consumers. And during the interview process, they’re looking for scheduling flexibility and considerate communication.
When they reach the interview step, candidates often encounter employers who expect them to fully accommodate their schedules. They may be presented with narrow interview time slots, even when they’re employed elsewhere or are passive candidates who didn’t actively seek the new job opportunity. But what candidates really want from potential employers is interview schedule flexibility and meetings that are easy to fit onto their crowded calendars.
You can offer this flexibility by:
These accommodations can eliminate candidates’ need to take time off at their current jobs or reduce that time by eliminating travel.
It’s not uncommon for candidates to interview for a role and go months without feedback or get ghosted altogether by hiring managers. Both of these scenarios are completely contrary to what candidates actually want in the job interview process: considerate communication.
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