What to prepare before a recruitment interview?
What to prepare before the recruitment interview?
It's important that you've thought through the entire interview in advance so that you have an agenda that ensures that you cover all the bases. It's also important that you've prepared to talk about the company and the job and, not least, that you've prepared a number of relevant questions for the candidate. Of course, it's important to read the application and CV that the candidate has submitted and use them as a starting point for a good chat about the jobs the candidate has had before. Allow about 1.5 hours for the interview. An agenda can look like this:
- Welcome and introduction of participants
- About the company in brief
- The candidate motivates their application and reviews their CV
- Detailed discussion about the job and the candidate's competencies in relation to it
- Candidate's current salary package and expectations for new salary package
- Wrap-up and closure
For some jobs, it's great to create cases to prepare before an interview so that the applicant's skills can be tested.
For other jobs, it's enough to have a very brief conversation to set expectations and agree on a meeting time and place for the start of employment.
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How to create overview and structure
Recruiting can quickly become a messy process, so it's all about finding an overview and structure. There is no one-size-fits-all model for this, so it's all about finding the method that works for you. The most important thing is to keep track of the basic information about each candidate, for example, by using a scoring model that you have created in advance.
Using 2peoples HR solution gives you all the tools you need to ensure an efficient and professional process. It's easy to score candidates, and you can share information across multiple participants in the recruitment process to see how others have scored the applicant/candidates.
Another great way to make the recruitment process easier and more transparent is through video recruitment, where you actively use videos in the recruitment process.
Video recruitment (another way to recruit)
You can choose to use video in your recruitment. It's a choice that can help you stand out and get noticed. If you choose to do this, these things will typically be done via video:
- Employer branding video
- Video job ad
- Video job search
- Video screening
- Onboarding videos
So it's more or less the same process, except that more or less of the recruitment process is done via video.
Recruitment management systems
There are specific modules on the market that can digitize the recruitment process.
These products are typically quite expensive because they only support recruitment.
The 2peoples HR solution is a complete solution for all HR tasks and also includes an integrated recruitment module that shares data with the other modules in the solution.
If you want to be able to support all your HR processes in the long term, but have an urgent need to streamline and automate your HR process right now, the individual modules in 2peoples HR solution can simply be 'switched off' so that they are not active.
In other words, you can turn on the different modules when you're ready.
What is a recruitment strategy?
If you want to work purposefully with recruitment, for example because you have a knowledge company where employees are the most important asset in the company, then it's a good idea to have a recruitment strategy that puts recruitment in a broader context in the company.
Above are some examples of what can be included in a recruitment strategy.
The right candidate for the position
At very large companies, there are some top positions that need to be filled - and these positions require a very specific skill set.
In order to have a successful recruitment and find an employee who is able to do the job satisfactorily, you should have a strategy. For example, it could look like this:
- Company strategy and its impact on future recruitment needs
- Employer branding - how to attract the right profiles and talent
- How do we recruit consistently and professionally across the business - every time?
- Work with job profiles and job competencies so that recruitment is always based on defined profiles and competencies
- Where and how will you find suitable candidates to fill the position?
- Want to recruit from abroad?
- Consider equality and diversity - both can bring great value to your business.
- What is the attitude towards working from home?
- Consider how you as a company will retain your employees
- Work with recruitment KPIs so we can measure our success
How long does recruitment take?
The short answer is that it typically takes longer than you expect.
As a rule of thumb, it takes a month for the application process and another month for interviews and contract signing.
Some jobs are filled very quickly, a short conversation over the phone and the new employee is ready to produce the next day.
The most secure way to ensure an efficient and fast process is to system support the process with an IT solution like 2peoples HR solution.