Phenom-enal
Interview Best Practice
Recruit Potpourri
Who's Who
100

With résumés, notes, open roles, and interview schedules all in one place, this portal reduces endless emails and helps the hiring process flow—leading your recruiter to whisper, “This is the way.”    

What is the Phenom Hiring Manager Portal?

100

How many children do you have? Do you have a car? When did you graduate high school? Are all examples of this

What are illegal questions?

100

This is sent out via texts and emails to new hires following their 14th, 30th, and 90th days of employment.

What are Onboarding Surveys (Peakon)?

100

This recruiter has been with the company the longest.

Who is Mariana?

200

This is the 2026 expectation for Phenom Hiring Manager Portal usage.

What is 100% participation?

200

Of the four interview question types (fact-finding, hypothetical, behavioral, leading), this is the one hiring managers should primarily use in interviews, while recruiters focus on fact-finding

What are behavioral questions?

200

Regardless of experience level, all new CDL Driver Hires should attend this academy to learn "The Waste Connections Way"

What is the Houston Training Academy?

200

This recruiter lives on Sesame Street on Teams meetings.

Who is Ben?

300

Whether it’s a new candidate being forwarded or a reminder to give interview feedback 30 minutes after the meeting begins, hiring managers can expect this trusty notification to appear.

What is an email?

300

When managers actually review and approve their Workday tasks timely - like hire events, offer letters, and req approvals etc - it may cause their recruiter to do this

What is believing in miracles, sleep at night, happy dance, etc.

300

Replacing an employee can cost up to this percentage of the role’s annual salary.

30%

300

This recruiter played collegiate basketball

Who is Megan?

400

This is why hiring managers must submit feedback through the Phenom Portal.

It becomes official documentation on the candidate’s profile and can be easily accessed for future recruiting or legal matters.

400

This small habit when you have an open req, reduces scheduling chaos, and is secretly every recruiter’s love language

What is keeping your calendar current?

400

Workday, benefits, daily pay- this platform brings it all together, but only if managers make sure their entire team is enrolled.

What is Tailgate?

400

This recruiter presently holds a Class B CDL permit.

Who is Melissa?

500

It’s crucial to leave out certain details when giving candidate feedback in the hiring manager portal because once it’s saved, it remains on their profile for this amount of time - right up there with diamonds and your childhood email address.

What is forever?

500

This beautiful thing happens when hiring managers and recruiters communicate so well that even Outlook pauses and whispers, “Wow.”

What is teamwork/collaboration?

500

Managers who prioritize reducing this help ensure recruiters aren’t running an accidental subscription service for open roles.

What is turnover?

500

How many employees are currently on the ER Recruiting team?

10

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