Herding cats
What is candidate management?
The process of building and managing relationships with active and passive job seekers to guide them through the recruiting funnel.
This is the term used when describing the number of employees Loyal Source continues to employ year over year (or any other specific period of time).
Candidate Retention
How many days in a row must we attempt to reach a potential candidate?
3
What does A.B.C. stand for?
Always Be Closing
This is the person responsible for driving the recruitment process from start to finish.
YOU (the recruiter)
How does a candidate management strategy help in recruiting?
It focuses on enhancing and improving the overall candidate experience, which, in turn, supports the Loyal Source brand as an employer.
True or False - once you recruit someone and put them to work, your job is done.
FALSE
Once a recruiter has received a req to work, this is the timeframe in which a recruiter should have a candidate qualified and submitted in front of a client.
Within 72 hours
This is the verbal action and commitment a candidate gives you when they indicate they'd like to move forward with the consideration process.
Pre-Close
In order to effectively maintain notes on a candidate, you must do this to track conversations and actions with each candidate at every stage.
What are the top 3 ways a candidate management strategy helps in recruiting?
1. Better opportunities for feedback and communication
2. Builds relationships beyond the process (PIPELINE!)
3. Allows for automation - work smarter, not harder.
What are 3 reasons employees leave our organization?
Inadequate salary and benefits
Feeling overworked and/or unsupported
Limited opportunities for career advancement
A need for better work-life balance
Lack of recognition
Boredom
Unhappiness with management
Concerns about the company’s direction or financial health
Dissatisfaction with the company culture
The desire to make a change
This is how often you should talk to a candidate after they've been rejected for a job or have accepted another offer elsewhere.
As often as it takes if we have alternative opportunities that they are better suited for.
What does S.M.A.R.T. stand for?
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-Based
This allows us to create structure and organization throughout our day as we work a full desk as recruiters.
Planning & time management
Name 3 best practices when it comes to creating a successful candidate management strategy.
Communicate
Build relationships
Streamline the process
Engage the team
Nurture your leads
Our organization is constantly trying to improve this so our internal and external employees can develop their skills to perfection and learn something new every day.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
This is the ideal timeframe in which we encourage our candidates to have their offer letter and onboarding documents completed once an offer has been extended in writing.
Within 24 hours
This is something you should ask for from each candidate you talk to so to continue building your pipeline and network.
Referrals
This group is our biggest ally in the recruitment process and is vital to assisting recruiters with their candidate management strategy when setting expectations with their candidates.
Business Development
This is the one thing you must have in order to best manage your candidate.
COMMUNICATION!
Name the top 5 reasons why candidate retention is important to our business and candidate management strategies.
1. Growth & success of the business.
2. We don't have jobs as recruiters if we can't keep the ones working for us.
3. It's often more beneficial and cost-effective than constantly trying to hire new people.
4. Open seats create hardships or stress on other team members and clients.
5. Keeping the right people in the right seats adds value to the team.
This is the proper response for when a candidate advises you that they will get you an updated resume within the next day or two.
If you already have their resume: "I actually have your resume in front of me and I specialize in this so if you have a couple more minutes, how about I just gather some of that info from you. That way, you don't have to stress about making changes, I know how to best showcase your experience to my client, and we can keep this moving forward.
Without resume: My client is looking to move quickly on this role and I don't want you to miss out on this opportunity. If you have a few more minutes, I'd be happy to get that information from you and put that together for you. This is an area I specialize in and I would like to get your profile in front of my client ASAP.
What are the top 5 ways a recruiter can win over a candidate that is unsure about the offer they've received?
1. Build a passive candidate pipeline who admire you, your brand & company reputation.
2. Differentiate the candidate experience (build the rapport).
3. Speed up the consideration process (time kills all deals).
4. Start closing on the first phone screen.
5. Leverage referrals
What are the 8 stages of recruitment?
1. Understanding the job requirements.
2. Preparing and confirming the job description.
3. Sourcing
4. Screening
5. Selection
6. Hiring
7. Onboarding
8. Retention