The recruitment process can quickly eat up plenty of your valuable resources, be they financial or management time and attention. It therefore makes sense to streamline the process as much as possible, in order to both speed up the time to hire (an important metric in itself, and one which plays a considerable role in an organisation's ability to successfully secure the best hires), and to reduce disruption to your business operations. A new buzzword that encapsulates this ethos is "rightsizing", and this is certainly the smart approach to creating an optimised recruitment strategy that you will be able to deploy time and time again.

Maximise The Interview Process

The interview process is an integral stage of the hiring journey, and there are a number of ways in which you can refine this important element in order to get the right results. As we mentioned already, the quicker your time to hire, the better, and part of the reason for this is that it prevents candidates from becoming disengaged from the process, frustrated, or simply lost to another job offer before you are ready to make your move. As such, a smart tactic is to make sure a candidate is asked to only attend a single day of interviews, rather than being called back to progress through several rounds over a period of weeks.

Keep the interview panel the same for each interview, in order to avoid repetition of questions which is tiresome for the candidate, and a waste of your company's time, and plan in advance the information that you want to clarify from the initial application or CV. Conducting technical tests can be a valuable way to confirm the skills possessed by a candidate, particularly where a position depends on expertise in a key area, as well as skills such as the ability to problem solve under pressure, and effective communication.

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Rightsizing Your Recruitment

It's important to stress that rightsizing does not simply mean cutting away at the recruitment process. In the current busy talent landscape, the intention should, instead, be to create a streamlined hiring journey that allows you to make the best possible hiring decisions whilst ensuring a rapid time to hire. It's important to keep in mind, too, that in a candidate-led job market, the onus is on you to "sell" the benefits of working for your organisation.

Be careful not to make the hiring process overly onerous on the very tech talent you hope to bring onboard. Use interviews as another opportunity to emphasise why the candidate should choose to join your team and take on this role, and be sure to stay in touch afterwards. Making hiring decisions quickly will help to improve your chances of the right candidate accepting your offer.

Streamline Your Talent Acquisition Process With Regal Cloud

A great way to be sure of rightsizing your hiring process is to take guidance from the experts. At Regal Cloud, we understand the challenges of the present tech talent landscape, and we can help our clients to craft the ideal strategy for bringing in new talent, through to long term talent retention.

Why not get in touch with us today, at 26 Kings Hill Avenue, Kent, ME19 4AE, on 0208 004 9877, or at enquiries@regal-cloud.com and discover how Regal Cloud could help you access the tech talent you need to grow your business.

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