Signs Your Hiring Process Isn’t Working for You
We don’t go into the hiring process expecting it to fail, but bad hires happen—and they can cost your organization a lot of time and money. If you’ve been struggling to attract the right kind of employee, it might not be their fault. It could be that your hiring process isn’t working for you. Luckily, it’s easy to evaluate your hiring practices and make any necessary adjustments.
Signs your hiring process needs help
- • High turnover. Didn’t you just do this six months ago? If you’re dealing with a high turnover rate, that’s a clear sign that you’re not finding the right fit for your company and the specific position.
- • Long hiring times. If your hiring process take months to complete, it’s not necessarily a sign that you have too many great candidates to choose from. Good hiring processes don’t need to be long in order to find quality candidates.
- • Low or no ROI. Are you spending months looking for a good employee? When you spend a lot of time, money and effort finding the right fit but aren’t successful, that’s another indicator that your hiring process needs to be revisited.
- • Deficient applicant pools. When interest in the position is lower than you were counting on, it’s a sign that either your job description is lackluster, the compensation isn’t a fit for the type of candidate you’re looking for or that you’re not reaching the type of people you’re hoping to hire.
- • Frequent withdrawals. Maybe your job description is stellar and you have a lot of qualified candidates to choose from, but they’re frequently withdrawing their interest sometime between the interview and the offer. That’s a sign that your interview process is too onerous. If candidates decline once you’ve made the offer, consider whether it’s compensation, your team or something else that makes you less attractive.
- • Negative performance reviews. Are you hiring qualified candidates only to find that your managers and supervisors are unhappy with the choices? That indicates there’s a disconnect between your understanding of what they need from an employee versus what they actually want.
How to adjust your hiring process
- • Evaluate the skills needed for the job. Talk with your management staff to discuss the specific skills they think successful candidates need, and have them articulate why. Decide whether what you’re asking for is a “need” or a “nice to have.”
- • Revisit your job posting and compensation. Are you offering competitive compensation? We all want a bargain, but you shouldn’t expect to receive the equivalent of quality champagne on a Diet Coke budget. You can also adjust your job posting by asking staff members to review and identify ways to make it more compelling.
- • Standardize your evaluation. Finally, make a list of what you’re evaluating and how you’ll score candidates—this makes the whole process more objective, and helps you look past personality.
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