Linkedin Talent Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A great candidate experience can help you engage more job seekers and sway your top-choice candidate toward accepting your job offer over another. What is candidate experience? Make it easy for candidates to learn about your company so they can determine if it’s the right fit for them.

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Vervoe

AUGUST 11, 2022

Top engineer talent is in high demand — which makes it all the more important to provide a great candidate experience during the hiring process. The candidate experience can set your company apart from others in a highly competitive job market. What is a problem-solving interview? Luckily, there’s a better option.

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Vervoe

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A recent review of a 1998 meta-analysis has found that structured interviews are the #1 candidate evaluation method, causing a major reshuffle to previously acclaimed evaluation methods. So, what exactly is a structured interview, and how can you implement it in your hiring process? What is a structured interview?

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Professional Alternatives

JUNE 9, 2023

Employers must create a work environment that fosters motivation by providing opportunities for growth and development, recognizing and rewarding employee achievements, and promoting positive company culture. A positive candidate experience can help attract top talent and improve your employer’s brand.

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HackerRank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Moreover, candidate experience holds significance in early career recruitment efforts. Engaging with candidates effectively, providing timely feedback, and offering valuable resources are crucial components in building a positive impression of the company. Do you also use any personalized methods to enhance this experience?

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Recruiter Flow

JANUARY 21, 2024

Recruiters often find themselves in a constant juggling act, balancing interactions with candidates and clients, sifting through applications, and ensuring a seamless hiring process. It begins with sourcing, where candidates enter the pipeline. Successful candidates then go through stages like screening, assessment, and interviews.

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Professional Alternatives

AUGUST 23, 2023

Highlighting the training and development programs, company culture, workplace diversity initiatives, and potential for career advancement will make your organization an attractive option for talented job seekers. It allows you to assess a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and fit for the role and your organization.

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Hundred5

JANUARY 4, 2023

While employee value proposition is the promise you make to potential candidates in return for their commitment to your company, employer branding encompasses a lot more than that! Everything from compelling job descriptions to the perceived company culture and employee referral program falls under the employer brand.

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ConveyIQ

APRIL 24, 2018

The talent acquisition team currently leverages Convey for Interviewing to effectively and efficiently interview candidates. We spoke with Matt Kemblowski , a Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition and Culture Development at BCU, to learn more about his views and perspective on candidate experience.

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Recruiting Blogs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Implement these 5 tips to become a more successful interviewer! Unsuccessful interviewers hire the wrong person - don’t be among them! If you’ve ever conducted a job interview, this will probably come as no surprise to you. Conducting job interviews is hard. 5 tips to become a more successful interviewer.

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Recruiters Lineup

JULY 28, 2023

Recruiters can confidently rely on the platform’s customizable assessments to gauge candidates’ problem-solving prowess, algorithmic thinking, and coding efficiency. Codility’s user-friendly interface and real-time coding evaluation also ensure a seamless and efficient candidate experience. Qualified.io

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Recruiter Flow

AUGUST 11, 2023

Emotional Intelligence enables recruiters to establish deeper connections with candidates, moving beyond simply evaluating skills and qualifications to identifying individuals who resonate with the company’s culture and values. This leads to better engagement, improved candidate experience, and increased trust.

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Recruitalicious

JULY 4, 2017

For all the criticism aimed at the job interview process (like here , here and here ), we in the hiring field lack a viable, practicable alternative. Some interviews go better than others, and the perfectionist in all of us feels constant pressure to improve the process and the experience for all involved.

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Glassdoor for Employers

OCTOBER 8, 2020

To really understand whether a candidate would be the right fit, it's always a good idea to talk to the people who know best: their references. Recruiters often expect qualities like reliability, punctuality, self-motivation and the like to be givens in a candidate, not differentiators. What did [the candidate] do well?

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Devskiller

JUNE 1, 2023

The benefits of a technical screening solution when hiring When it comes to technical screening, it’s very important to have a robust screening process that helps you efficiently allocate your time and interview only the candidates that actually meet the job requirements.

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Entelo

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s just technical interviewing! Technical interviewing doesn’t need to feel like a DMV trip. But many organizations handicap themselves with one-size fit all interviewing and hiring processes that make it for more painful than it needs to be. Your interviews shouldn’t resemble boot camp where only the strong survive.

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Recruiting Blogs

AUGUST 6, 2019

the expected ATS user, target-user, interviewers, or hiring decision maker). This brings me back to my point – End User Training and Education…without it you will have a difficult time influencing, educating and implementing new systems, initiatives and a positive overall candidate experience.

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Hundred5

JUNE 22, 2023

of candidate responses to a recent poll cited “bad interview vibes” as their main reason for turning down a job offer? Sure, the market may be saturated with job seekers – with job postings receiving an average of 250 applications – but high-performing (Gen Z) candidates will almost always be picky about where they work.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

APRIL 7, 2019

Shell, on the other hand, has developed a multipronged approach that uses work assessments, interview questions, and more to assess candidates. Here’s why Shell puts soft skills at the forefront of candidate evaluations and how it measures them during the hiring process. That’s where assessments come in.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

JULY 20, 2017

You run candidates through a series of 30-minute surface-level interviews, instead of diving deeper with a panel. Short, 30-minute one-on-one interviews waste everyone’s time. Even if you have several of these quick interviews, you’re just retreading the same surface-level stuff. Above all, don’t rush to any decisions.

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CareerBuilder

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Social media is a fast and easy (and free) way to advertise your job opportunities, communicate with candidates, educate them about your company and build awareness about your corporate culture. Time Waster #4: Third-Round Interviews and Beyond. Consider the candidate experience. Not sure where to start?

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Recruiting Blogs

JUNE 6, 2023

As an HR professional, you know that conducting a meaningful interview is a crucial aspect of the hiring process. A well-conducted, insightful interview is the mechanism for identifying and subsequently hiring the best candidate for the job.

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Recruiting Blogs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

interviewing on campus instead of your office), it’s important to tailor your company’s recruiting experience to specifically to college students. Firms that sit back and wait for applicants are missing out on valuable candidates. Visit campuses and set up interviews through the career services offices.

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Recruiting Daily Advisor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But Elizabeth Mye, SVG global Human Resources with cloud communications provider Intermedia , says there are a number of best practices companies can follow to boost their effectiveness in recruiting and interviewing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conduct a Lot of Interviews. Instill Rigor and Discipline in the Interview Process.

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Recruiters Lineup

APRIL 4, 2023

To achieve this KPI, recruiters should streamline the recruitment process, reduce the number of interviews, and leverage technology to automate the screening process. Candidate Experience Candidate Experience is a critical KPI that measures how candidates perceive the recruitment process.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Interview like you mean it. Be honest: when’s the last time you “forgot” to email a candidate back to tell them they didn’t get the job? If it’s more than a handful, you might find that you already have a negative candidate experience. Now think about all of the candidates you interviewed and didn’t hire.

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Workable

JUNE 22, 2017

Interviews are the pillars of recruiting. Here are some frequently asked questions and answers to help you set up an effective interview process: Organizing an interview. What are the typical steps in the interview process? How do I set up an interview? Who should be involved in the interview process?

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Breezy HR

MARCH 1, 2017

We’ve already talked about what defines a structured interview , and why structured interviews are such good predictors of job performance. Now, we’re going to show you how to run a structured interview – using consistent interview questions that show you the best people for the job, every time.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

MAY 5, 2021

One of the greatest risks to an organization’s culture can sneak up on us. It turned out that they were hiring mostly directors and managers, who would also start to interview and recruit new people within their first few weeks, too, as this company’s hiring goals were aggressive. Not unusual but, wow, what a risk to culture, right?

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Recruitalicious

JULY 12, 2016

From the initial phone call to day one of orientation, high-quality talent expects a high-quality candidate experience. RPO recruiters make smart use of technology to facilitate this process, but they also deliver high-touch experiences that make the candidate feel important. Interpersonal Communication Skills.

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Professional Alternatives

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The rise of online job boards, professional networking sites, and applicant tracking systems has revolutionized the way companies connect with potential candidates. The transition from traditional to modern recruitment has also brought about a fundamental change in the way companies approach their employer branding and recruitment marketing.

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Hundred5

JULY 20, 2023

Having no structure to your interviews and relying on gut feel are examples of subjective practices. Skills assessment tools and structured interviews , for example, will help level the playing field. Make smarter hiring decisions based on data to constantly improve the candidate experience. Preparing for interview?

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Proactive Talent

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A 30 minutes pre-screening call with each candidate might seem like a waste of time but can work out to be a long-term contingency plan to understand the strengths and weaknesses of candidates you are considering bringing in for an interview or moving forward in your hiring process.

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Spark Hire

MARCH 1, 2016

The text-heavy job ads, impersonal phone interviews, and routine interview questions of yesterday aren’t going to do a great job at attracting and securing today’s top talent. When it comes to scoring top talent with updated interview processes, these hiring professionals have the right idea: 1. Have an actual conversation.

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Manatal

JULY 11, 2022

Key among the actions in this strategy is talent – highly skilled and agile employees, strong company culture and a good talent pipeline. That means more costs, negative impact on a team’s productivity, output and overall culture. Second, prepare well-structured interview questions. Inconsistent Candidate Experience.

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Devskiller

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We will discuss how these assessments align with business goals, cultural fit, and provide a financial argument for their use, while also considering legal and ethical boundaries. These issues resulted in delays and a higher number of unnecessary interviews.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

MARCH 27, 2017

When coming in for an interview, the majority of candidates are nervous (unless they have the swagger of Harry Potter). All jokes aside, the nerves are understandable - especially for a candidate going in for an interview at Google, which was notorious for tricky interview questions in the past. What to Expect.

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