5 Process Improvement Strategies to Shorten Your Time to Hire

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By and large, companies just jump into their hiring process without a real plan. This often leads to a disjointed process that can take longer than necessary to complete. As anyone who has ever hired a decent amount knows from experience, time kills all deals. Companies that don’t have a well-defined process may find themselves losing out on the candidates they want to hire. These 5 tips will help you shorten the distance between candidate identification and start date.

1. Establish Requirements and Goals


It’s critical to lay out in writing the job description, the salary requirements and the void panama phone number library this position is filling, prior to starting the recruitment process. Having it in writing will give your team a clear understanding of what you are looking to accomplish with this hire. It is important that you get everyone on board. If there are others in the organization that will be involved in the interview process, in an effort to be efficient, make sure everyone knows their role so there is little to no overlap. Ensuring everyone has an equal but different role in the interview process will eliminate the risk of both boring the candidate, and sending the message that there’s a lack of communication within the organization.

2. Share the Goals and Expectations with your Executive Recruiter

Including your executive recruiter/placement consultant in your hiring plans will help ensure that the candidate understands your process. Conveying the details of your interview process and timeframe to hire can eliminate the risk of losing candidates due to miscommunication and the drawn out uncertainties in your process. Open communication also allows for flexibility, particularly when you’re dealing with an active candidate who is being courted by your competitors. Darrin Davidson, President of FPC of Crystal Lake said, “experience has shown that the more a hiring manager includes me in their process, the better chance I have in being able to secure the person they want to hire.”

3. Quickly Set Aside the Time to Interview

Sometimes organizing an interview panel is like herding cats. Don’t let the fact that one executive on the interviewing team is out of the office postpone the whole process. With all of the technology available today, it is very easy to set up a video conference using Skype or FaceTime. Getting the bulk of your face to face interviews scheduled and completed in a timely fashion could be the difference in getting your top candidate an offer in time for them to make a decision in your favor.