How to humanize your hiring process?

The recruitment process has turned out to an advanced level. Various technology tools such as the Application Tracking System and Recruiting CRM made the hiring process facilitate, accurate, and less time-consuming process. The only purpose of these tools is to accelerate the hiring process and diminish the cost per hire. One thing that has lost in this multitude of tools is humanized touch.

Making the hiring process humanize is not all about Candidate Experience. It's beyond it. It is regardless of the economy, whether the job market is high or not. In this digitized recruiting process, a lack of personalized touch is a common issue. Lack of humanizing is one of the biggest reasons behind candidate turnover. Competition is already high amongst businesses for the talents, while many companies are facing a shortage of talent. By providing humanized touch into the hiring process, your business can attract and compel the ideal talent to choose you.

When the entire process implements through virtual software, the applicant believes that he/she is communicating with the computerized application. It creates an erroneous impact on the candidate. Let's show them that the application is operated by a human being and a personal touch still there.

User-Friendly Website

The company website plays a core character in the hiring process. How? Many people convert into candidates visiting the website, while some candidates visit the website after submitting the application. Basically, candidates explore the website certainly once. If the employer wants to bring a personal touch in the hiring process, then they have to choose a user-friendly website; this insists them to believe that company is working with humans. This positive mindset of the applicant can cause the hiring more humanize.

Clear Expectation

Job posts on different platforms is a part of the hiring process. While posting a job with all the terms and conditions, and description, carry the clarity of employer needs. Draft the exact skills and requirements in the job description section. Don't put extra skills to get the minimum but high rated candidates and put less to receive the bulk of the application. Show humanize from the beginning by conveying the accurate requirements.

Decorate Your Front Door

Many companies' automated application systems greet the job seeker with an unfriendly message. The welcome message should really greet one instead of giving a command message. Yes, many times, welcome messages look like commands or orders such as "If any field will be left, the application will count in the rejected application". To make the hiring process humanize companies should greet the job seeker well, the message should be a pleasant one and written in such a manner that makes them feel they are hearing it.

Communication Is a Key

Your company might be using different software such as Applicant Tracking System or Recruiting CRM to form an easy hiring through its automated features of notification, email, etc. Hence, using this software, connect and communicate with candidates frequently. Continuously keep in touch with them through various things such as updating them about application status, share events link, company documentations. Consistently communication via any medium makes the hiring process humanize.

Respect Everyone's Time

In the hiring process, sometimes there are two or three rounds of interview. And to conduct these, the content exchange happened between employer and candidate in respect of time and date. In many cases, it has been noted that the candidate was in a waiting position, whether the interview is in a virtual form or real-time. Time is money; as we heard, time is equally important for everyone, thus be punctual, and available for the further process, as per the decided time and date. Employer punctuality brings humanity with it.

Embrace Two-Way Feedback

Don't be selfish in the feedback stage. Feedback is essential for employers and applicants as well. Many companies digitally send emails or messages to the candidate for feedback or send feedback form. It's common where a candidate underlines the weakness and plus point of the company; of course, it is an impressive method. What about the candidate? Candidates need feedback too. According to the recent data, 52% of candidates who get feedback are more likely to apply. Therefore, by implementing a two-way feedback company is able to humanize the hiring process.

Recruiters and employers are so busy in achieving the recruiting strategies that they forgot they are dealing with humans, not machines. And business can't take a chance of losing the right talent due to the cold and unhumanized hiring process. Yes, we can't eliminate the technology from the whole process, but can shift to some humanized activity even through tools.