As an entrepreneur, I constantly grapple with an array of business-related tasks, one of the most critical being hiring. Not only is it time-consuming, but it is also crucial for the growth and sustainability of my business. The right employees are the backbone of any successful venture.
Here Are Five Rules to Ensure You Hire Quickly and Effectively.
Rule One: Personally Review Candidates
Hiring an individual can be a pivotal point for growth or a major setback. The right hire can significantly boost efficiency. However, without personal oversight, there's a high risk of encountering issues. This process should always be under your purview.
Some things can and should be delegated, but hiring new employees must be personally overseen.
Rule Two: Invite As Many Candidates As Possible
You should review at least 15 resumes per vacancy (ideally 30). The mistake many make is simply publishing a job ad and waiting for responses. It is far better to manually select resumes from HR databases.
One quick method is to pay for a day's access to a platform like Headhunter, handpick the phone numbers of all suitable candidates, and call them the next day to invite them for an interview. Focus on professional skills, rather than their university, recommendations, or previous experience.
Rule Three: Ensure Maximum Candidates Show Up for the Interview
Once you've selected the candidates, put in effort to ensure they show up for the interview. To do this, prepare a call script with one goal: to persuade the person to attend the interview. Schedule the interview within the same week, as top candidates are often quickly employed elsewhere.
Rule Four: Trust Your Intuition During the Interview
Group interviews are often more efficient as they save time and allow you to observe how candidates behave in a group dynamic. When making decisions, trust your intuition. Note their facial expressions, gestures, posture, tone and speech patterns, pauses, hesitations, etc.
Rule Five: Make Quick Decisions
If you like several candidates during a group interview, ask them to stay behind and talk to each of them individually. If you like a candidate overall, despite some details you're unsure about – take a chance. Don’t procrastinate.
The time between the initial idea of a vacancy and the final stage – when the person begins working – should ideally not exceed two weeks.
Despite its simplicity and effectiveness, many people fail to follow this process, either due to underestimating its importance or due to fear of making a mistake. However, years of experience have proven that this approach works.
Even if you don’t find the perfect hire in your first interview, each subsequent attempt will only sharpen your skills.
AI and Recruitment: An Interview With SunMait Technologies CTO
In a comprehensive discussion with Pavel Dziashchenia, CTO at Sunmait Technologies, the implications and benefits of AI integration in the recruitment process were extensively explored. With its vast potential in HrTech solutions, AI is revolutionizing the approach towards hiring, offering distinct advantages from both an employer's and an employee's perspective.
From an employer's standpoint, AI serves as a powerful tool for optimizing the operations within the recruitment department. By streamlining the process of candidate selection, AI helps to curate a pool of highly relevant candidates who meet the constraints such as salary, experience, skillset, and so on. The application of AI thus saves valuable time for staff managers and department heads by ensuring that only the most qualified individuals make it to the technical interviews.
As for the employees, AI can be leveraged as a self-evaluation tool to assess the alignment of their skills with job requirements, identify areas for improvement, and prepare for interviews. The significance of AI-based interviewers in this context underscores a pivotal shift in how potential employees can gauge their industry relevance.
A key challenge in recruitment is the knowledge gap that exists among recruitment specialists who may not necessarily be domain experts, especially in technical fields. This lack of expertise can impede the precise assessment of a candidate's relevancy to a job description. The deployment of AI in such instances can alleviate this issue, providing a detailed analysis of a candidate's fit based on their CV and job description. Consequently, the process becomes more efficient, with irrelevant candidates being screened out early on and the rest receiving AI-generated 'hints' for subsequent stages.
AI's role is not limited to resolving existing issues but extends to countering potential problems such as candidates' misuse of AI to fabricate information on their CVs for specific positions or companies. Here too, AI's capabilities as an evaluator can be harnessed to detect such discrepancies, ensuring the recruitment process's integrity.
Moreover, the use of AI doesn't necessarily have to be adversarial. It can be utilized in a beneficial manner, such as with AI Interviewers, which help candidates assess their relevancy, pinpoint weaknesses, and identify areas of development.
Lastly, AI, with the help of embeddings, can sift through an existing database of evaluated candidates (along with their feedback from interviewers), identifying potential fits for new positions. This reutilization of data enhances the efficiency of the recruitment process, cutting down on the time spent finding suitable candidates.
In conclusion, the integration of AI in the hiring process and HrTech has opened a new dimension of efficiency, accuracy, and adaptability. As these technologies continue to advance, we can anticipate further improvements in the recruitment process, further solidifying AI's role as an indispensable tool in recruitment.