How To Support Hiring Managers
Candidate attraction, candidate experience and candidate onboarding are all popular buzzwords in the recruitment industry right now with thousands of recruitment experts talking about the importance of developing a positive impression, even so, it’s essential we also offer support to hiring managers and recruiters!
Recruitment is often heavily centralised around the performance of hiring managers attending interviews and providing feedback to their recruitment team. Coupled with additional duties, hiring managers regularly have much greater responsibility for raising job requests, gaining approvals, shortlisting candidates, scheduling interviews, creating offers and even kick-starting an onboarding process.
There’s a constant need for additional support and recruitment technology/infrastructure if recruitment agencies and in-house recruitment teams want to encourage or engage with hiring managers. Here are a few helpful tools for developing a strong relationship and support network with your hiring managers.
Applicant Tracking System
Working collaboratively with hiring managers doesn’t need to be challenging, an Applicant Tracking System can easily create a harmonious recruitment environment. Its inclusive process and easy-to-use features/modules give hiring managers the right tools and support during the recruitment process. Often working remotely, hiring managers need to feel empowered, and it is crucial to gain their interest and show them how a new way of working can improve their day-to-day role.
Hiring Manager Portal
Modern hiring manager portals provide a dedicated and accessible platform for a streamlined, simple, task-based experience that lets them get the job done quickly. Time is of the essence when recruiting, so being able to have a system that is synced to the main ATS allows you to oversee your hiring manager’s activity through the entire recruitment process, including completed and outstanding tasks.
The benefits of a Hiring Manager Portal can include:
- Creates a consistent way of working across the business.
- Channeling all recruitment feedback through the ATS allows for more meaningful reporting of decision-making.
- Options for anonymised screening stages.
- Using standardised scorecards and feedback forms makes for a more level playing field at the evaluation and interview stages.
- Automating reminders can help to ensure that activities are completed on time.
Talent Pool
For every successful application, managers may have received several others from great candidates. Although these may not have been suitable to hire at the time for a variety of reasons, a talent pool allows hiring managers to keep a record of these potential candidates to utilise in the future.
This feature can be used by both main admin users of the applicant tracking software as well as hiring managers through their hiring manager portal. Often a talent pool system also allows hiring managers to upload potential candidates who they may have connected with which are not previous applicants but would like to keep on record. This feature can dramatically reduce the time to hire, as hiring managers can reach out to potential prospects quickly and easily.
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