After 4 months(128 days) a perfect
candidate, Rahul was found. We engaged External RPO advertised through
our job board, on LinkedIn and cast the net far-and-wide. We had over
400 people applying, with a great shortlist of 14 candidates. Rahul went
through all the recruitment processes with 2 more final rounds. He was
not the cheapest among the final 3 but technical/psychometrics test with
interview results showed we have a winner/future leader. Rahul was
engaged and onboarded when He joined us we felt a sense of relief.
In Less than 4 months later he resigned citing lack of fitment to the profile given and the work he was doing. It’s a disaster!
Doing the ROI we’ve wasted so much time,
energy and money (Rs 8 Lacs not counting man hours put in for the search
/ interviews/test selection) only to have to do this again.
So what’s my point?
Because there was no follow up after the
initial phase of the hiring process, He felt ignored, which left him
wondering why should it take 72 days to be initial response that he is
shortlisted. He already shared this in his network – look at this from
employer branding POV.
And of course. The HR team at the
organization where the candidate applied to was probably overloaded with
work. But if they would’ve had something of an automated sequence or
AI-powered Tool in place to initiate this 1st engagement in one week max 10 days , the bad sentiment could have been avoided.
Secondly, the job description had its own
flawed approach Profile of the java developer became javascript
developer skewed, thereby he is overqualified for part of the profile
and under whelmed for the frontend developer part of the job profile.
Thirdly, the diversity and range of
candidates matching the profile is much wider because the subconscious
biases which creep in , can be arrested at the screening stage.
The result was wrong place and wrong job….A classic case of Talent Acquisition versus Recruiting
A macro vis a vis micro CVViZ, a recruitment software, arrests this
thing at a very early stage , even if one does a bit of trial and error
, apart from human eye. The AI based automation software shows you
where you are going wrong or right. The matching of the JD vis a vis
profiles which are with you can be corrected real time…I mean in seconds
not after weeks or months. Recruitment automation has become need of
the hour and use of artificial intelligence has made the job hiring
faster and effective.
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