My daughter graduates this year.
As a parent, it is scary seeing your kids grow into an uncertain, more polarised world, and an increasingly tricky job market with long-winded interview processes and assessments. Competition and frustrations are high.
At times its felt like she is applying to lead the International Monetary Fund, or lead peace talks between 2 countries.
At all points, I have just wished an employer would pick up the phone and speak to her.
A lack of actual interpersonal communication in the modern-day recruitment process is a concern.
Where there was once a quick initial call, now we are overtaken by AI reading a CV, online tests and assessments. All before you speak to someone about the role.
Several clients we work with have very simple recruitment processes that, so far, have worked tremendously.
They may not be perfect. They are not 100% successful, but pretty damn close.
So what’s the secret to a successful interview process?
We often supply our clients with a CV, our summary of the candidate, and ask the candidate to submit their relevance to a job spec in a paragraph or two. 10-15 minutes max.
The client will then decide, including our thoughts on the person. More often than not, it results in a quick call/teams. 30 minutes. If we like the person and feel they are right, they trust us!
Working closely with clients, we can often hit the person spec, so it can come down to the depth of technical skills.
Our most successful hiring clients don’t ask for written tech tests, but do/will have a 2nd more technical interview.
An outcome will then follow quickly.
OK, occasionally there can be one more chat to meet x or Y, but no more than 3 quicker interviews.
No psychometric testing. No, build me an X using Y and Z.
Good old-fashioned Q and A.
Are we losing sight of hiring the person over how well they do in a test?
