How ApplicantStack Can Improve Quality-of-Hire
The article explains how ApplicantStack enhances quality-of-hire by enabling employers to attract and manage non-traditional employees through features like creating a talent pipeline, adapting job requirements to include flexible and remote work options, and encouraging diversity to improve revenue and reduce turnover in a competitive job market.
Accommodate Non-traditional Employees
Seek non-traditional employees and offer non-traditional working arrangements. These include flexible schedules, remote working, freelance and contract positions, and non-linear career paths.
Expanding your pool of potential applicants reliably improves the quality of hire. In addition, increasing diversity can boost revenue and minimize turnover. With unemployment at a 17-year low, employers that don’t adapt their recruiting practices will fall behind.
8 Tips For Attracting Non-traditional Employees With ApplicantStack
1. Create a Talent Pipeline
If you start from scratch every time you need to hire, you are at a disadvantage. Companies with established relationships with a pool of candidates have a head start.
ApplicantStack helps you create a talent pipeline. Every time you post a job, the applications flow into ApplicantStack—regardless of where the applicant found your posting. ApplicantStack saves the applicant profiles, creating a database that serves as your talent pipeline. These candidates have already shown interest in your company.
Engage with your passive candidates regularly to increase the odds that they will apply for future positions.
Utilize the candidate profiles in ApplicantStack to record all pertinent information about the person, including work preferences such as a desire for a flexible schedule, contract employment, or telecommuting. Document all work experience, even if the experience isn’t directly related to the job applied for.
2. Adapt Job Requirements
Traditional job requirements can filter out candidates who could succeed if given the chance, such as applicants with resume gaps, those who need a flexible schedule, or candidates who want to work offsite.
ApplicantStack helps you screen non-traditional applicants. Modify job descriptions to attract a wider pool and adapt qualifications if possible.
3. Forget Cultural Fit
Consider removing ‘cultural fit’ as one of your hiring criteria. Non-traditional employees might not fit the conventional mold.
4. Non-Traditional Job Descriptions
Craft your descriptions to attract non-traditional job seekers, or they won’t apply. You can have separate descriptions customized for niche job boards to bring a diverse pool into the hiring funnel.
5. Improve Candidate Filtering
ApplicantStack lets you create questionnaires to attract a diverse talent pool. Revisit your knockout questions to allow more applicants to pass the first filter.
6. Update Your Employer Brand
Non-traditional applicants need to understand that you are welcoming to all types of team members. Advertise work/life balance perks in your recruitment marketing. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATSs) manage recruitment communications and help you convey inclusivity.
7. Adapt Onboarding
Adapt your onboarding practices to help all new hires succeed, regardless of employee type, work schedule, or work environment. Teach remote workers and contractors how to collaborate virtually, and teach conventional workers to collaborate with non-standard employees.
8. Provide an Advanced Candidate Experience
If you are trying to attract tech-savvy freelancers or contractors, using modern hiring software is essential. Make your websites mobile-friendly, communicate with texts if the candidate prefers, and use video interviewing for job candidates outside of your geographic area.
If you are already using Swipeclock TimeWorksPlus, consider adding ApplicantStack to improve your recruiting operations.
Swipeclock offers WorkforceHub, a unified Human Resources portal that makes it easy to optimize the performance of your managers, employees, and organization. WorkforceHub includes TimeWorksPlus, TimeSimplicity, TimeWorks Mobile, and ApplicantStack. Recruitment, onboarding, benefits enrollment, performance reviews, and employee engagement are included. WorkforceHub is designed for busy employers who need to reduce cost-per-hire, streamline scheduling, automate time tracking, maintain regulatory compliance, and reduce labor costs.
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