How to Hire the Wrong Talent. 9 steps to help you breeze
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How to Hire the Wrong Talent
1. 9 steps to help you breeze
through the recruitment
process without a care.
How to Hire the Right Talent
Wrong
2. Source: Mystery Applicant, StartWire and CandEs
of candidates have some relationship
with a company prior to applying.49
Wrong Step 1:
Look at hiring as
a transaction,
not a relationship.
3. Source: Mystery Applicant, StartWire and CandEs
of candidates would stop buying from companies
that give them bad hiring experiences.25
Wrong Step 2:
Ignore your candidates’
experience. It’s not like
they’re customers.
4. Source: Bersin
Candidate pool development is the NO. 2 driver
to high-impact talent aquisition.
Wrong Step 3:
Don’t develop a candidate
pipeline. Wing it when a
job opens.
5. Wrong Step 4:
Only post jobs on your
career site. Social media is
for cat videos.
Source: Glassdoor
of candidates are likely to use
social media in their job search.79
6. Source: Potential Park
of candidates drop off due to
complicated application processes.48
Wrong Step 5:
Never mind candidate drop-offs. If
they can’t figure out your site, who
needs them?
7. Wrong Step 6:
Kick it old-school.
Mobile recruitment is a fad.
Hiring
Techniques
from the
Middle Ages
Part I
Source: Smarter Workforce Institute Research:
Mobilize to Realize
of job-seekers use mobile
devices in their searches.
74
8. Wrong Step 7:
Why bother testing for
candidate fit?
Go with your gut.
Source: HBR
of turnover is due to bad hiring decisions.
80
9. of job applicants say a negative
interview changed their minds about
a company they previously liked.
83
Wrong Step 8:
Ask
irrelevant
interview
questions.
If you were to get rid
of one state in the
U.S., which would it
be and why?
Is your grade-school
GPA reflective of your
potential?
Are you a
Scorpio?
Source: LinkedIn 2015 GlobalTalent Trends Report
10. of new employees plan to leave when
they feel unsupported.67 Source: Smarter Workforce Institute WorkTrends Report
Wrong Step 9:
Take a sink-or-swim
approach to onboarding.
11. Hire talent the right way.
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