Optimize hiring at Christmas

Christmas is a season in which various business sectors need extra workers quickly. However, hiring processes can become a problem.

We know that December is a month to go full steam ahead, since there are thousands of steps and processes that need to be carried out.

For them, we leave you some tips to optimize your hiring:

How long does it take to complete a selection process?

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On average, hiring processes usually take between 20 and 30 days, according to a global study by Glassdoor, with India taking the least time (16.1 days), and Brazil taking the lead with an average of 39.6 days.

However, there are sectors that can take even longer, due to the problems they face in finding the right talent.

But during the Christmas season, companies cannot afford “the luxury” of extending their selection.

To do this, they must approach their hiring processes with tools that streamline them without neglecting the candidate's experience. Keep in mind that a negative experience generates a bad image for the brand.

What is an ATS?

ATS are a great solution to lack of time, the perfect option for improving hiring processes and the need to reduce recruitment and selection costs.

If you have a company with at least 50 employees, you should already be thinking about this option.

These software allow you to automate the different phases of the selection that take hours, such as reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, sending emails or discarding candidates.

What benefits does an ATS offer?

1. With an ATS, you can view all your selection processes and organize them so that you are in control of each of the candidates who have applied for one or more positions.

This way you will know who they are, their origin, their level of education, work experience, and others.

2. And you won't have to leave candidates out! These recruitment software eliminate geographical barriers. Therefore, if your business is international, you can open a process wherever you require it. Everything will be in the ATS.

3. Goodbye biases, the ATS evaluates all candidates equally, leaving behind those unconscious biases that are inevitable in human beings. Giving the same opportunity to all candidates, and executing a totally objective selection.

In short, these are evaluations that provide a fast, attractive, agile experience and maintain a high degree of validity.

What causes a bad hire?

There are still many companies that continue to base their hiring processes on data lacking objectivity, such as the candidates' networks, the university where they studied and even their physicist, which do not have scientific support to predict work performance.

The problem?

A bad hire can be very expensive (literally): a wrong decision can cost, on average, about €12,000, according to CareerBuilder. In addition to providing less productivity and commitment or a resignation in the short term.

No matter how much time there is during the holiday season, personalizing the hiring process is key to your employer brand. An ATS should facilitate customization.

Even if it's a short-term job, remember that the employees you hire will also be representing the company. Meanwhile, with an ATS you can keep candidates informed of the progress of the process.

What must the ATS provide?

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Recruiting software must be comprehensive. That includes having the option to do video interviews. Thus, the candidate will “self-record” and free the selection team from having to be on the other side. They are a good filter before conducting direct interviews.

As we said: don't forget that behind every application, there is someone waiting to get feedback. Such a tool must also be able to store and display evaluation results to candidates. That includes those you discard.

It's a way to help them improve and learn about their abilities! And by the way, he'll speak highly of your brand.

The automation provided by an ATS also reduces the costs involved in the process (recruiters' salaries, advertising, administrative tasks for which you need to hire someone extra, etc.).

Christmas campaign, hiring process, temporary work, lack of time, candidates waiting, none of this should burden you in December or any other month.

Technology, artificial intelligence and an ATS are the key to the present and future of Human Resources.

Automate the most tedious tasks in the selection processes and improve the experience of your candidates, incorporating an ATS 😉 into your team

Merry Christmas!