As a hiring manager, you’re tasked with finding the best possible candidates who will make a great fit for your open positions, as well as your workplace culture. You also have another job during the interview process: maintaining a positive employer brand. By providing a great candidate experience, you can strengthen the image of your organization as an employer, which will attract the right kind of talent — and ultimately make your job easier.
The interview process can be stressful on both sides of the table. These tips will help you conduct thorough, professional, and effective interviews that give you the information you need to make smart hiring decisions, while developing a positive employer brand.
Interviewing relaxed candidates can also help to alleviate some of the stress for you. Put candidates at ease by ensuring each candidate is greeted by someone within the company, and escorted to the interview location, if necessary. Have a few low-key questions prepared to help both of you ease into the interview.
While first impressions can be important, try to withhold snap judgment on candidates early in the interview. There are a number of reasons a candidate might make a poor first impression — but you may discover they’re more impressive than they seem once you’ve had a chance to evaluate them more thoroughly.
Of course, you’ll have the interview questions you plan to ask the candidate prepared ahead of time, but there are a few other things you should plan for as well. Keep these strategies in mind as you question candidates:
The end of the interview is a good time to both reassure candidates and strengthen your brand as an employer by letting candidates know what to expect from this point. One of the biggest problems many job-seekers have with the interview process is a lack of follow-up, which often results from failure to communicate expectations.
Make it clear what the next steps will be — give candidates an approximate time frame for when you’ll make the final hiring decision, and invite them to keep in touch where appropriate. If a candidate is not a good fit, you should still end the interview on a positive and genuine note.
With a bit of extra preparation, you can make your interview process a smoother and more improved experience for both yourself and your job candidates.
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