You’re looking to fill a critical technology role in your company and you need to move fast. The problem is, your traditional interview process just isn’t cutting it. You’re losing out on great candidates because of the slow pace.
In this blog post, we’ll give you some tips for fast-tracking your technology hiring process. We’ll show you how to identify top talent and make the best decisions for your business.
The Reasons Your Interview Process Is Costing You Candidates
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether your department is able to bring in hundreds of qualified candidates if none of them stick around through the interview process. Even though unemployment for developers is below 2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics still estimates there will be a shortage of technical talent exceeding 1.2 million by the year 2026.
Hiring the right employees when you can find them is crucial to competing in a sparse talent market. One of the main reasons applicants don’t stick around is due to a lengthy and cumbersome interview process.
You don’t want your process to take long because candidates are applying and conducting interviews with other employers as well. According to Glassdoor, a typical job interview process should only take about 23.8 days in the U.S.
While you can go through each step of your candidate interview process to break it down, there are several key elements to focus on to make it more efficient.
Tips To Improve Your Technical Interview Process
Several factors can dramatically improve the time it takes to complete your interview process. Below is how you can decrease the time it takes to bring on highly qualified applicants to your team.
Keep Open Interview Hours
Have a meeting with your current technical hiring team and emphasize the importance of being available for interviews. Encourage the team to keep open interview hours every week during the hiring process.
By scheduling interviews quickly and making them a priority, you keep your hiring process moving along and remove availability as a bottleneck. If you can move candidates through multiple interviews in one week, you significantly decrease the time it takes to make a decision.
Practice Consistent Communication
More information being passed along to your team will help them make quicker decisions in real time. Make sure your team knows the end goal of each interview, rates each candidate, and what candidates would find most attractive about your company.
Also, provide timely feedback to candidates. If they need more information or if you’re extending an offer, let them know as soon as possible so there are no delays in your process.
Minimize Interview Rounds
The quicker your process overall, the higher likelihood you won’t lose your candidate to another employer. Having multiple interview rounds is one of the main reasons for an interview process taking too long.
Consider moving to a panel-type interview process where multiple technical leads join the same call. You can still talk about the expectations of the job and give the candidate a chance to interview your team and learn more about the position.
Restructuring Your Technical Interview Process
Finding and onboarding tech candidates is becoming increasingly important for companies that want to compete in the future. A major tech talent shortage will continue and in order to have an advantage over competitors, you need to be fast and efficient.
A great staffing company, especially one that specializes like Mitchell Martin, can help you increase your hiring efficiency and ensure the best candidates for your open positions. They can also help guide you on salary trends and market conditions and give you advice on promoting yourself and your company.
Whether you choose to work with an agency or use your in-house team, the right approach to hiring will ultimately save you time and money and get you the best tech talent.
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