How-to build a kick-ass recruiting engine

Daniel Chait, CEO, Greenhouse.iotwitter: @dhchait | @greenhouse

Introduction

About Me & Greenhouse…

Greenhouse is the platform built to optimize your entire

recruiting process. !

Find better candidates, conduct more focused interviews, evidence-based decisions.

Some of our customers…

What you’ll learn today…

How-to build a pipeline of great candidates

Kick your addiction to staffing agencies

Hire the people that have the right skills AND are culture fit

How-to make faster, more confident decisions about who to hire

Scaleable RecruitingA how-to guide.

Recruiting is two things:

Sourcing Interviewing

Sourcing Interviewing

Recruiting is two things:

Where you screw up and reach the wrong people

Sourcing Interviewing

Recruiting is two things:

Where you screw up and hire the wrong people

Sourcing

How it usually works:!Folklore and habit.

There’s a better way…

Plan and set goals

Design and scale a pipeline

Use data to make

decisionsIterate and optimize

Scalable sourcing:

Sourcing

• Use a large set of channels !• Attribute candidate flow !• Measure the impact of each

channel (quality + quantity) !• Adjust message/approach to

improve results over time

Comprehensive sourcing

Sourcing plan…

Source attribution and quality

Recruitment marketing campaigns

Interviewing

How it usually works:!Folklore and habit.

Why you need an interview plan

Interviewing

Structured interviewing

• Same interviews for every candidate

!• Each interview has a

clear focus !• Collect structured,

written feedback

Same interviews for every candidate

Every interview has a clear purpose

Every interview has a clear purpose

Data-driven decisions

How do you know what questions to ask?

How-to interview, and when…

Tests

Early

Skills

Personality Traits ReferencesBehavioral !Interviews

Prescreen

Late

Summary

Some key take-aways

Comprehensive Sourcing:!• Fill your pipeline with great candidates!• Kick your addiction to staffing agencies!!

Structured Interviewing:!• Reliably hire people who have the right skills

AND fit your culture!• Make faster & more confident decisions about

who to hire

Thank you!! Learn more at www.greenhouse.io

twitter: @dhchait | @greenhouse