9 steps to help you breeze through the recruitment process without a care.

How to Hire the Right Talent

Wrong

Source: Mystery Applicant, StartWire and CandEs

of candidates have some relationship with a company prior to applying.49

Wrong Step 1:Look at hiring asa transaction,not a relationship.

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.

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.

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

Source: Potential Park

of candidates drop off due tocomplicated application processes. 48

Wrong Step 5:Never mind candidate drop-offs. If they can’t figure out your site, who needs them?

Wrong Step 6:Kick it old-school.Mobile recruitment is a fad.

Hiring Techniques

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Source: Smarter Workforce Institute Research:Mobilize to Realize

of job-seekers use mobile devices in their searches.

74

Wrong Step 7:Why bother testing for candidate fit? Go with your gut.

Source: HBR

of turnover is due to bad hiring decisions. 80

of job applicants say a negative interview changed their minds about a company they previously liked.

83

Wrong Step 8:Askirrelevant interviewquestions.

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

of new employees plan to leave when they feel unsupported.67Source: Smarter Workforce Institute WorkTrends Report

Wrong Step 9:Take a sink-or-swim approach to onboarding.

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