Halloween Special: 13 Spooky Talent Acquisition Horrors

Sometimes, talent acquisition is no different from a haunted house. It can be dark, gloomy, and full of terrors.
After the rough year recruiters experienced last year, ghosts or ghouls will have a hard time giving us a fright this Halloween. From remote recruitment terrors, job posting nightmares, to brushing off cobwebs in hiring pipelines – we’ve seen it all.

But don’t hide beneath the blankets just yet.

While these talent acquisition horrors are not your average Halloween movies – they’re no less terrifying for anyone associated in HR.

Here, we give you your horror fix with some spooky talent acquisition horrors that still haunt many recruiters (who haven’t leveraged a hiring platform yet!)

Read on, if you dare!

When all your candidates turn up at the same time

When candidates don’t show up prepared for the video interview

When you’ve got to fill an urgent role by tomorrow

When job posting turns into a headache

When you have to chase down top talent

When your job descriptions don’t really match the requirements

When you’re haunted by Excel spreadsheets

When there aren’t enough hours in the day

When a competitor nabs your perfect candidate

When you get that one candidate who won’t stop calling

And the candidate who ghosted you….

When the team is extremely agitated and under pressure

And you have to do everything all over again

 

Bottom line

Do you recognize or relate to any of these talent acquisition horrors? We’re pretty sure you even have a few more to share!
Talent acquisition can be a real nightmare sometimes. Especially when you don’t have the right tools, resources, and technology.
And if that’s the case, then you probably need an extra hand. Why not leverage a hiring platform to rid you of all your spooky talent acquisition challenges?
An end-to-end hiring platform like EVA-REC can help you avoid ghosting top talent, eliminate job posting nightmares, brush off the cobwebs in pipelines, discharge the sourcing skeletons, and helps you become the house that everyone wants to knock at. And by that, we mean top talent!

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