Successful Global Recruiting With The Help Of Slack

Candidates in today’s market expect a slick, seamless global recruiting experience.

This sets the tone for employee experience as well as building your employer brand. You can secure top talent before competitors with the right recruiting process, even in a tight job market. In fact, 74% of recruiters believe hiring will become more competitive this year.

Top-notch recruiting can be time-consuming and expensive. But when managed well, it can save you precious resources and free up time to focus on other strategic projects instead of tactical firefighting.

How Slack Can Help Boost Your Global Recruiting Efforts

Using Slack for global recruiting fixes many of these problems before they happen, so you can:

• Reduce the need for internal meetings, so everything happens faster
• Coordinate interview logistics far better than you can with phone calls or email
• Keep candidates in the loop, offer them a great recruiting experience and build your employer’s brand
• Reach the job-offer stage sooner, so you snap up that ideal candidate before your rivals do

Below are 5 ways you can recruit smarter with Slack:

Create A Channel Dedicated To Your Role

Create a private channel in Slack dedicated to each position you want to fill, and give it a name like #hiring-[job title]. Creating a private channel will let you have discreet conversations about the candidate-tracking process while allowing hiring managers and talent management to converse freely during global recruiting.

Pin the job listing to your channel and add the lead recruiter and deadlines to the channel purpose. Invite everyone who needs to be involved to the channel. That can include external recruiters if you want—but keep it secure and apply restrictions for guest access.

Your position channel will allow you to:

• Align on and finalise job requirements
• Assign tasks and set reminders
• Share information about the position and the recruiting strategy, including interview notes and feedback
• Share candidate sourcing lists and promising candidates
• Easily manage internal referrals
• Collate external referrals from channels like LinkedIn
• Easily pull in the right people, with context, for sensitive discussions about individual candidates
• Create an audit trail for the hire with no extra effort

Find Important Information Faster And Candidates In The Loop

The global recruiting process generates many documents, in many different formats and locations—job specs, ads, résumés, application letters, evaluation sheets and more. So it can be hard to find the document you need at the moment you need it.

Slack gives you the ability to collect important documents in one place. You can pin important documents or posts to your channel, and you’ll never lose them again.

Additionally, candidates hate being left hanging with little to no communication about where they stand in the interview process. With quick access to information, you can make sure you keep them in the loop.

Coordinate Interviews And Feedback

Instead of playing endless “calendar Tetris” with multiple interviewers during global recruiting, use your channel to get a quick agreement on dates and times.

Once the schedule is set, use Slack’s remind feature to remind everyone of upcoming events—interviews, feedback or other action items. When the time comes, Slackbot will give them a nudge.

Get Recruitment Updates 

App integration allows you to bring together multiple apps in Slack, so you spend less time switching between native desktop applications or opening tabs on a browser and more time being productive.

With Greenhouse’s Slack integration, you can configure recruiting notifications to be sent directly to users or a specific Slack channel. Those notifications include approvals, new candidates, new referrals, agency submissions and scorecards due. This reduces clutter in your inbox because Greenhouse uses email for notifications otherwise.

Track Candidates Right Until Hiring

A single candidate’s journey takes many twists and turns, so it pays to keep track at every stage during global recruiting. One way to do this is with a candidate-specific channel during the interview stage, you can call it interview-[candidate name]. Create one for each person you’re interviewing, and make sure it’s private to protect the candidate’s privacy.

Pin the candidate’s résumé to the top of the channel. Then use your candidate channel to schedule his or her onsite interview and debrief afterwards.

Final Thoughts

A better recruiting process leads to better outcomes in global recruiting. It helps you manage end-to-end recruitment processes from a central hub, bring stakeholders together and make information easily available for better decision making. Ultimately, it helps you grow your workforce the right way. You can also integrate your award-winning hiring platform into Slack for a smoother recruiting experience!

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