The Anatomy of Candidate Experience That Gets Best Future Employees

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The Study of Candidate Experience That Gets Best
Future Employees
Candidate Experience is one of the most important
aspects of recruitment whether you work as an
agency recruiter or corporate recruiter. It is
very closely attached to the Employer branding
and goodwill of the organization. The best
reason for it is that now employees, both
current, and prospective are well connected and
informed. Moreover, social media has brought
about enormous changes in the environment.
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The biggest advantage of using Candidate Self
Service Portal is that you can get with the
current flow and mindset of candidates. These
days, candidates are becoming aware of the
process and the advantages they should
have. The demand is to create an emotional
connect and treating the employees more
respectfully. So the steps can be either
preventive or curative in nature. Preventive
steps will ensure that you give good experience
and treat recruitment drive as a sales process by
giving the best care to the customers. The
remedial steps will involve a Branding team and
PR machinery to help the brand to sustain. So
the whole process of candidate experience can be
tackled at five basic levels which are shown
below in the order of their flow. 1 External
Touch Points 2 Career Site Experience 3
Application Processing Steps 4 Interview and
Hiring 5 Onboarding Process
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We know that in the past the candidates were not
able to update their information after submitting
the application, you can now provide such
functionality to the candidates using
self-service portal so that they can quickly
update their information which results in saving
time and efforts as well. What a candidate can
do with the self-service portal? Self
Registration Candidate Self Service Portal
defines the functionality by its name. By using
Candidate Self Service Portal, your candidates
can do the self-registration. They can have their
own credentials and get access to the portal.
You can attract maximum candidates to do
the self-registration and those candidate records
will be automatically imported in the recruiting
or ATS software. In a way, your recruiting
software remains well aligned to your
self-service portal. Profile update Through
this stage, Candidate can update their profiles
and upload their latest resumes when they want.
This will help recruiters also in a matter of
time. This will also reduce some dependency on
recruiters side. It is always a tedious job for
the recruiter to update the old resumes the
system.
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Search for matching jobs If a candidate is
offered for searching the matching jobs on their
own, it will be more beneficial for everyone.
The Candidate Self Service Portal will allow
your candidates to search and apply for the job
they want. This also helps you in building repo
with your candidates.
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Application status The crucial pain area of any
recruiting process for a candidate is the
current status of their applications after
applying for any job. Through Candidate Self
Service Portal, your candidate will be able to
see the current status of their application as
the application runs ahead. If the application
got rejected, the applicant still got to know the
rejection status.
Interview Information This is one of the tasks
for recruiters to be done very precisely. It
happens sometimes while scheduling for an
interview, candidate forgot the details or they
could miss the interview. Self Service portal
will show the interview details to the
candidates too. This helps you in the
rescheduling of the interview also.
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GDPR Update If a candidate belongs to Europian
region, they will have the default consent
period for recruiters. Your candidate can update
the consent period and remove the consent also.
This will be the least time consuming and
effortless process at the end.
Automated Email As a candidate, you are willing
to have notification via mail on each and every
step during the recruiting process. Candidate
Self Service Portal
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has the automation that anytime candidate get any
update of their application status or get the
interview scheduled, he will get automated mail
about the details updates. Matching jobs This
is also a function of automation. This will
notify your candidate when any matching job
appears in the system. The candidate can view all
the matching jobs that are currently matching
with his skills and past submissions. The
candidate will have transparency throughout their
hiring. It will give your candidate a great
experience and satisfaction. This will help in
boosting your hiring efficiency and building
self-confidence too.