According to statistics, employers everywhere are using more complex convoluted processes than ever to identify the people they want to hire.

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Recruitment Consultant Tips: How To
Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process

3. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
According to statistics, employers everywhere are
using more complex convoluted processes than
ever to identify the people they want to hire.
I am sure as a recruitment consultant you know this
anyway.
As a help we have listed down a few examples of
the process that many companies go through.

4. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
This is useful information for recruiters who need to
manage the frustrations of the candidates they are
placing who may get
disheartened at the
long process that can
be involved in getting
that new role.

5. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
By having this knowledge at your fingertips it is
then easier to explain to candidates the whys and
wherefores of how the recruitment process works
in 2013 and beyond.

6. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
In the UK, the number of interview stages a
candidate has to go through has risen
substantially over the past few years, with
research by Ranstad showing that where a junior
role would have had an average 1.6 stage
interview process just five years ago, the average
is now 2.4.
Candidates looking for senior roles would now
have to make it through 3.4 interviews, compared
with 2.4 half a decade ago.

7. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
Across the Atlantic, stories of US companies
routinely putting candidates through
eight or nine interviews
is becoming the norm.
As a result the average
time it takes to complete
the interview process in
America stands at 23 days;
often longer.

8. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
For the candidate, it can be a frustrating to have to
attend several interviews, and can be hard to
organize for them especially if they are still
working at their current job while trying to get a
new one.
If they don’t get the job, it can feel like a lot of
wasted hours and travel. As a recruiter you need
to be aware how the candidate perceives this
process.

9. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
Generally as recruitment consultants we might
not have totally thick skin!
And yet we understand
the ups and downs and
importantly know how
to handle it. Often the
candidates we work with don’t.

10. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
As far as everybody involved is concerned, these
long interview processes are not ideal.
They take up a huge amount of the hiring
company’s time and financial and man power
resources.
Of course, the reasons why they exist are
because companies care about getting the best
and most well matched people on board.

11. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
The process often becomes long when the hiring
company researches
and assesses individual
candidates at various
stages along the
interview process.

12. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
The challenge for many companies is finding a
balance between making well informed hiring
decisions all stakeholders are comfortable with,
and avoiding expensive and frustrating processes.
There is no ideal “one size fits all” interview
process, because different roles and different
company cultures all demand different things.

13. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
Some roles can be hired effectively with interviews
only being carried out by senior management,
whereas more technical
roles can often require
a peer interview and/or
test to ensure that
the sector technical
skills required are at
the right standard to plug into the team.

14. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
Some companies like all hires above a certain
level to be approved following an interview with
each of the directors, whereas others don’t find
this necessary or appropriate.
As a professional recruitment consultant how you
help your candidates through this process in
important for your credibility. The first step is to
find out the exact process your clients use within
their organisation.

15. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
I know that can change and yet make sure you
have it to hand, especially if you are a
new recruiter in your current
company and have never
worked with this client at all.
Of course ask the other consultants
on your team, though don’t rely on this.

16. How To Handle Your Candidates and A Long
Interview Process
As a tip contact the client and get the full brief and
process.
This puts you in a strong position with them and
also helps you prepare the candidate for what is
coming.
Do this on a consistent basis and you will soon
stand out to both candidates and clients.

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