2. Recruiters
• Deal with more volume than
ever before
• Have less patience with
unqualified candidates
• Work in the age of big data,
where they are asked to
track performance
Candidates
• Face greater competition
• Have shorter attention span
• Have more job board and
social media options
• Expect regular feedback
Hiring Managers
• Face with higher employee
turnover
• Asked to do more
interviews every year
Recruitment is under pressure to transform
3. Many companies are trying to help you meet the new expectations
As of November 2015
4. Attract
Engage
Select
Onboard
Measure
Cost
Quantity
Time
Quality
• Reporting and analytics
• Welcome portal
• Virtual orientation
• Learning acceleration
• Electronic forms
• Mobile & social
• Integration with HRIS
• Branding (visuals, videos)
• Marketing campaigns
• Search engine
• Social sourcing
• Smart job publishing
(career page, job boards,
agency, event)
• Referrals
• Job & candidate data
• Resume screening
• Selection pipeline
• Online assessments
• Automated interviews
• Interview coordination
• Approvals & offers
• Career site optimization
• Mobile engagement
• Job matching
• Correspondences
• Talent community
(critical skill, alumni)
Navigating this space with a holistic talent acquisition framework
6. Thinking like a marketer: campaign vs. procedure
Outbound marketing
Directly reach out to potential
candidates (i.e. ad postings)
Inbound marketing
Creating content on social media that
draws candidates to your company
• One-click job posting
distribution
• Search engine optimization
• Email / LinkedIn outreach
• Online to offline tools to
optimize event conversion
• Career site employer branding
• Content management for
specific target audience
• Digital marketing campaigns to
drive conversion
• Offer alumni / talent
communities with referral/
employment opportunities
10. Click “Apply”
Data privacy
disclaimer
Create new
account
Fill in info
Disqualifying
questions
Attach CV
Fill in work
info
Fill in
education
Attach
supplementary
document
Review
application
One more
disclaimer!
Gender, age
and race
Thank you for
applying
Application
received
Two hours later
“I need a beer…”
“I’m so pumped
for this job!”
Typical online job application process has more than 10 steps
15. Be mobile-friendly
Accept online
profiles
Be human and
interesting
Provide timely
feedback
Hide the apply
button
Create new account
and password
Repeat information
Take more info than
required
Whattothrivefor
Whattoavoid
Quick tips on upgrading the online application experience
17. Does it work?
Sometimes, depending the sophistication of the
algorithm and data supporting the technology:
• Resume parsing – extract key information, such as
job titles, past companies, years of experience,
degree, contact information
• Basic keywords – compare word count of skills-
related key words
• Customize algorithm – extract keywords from high
performers’ CVs and compare the relevancy with
candidate CVs.
Limitations: languages, formatting, pdf
The voodoo behind resume screening
Source: https://www.jobscan.co
18. Putting the right assessments in place
Source: Booking.com “The route to getting hired”
Process application faster with
automated initial stage assessments
and phone interviews
Coaching and feedback should reflect
candidate’s time investment
19. Taking the pain out of coordinating team interviews
Greenhouse.io has a neat interview kit set up including
questions, job details, resume and scorecard all in one
SuccessFactors has a robust competency-based team
feedback form that can be used on mobile
Gild has a auto-interview scheduling, which matches
interviewer and candidate availability
Lever has a automated feedback reminders, that prompts
interviewers to complete after an interview
23. Attract Engage Select Onboard
To measure and track, we start by asking the right questions
TIME – Are we filing
positions in a timely
manner?
• Recruitment cycle time
• % of interviews lead to
hire
• Reduction in manual
processes
• Increase in RPO solutions?
QUANTITY – What is
the average size of
our applicant pool for
each job opening?
• # of hire per recruiters
• % of candidate hired
• % of candidates
receiving feedback
• % of bounce rate in
career site
COST – What is the ROI
of each campaign to
reach our target
audience?
• Search engine result
• # of views for ads
• # of career site visit
• Size of company’s
network on social media
QUALITY – Which
recruiting sources
produce the most
successful candidates?
• % of top performers
• % of poor performers
• Employee turnover
24. Reporting available in most ATS/CRM
Integration to HRIS
(i.e. workforce /
performance)
Real time dashboards
for key metrics
(Recruiters and
management)
Scheduled standard
reports
(i.e. candidate pipeline,
time to hire, cost to hire,
source)
Create custom
reports, such as
recruiter efficiency
Recruiters
Easy database extraction
of jobs, candidates and
team feedback
Source: SuccessFactors
25. Where do I start?
What is my core
need and current
technology
landscape?
What are my
competitors
using? Will this
give me an edge?
How much
flexibility do I
have to try things
out?
Am I really to own
up to this subject,
even on IT and
procurement?
26. Questions asked by savvy HR tech buyers?
• What is the business challenge I’m facing today?
• Breaking down your process: what are my must haves (70%) and good to haves (30%)?
• Where can I get some real customer references? Any unpleasant surprises?
• What are your unique features? Show me.
• Will they guide me through the implementation and support me beyond? In-house or through a partner?
• What is the pricing model? Are there any hidden costs?
• What is the vendor’s customer support, product roadmap, and even financial health?
• What is my current technology landscape? Integration with HRIS? What about data migration?
27. Tell us what you think!
Max_Armbruster@rollingarrays.com
Country Director, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Colette_Leung@rollingarrays.com
Principal Consultant
Editor's Notes
How it was 10 years ago, compared to now
No wonder we are so overwhelmed – They promise so much and they have all these confusing name
Let us try to dive into that space with different lenses. That’s reframe talent acquisition in terms of our own processes – Attract, Engage, Select, and Onboard, before we look into which ones can be automated by technology.
Attract: before the candidate hits apply, how are we reaching out to them?
Engage: Once they decided to apply, how easy it is for them find the job description and submit their information?
Select: Now with candidates in the pipeline, how are we qualifying them efficiently through assessments and interviews?
Onboard: More and more companies are investing in ways to delight their staff and smooth their transition into the new company. How is this enhanced with technology?
Measure: We live in the world of big data and there will be reports and analysis that you need to measure your performance against, whether it’s Cost of marketing and their ROI, the number of applications you actually get, time to hire and the actual quality of the new hires tracking their performance 3 months, 6 months to a year from now.
- Traditional ATS only focused on the SELECT and maybe a bit of engage, but the scope has really expanded beyond.
Employee value proposition, candidate experience, a lot of marketing concepts are entering the HR world. So we got to start using their terms.
Marketing effort has to be razor sharp, because you can cast a much wider net for social media.
Anyone who has completed graduate job applications can relate to this experience
One question to ask is, do we really need all of this information?
Quite like this one, under 3 clicks
But there are some companies, especially the big 4s, that makes you look through a few things before you find the “real“ apply button
Depending on the job, not everyone wants to apply directly on mobile, because they don’t have a CV on their phones, but it helps to be able to save the link and apply later, or apply with linkedin
Do we really need all that repeated information? Cut out account creation.
35% of applicants drop off
Bounce rate
Manual -> streamline -> automate
Negative candidate experience – 65% who don’t hear back from the interview, less likely to buy from your organization
80% use mobile at some point
“iCIMS also scores applicants based on skills matching and presents them in order of their score.”
Launchpad – Microsoft / Arytza (6 to 7 questions, 30 min to think, 2 min to answer) / diagio (drink) – supply chain
Hirevue – Accenture – did it to go to an event
Negative candidate experience – 58% who don’t hear back, less likely to buy
65% who don’t hear back from the interview, less likely to buy from your organization
Interview kit
Calendar coordination
Feedback reminders
Competency-based team feedback form – Shell: Capacity, Achievement, Relationship (based on this feedback, recruiter gives lengthy feedback on graduate candidates’s strength / weaknesses”
Element of surprise: Personalized message. Video welcome (that’s authentic, not reused)
- Personalized notebook