Digitalization is rapidly changing
the recruitment industry. An increasingly larger part of the selection process
in done online. From video-pitching to on-line games for skill assessment, the
recruitment tech market is booming business.
The advantages are obvious: a
faster, cheaper and more efficient selection process. I have been working
heavily on optimizing my way of working: I implemented a chat bot that allows
you to quickly get a response to any question that you may have with regards to
the job description. I started using Cammio, a video interviewing platform that
allows me to record the video interview but also allows candidates to send me
short videos about themselves. I even started using a calendar tool to
facilitate the interview scheduling process. And yes, it made the process faster
and smoother.
But it also revealed a more
surprising advantage: it allows me to make a more informed decision about who
is the right candidate. The use of
technology reveals different aspects of your personality, that I might not
discover during an interview.
Let’s take video-pitching. For most
of use, recording a video about who we are is way out of our comfort zone (I
know that it is for me) but the fact that you are able to show the person
behind the cv may outweigh the fear. People who grab that opportunity will immediately
indicate that they are open and willing to take some risks to reach their goal.
The same goes for
video-interviewing: you’d be surprised how much you actually divulge before
even starting to talk. It already starts at the very beginning: have you tested
the system prior to the call? What do you do if technology fails: do you
quickly discover the chat functionality and ask me for some assistance or will
you retry on your own? If all else fails, will you immediately call me or will
you just send me an e-mail? All these little actions will tell me a lot more
than words can say.
The chat bot reveals the curious
and pro-active nature of a candidate. Some use it to stand out from the crowd
while others simply push the button to see where it takes them. Things that
would never have found out from reading your cv.
Will technology in the end rule out
the human connection? Not at all, at the
end of a process, a personal contact between the hiring manager and the future
employee will remain crucial to assess chemistry, feel body language and to
genuinely ‘meet’ a person. But technology might help us in better assessing a
candidate if we are prepared to look beyond the obvious.
I look forward to hearing from you
Isabel
Through a personalized and
tailor-made approach, Ingenium Executive Search aspires to assist you in attracting
the right talent that matches the DNA of your company
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