How to Incorporate a Data-Driven Recruitment Process?

Why is data important in selecting the best candidates?

Recruiters across small-, medium-, and large-scale corporations have never done as much digital hiring as they do today. With a wealth of software and analytic tools, such as Talegent’s solutions, available on the market, recruiters are continually discovering new ways to enhance their recruitment strategy and expedite hiring processes through digital data and data-driven recruitment.

Hiring managers, as captains of their respective ships, often juggle multiple daily responsibilities in addition to recruiting top talent. This is where third-party or in-house recruitment strategy solutions come into play. Companies may partner with recruitment agencies to provide synthesized, efficient data for a more accurate, cost-effective job search. Alternatively, they may rely on a dedicated recruitment team that collaborates with managers, using tailored recruitment strategies to assess candidates effectively.

Digital tools empower hiring managers to make more objective hiring decisions, integrating recruitment strategy into every step. By analyzing data from applicants’ cognitive or skills tests—designed to simulate aspects of the role—and conducting structured interviews, managers can base decisions on comprehensive data. While traditional recruitment relied heavily on intuition, digital assessments provide recruiters with accurate insights into candidates' potential performance, refining their recruitment strategy by blending modern tools with tried-and-true evaluation methods.

Here’s a guide on how to incorporate and embrace data in your recruitment process:

1. Streamline your hiring process by selecting the right data and using key recruiting metrics. Hiring teams benefit from a standard process of data collection.

The best option you and your team can start is identifying what things are universally key to succeeding at your organisation, or in the specific roles you are recruiting for. All companies aim to measure the effectiveness of their hiring processes, however, not all companies are easily able to measure recruitment impact. That’s why it’s important to communicate between the recruiter and the hiring manager often. Ask questions on how they can help you with the hiring process, from crafting accurate job postings to screening the most qualified candidates before moving on to interviewing.

2. Invest in new methods of data acquisition through applicant tracking software tools. 

Ideally, all companies are determined to measure the effectiveness of their hiring processes. However, not all human resources departments were developed equally as they find measuring recruitment impact difficult, which data managers care most about. That’s why it’s important to communicate with them often. Ask questions on how they can help you with the hiring process, from crafting accurate job postings to screening the most qualified candidates before moving on to interviewing.

3. Use the data efficiently from pipelining, screening, interviews, down to the job offer.

Make sure to utilise any data you are receiving during the recruiting process, whether it is candidate performance or candidate feedback. Not only does this data help you hire the best candidate, but it can also help your team significantly to onboard new hires and create development plans for employees.

4. Know the limitations of your data and learn from mistakes to make a better hiring strategy in the future.

Using candidate feedback data from your recruiting process can significantly help your team identify where to spend more time and energy in the areas that you still have to work on to further ease your hiring process. Without insights taken from actual quantifiable data, your hiring team may find it difficult to see the challenges and opportunities to simplify and optimise your process in finding the right individuals for your organisation.

While you can always rely on data to objectively hire the most qualified candidate, know that these tools and systems are here to help you decide. With data-driven recruitment, at the end of the day, you choose what to do with that knowledge at your discretion.

This article  first appeared on Talegent website:

https://talegent.com/blog/incorporating-data-driven-recruitment/

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