To improve talent retention rate and reduce the likelihood of bad hires, new employees need to be a good fit for your team and expectations. To ensure this is achieved many organisations adopt an HR strategy know as collaborative hiring.
Collaborative hiring is best described as team-based recruitment. As the name suggests, it involves HR and other department teams working closely together throughout the recruitment process.
It’s more than likely you are already using two of the most common methods of collaborative recruitment – employee referral programs and internal promotion. However, video recruitment software now offers employers the opportunity to develop collaborative hiring even further.
In most companies, recruiting new employees is carried out by one single person or a recruitment team. It’s the standard approach. However, a video recruitment software solution opens that process up, making it easier to bring selected members of the team into the hiring mix.
So, what are the benefits?
Better cultural fit
It’s widely accepted that hiring people who are a strong cultural fit brings a multitude of benefits to an organisation, such as productivity, better performance, and lower staff turnover. In routine hiring, the recruitment process is kept to a limited circle, however, company culture is not determined by a small pool of people. It relates to the company as a whole. Including colleagues from the candidate’s future team offers recruiters diverse and wide-ranging perspectives on the candidate’s personality, skills, and interests. This more thorough picture of a candidate leads to a higher chance of hiring cultural fits. Moreover, the candidate gets the chance to meet more people from across the company that they could be working alongside, so they get a better understanding of the company culture during the interviews with multiple people. It ensures that any new hire fits well within the team and should lead to a decrease in the risk of bad hires.
Reduce unconscious bias
Nowadays, lots of companies are focusing on diversity in their recruitment process. Collaborative hiring can help you reduce the impact of unconscious bias and can help improve diversity. How? Because as more voices are added to your recruitment process, a wider range of opinions will be heard which leads to improved transparency in the hiring process. It allows you to view candidates from multiple perspectives and obtain a more complete assessment. This limits the impact of unconscious bias when addressing potential candidates.
The perfect recruitment tool
A specialised video recruitment platform offers you features that empower you to hire collaboratively with a full view of the candidate. Video recruitment allows you to efficiently include more people but without adding more time to your recruitment process.
For example, your selection process could start with automated interviews which candidates can do at a time it suits them. With a video recruitment solution, your colleagues can easily review applicants automated interviews or conduct and record scripted live interviews. Allowing team members to easily join interviews or review the recordings are a simple way to build more collaborative recruitment into your hiring. The result is better matches, more efficiency, and a fairer candidate experience.
NIJobs offers video recruitment as part of a portfolio of recruitment solutions ranging from job posting to employer branding training and insights.