Many hiring managers find the resume screening process is the hardest part of recruiting, which can be incredibly time-consuming.
Here are some tips for you to increase the effectiveness of this screening and recruiting process.
Start with benchmark candidates and formulating interview questionnaire
- Find some top performers on the team, review their profiles and job history to better understand your hiring needs.
- Find out personality traits necessary to be effective with the team.
- Draft an interview questionnaire based on the job description and benchmark candidate’s profile, refine the questionnaire during the ongoing interview process.
Screen resumes together with LinkedIn profiles
- Verify employment information with LinkedIn Profile, double check if any significant mismatch between the LinkedIn profile and the resume.
- A candidate with a complete LinkedIn profile might open to new opportunities more seriously.
Read between the lines, pay attention to some Red Flags on the resume for further investigation
- Vague language, such as “familiar with” or “participated in,” could imply the candidate could be simply assisted in a certain way and lack of hands-on experiences.
- Typos, grammatical errors, and formatting issues demonstrate a lack of attention to detail or lack of communication skills.
- A long unexplained gap on the resume might imply that the candidate is not capable of finding a job, these issues of gaps must be verified clearly during the interview process.
- No accomplishments, no specific numbers on the resume: this could imply not a results-oriented professional.
Partner with local recruiting companies
If you feel the resume screening process is very time-consuming, you can simply partner with recruiting agencies, leave this repetitive work to those professional recruiters.
The key is to set clear expectations and select recruiting partners who offer 90-days guarantee service. They will help you to reach out candidates from various channels, do cold calls, conduct references & background checks to assure the new hire is the right hire.
Great Connections recruiting team's expertise is diversified in many industries including consumer goods, food manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceutical, financial/banking, IT, government, retail, etc., we placed candidates from C-level executives to a variety of talents in the business world.
