By now, you’ve probably heard how important a positive candidate experience can be to your hiring efforts. It can help your organization hire faster and attract better candidates. This presentation reviews how to use candidate experience to boost employee engagement and retention in your organization.
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How to Roll Candidate Experience into Employee Engagement
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Elaine Yang
People Programs Manager
Lever
JD Conway
Head of Talent Acquisition
BambooHR
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Today’s Agenda
1. Why It Matters
2. Best Practices for Candidate Experience
3. Best Practices for Employee Engagement
4. Pre-onboarding
5. Ongoing engagement
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The competition for talent is high.
3.9% unemployment
70 year average:
5.9%
4x in 10 years
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• 83% of talent say a negative interview experience can
change their mind about a role or a company they once liked
• 87% say a positive experience can change their mind about
a role or company they once doubted
Stellar candidate experiences
lead to accepted offers.
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Continue that stellar experience
through onboarding and beyond.
expectations reality
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30%
of job seekers have left
a job within the first 90
days of starting
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Turnover is expensive.
• To replace an employee who earns $10 per
hour you’re likely to spend around $3,500.
• To replace an employee who earns $40,000,
you’re likely to spend around $8,000.
• To replace an executive employee who earns
$100,000, you’re likely to spend even more
than their salary.
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The key to engaging employees is the
same key to fighting turnover costs.
1. Increase in productivity
2. Decrease in turnover
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Personalize your sourcing efforts.
• Get their name right
• Do your homework
• Add some humor or personality
• Know your audience
• Keep it relevant
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Build a smooth application process.
• Provide high touch communication
• Set expectations up front for your candidate
• Follow up with decisions soon after interviews
• Prepare your interviewers
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Recruiting is much like the rocket launch
business, in that 1% failure is 100% failure.
- Gary Worrell, Recruiting Manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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• Company swag
• Team introductions
• Get-to-know-you survey
• Welcome email
Bonus Idea
• Ask candidates their favorite snack during the
phone interview, and have it handy for the in-
person interview
Welcome Ideas
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80%
of employees who had an excellent
onboarding experience hold their
organizations in high regard, feel
strongly committed to their jobs,
and have higher role clarity.
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• Lever’s Ramp Camp
• Cross Functional Empathy
• Goal Alignment
Integrate your
new hires from
Day One
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Snapshot of Leveroo
Ramp Camp Agenda
• Kickoff, Tour + Neighborhood Coffee
• A Day in the Life of a Recruiter
• Workflows of A Power User
• Live Sales Demo
• Own Your Growth
• Origin Story (with CEO)
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43% of employees who left a job within the first 90
days said they left because their day-to-day role
wasn’t what they expected.
Set and manage
expectations.
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6in10
employees strongly agree
that they know what is
expected of them at work.
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• Display trust
• Focus on strengths
• Identify why you hired them
For new hires...
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• Sense of contribution
• Sense of motion
• Objects in motion tend to stay in motion
Establish
momentum
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Bi-Weekly All-Hands for Comms & Transparency
Monthly Pulse Checks for Engagement (ie.15Five)
Every 6 Months Engagement Surveys for Data & Trends
One Year + Beyond Offsites for Culture Building & Goal Setting
Employee Engagement Cadence
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Top Features of Each System
Lever BambooHR
Lever Nurture Turnover Triage
Candidate Dashboard Start small, but start now
Hiring Manager Dashboard Time, Talent and Energy
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