While it’s in the candidate’s best interest to give you a good first impression, so too will you be judged based on the offered interview experience ?And we all know?that word of mouth, not to mention tweets, carry fast.
Presenting a more friendly nature is?largely for reputational matters. It also, however, allows you to put candidates that’simply don’t interview well at ease. Not everyone is good at speaking, and that should by no means dictate whether they’re a good fit for the company unless it’s a requirement for the role.
As was explained by Carmel Galvin, chief HR officer at Glassdoor: “The interview process is the gateway experience that employers have with a candidate, and you only get one chance to make a great lasting impression and find out all you can about them whether you bring them onboard or not.
?Some employers have been acknowledgedAs’standing out from the rest in terms of offering a best in class interviewexperience. It’s no easy task, but employers who get this right will have the recruiting and business advantage.
Galvinis referring to Glassdoor’s??best places to interview” awards, a ranking made possible through the analysis of over 1,000 employees” opinions. And what made its top ten firm favourites correlates with last year’s results.
At the time, Glassdoor claimed all nominated companies had informative interviewers, consistency across locations and transparency throughout the process. It was a concept expounded on by Galvin nowAs well “Such factors place businesses in a better position to maintain a quality employee journey throughout the remainder of their time there.”
Taking the crown was Airbus. No matter the amount of time allocated from CV send to acceptance or refusal, most claimed the process was pleasant, the interviewers were nice and easy to talk to, and made their expectationsclear. One candidate, who went on to accept, simply wrote: ?Very low pressure. No tricks. Straight forward.
Here’s the list in full based on “positive experience” percentage points given by staff:
(1)Airbus 94 per cent
(2)?Yell 92 per cent
(3)?Hiscox ?86 per cent
(4)easyJet 86 per cent
(5)?Salesforce 85 per cent
(6) AllSaints 84 per cent
(7)?Hays 83 per cent
(8)”Carphone Warehouse 82 per cent
(9)?Waitrose 82 per cent
(10)?Rolls-Royce 80 per cent
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