Candidate Feedback in the Recruitment Process

If you’re an IT Solutions Provider looking for the best Cloud & IT Infrastructure talent on the market, you need to make sure your candidate feedback is up to scratch.

There are numerous benefits to ensuring the feedback you deliver to your candidates is constructive and honest.

Our Co-Founder Tim Davey gives us his insights into candidate feedback in the recruitment process:

“Feedback is always important in the recruitment process as without feedback nothing gets done.

Processes don’t improve.

Time to hire increases.

And it’s common courtesy to provide feedback to anyone who has invested time into the hiring process.

There are many areas where feedback needs to be given in the recruitment process.

Recruitment agencies need to give feedback to their clients on availability of skills and realistic expectations around the role and the requirements, as well as salary levels and salary expectations.

Clients need to feedback on CV’s and after interviews. Sometimes this is an area which is quite lacking in the feedback loop.

There’s nothing worse for a candidate to interview and then to be told they were unsuccessful without being given any constructive feedback at all.

The candidate needs to give feedback after interviews for similar reasons.

Finally the overall recruitment process needs to be reviewed for any areas of weakness and ways to improve.

Feedback needs to be constructive to be effective and to positively create improvements.

Some of the many benefits of good constructive feedback are that it:

Increases the level of quality
Enhances the employer brand
Drives increased referrals
Engages recruiters more
Creates better buy-in from all parties
Reduces dropouts
Costs nothing to provide feedback

Offering candidates in your hiring process constructive and honest feedback will help you to source the best Cloud & IT Infrastructure talent and continuously improve how you recruit.”