Articles about Hiring Process

Hiring the right talent is hard enough—doing it at a pace that meets the needs of high-volume organizations is even harder.Challenges like scheduling, workload management, and candidate experience are compounded when you’re hiring at scale, and they can quickly add up to bottlenecks, missed opportunities, and unfulfilled potential.

If you aren’t already bringing virtual tools into your recruiting process, you’re one of the only ones: around 89% of organizations are doing much of their recruiting work virtually to reach top talent, cut costs, and save time.But simply “going virtual” doesn’t guarantee any positive outcome—you have to approach it the right way.With this in mind, here’s a crash course from Willo on how to optimize your virtual recruiting process.

Recruitment involves a tight-rope walk between efficiency and thoroughness. You need to know candidates well enough to make the right decision, but can’t afford to sacrifice too much time in the process.

There’s a lot you need to learn about a candidate during the interviewing process before you can confidently say, “Yes, you’re the one.” This includes getting to know their background, skills, and experience, as well as their ability to fit into your team’s culture.

For many recruiters, around half of the recruiting process is simply… asking questions.Ask the wrong questions, then, and you risk making this process a lot longer than it needs to be. One way to massively reduce the time spent on the interview process is to use a one-way-interview solution like Willo, which helps companies save hundreds of hours on their interview process. In this guide, we'll unveil the top recruitment questions that will streamline your hiring journey, helping you identify the ideal fit quickly and avoid unnecessary setbacks.

That new grad you hired today might eventually become the CEO. But even if they don’t, you want them to be high-quality individual contributors and possibly managers or team leaders in the future. ‍Achieving any of those goals–from simple productivity to C-Suite succession–starts with new graduate onboarding. Now VP of Finance at Willo, Kevin Swan worked at a global consultancy for eight years, both going through their new graduate program and later supporting graduate recruiting at the firm as a member of the tech M&A team. ‍Looking back on his experience with new graduate programs, Kevin shared his perspective on three crucial onboarding elements that every corporation needs in place for day one. 

Ok, so campus visits are out now?‍ Or are they back on? ‍ During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health restrictions provided a great excuse for why new grad hiring had to be all remote. Candidates forgave some shortcomings and less-than-ideal experiences. Now, things are changing.‍ To keep up in the changing world, companies need to take the best of the old ways—namely, the focus on human interaction—and leverage the best of technology—speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency—to build a new kind of recruiting funnel.‍ While we recommend all new grad funnels have some in-person elements if possible, you can still build a high quality, fully virtual funnel. Here’s what you need to know.

In-person interviews are a business’ worst (environmental) nightmare. ‍ But what if all those interviews had been in-person? What would be the environmental impact? ‍ It seems so small, but the impact is huge across every candidate and every company. Virtual hiring is not only more efficient for companies (and something many candidates prefer), but it’s also a boon to the environment in a few different ways.