Articles about Hiring Process

Evolving technologies, expectations, and job market conditions have arguably made recruiting more difficult than ever before. For example, the Willo 2024 Trends Report found that 61.7% of employers anticipate salary expectations or competition from other companies as the key challenge they will face hiring and retaining top talent.

The right marketing team has the potential to push your brand into the spotlight. Research from Bain & Company and Google shows that the most mature marketers are 4x as likely to achieve business goals, increase market share, and increase revenue than the least mature marketers. But how do you find and hire these top-performing marketing professionals?

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.