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What Your Candidate Experience is Missing

By Maren Hogan on LinkedIn Talent Blog

Candidate experience is a multi-faceted thing. And, a lot of companies are struggling to give job applicants positive experineces. Just consider the stats:

  • Only 40% of recruiters are even required to respond to job applicants AT ALL, according to the 2015 NAM CandE Research Report.
  • The most recent DHI-DFH Vacancy Duration Measure revealed that it took an average of 27.6 working days (that’s darn near a month) to fill jobs.
  • A CareerBuilder survey found that 40% of candidates feel the application process has become increasingly difficult.
  • 57% of applicants believe the process lacks personalization, 51% are frustrated that they have no idea where they are in the process, and 50% say it has so many more steps than it used to.
  • In fact, three in five candidates leave their application unfinished.

Those stats can and DO shock recruiters and HR professionals into creating a better candidate experience. And, while most of us know the basics (respond quickly, be polite, source and vet appropriately, and invest in employer branding) there’s one thing many companies’ candidate experience is missing…

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