Articles

Survale CEO Talks About Candidate Experience Blind Spots at CandE Workshop

By Ian Alexander on Survale

Survale CEO, Jason Moreau, was talking candidate experience blind spots recently at a Talent Board Candidate Experience workshop in Chicago. The message was clear: If you think your periodic candidate experience surveys are giving you insight into your candidate satisfaction, you’re most certainly wrong.

Moreau points out that huge blind spots exist for most companies.

Measuring Past Candidate Experience Failures

The biggest, most pervasive blind spot is timing. Most organizations do periodic audit surveys to find out what candidates thought of their recruiting process. By definition, this data is old. So those slip ups that get surfaced in these surveys are artifacts of damage already done to your employer brand, your reputation and perhaps even your organization’s bottom line.

Think of it this way, the negative Glassdoor reviews are already written by the time you find out about it.

The 99% Blind Spot

candidate experience blind spotsBeyond the timing aspect of candidate experience, the next large blind spot is your career site. Ninety-nine percent of all candidates who interact with your jobs and your employer brand don’t apply. But they certainly have rich experiences – some good, some not so good. Perhaps there’s a problem with your application. Or maybe the candidate couldn’t find what they were looking for.

You really have no idea because there is little to no way for most candidates to tell you. Real time feedback on every page of your career site and application eliminates this blind spot AND gives you data you can use to turn that 1% of visitors who apply to your jobs into 1.5%. That’s a small increase but it means 50% more candidates for the same recruiting budget!

 

Read Full Article Here

Join the CandE Newsletter

Stay up to date on the latest Candidate Experience Events, Insights, Information, CandE Deadlines, Research & So Much More