Are you wondering why your time-to-fill is increasing, why very few people are applying to your jobs, or your hiring managers are getting frustrated with their candidate selection? You might be unintentionally limiting amazing people from entering your recruiting funnel and the lack of results is painful for all. I’ll go as far to say it’s also painful for the people who choose not to be your candidates and pass on the opportunity to join your company.
I call this Funnel Blocking and I am on a mission to help you STOP Funnel Blocking immediately! Your candidate attraction section of your talent acquisition strategy is the first stage in the recruiting funnel, and if you are experiencing any of the three results above or a host of others, look at this stage first. I don’t care what you call it; Awareness, Attraction, Sourcing, or Interest, you need people to be attracted to your job/company and click that APPLY button now! I call people in this stage prospects because they are not candidates yet and when you have blockages in your top of funnel, you are preventing great people from becoming your candidates.
I compare the recruiting funnel to the sales funnel A LOT. In the sales funnel, companies do everything possible for people to become customers, so why don’t we do this in our talent acquisition strategy? Now I know what you are saying right now, “I only want qualified people for each job to apply.” YES, I agree, and my answer to that is qualified people can be getting blocked at the beginning stage of your process and removing the blockages is key to your success in finding top talent effectively and converting them to your employees.
Are you Funnel Blocking? I’m looking for HR leaders in small to mid-sized companies who are not happy with their current candidate flow and need answers quickly. Let me save you time by offering a Free STOP Funnel Blocking Audit. This is where I look at the top of your funnel from a candidate’s perspective with an expert eye…objectively. Save yourself time, get another opinion, get a new idea or two. Did I mention free?
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