➡️ Candidate follow-up

In this document, you'll find tips for managing the relationship with the candidate throughout the recruitment process.

Ensure a qualitative follow-up

Preparing candidates for interviews

To best prepare candidates for the interviews they're about to conduct, take the time to review with them the key points that the client has stressed in the job description (personality, key skills), so you can help them prepare their answers to the questions they'll be asked.

Debrief the candidate after each interview

This step is essential if you want to better understand their desires, fears and motivations. It can also help defuse situations that could lead to non-recruitment.

Transmit reports of your discussions with your candidates to your clients

This step will initiate a real discussion with them, putting you at the heart of the recruitment decision. The client will turn to you to validate the points that caught their attention about the candidate, both positive and negative.

Have regular exchanges with your clients

To considerably increase the chances of placement, client follow-up is just as important as candidate follow-up. For example:

• Send a message after submitting the application
• Resend a message if no answer 7 days later
• In parallel, contact the Hunteed contacts assigned to the missions
• Ask your clients for feedback on their impressions of the candidate during the interview
• If requested, send contact details of candidate's references to the client

Systematically take references as soon as interviews are scheduled for your candidates

We recommend that you "prepare the ground" right from the 1st exchange with your candidate by asking whom you can turn to if you ever need to take up a reference (2 contacts are generally required, if possible the 2 former managers).

Make sure you and the client agree on who is going to do it, whether it's you or the client.

It's essential to carry it out when the process is well underway. This will generally enable the client to validate and confirm their opinion of your candidates.

Give systematic feedback to your candidates

The feedback you receive from your candidates following their interviews will enable you to exchange ideas with them and share a new consultancy time, guiding them in their search and steps to take if the feedback is negative.

Contact the Hunteed team

If you ever have any questions or would like more information about the assignment you've positioned yourself for, we are of course at your disposal. To make an appointment with a member of our Community team, click here.

We're here first and foremost to help you and ensure that your recruitments on the platform are successful.

 

Supporting candidates all the way

Accompagner tout au long du processus

Once you've introduced a candidate to an assignment, we recommend that you keep a close eye on him or her, supporting and advising them in their search.

Throughout the recruitment process, you'll have the opportunity to check-in with your candidates. As we have already seen, these moments of exchange are crucial. In fact, we recommend that you position yourself more as an advisor to your candidate during this time of exchange, rather than seeking to place him or her at any price, even if this is of course the ultimate aim of your actions, in order to offer your candidates quality support through all the advice you can give them.

So we assume that, even if your candidate isn't recruited for the assignment you're pitching him for, he'll still remain an active member of your talent pool and will turn to you again in due course, since he'll recognize you as an expert able to answer his questions, dispel his doubts and guide him in his choices.

Even after a recruitment is complete

"Congratulations, your candidate has been successfully recruited!

Yes, this sentence is a real pleasure to read - the platform tells you that you've made it!

But your role doesn't stop there. As a reminder, on the platform, fees are only sent at the end of the period of guarantee.

In order to secure the process, regular contact with the candidate is essential, at various key moments:

• Between the signature and integration of the candidate in his new job.
• The day of his integration
• At the end of its 1st week
• After 1 month with the company
• At the end of the trial period

Why is follow-up important?

For you, this will be another opportunity to be at the heart of the recruitment process and to demonstrate your expertise as a consultant, as you will be advising the client on how to interact with the candidate and how to dispel any doubts or uncertainties.

Some tips

In the "job news" tab, you can access client feedback on rejected profiles, so you can provide your candidates with additional information based on this feedback.

The platform automatically sends you emails to notify you of future interview dates for your candidates.

The platform enables clients to request references either directly from the candidate, or from you with the various elements expected of them.

Your move!