I want to know that every once in awhile that person is hiring someone that they spent months building a relationship with. We also ask our employees for referrals. Again, these are typically passive candidates, but as far as communicating our culture or environment, we ll invite them to drop by after work some day and play basketball in our facility or attend one of our in-house seminars. It s relationship-building. That means we may be here for several hours for one interview, but we will extend ourselves to accommodate the candidate rather than asking them to come back several times when they most likely have another position they are trying to work around.
Candidates appreciate that.
We re growing so rapidly that what is working right now might not work a month from now, so the strategy has to adapt. We ll also make changes based on feedback surveys from our candidates. We ask new hires what their top reasons were for coming to work here, what they liked and disliked about the interview process. We also survey those who don t end up coming here. Evaluation is incredibly important because HR and recruiting can have such a tremendous impact on a company.