Speed Recruiting — How can you leverage First IPO — pioneers in integrated digital hiring?
By: Sarvabandhu Nln
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Hackathons, Recruitment Automation, Video Interview, Online Assessment Tools

The workforce has long been transforming. From an enclosed labour market to a mobile and open one. It is characterised by an energetic workforce, which is always looking forward to meatier opportunities.

Well trained & experienced workforce know that it is no more about what they can do for a company, rather the focus has shifted to what a company can do for them.

Though the industry has changed drastically, some organisations still are using outdated and traditional recruiting methods. Hence, they are still struggling to manage the time to hire, improve quality of hire & reduce the efforts involved in the process.

Such companies need to reinvigorate their hiring efforts and one effective way to do is by utilizing digital recruiting techniques.

In this article, we will be discussing how services of First IPO, pioneers in digital hiring can help speed up recruitment process.

First IPO offers to transport organisations to digital recruitment by way of leveraging technology to source, assess, attract, select and recruit candidates for open positions.

FIPO VSelect

One easy way to start would be to adopt the FIPO VSelect services. The recruiters will have to just drag & drop the sourced resumes on to the FIPO platform & wait for less than 48 hrs to access a set of pre-interviewed & selected candidates.

First IPO (FIPO) platform is built to intelligently manage the recruitment process. The system captures the candidate contact details, matches the candidate to qualified SME’s, calls & schedules the interviews based on both parties availability, sends reminders and ensures that a video based evaluation is conducted seamlessly.

FIPO VSelect enables the organisations to leverage the intellectual abilities of over 3000 industry experts. It aims to create the much necessary bandwidth for interviews which tend to choke the productivity otherwise.

A well trained backend team monitors the progress & ensures the integrity of the process.

Data is lodged on a platform is safe & secure. All access is through multiple layer of authentication & data privacy is maintained.

Imagine the relief that recruiters & engineering teams face as they are unburdened from screening & interviewing hundreds of candidates. FIPO VSelect, impacts the speed, quality and efforts delivering an unmatched result.

FIPO Source

Recruiters can augment their sourcing by subscribing to FIPO SOurce services. Over the years First IPO has endeavoured to interview candidates on their digital Video platform & develop a curated database of qualified candidates. The ongoing reviews, rating & re-rating exercise keeps the database active & refreshed.

On subscription, the recruiters get access to the curated database. The search engine helps to match skill, experience, comp expectation, demography, rating and employer preferences. The candidates get to maintain the anonymity during the start of process.

Recruiters can trigger an invite to the selected candidates at the touch of a button. Candidates are informed of the opportunity instantaneously by way of platform notification, emails, messaging services and WhatsApp integration. Full automation delivers details of acceptance / rejection to the recruiters online. On acceptance the complete details of feedback & video interview will be available for review.

Candidates acceptance to participate in the process is the key to effective hiring & on-boarding. FIPO SOurce process ensures that this is achieved & an audit trail is maintained. So the recruiters see only the willing — interested — committed applicants.

Talent Acquisition heads & Human Resource heads can better manage the process & budgets while getting access to best in class workforce. The investment will provide ROI many times more than the conventional job boards & networking sites promise.

FIPO SCan

Scanning through 1000’s of applicants & determining who is a best match is a daunting task. Traditional approach has relied on paper screening & at best a telephone call with the candidates.

It is a time consuming & laborious job. Often recruiters & engineering teams experience fatigue & wish they could avoid this task.

First IPO’s AI engine steps in to solve this issue. Enabled by Bots & Video engine, the arduous task is fully automated. Everything from ascertaining the interest of candidate, to conducting preliminary reviews of skill and stack ranking candidates based on their response is handled by the platform.

Recruiters & Human Resource team can now spend more time in identifying the best fit candidates from a culture perspective.

Adopting FIPO SCan will facilitate speedy screening & save efforts.

FIPO GAuge

One the important check in recruitment process is the check of personality & knowledge. The most effective method is administering assessment tests online.

Very often, organisations have to turn to different providers for accessing these test, manage contracts & learn to use tools to administer.

FIPO GAuge is the integrated online assessment test offered by First IPO. Organisations can use the readily available test on the platform or administer bespoke test.

Recruiters can administer the personality profiling & knowledge assessment test seamlessly on First IPO’s platform. FIPO’s automation engine takes over once the process is set. Calling candidates, distribution of links for test, follow up to ensure participation, timing of test, progressive enhancement of complexity, video recording of test process & proctoring is all automated.

A detailed report of Test outcome & stack ranking of participants can be accessed on the cloud platform at all times.

Adopting FIPO GAuge has a huge impact on ensuring quality of candidates which has a direct impact on organisation productivity.

FIPO HAck

Hackathons are unique way of assessing candidates coding skills. It is a test of knowledge, logical reasoning, problem solving and coding.

FIPo HAck is integrated to the First IPO’s platform. Organization can under one contract engage the engine seamlessly. The integrated web based compiling helps to assess the code quality. First IPO’s SME review the code, product design, UI solutions & provide expert assessment of participants capability.

FIPO HAck platform offers the flexibility of choosing from standard problems, engage the First IPO’s SME services to design problems or use organisation specific problems to gauge candidates capabilities.

All activities on FIPO HAck is recorded for audit trails & feedback is shared with participants in a transparent manner.

The recruitment team need not be tech savvy to administer Hackathons & the engineering teams need not spend long hours preparing or designing the Hackathons. The large SME community that First IPO platform has nurtured can be leveraged at all time.

While many companies presently use one or more of the above-mentioned tactics, still, they have a long way to go from being categorised as a digital strategy.

Conclusion

Recruiting and retaining employees is a major concern for most of the employers these days. Digital recruitment can make the overall process of recruiting much easier & effective. Adopting digital recruiting process will help recruiters to search employee profile, assess them for experience and skills and advertise the novel opportunity.

Hiring managers can use a mix of numerous digital recruiting techniques as offered by First IPO to pick the best suited candidates..

For a detailed discussion on engaging First IPO’s services , write to the author : sarvabandhu@firstipo.in