Organizations take to walk-in interviews for various reasons.
1. Option to finish a large recruitment drive within a short time.
2. Meet volume recruitment needs.
3. Save time.
Whatever the need may be, walk-in interviews have long been a part of recruitment strategies for organizations worldwide. However, with the evolution of technology and the involvement of same in recruiting methods have changed the perspective of walk-in interviews. There has been a dramatic shift in company's as well as candidate's approach towards walk-ins.
Many companies today prefer to schedule candidates one on one interviews than opt for walk-ins. This is because, walk-in takes a lot of preparation. You have to coordinate with candidates, arrange for a large place to conduct the interviews (Sometimes hire banquet halls, etc), make an arrangement with hiring team members for their availability, ensure the number of walk-ins, coordinate with consultants for the candidate follow up. The whole process consumes a lot of your time and money and involves a lot of effort from the recruitment team to conduct a successful drive.
We have always seen that organizations should always be open to various methods of recruiting. Walk-ins can sometime come by as a very handy method as they help the recruitment team meeting the targets in a single drive if carefully planned and executed. Some things to be taken care of while planning or organizing a walk-in event
1. Ensure the skills for which the walk-in is being conducted is not a niche skill. It will be difficult to drive the numbers.
2. Ensure interviews are held at a place well known. This helps in reducing hassles of explaining the location to candidates.
3. Ensure proper registration method is followed and the candidates are treated with enough care when they walk-in. This ensures, that even if a candidate fails, he never would complain about the organization. This helps in uplifting the image of the organization by word of mouth.
4. Try avoiding arranging walk-ins for senior positions. These people are less likely to turn up as they avoid interviews in crowd situations. This poses a risk for their existing job and potential offers as well.
5. Ensure, experienced professionals, when they turn up are given their due attention. These are the influential people and if they give a thumbs up to your organization in their conversations, they will certainly drive more talent towards the organization.
6. If vendors are involved in driving candidates to a walk-in, monitor their candidates carefully and appreciate the efforts being put in by them. The recruiters at agencies are always skeptical about the success of walk-ins.
7. Survey the geographical evidences of past walk-in events. If a certain location is less responsive to a walk-in drive in the past, it's good to drop the strategy in that place and adopt other methodologies of recruitment.
Team Amraks
1. Option to finish a large recruitment drive within a short time.
2. Meet volume recruitment needs.
3. Save time.
Whatever the need may be, walk-in interviews have long been a part of recruitment strategies for organizations worldwide. However, with the evolution of technology and the involvement of same in recruiting methods have changed the perspective of walk-in interviews. There has been a dramatic shift in company's as well as candidate's approach towards walk-ins.
Many companies today prefer to schedule candidates one on one interviews than opt for walk-ins. This is because, walk-in takes a lot of preparation. You have to coordinate with candidates, arrange for a large place to conduct the interviews (Sometimes hire banquet halls, etc), make an arrangement with hiring team members for their availability, ensure the number of walk-ins, coordinate with consultants for the candidate follow up. The whole process consumes a lot of your time and money and involves a lot of effort from the recruitment team to conduct a successful drive.
We have always seen that organizations should always be open to various methods of recruiting. Walk-ins can sometime come by as a very handy method as they help the recruitment team meeting the targets in a single drive if carefully planned and executed. Some things to be taken care of while planning or organizing a walk-in event
1. Ensure the skills for which the walk-in is being conducted is not a niche skill. It will be difficult to drive the numbers.
2. Ensure interviews are held at a place well known. This helps in reducing hassles of explaining the location to candidates.
3. Ensure proper registration method is followed and the candidates are treated with enough care when they walk-in. This ensures, that even if a candidate fails, he never would complain about the organization. This helps in uplifting the image of the organization by word of mouth.
4. Try avoiding arranging walk-ins for senior positions. These people are less likely to turn up as they avoid interviews in crowd situations. This poses a risk for their existing job and potential offers as well.
5. Ensure, experienced professionals, when they turn up are given their due attention. These are the influential people and if they give a thumbs up to your organization in their conversations, they will certainly drive more talent towards the organization.
6. If vendors are involved in driving candidates to a walk-in, monitor their candidates carefully and appreciate the efforts being put in by them. The recruiters at agencies are always skeptical about the success of walk-ins.
7. Survey the geographical evidences of past walk-in events. If a certain location is less responsive to a walk-in drive in the past, it's good to drop the strategy in that place and adopt other methodologies of recruitment.
Team Amraks
