How to Successfully Hire in a Hurry

Hiring in a Hurry Happens

Ideally, organizations are able to conduct a thorough search and interview to get the best candidate for an open role, but sometimes hiring needs to be done in a hurry. You can approach a tight hiring timeline with a frantic, chaotic approach or with a reliable system that will allow seamless hiring no matter your time constraints.

How to Successfully Hire Quickly

Standardize the Interview Process 

Each interview is unique, but if you use a standard guideline, the process will flow quickly and efficiently. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel for each interview when you can establish a robust set of interview questions to use as a starting point for each candidate. This takes strategy and effort at the outset, but it pays off when you can sit down to a last-minute interview with a basic script ready to go.

Be Super-Specific in Your Job Descriptions

To avoid wasting time with candidates who won’t fit your organization, get super specific about the expectations of the position. This means being specific about the role's duties, company processes, salary and benefits, and what will be expected from the candidate once they're hired.  Discussing detailed project timelines is a critical part of a rush interview process, allowing you to vet candidates by providing ultra-specific instructions for what you expect in the first week, month, quarter, etc. This allows the right candidates to hit the ground running and weeds out those who aren’t prepared or qualified to deliver on the metrics and timeline you've provided. 

Always Be Ready With an Offer

When HR does not begin drafting the job offer until the interview process has begun, much time is wasted. Meetings are often scheduled for presenting the offer, usually with separate times set aside for signing on the dotted line. Save time by having offer letters and necessary onboarding documents on hand so that you can move on to candidates you're interested in. Even better? Use an applicant tracking system like HiringThing to digitally send an offer letter and onboarding documents to top candidates immediately. 

What's an applicant tracking system? We wrote a primer here!

Standardize Your Onboarding

Your work isn’t over once you’ve hired a new employee, but you can do much to streamline and maximize his or her first days for optimal efficiency. A standardized onboarding package is indispensable, especially when it’s interactive and customizable for any position. Not only does this take the pressure off your department when a new hire starts, but it helps the employee’s first days run smoothly.

Hiring Fast Doesn't Have to Be Stressful

Establishing these systems takes forward-thinking and prep time, but working with your team to develop them is indispensable, especially when you’re under a time crunch to initiate new staffers. Optimize workplace lulls by perfecting your processes. It will pay off significantly when your team is faced with the challenge of hiring in a hurry.

About HiringThing

HiringThing is a modern recruiting and employee onboarding platform as a service that creates seamless talent experiences. Our white label solutions and open API enable technology and service providers to offer hiring and onboarding to their clients. Approachable and adaptable, the platform empowers anyone, anywhere to build their dream team.

Approachable and adaptable, the HiringThing platform empowers everyone, everywhere, to hire their dream team. Try HiringThing’s easy-to-use, feature-rich applicant tracking system with a free 14-day trial today!