When announcing a job vacancy, employers are sometimes bombarded with hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of applicants, some of whom are not as qualified as the employer desires. Consequently, recruiters and HR managers are tasked with navigating large volumes of applications in order to choose the right one. But there are many tools that Bayt.com offers which can eliminate some of the talent screening hassle that the employers can utilize. Via Bayt.com's Branded Career Channels (BCCs), employers use mandatory questionnaires to avoid dealing with unqualified or irrelevant applications.
Here is how using these questionnaires on Bayt.com BCCs can help expedite and smoothen the applicant screening process:
1. Automatic exclusion of unqualified applicants
The Bayt.com BCC allows recruiters to attach mandatory, screening-based questionnaires with each job posting they have. Recruiters now have the option to indicate a set of questions to be mandatory and so the applicant can’t submit his/her application without filling them. Each answer has a knock-out flag, if this flag is enabled against a particular answer, and the candidate picks this option when answering, then the candidate will be automatically screened out. This is very useful in cases where a “bad” response to a certain question disqualifies the candidate completely. For example, if the candidate responds to “What kind of a visa do you have?” with answer options like “Student Visa” or “No Visa”. This will save the recruiters and hiring managers a lot of time and allow them to focus solely on the qualified applicants.
2. Scoring and comparing applications
In addition to creating a mandatory questionnaire that will effortlessly filter out applicants who are not qualified for the position at stake, recruiters are able to give each questionnaire they implement an optional scoring criteria. Not only does this mean that recruiters can specify a minimum score to screen out candidates who fail in that questionnaire, they can also compare and contrast the applicant scores to see which candidates are closest to the desired answers. Doing so will make it significantly easier for recruiters to make screening decisions and narrow down the list of applicants to the most qualified ones.
3. Gaining more information from the applicant
Besides attaching a questionnaire to a job as a mechanism to automatically screen out candidates based on low scores or “red flag” answers, these questionnaires are a great source of information for the recruiter. Sometimes, a candidate’s CV may not include all the information that recruiters need to know right away and before moving on to the next step of the hiring process. Mandatory questionnaires can provide these essential details that can further help in making the screening decision.
All BCC’s through Bayt.com are able to enjoy these benefits of mandatory and screening-based questionnaires and can, consequently, have a much smoother and expedited screening and talent management experience.
