How-to build a kick-ass recruiting engine
Daniel Chait, CEO, Greenhouse.iotwitter: @dhchait | @greenhouse
Introduction
About Me & Greenhouse…
Greenhouse is the platform built to optimize your entire
recruiting process. !
Find better candidates, conduct more focused interviews, evidence-based decisions.
Some of our customers…
What you’ll learn today…
How-to build a pipeline of great candidates
Kick your addiction to staffing agencies
Hire the people that have the right skills AND are culture fit
How-to make faster, more confident decisions about who to hire
Scaleable RecruitingA how-to guide.
Recruiting is two things:
Sourcing Interviewing
Sourcing Interviewing
Recruiting is two things:
Where you screw up and reach the wrong people
Sourcing Interviewing
Recruiting is two things:
Where you screw up and hire the wrong people
Sourcing
How it usually works:!Folklore and habit.
There’s a better way…
Plan and set goals
Design and scale a pipeline
Use data to make
decisionsIterate and optimize
Scalable sourcing:
Sourcing
• Use a large set of channels !• Attribute candidate flow !• Measure the impact of each
channel (quality + quantity) !• Adjust message/approach to
improve results over time
Comprehensive sourcing
Sourcing plan…
Source attribution and quality
Recruitment marketing campaigns
Interviewing
How it usually works:!Folklore and habit.
Why you need an interview plan
Interviewing
Structured interviewing
• Same interviews for every candidate
!• Each interview has a
clear focus !• Collect structured,
written feedback
Same interviews for every candidate
Every interview has a clear purpose
Every interview has a clear purpose
Data-driven decisions
How do you know what questions to ask?
How-to interview, and when…
Tests
Early
Skills
Personality Traits ReferencesBehavioral !Interviews
Prescreen
Late
Summary
Some key take-aways
Comprehensive Sourcing:!• Fill your pipeline with great candidates!• Kick your addiction to staffing agencies!!
Structured Interviewing:!• Reliably hire people who have the right skills
AND fit your culture!• Make faster & more confident decisions about
who to hire
Thank you!! Learn more at www.greenhouse.io
twitter: @dhchait | @greenhouse