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December 2019 EasyHire.me 4 U News

December 2019 EasyHire.me 4 U News

EasyHire.me 4 U!

Welcome to the December 2019 EasyHire.me 4 U News. Our goal is to provide you with tools and tips so that you can realize a greater return on your recruiting investment.

Tips to Modernize Recruiting

HR leaders are entertaining modern approaches to talent acquisition to broaden their talent pools, to better nurture candidate relationships, to shrink time-to-fil, and to build their employment brands.

Check out our recent article, Are you ready to cross the talent chasm? to learn how!

Learn & Contribute

What strategies will your peers use to enhance the talent acquisition process and what objectives are they trying to achieve?

Take our quick, 2-question poll to participate in this new market intelligence!

New, Hot Features

Check out these new, hot features designed to enhance recruiting processes for recruiters, managers and employers!

Inclusion of Salary Information in job postings improves the indexing and prioritization on Google Jobs and attracts qualified candidates.
Job Advertising within the EasyHire.me platform now fully automates sourcing and integrates with our best-in-class screening process.
Mobile platform enables candidates to accept interviews on their mobile devices – and employers to review candidate recordings anytime, anyplace!
Ability for interviewers to include random questions within question sets to preserve quality and authenticity of responses.
Historical interview metrics to assess and improve desired candidate hit rates.
Practice interviews for candidates to ensure they can gain comfort with the video interviewing technology and process.
Entry Plan provides smaller organizations the opportunity to leverage video interviewing features, while larger organizations can drive results on a small-scale
The Road Ahead

Here’s what’s coming soon to modernize your recruiting experience in early 2020!

Google Assistant for candidate pre-screening will make it easier for applicants to apply from any device
Calendly integration to simplify live interview scheduling to include support of recruiting team calendars for load-balancing
Playback with text subtitles Interview Transcription will be in the interview report so recruiters and managers can read, evaluate, and easily compare responses
Enhanced candidate profiles for employer targeting and larger-scale promotion for the candidate
Introducing The New Entry plan!

Introducing The New Entry plan!

We are very excited to offer a new convenient plan for customers just starting with video interviews or small businesses and teams with occasional interview patterns. For just $20 per job monthly, this new Entry plan will offer all of the same features and integrations as the Standard plan. Subscribers will be able to conduct up to 10 interviews on-demand or live interviews each month.

The Entry plan offers the following options:

  • Publish any number of jobs for only $20 per job monthly;
  • Create your personal database with an unlimited number of candidates. You can add CV, skills and all necessary information about your candidates;
  • Advertise your jobs on our job board, add automated Pre-screening and collect the candidate’s data with our customizable Application feature;
  • Schedule up to 10 interviews per job monthly;
  • Invite 5 team members to evaluate your candidates and discuss interviews with colleagues;
  • Create any number of question sets for your interviews;
  • Leverage our question bank of excellent interview questions;
  • Play, Grade and Share recorded interview;
  • Collaborate on interview feedback and make excellent hiring decisions!
  • Integrate your EasyHire.me account with Zapier, Greenhouse, Comeet, SmartRecrutiers, and Slack.

Upgrade your plan to Standard any time if you once you need more interviews.

EasyHire.me Product Announcement

EasyHire.me Product Announcement

We are thrilled to introduce our latest version of EasyHire.me! We have worked hard over the past year and made Easyhire.me platform faster and easier to use. Additionally, we redesigned the user interface with a modern look and feel. 

 

Here the main improvements of the new version:

  •  page loading speed increased by more than 30%
  •  search and filters are now lightning fast
  • modern UX design
  • more friendly Interface
  • compliance with Material Design standards
  • advanced error handling

Let’s view how the HR account has been changed:

Dashboard section
We have removed unnecessary statistical data and made more clear flowcharts and reports

Interviews list page

For greater convenience of our users, we‘ve added the ability to view all the interviews within a single list, regardless of the interview status.

 

Candidate’s list

To display candidate cards, we tried to find the perfect compromise between convenience and modern design. While all functions of the previous version are still available, the speed of loading the general list of candidates on the Candidates page has drastically improved.

 

Teams – Billing page

We completely redesigned the Billing and Plans pages and added detailed information about the most recent usage

Question page

Now, creating your own perfect Question set is easier than ever! Adding a video “introduction” and «thank you» messages will greatly improve your candidate’s interview experience. Feel free to use our built-in question bank library and share sets with your teammates!

Interview playback rooms

The On-demand and Live interview playback room became more comfy to use! All options like candidate’s written answer, attachments, video questions are located in separate tabs, resulting in a simpler user interface.

If you’re taking advantage of our Assessment interviews, it’s now really easy to view and grade candidate’s answers: 

Your candidates will now enjoy the improved Live/On-demand and Assessment interview rooms. They are now more user friendly and easier to use.

We hope you will enjoy using the new version. 

 

As always, we’d like to hear from you and how we can further improve your experience with EasyHire.me.

Intro Video
Video Intro and Thank you clips are now available

Video Intro and Thank you clips are now available

Easyhire.me knows how busy you and your recruiters are.  We also know how passionate you are about finding and screening talent for your team! In order to save your time, we created a special Introduction and Thank-you videos. They can be included in any of your question sets. The video is recorded in high quality and is accompanied by subtitles, which will help even the non-English-speaking candidates to understand.

The Introduction Video explains candidates about the interview process, the types of questions and how the recording works.
View Introduction video and add it to your Question sets:

You can add The Introduction video to your question sets by completing the following steps:
1. Go to the Questions section and select a question set;
2. Double click on Configure Introduction line;

 

3. Select Easyhire.me Introduction video from the dropdown menu and Save

In the “Thank you” message, we thank candidates for their time and tell what happens after the interview.
Look at the “Thank you” message and feed it to your sets of questions:

You can add this video in the same way as Introduction, using the Configure Thank You message form and selecting the Easyhire.me Thank You Message video.

Easyhire.me Team will add new video tutorials for candidates and managers to make our platform more understandable and easy for our users.

Six ways to create an enjoyable and comfortable on-demand interview

Six ways to create an enjoyable and comfortable on-demand interview

A vast majority of candidates we polled reflected that interview process is very stressful to them. They felt even more stressed about an upcoming video interview. This was because they did not know what to expect, given this format is fairly new. Additional stress was due to the lack of feedback during a one way video-interview.

 

So we decided to share some tips for making EasyHire.me video interviews more comfortable for your candidates.

  • Create a clear branded image of the hiring team using customization options!

You can add your company logo, corporate colors, the email signature to all emails that are sent to candidates. This feature is available on the Teams page – Customization tab.

Ask your hiring team to fill out their profiles and add their photos.This will significantly increase candidate’s level of trust and confidence.

Profile photo can be specified by clicking on the profile drop down and selecting the Settings option.

Each team member can easily specify their title, position and responsibilities in the “About Me” section of their profile.

 

  • Compose a friendly email invitation to the interview!

Easyhire.me allows hiring managers to customize emails that will be sent to candidates on behalf of the team. This option is available on the Team page, the Email Templates tab. Often candidates get acquainted with a vacancy from an invitation to the interview – create your perfect invitation!

 

  • Add a welcome video message.

Take the opportunity to greet your candidates by creating video messages. Candidates will see the welcome video before they start interviews. This is a great way for a hiring manager to introduce themselves, share exciting facts about the company and team, provide more details about the position and the interview process.

You can record one video introduction and use it for all your question sets, or record an unique introduction to each set.

 

  • Be creative when composing a question set! 

 

In order to diversify question set you may use any combination of the following types of questions:

  • Video questions
  • Quiz questions
  • Text questions
  • Technical questions with the code runner
  • Questions with attached images

Our candidate surveys showed that when candidates see a video question, they feel less anxious about their own video recording. Therefore we recommend creating at least one video question.

One good way to create such question is to ask several of your colleagues to record a video question. You can then combine these into a single question set. As a result, candidates would get to know their potential future team before the formal on site interview. This way they are more likely to be excited about the position and have a much higher chance of a more positive outcome of the interview process.

For Default questions use the editor to create a question, attach a picture or insert a link.

Add time to prepare to your questions so that candidates get the opportunity to fully understand questions and think about the answers before being recorded. This will result in more complete and detailed answers.

 

  • Begin the interview with simple and open-ended questions, for instance:

«Tell us about yourself»

«Why are you interested in the role?»

«Describe your current (or most recent) position»

and then add more complex questions.

 

  • Thank the candidate for taking the interview.

Add «Thank you» video-message to your question sets. In this video, you can thank the candidate for the interview and explain to them what next steps will be taken if they will be approved or rejected.

 

We wish you good luck in finding and selecting suitable employees, and Easyhire.me will make this process easy and fast!!!

Make your video interview more friendly and special!

Make your video interview more friendly and special!

It is very important to make the video interview process easy and comfortable for the candidate. Easyhire.me took care of the usability of the platform and in order to make the interview more comfortable for the candidate, we give managers the opportunity to record a video introduction and “Thank you” message for on-demand and assessment interviews.

The video could explain to candidates in a simple and positive way how to take an interview. The survey showed that such videos relieve stress before the interview and help the candidate feel more comfortable while recording video.

 

In this article we will explain in more detail how to do it.

In your introduction video you can share with candidates information about your company, greet him/her or advise how to behave in an interview. You can create new question set or add a video introduction to old question set.  Open the menu and click on Configure button.

In order to thank the candidate for the completed interview and tell how feedback will be provided you should configure “Thank you” message. Record your own video or add a link from YouTube.

Easyhire.me recorded a special video for Practice Interview. We are confident that it will help candidates to quickly master the video interview and enjoy the process! Take Easyhire.me Practice interview, watch the video and record your unique Introduction and “Thank you” video for candidates.