“MindMill are really helping us to recruit the ‘cream of the crop’!!” – Claire Colvin, Equiniti ICS.
It was recently reported by The Guardian that UK employers are receiving on average 70 applications for every vacancy posted. The task of filtering these applications down to a suitable number for face-to-face interviewing candidates can be colossal!
Firstly, CV’s or application forms must be read and candidates who do not meet the minimum criteria required dismissed. Then the remaining candidates’ applications must be studied to verify that the application is an accurate representation of the candidate; a recruiter must look for gaps in dates, unfinished degrees, inconsistencies in stories, multiple jobs in a short period of time, movement between jobs for negative reasons etc. The applicant must be given the chance to confirm or deny any queries in accordance with UK Employment law. That could be quite a few phonecalls to make! Then, the person overseeing this task will probably devise some sort of scoring system to assess the final cut of candidates suitability to the criteria outlined for the role before the survivors will be invited to interview.
This whole process could take days, and it sounds to me like you would need to be a detective rather than an HR person!
MindMill can help you to screen candidates using our psychometric assessment system which is fully validated by the British Psychological Society (BPS); each candidate completes the test online, it takes less than 45 minutes and measures personality, a range of cognitive abilities and biorhythms. The results are generated instantly and can be ranked automatically to find the candidates with the highest Capacity to Process Information (CPI), i.e the candidate’s trainability. This allows decisions to be made without bias, as well as providing information that can be used to prepare for interview questioning.
Equiniti ICS have recently discovered the merits of using MindMill to screen candidates:
“I was really thrilled with the way the remote aptitude testing worked. We just downloaded a quick CPI report which revealed that 15 candidates out of 47 who applied actually completed the test and we were able to reduce this further to 6 or 7 candidates who scored 90 and over; who we will interview. This is really an excellent way to select candidates for interview and has saved a considerable amount of time. It is really helping us to recruit the ‘cream of the crop’!!
Thank you very much for all your help and support with this process – I will definitely be using this approach again!!”
Claire Colvin,
HR Business Partner
Equiniti ICS, Belfast.
MindMill are delighted to help Claire and Equiniti, or any company for that matter to streamline their recruitment process. Why not take our online demo or give us a call to see how we could help you?