StepStone Screening & Selection

Screening

Selecting from the widest possible choice of candidates can be a time-consuming process - and deploying tools to identify the high performers of tomorrow from the potentially costly low-performers is a key task in effective recruiting. Our e-Recruitment solution offers a vast amount of expertise, functionality and best practice around screening incoming candidates. Not only is it focused on preemptively gearing the recruiter and line-manager to look at most qualified candidates. It also ensures a higher conversion rate of interested candidates to applications by making the whole screening and selection process more tailored and job-specific.

What should you expect?

Ability to screen candidates using smart technology
- Whether candidates submit their applications using an online application form, through a job board or through your internal career site, the candidates are screened and automatically ranked on specific qualities and skills.
Automatic scanning for exceptional talent
- Not having a relevant vacancy should not mean missing good candidates. You can set up automated queries to scan each enquiry for a specific profile, generating an automated notification when a candidate fitting your profile applies.
Screening questions
- The screening module allows you to predefine the criteria for automatically rejecting unqualified applicants. For example, you might want to automatically exclude all those without a working permit.
Categorising questions
- Rather than exclude applications, you can rank them by points based on answers given to specific questions. This allows you to prioritise the most suitable applications.
Integration of 3rd party assessment tools
- You may choose to increase the predictability of your screening and selection process by integrating market-leading tests and assessment tools from 3rd party test vendors to help make more objective hiring decisions.
Automated profiling and Talent Pool creation
- Once you have built your talent pool searching within this invaluable resource will become your first step in uncovering talent for new opportunities. Our solution ensures that information from interviews and assessments are automatically added to the candidate's profile, providing you with an even wider criteria base for screening when searching in the talent pool.
Weighted Scoring
- StepStone's e-Recruitment solutions give you the ability to weigh questions with a score, based on responses, which allows the recruiter to assess applicants at a glance.

Screening is the key function that allows organisations to move from focusing on quantity to a smaller more qualified pool of applicants.

Selection

Flexible recruiters workflow with automated e-mail communication
Recruiters and Line Managers Dashboard
Talent pool with Talent Relationship Management functionality
Talent Tracker/Candidate Alerts - automated searches
Structured searches
Free text search in data fields and attachments
Duplicate Detection
Interview Management

Each step, from candidate application through to hiring, is supported by a flexible workflow framework with supporting e-mail and SMS communication. Recruiters select the next steps from a list of possible steps to create dynamic recruitment workflows without being restricted to predefined sequences. Communication can be addressed to individual candidates or to groups with personalised addresses for each member.

On their personalised dashboard, recruiters and line managers can see and manage - at a glance - all positions, applications and interviews that are relevant to them and for which they are authorised to perform specific tasks and interact in the recruitment process. They can view their job postings, view registered candidates, approve vacancies and add interview feedback.

The free text search can screen CV documents and/or fielded data and status within the hiring process. Recruiters can set up searches and save them in the system for reuse and automatic execution. When a new candidate who matches the predefined search enters the database, the system automatically notifies the recruiter who saved the search. Matching candidates are attached to the search and can be easily managed.

Duplication detection allows you to set different criteria (e. g. name, mail address, zip/post code) to eliminate duplicate applications and maintain the quality of the database.

The innovative Interview Manager tool enables recruiters to create, edit and manage interview scheduling. The system sends an e-mail notification to all relevant contacts (recruiting team or interviewer) confirming interview details which is subsequently followed by a reminder nearer the date to reduce the number of no shows.

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