Unison Resource Company Recruitment Process
Unison Resource Company’s success lies in our ability to build relationships with clients, hiring managers, human resources personnel and candidates and be in unison in terms of understanding their challenges, needs and goals. Trust is crucial to all these relationships, and solid communication is the key to establishing and maintaining that trust.
The foundation of building a solid working relationship with any client or hiring manager is established in the first meeting. During this meeting, it’s important to have a complete recruitment process in place and agreed upon. Our recruitment process focuses on five key elements:
Clear understanding of the job description. To ensure we communicate clearly and accurately with candidates about the job opportunity, we thoroughly discuss the following details before beginning our candidate search:
- Terms and phrases unique to the client company that may cause confusion among external candidates
- Department structure, including reporting structure, number of employees and work culture
- The background and experience of other employees in similar roles
- Compensation
- Career progression from this role
- Required experience and skills
- Desired traits
- Company history, growth, culture and benefits
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Established strategy for finding candidates. We make sure our team and yours are in step with our strategy for publicizing the position and searching for candidates. This strategy could include the following:
- Referrals from within the department
- Creative posting of positions on niche sites (professional association websites, universities, diversity sites, industry specific sites, etc.)
- Professional associations
- Recruiting Web sites such as Jobs in the Money, the Ladders, etc.
- Job boards
- Professional publications
- Competitive talent at similar companies in the local market
- Titles of potential candidates
- Budget for postings
- Internet recruitment and sourcing
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Expectations and timeline for presenting candidates. We want to make sure you and the job candidates understand what to expect throughout the process. Our step-by-step presentation method includes the following:
- Resumes submitted (first viewed by hiring manager)
- Phone interviews conducted by Unison
- Summary of the top three candidates and phone screen notes provided by Unison
- Date determined for presenting screened candidates to manager
- Phone interview by manager or on-site interview set up by Unison
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Interviews. Identifying the interview process and parameters will help the candidate and company fully prepare. Unison’s role in the interview process includes:
- Coordination with the candidate and the client company to set up the on-site interview, including making travel arrangements, developing the interview schedule, and sending resumes to each interviewer along with interview schedule
- Setting up a debrief meeting with all interviewers for feedback
- Collecting and keeping the notes for compliance
- Following up with candidate for feedback
- Communicating with manager and/or HR for next steps
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The offer process. At times the most stressful and intense part of the hiring process, we actively communicate with both the company and candidate to ensure a clear understanding of expectations and necessary information in the offer process. Our role in this process includes:
- Checking references
- Negotiation compensation
- Coaching the candidate on resigning from current company
- Working with the client company on offer and on-boarding new employees
- Setting a start date
- Following up with candidate on resignation and confirming start date
- Continuing regular contact with candidate until they start with client company
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