SelectSimple : Making Candidate Contact
We recently launched a new service to make the initial contact with candidates. The service is called SelectSimple. SelectSimple is a ‘baseline pre-qualification’ service, intended to establish a candidate’s interest, availability, and attitude.
Clients using SelectSimple provide us with the candidates they would like to be contacted, and as many as 10 questions they would like the candidates to be asked. We call and email the candidates over a period of 5 days — all contact attempts are made in the evenings and on weekends. Once we reach a candidate, we conduct the baseline interview and pass along the information we received.
Clients pre-pay for the number of candidates to be contacted. We hold the pre-payment as “contact credits” and deduct 1 credit for each interview. If a candidate is not interviewed, no credits are deducted. Credits don’t expire, so any credits not used in a given campaign can be applied to future campaigns.
SelectSimple is still in pilot mode with a small group of clients. Each day of the pilot we learn a new way to improve the service. We also discovered a fairly surprising positive consequence of contacting candidates in this manner:
Because we introduce outselves as a “pre-qualification service”, candidates tend to be more open in their conversations than they might be with a recruiter. We make it clear that we are not decision makers, and that our only goal is to save everyone time and effort by determining quickly if there is a reason for the candidate and the recruiter to talk. The candidates we’ve spoken to have been receptive and have had no qualms about sharing information with us.