Follow Up After the Interview or Lose Your Best Applicants
The time gap between the interview and employment has its uniqueness. If this time gap is too long, the selected applicant may start working somewhere else. The longer this time takes, the more individuals you lose.
When this happens, you won’t be able to hire those applicants anymore and the time spent on previous stages is wasted.
Follow an appropriate schedule in hiring process. There is no reason for people to wait for you. As the employment manager, define a time plan for yourself and have a schedule from the moment you are informed of the need for a new hire all the way through the hiring stage. Teach yourself and demand your system as well to stick to the schedule as much as possible.
Follow up on the individuals you have invited to come and work with you. Notice that the number of people is fewer in technical fields and effective and qualified individuals are also hard to find.
After the interview, follow up and make sure that the applicants are updated about the hiring process. They need to know that they still got the chance to work with you. Keeping them in the dark makes them look for other job opportunities.
Email or call all the individuals who have been rejected in different stages of selection. Thank them for showing interest in working with you, and tell them there might be other opportunities in the future and that you would be happy to have them work with you in the future.
Based on their field of expertise, archive the information of those individuals who have earned better scores in the interview, and contact them for future hires. Another company might hire them and they might be working somewhere else, but they also might be still interested in working with you.