Hiring | Best practice for virtual job interviews

For many years, the traditional hiring process has stayed much the same.

A candidate applies for a job, gets an initial telephone interview and, if successful, will proceed to a second face-to-face interview with the company’s hiring manager. Yet, ever since the coronavirus pandemic hit – and organisations moved to homeworking set-ups virtually overnight – the hiring process has been pushed to adapt virtual recruiting and interviewing efforts in order to carry on.

This rings true with new data from the research and advisory body, Gartner, which found that 86% of employers have incorporated new technology to help them with virtual interviews throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

While some companies have incorporated virtual recruitment into their hiring processes, the economic uncertainty and financial constraints has caused some organisations to reassess hiring plans – for the time being anyway. According to the research, 54% of organisations have delayed candidate start dates and 63% of recruitment leaders have reported that more than half of their job openings are currently frozen.