Two-sided recruitment

Candidates currently apply to companies for employment offers listed out on a job board. Instead, what if candidate profiles are listed out and companies applied to them?

Employers ask candidates questions in an interview to see if they are suitable. Instead, what if candidates asked employees questions on whatever is important for them in a workplace?

A probation period is meant for an employer to check if an employee is worth offering long-term employment . Similarly, what if employees used the probation period to see if long-term employment at the firm is worthwhile?

For all these years, recruitment has been one-sided, with most of the power residing with the employer. However, in several fields (e.g. software development), this balance of power is shifting towards the employees.

Soon, recruitment processes are going to have to reflect this shift in power.

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