A lot of us manage the job of hiring new people on our email. That keeps the process simple for everybody involved in the process. Email makes it very easy for your HR people, interviewers and operations staff to collaborate together to make recruitments happen.
But there are a few problems with using emails for this. The information regarding everyone who ever applied for a job at your company, and what happened with the person’s application remains scattered in multiple email inboxes. There is no centralized history maintained of these applications and what was discussed between the applicants and the people in your company. This may lead to you being unable to come back to profiles you liked but could not hire when you received the application, or reconsider applications which might have been rejected in the past. You might lose what your HR team discussed with a selected candidate on email, which might actually be very useful later on.
GrexIt helps you tie all these loose ends with managing your hiring over email very easily. We suggest the following ‘process’:
- The person who receives the job application on email adds the email to GrexIt. He can mark it with a label like “Hiring” in GrexIt, and may also add another GrexIt label to clarify what position or role the application is for.
- The person who receives the application kicks off the internal discussion, and also continues the discussion with the candidate. GrexIt automatically keeps pulling all information from the email inbox, and maintains an updated version of the discussion.
- The team can collaboratively manage the status of the application in GrexIt with labels such as “Shortlisted”, “Rejected”, “Come back later” etc.
- Anyone can go to GrexIt and view all applications ever received, what was discussed with the applicant, and what was the status of the application by searching and filtering search results by labels.
Its really very simple, adds almost zero overhead to your existing process, and is immensely valuable. Try it out, and let us know if you have any suggestions.