Nick Livingston: Improving Communication For The Interview Process Will Increase The Likelihood Of Making A Great Hire!

Insights on Proper Interview Communication and the ways to incorporate them effectively for the Hiring Process:

• What are the broken issues in the Interview communication
• Fix the crucial areas 
• Utilize Solutions and Tools that are available to enhance communication and overall candidate experience

With all the technology & tools available, Why is this still a problem today?

• We try really hard to take out the human element from the process
• Lost art
• Transactional

Where the challenges lie

• Recruiter & Interviewee
• Recruiter & hiring manager
• Interviewee & hiring manager

Forms of Communication & Issues

• Video interviewing vs phone interviewing, Video cons: implicit bias
• Chatbots- engagement /screening tool
• Text messages

How do we make interview communications effective?

• Recruiter & Interviewee
• Recruiter & hiring manager

Tools

• Interview Data/Evidence
• Remember your Conversations
• Reduce misinterpretation and bias
• Remove redundant interview steps
• Other Tools:videos, Chatbots
• Technical tests
• Take home tests

Nick Livingston is CEO of Honeit Software. He has been scaling recruiting teams and companies in San Francisco and New York City for 15 years. Nick started his career as a technology headhunter in NYC. After a successful IPO at TubeMogul (now Adobe) while attending business school at UC Berkeley, he co-founded Honeit Software to rethink interview communication and simplify the hiring process. At MTV, Nick was the Recruiting Director responsible for digital media and interactive technology talent. Nick worked at HR Technology companies Taleo and NextSource. He received his MBA from Berkeley, with BS in Applied Mathematics.  

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.