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What is Candidate Experience and why it is essential for your business?

For every business, it is important to enhance the candidate experience because the candidates are the most valuable resources and that makes every organization grow

We need to take care of it and always try to enhance the candidate experience.

What is the candidate experience?

Candidate experience reflects a person feeling during the interview process, it may improve or breakdown the experience of the candidates.

To improve the candidate experience a few ways will work for sure.

Friendly Communication

It is very important to act like a friend with the candidates to help them make their mind peaceful and stay relaxed. You can start the communication with the general topic or by just telling that you have received their applications.

Make an organized Recruitment

It is a smart approach to make the entire recruitment process in an organized manner will result in better recruitment and hiring. It can be seen that asking the repeated questions will let the candidates fail the interest to join your organization.

Optimized mobile device

Imagine that a candidate who came to your career page and need to apply for a job and at last found it was failed due to the error while uploading the resume, so that makes a bad impression to the candidates and may reject to apply on a job.

Most of the applicants expect the mobile-friendly career page that helps them to easily explore the entire job description, explore the other jobs, easy to apply to the desired jobs and at last, receive the confirmation message to the candidates.

What you can get in return?

According to the survey of kelly services, they got outstanding results like

95% of the candidates are more likely to apply.
97% of the candidates who had a positive experience would recommend others.
55% of the candidates prefer to tell their social networks about that positive experience.

So as per the research, it has been proven that the enhanced candidates' experience is very essential for every business.

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