What is Open Hiring�
To begin, the principle of Open Hiring⢠was first established by Greyson Bakery in 1987. This principle has been adopted by other leading retail brands. However, what is Open Hiring⢠and why should we be interested?
This weekâs Guest, Robin Schooling, joins us to illustrate why this model of open hiring is important and how we can learn from it. Regardless of the industry sector we recruit across. As she tells us, Greyson Bakery started with a simple idea, âletâs make it as easy as possible to connect people to the jobâ.
More recently, itâs been reported that another retail brand has used the principle of Open Hiring⢠for their distribution centre hiring too much success. As Robin says, âthey measured the impact of this and their turnover was down dramaticallyâ.
Naturally, we touch upon the subject of COVID-19 and itâs impact on the employment market. Robin thinks this is âthe perfect time of companies to streamline their processes and get people inâ.
However, never one to be satisfied with an assumption. She did some due-diligence herself on a major US brand. Where she found âa beautifully branded websiteâ. Then an application process that took âan estimated 26-30 minutes to complete!â. In her opinion, âthat would have been one of the first things Iâd fix!â
Getting your organisation ready for change
Following the theme of recruitment processes and changing to adapt the current climate. Robin expands her opinion and tells us, âthis is providing the greatest living case studyâ and âwhat we thought was impossible, out of necessity, weâre learning is possible!â.
We go on, to talk about the current virtual recruitment process that is being enforced on all companies. Robin comments it could have real benefits as, âwe might get rid of the Hiring Managers, because they do exist, who like to form their opinion on whether the person has a firm handshake or notâ – which is a nod the on-going conversation about unconscious bias.
In contrast to this, we talk about digital adoption and her thoughts – âthe digital divide does existâ and she illustrates this through the fact that in her home state of Louisiana, â40% of households donât have access to broadband or wifiâ.
To finish up, the final question we pose Robin. Is to get her thoughts on implementing Open Hiring⢠into a business or leadership team and she thinks, âyou have to make sure your organisation is a learning organisationâ.
If that wasnât enough, youâll hear Robin talk about:
- The merits of the Ban The Box campaignÂ
- Is it time to review your application and recruitment process? Â
- Addressing systemic unconscious bias
- Is virtual recruitment going to be the new normal?Â
- How is the digital divide impacting applicants?Â
- Training Leaders to be ready for Open Hiringâ˘Â Â
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