Remote Campus Recruitment strategy isn't fairly a new concept but a little less popular. Hiring students without setting foot on the campus sounds so exciting right?. However, companies refrain to embrace this hiring strategy due to the confounding elements it brings to the natural order. At the outset, the idea of remote campus recruiting may sound challenging and an ineffective strategy. But, using the growing technology in the recruitment domain smartly can prove to be a game-changer.
For every Talent Acquisition team, thoughts of increasing talent pool, cost reduction, and saving time aren't uncommon. That's where adopting Remote Campus recruitment strategy can drive great results. Any recruitment program requires legitimate planning & communication with potential candidates, so is the case with recruiting remotely for Campus drives.
In this blog, let us guide you on how you can start hiring remotely for end-to-end Campus recruitment, the process, and the benefits of hiring remotely.
Understanding Remote Campus recruitment
Basically, Remote campus recruitment is a process by which an organization conducts the entire campus drive online from a geographically different location, without physically visiting the campus. Interesting isn’t it?
The core process of a Remote campus program remains the same as any other regular on-campus drive. The only difference is how these stages of recruitment are accomplished. In a completely remote set-up, each stage like conducting initial screening tests, shortlisting candidates, face to face interviews and rolling out the offers based on performance happen online through some recruitment software. Online assessments have become the norm of late but the rest of the processes still happen within the campus.
Why companies need to start recruiting remotely for Campus Drives?
Hiring the right candidates becomes most decisive for most companies in their Campus hiring programs. Especially in today’s scenario where there is an outright competition to hire the best talent. A proper strategy with the best use of technology tools at disposal can make a huge difference in the success and failure of a remote campus drive.
Here are a few advantages why every company should start recruiting remotely
1. Casting a Wider Net
Remote recruitment strategy allows you to tap into the talent pool of a large number of colleges which otherwise isn’t possible owing to geographical constraints in case of regular campus drive. Companies can now reach out to distant colleges and conduct drives allowing more students an opportunity to participate and stand a chance to hire better.
2. Increased Hiring Rate
Remote campus drive opens up a possibility of evaluating a large number of students, unlike traditional campus hiring. Therefore, the greater the number of students interacted, the more the chances of finding the right candidates for the respective job role. Thus, more hiring per recruiting program.
3. Time and Cost factor
Traditional campus recruiting drives are more time-intensive and take longer to achieve organizational goals. Switching to remote campus drives helps to save a lot of time, unnecessary overhead costs like traveling, other activities and still fetch you the right candidates for the job role with a smart approach.
4. Building a big team isn’t a necessity
Conducting Campus recruitment remotely cuts down the size of a team because the initial screening & evaluation of students happens entirely online just by sharing a link. The team needs to line up the proficient interview panelists for video interviews to hire the best students.
5. Enhance Employer brand
Remote campus recruitment increases the reach of the company to more colleges creating an opportunity to cast a lasting impression on the students. Social media and informative blog s help a great deal in putting across the vision, values of your company to the students. Using better technology software like Talscale can provide a seamless interview experience to students online
Nearly 50,000 engineering, MBA graduates struggling to find jobs amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic that has hit the whole world. The whole campus recruitment season got postponed and things are uncertain for both companies and students going forward.
Situations like these can always be avoided and hiring is continued with the help of a remote recruitment strategy using the necessary tools. This will benefit both the organizations as well as students who look to start their new careers.
How to conduct Campus Drives remotely?
Better strategy and accurate planning of an entire process are the primary requisites for carrying out a successful remote campus drive
Most companies have started using technology to their advantage in campus hiring. Some of them directly arrive on the campus to conduct interviews for shortlisted candidates from an online test.
We saw the advantages of hiring remotely for the campus. It might get overwhelming to decide how and where to get started. Let's dive in
- Introductory Webinars
The moment you think of an online campus drive, making that initial
connection with students with a pre-placement talk might strike you. Pre-placement talks are a means of conveying students what it is to be a part of your company. The vision, values, work ethics, products/services, and opportunities to grow in your company.
But Hey, it can be done online as well. Hosting a webinar exclusively for eligible students and taking them through the journey of your company’s progress and projects will have a great impact on students looking forward to working with you.
- Online Screening Test
This is the first and most important step in a campus recruiting process.
Afterall not all eligible students can make it to your company. This is basically more eliminative in nature than selective and so it should be for high volume recruitment.
The online test helps you to weed out students who are not strong in fundamentals for the job role. The talent assessment platforms have made it very easy to create tests, conduct, and evaluate the students for technical or non-technical positions. Also, gone are those days where there was a worry about malpractice. Today the students take tests in a very highly proctored environment where any attempts of malpractice are noted and accounted for.
- Video Interviews
The shortlisted candidates from the screening test are interviewed.
For many, this idea of remote interviewing can be daunting because of the general perception that an in-person interaction gives more assurance.
However, these things can change your perception if implemented well
- Having robust technical software with no room for glitches/unnecessary delays in fixing them.
- Getting your core interview team sorted to avoid complexity in decision making
- Effective listening and weighing skills more than bias
- Onboarding
The last step and often overlooked is the Onboarding of the
final selected students. Because frankly, nobody likes to arrive at an empty cubicle and feel at sea among the co-workers. Instead soon after the selection process is over, you can keep your new employees engaged until they join.
Introducing the team leads & team members to the new candidates through conference calls makes them feel included. Share knowledge base/resources created by the company regularly to give them a glimpse into your tech culture.
- Competitive Hiring
Several companies have made the shift to competitive hiring in the last few years for Campus hiring. Essentially, companies host job-related contests or Hackathons to identify talent instead of relying on age-old written tests.
This allows companies to not only explore a different side of the candidate and increase employer awareness but also acts as a robust filter and sieves out candidates that are not a great fit for the company
Tools for successful Remote Campus recruitment
There are various tools in the market to make your Remote hiring process easier
For the sake of better understanding, let us categorize the tools in categories
1. Communication/Video conferencing Tools
GoToWebinar
GoToWebinar is a simple, self-service webinar tool that is a good addition to host large-scale online events. You can share your webcam with a single click, adding a whole new dimension to your presentation offering quick and easy management for organizers. One can easily host webinars for up to 1000 students based on different pricing modules
GoToMeeting
This is another important tool in Web conferencing. Trusted by millions of people every day for professional, real-time, virtual communication.
A fast, easy and reliable solution that enables people to meet face to face, share presentations or chat with colleagues. The tool offers great flexibility where up to 3000 participants can join the conference call at a click.
Zoom
Another tool that is revolutionizing video & audio conferencing with modern features that appeal to most companies as a go-to cloud platform. Active feed, comments & discussions, screen sharing, switching presenters between the call are some of the primary features of Zoom. An organizer can add up to 500 participants to the call.
Hangouts Meet
Hangouts Meet is a free, secure video/Audio conferencing tool from Google. Supports up to 100 participants. This tool has similar features to the above mentioned. It can come in very handy to conduct video interviews for the candidates.
2. Assessment Tools
Talscale
We take pride in putting our own tool first in the list of Assessment tools because we believe it has everything that a modern assessment tool should. Talscale is predominantly a tech assessment platform to screen candidates in various programming languages. The in-built Video interviewing interface is an added advantage to conduct interviews remotely and eliminates the need for a separate video interviewing tool.
Mercer Mettl
Recently acquired by Mercer, Mettl is one of the leading cloud platforms that specializes in creating online skill-based assessments. Their offerings include skill assessments, training & development for employees and students, certification exams, etc.
Codility
Codility is another such technical hiring platform designed to screen candidates on their core tech abilities. The assessments are delivered and evaluated automatically to save time. Feel free to visit their website to explore more
There are many other talent assessment tools available in the Market like HackerRank, HackerEarth, HireVue, Devskiller, etc.
3. Work Management tools
To manage your team and their tasks in an organized way, these tools for work/project management play a major role.
Trello
Trello is an excellent project management tool. At its core, it helps you to organize tasks, make & save notes, projects, shared files, or anything else that helps your team work together on a common goal. It is easy and relatively straightforward to use and comes in various pricing modules that can be used depending on the size of the team.
Asana
Asana is one of the top project management tools in the market right now. It acts as a central place for all your tasks. New tasks can be added and assigned to particular team members to make everyone aware of their responsibilities.
It is not so easy to use but a great tool that encourages productivity, collaboration within the organization.
Key Takeaways:
To summarise, the Remote recruitment model for Campus hiring has more quantifiable benefits. Elevates a more extensive reach to recruit students from colleges and universities in the distant cities without compromising on the quality. The less we talk about time and cost-saving factor the better as the model speaks for itself & corporates who value both. To top it off, the smart use of technology can make all the difference and mark this strategy a very successful one for your organization.
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