The interview phase has the highest candidate dropout rate (25%) of any hiring step. Because only a small percentage of candidates qualify for the interview phase, when interview-level candidates drop out, you are clearly losing the cream of your applicant pool.
The same research reveals the impact that your interview process has on your hiring results. Because 50% of companies report having lost quality candidates primarily due to their poor interview process. So, losing 1 in 4 of your most valuable interview candidates for mostly preventable reasons shouldn’t be mostly ignored. But instead, this interview dropout problem should be treated as an expensive multimillion-dollar continuing mistake that no one should be allowed to tolerate.
The Top 10 Quick Ways To Reduce Interview Phase Dropouts
After decades of research and practice…