4 tips to get hourly workers to show up to interviews

starman4 tips to get hourly workers to show up to interviews 

There is nothing more frustrating than when an applicant doesn’t show up for an interview. Learn how small businesses can improve interview show rates for hourly workers.

Business owners and managers face many problems, including finding and retaining the best employees. A problem within this problem is potential employees not showing up for job interviews. While a nuisance for larger businesses, for a small business, no-shows can mean a significant drain on precious time and resources.

In a recent Accurate survey, 54% of responding employers said their current interview show rate was less than 25%. So, why is this number so low, and what can you do about it?  

Why are show rates important?

As cliche as it sounds, time is money. In our survey, nearly 50% of respondents said they spend 2-5 hours a week reviewing applications, and 24% spend more than 5 hours per week. A survey from Yello found in their recent interview-scheduling survey that most respondents spend between 30-120 minutes to schedule a single interview. With this significant time commitment, increasing show rates is essential to the productivity of your business.  

Why do people not show up?

For the purposes of this guide, we’ll assume positive intent among most applicants and will focus on the reasons for interview no-shows within your control (i.e. not trying to convince applicants who may have never had any real intention of showing up). 

The reasons most people don’t show up for an interview include: 

  • Feeling nervous/anxious about the process
  • Feeling unprepared
  • Confusion around meeting time/location
  • Scheduling conflicts
  • Changes to work schedule/unable to get away from work
  • Unexpected circumstances – childcare, family emergency, etc

What to do about it?

Knowing why people don’t show up is a great first step, and it can guide your adjustments. Here are 4 easy ways to improve show rates. 

  1. Appealing job description

Perhaps the most important, you need to create an appealing job description. Tell the candidate why your company is great and why they’d enjoy working there. Go beyond the paycheck and discuss company culture and, if applicable, flexible hours, strong benefits, a family-like atmosphere and other factors that make your business stand out from the competition.

  1. Clear pre-interview communication

Many interviews fall through, unfortunately, because of poor communication. The interviewee may have been mixed up on time, place or even the interview format—in person, video or phone. Create a process for thorough, meticulous communication so nothing is misunderstood.

  1. Use video interviews for the first round

Video interviews are faster, more convenient, easier to schedule and attend, and therefore have higher show rates. Video interviews can be especially useful as a first-round, get-to-know-you type of interview.

  1. Flexible interview times

People are busy. Fitting a job interview around work, school, parenting, family obligations and everything else can feel like an impossible game of Tetris. Give job candidates plenty of flexibility, and be available for early, late and even weekend interviews. Allow them to choose a time that works best and you’ll likely find more candidates showing up for your next opening. 

7 Things You Should Do After An Interview

A job interview provides a golden opportunity to show you are the best candidate for a particular job. When the interview ends, there are things you can do to put yourself in a great position to land your dream role, too.  

Some of the best things to do after an interview include: 

  1. Verify the Next Steps in the Hiring Process 

Ask your interviewer about the next steps following your meeting. The interviewer can shed light on how he or she will approach the hiring process. Request specifics when you engage with your interviewer about the next steps in the hiring process as well. That way, you can find out when you may be asked to move forward in this process.  

  1. Analyze Your Interview Performance 

Take a few minutes immediately following your interview to assess your performance. Consider how you responded to your interviewer’s questions and your demeanor throughout the meeting. Also, think about ways you could have improved your performance. Once you understand how you performed during your interview, you can apply your insights to future interviews.  

  1. Follow Up with a Thank-You Note 

Email a thank-you note to your interviewer within 24 hours of your interview. Make the note brief and let your interviewer know you appreciate the opportunity to interview for a role with their organization. You can also use your note to let your interviewer know that you are still interested in the vacancy and to follow up with any concerns or questions. 

  1. Engage with Your Interviewer Via Social Media  

Send a LinkedIn networking request to your interviewer after your meeting. If the interviewer accepts your request, this may be a positive sign that he or she wants you to move forward in the hiring process.  

  1. Share Supporting Materials with Your Interviewer 

Provide your interviewer with a copy of your portfolio or any other materials he or she requested during your interview. This information should be sent to your interviewer within 24 hours of your meeting. Furthermore, let your interviewer know that you are happy to provide him or her with additional supporting materials as needed.   

  1. Connect with Your Professional References 

Contact your professional references to let them know that your interviewer may be in contact with them in the near future. This allows you to give your references a heads up about a potential phone call or email, so they can get ready to share details about why you may be the best candidate for a particular role.   

  1. Remain Patient  

Be conscientious of your interviewer’s time. Remember, your interviewer may evaluate multiple candidates, so he or she can find the right candidate. You should follow up with your interviewer if it has been a week or longer since your interview and only if he or she asked you to do so.  

Want Expert Help During the Interview Process? Partner with Accurate Staffing 

Accurate Staffing is one of the nation’s leading job staffing agencies, and we can help you secure your ideal role. In addition to providing job interview tips and recommendations, we can connect you with top employers in need of professionals to fill light industrial, clerical, and other roles. To learn more, please contact us today.  

Career Opportunities: Getting To Know Accurate Staffing

starmanGetting To Know Accurate Staffing 

Accurate Staffing was founded in 2008 by Todd Kennedy, company president, who brings over 30 years of industry experience in staffing. Accurate Staffing specializes in recruiting and staffing for the following industries:

  • Manufacturing
  • Distribution
  • Warehouse
  • Clerical
  • Call Center
  • Medical
  • Technical
  • And other professional placements

Accurate Staffing does this by offering staffing solutions centered around:

  • Temporary
  • Temp-to-hire
  • Onsite staffing
  • Contract staffing
  • Direct hires
  • Referral employee programs
  • Payrolling
  • Onboarding

Accurate Staffing organically grew from the greater Akron area, that is where our roots are placed. We’ve opened offices in Canton, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Falls, as well as state-wide offices in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Additionally, we work with several companies abroad to give us an International presence.

Currently, Accurate Staffing has 45 internal employees, and we’ve employed over 20,000 different candidates across the various industries we serve leaving an impressive footprint in the Northeast Ohio area. We attend many career fairs throughout the area, think of us as “Ambassadors” to local universities.

Accurate Staffing has tremendous opportunities to offer – our Entry Level Recruiter is a position that we are always looking for and requires no previous experience. We are looking for people with a strong work ethic, ability to speak professionally, a willingness to learn, and the tenacity to achieve results. We will train you on how to do everything! We have a two week training course for our entry level positions providing all the knowledge you will need to be successful. Additionally, we offer internships year round where you exposed to different parts of our industry such as sales, human resources, recruiting, and much more.

What will Accurate Staffing bring to you? We will show you how to learn a full-cycle recruiting process. This is done by using job boards such as Indeed, LinkedIn, Zip Recruiter, etc. Part of this process involves learning “Boolean” search language to allow you really tailor in the skill sets you are looking for in a candidate. Furthermore, you are going to learn skills in human resources, how to onboard employees, payroll, workers compensation, and unemployment. You will learn professional sales tactics including the ability to sell our services to new clients.

Accurate Staffing offers excellent growth opportunities for our employees. Our leadership teams have all risen through the ranks organically from inside the company. We believe the people that know how to lead are the people that know our industry best; we hold this as a cornerstone of our approach to our hiring and training.

Our office incorporates a “bull pen” setting where ideas and exchanges happen openly so that all team members can benefit from the lessons and knowledge.

Accurate Staffing looks forward to meeting interested candidates. You can email your resume to etaylor@accuratestaffinginc.com.

COVID-19 Pandemic Requires Creative Staffing Solutions

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starmanCreative Staffing Solutions for COVID-19 

As our state of Ohio and our nation carefully navigates the reopening of the economy from the closures surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies are faced with a myriad of staffing challenges, such as:

  • Current staff members recovering from COVID-19 and unable to work yet
  • Current staff afraid to return to the workplace for fear of COVID-19 and becoming infected, threatening themselves and possibly higher risk family members
  • Current staff unable to return to the workplace because they are caring for a family member affected by COVID-19
  • Current staff who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and are in quarantine
  • Not all divisions of a company are returning to work at the same time, shifting obligations to other divisions creating bottlenecks and a lack of management and direction
  • Or, divisions are opening but not at full capacity, putting increased workload on existing staff workers

Accurate Staffing can provide creative staffing solutions and help your company improve productivity, control costs, and improve your bottom line while the economy goes through the reopening process. Our flexible staffing solutions can:

  • Relieve bottlenecked departments
  • Meet critical deadlines and tackle new initiatives
  • Cost-effectively manage changing workforce demands
  • Improve hiring process efficiency
  • Reduce downtime, overtime, turnover and overhead
  • Access the expertise you need, without adding headcount
  • Offload time-consuming, mundane or inefficient tasks

We help solve the above challenges with our flexible staffing options, including:

ABOUT ACCURATE STAFFING

Accurate Staffing has a long and successful history of providing critical staffing solutions for a wide variety of industries and businesses, including:

We are centrally located in Northeast Ohio with offices in Akron (330.630.0700) and Canton (330.494.9675). With our national network and a database of more than 60,000 candidates, Accurate Staffing rapidly delivers talented, reliable workers.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help with your staffing needs.

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What Is A Direct Hire Employee?

What Is A Direct Hire Employee?

A direct hire is an employee who is brought on as a full-time employee at a company and is not paid by a staffing agency for a temporary period. Direct hire placement is usually used when businesses have a long-term or high-skilled job opening and plan on keeping the new staff member permanently.

Direct Hire Placement

With Accurate Staffing, a client HR Manager will call us and speak to a full life cycle recruiter who specializes in direct hire placements across all industries. Our recruiter will begin the search using our extensive candidate database where we have candidates across all skill sets. Accurate Staffing will handle all the interviews, job offers, pay and compensation negotiations, take care of drug testing and background checks, and provide any client requested skill testing. Our goal is to provide a candidate that will fit well and be a great long-term solution for our customers. We are so confident in our ability to provide an ideal direct hire candidate, that in the event a candidate does not work out in the first 60 days, Accurate Staffing will replace the candidate at no charge to the employer!

Benefits of Direct Hire Employees

Better Candidate Selection

Often, a business who uses a staffing agency for a direct hire placement can attract top performing candidates. Most top performers are continually employed, and a direct hire position can attract the top talent in your area that a temporary or temp-to-hire position would not.

Stronger Employee Commitment

Direct hire employees often have a better sense of stability and security within the company they are placed. Temporary employees usually do not feel the same sense of loyalty toward the company a direct hire does, as temp workers know their employment period is not permanent.

Ability to Offer Better Perks

With a direct hire, companies can promote their own perks and benefits packages. If your company has a great retirement package and insurance benefits, there are perks that can be used to attract the type of prospective candidates you are seeking. Temporary or temp-to-hire employees, on the other hand, receive monetary and insurance benefits from the staffing agency.

Challenges with Direct Hire

Less Flexibility in Compensation

From an administrative point of view, direct hires are more expensive to place than temporary or temp-to-hire employees due to their salary and benefits packages. Achieving greater payroll flexibility with direct hires can be more difficult. While direct hires are often highly qualified, employers have to compensate them for their expertise and skills.

More Time-Consuming

The process of hiring an employee directly is slower than a temporary or temp-to-hire placement. It takes time to make a long-term decision and evaluate the pros and cons of hiring an individual who has the potential to be with the company for years. This lengthy process can cause you to miss out on great candidates if you are too slow to make a decision and a competitor hires them first.

Why Accurate Staffing For Your Direct Hire Needs?

Accurate Staffing is one of the premier direct hire staffing companies in the Akron, Cleveland, and Canton areas. We invest heavily in advertising and marketing for our direct hire services and have a constant influx of highly skilled candidates. We handle everything involved in the process from candidate recruitment, testing and background checks, and all negotiations related to the direct hire. Finally, with our candidate guarantee an employer can feel comfortable in trusting Accurate Staffing for all of their direct hire placement needs.

About Accurate Staffing

Accurate Staffing has a long and successful history of providing critical staffing solutions for a wide variety of industries and businesses, including:

We are centrally located in Northeast Ohio with offices in Akron (330.630.0700) and Canton (330.494.9675). With our national network and a database of more than 60,000 candidates, Accurate Staffing rapidly delivers talented, reliable workers.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help with your staffing needs.

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Employer Payrolling Services Provide A Positive Solution

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Employer Payrolling Solutions for Akron, Cleveland, Canton, and surrounding areas

When a company is searching for a new employee, there are many associated expenses such as recruiting costs, background checks, drug testing, and skill set testing. When the individual is hired, payroll is just the beginning of the expenses a company will also need to consider. There are the costs of employee benefits including health insurance, vacation pay, and for some positions, 401k contributions or similar expenses. Additionally, a company must consider workers’ compensation, FICA, State and Local taxes, Federal withholding, and year end W2’s. It can be overwhelming!

Accurate Staffing’s employer payrolling services can be a positive solution to the overwhelming costs, stress and impact on your operations when onboarding an employee, and the ongoing benefits management. When a company takes advantage of Accurate Staffing’s employer payrolling services, we provide the following:

  • Background check
  • Drug testing
  • Skill set testing
  • Weekly payroll processing
  • Federal and State taxes
  • Unemployment insurance
  • 1-9 and E-Verify
  • Worker’s Compensation Insurance
  • Client invoicing and collections
  • Employment paperwork
  • Employee benefits administration
  • And much more!

Cost of Employer Payrolling Services

Accurate Staffing provides a cost-effective solution for onboarding of employees as well as the ongoing associated payroll expenses. Our markup for employee payrolling services is less that it would cost to put an employee on a company’s payroll. Contact us today to discuss how Accurate Staffing can help your company with the cost of employees.

How Can A Payrolling Service Help Your Company

Our payroll services are a great fit for seasonal workers, special events, summer vacation times, family leave, holidays, peak production, and illnesses. Additionally, many employers are overwhelmed with benefits management, constantly changing health insurance regulations, and the associated nightmare of red tape and legal issues, and our payrolling services can help. Our employer payrolling services absolves a company from having to layoff employees and cover unemployment benefits.

Additional benefits include:

  • A company can covert our employee to theirs at any time – there are no minimum time or financial obligations to Accurate Staffing. That’s right – NO OBLIGATION!
  • Our associates are required to follow our policies and procedures, as well as your company’s.
  • We maintain a relationship with each client and each associate, so should the need arise, we take care of warnings and dismissals. Consider us an extension of your HR department.
  • Our associates are top-notch employees, and we treat them right. After a certain period of time, Accurate Staffing will pay benefits, holidays, etc. and not charge our client. This is a great solution for companies that don’t offer employee benefits.
  • Employees can receive their wages via direct deposit, paper check or pay card, and be eligible for insurance benefits.

State-of-the-Art Online Payrolling Service Portal

Accurate Staffing offers a state-of-the-art online portal to support our payrolling services for both employees and employers. Employees can access all their payroll information including year-to-date amounts, W2 information, payroll garnishments, and much more. Employers can access invoicing, hours paid for each employee, and other associated information. In short, we offer a self-service platform for both employees and employers to access any relevant information related to our payrolling services.

Why Consider Accurate Staffing for Your Employer Payrolling?

At Accurate Staffing we take great pride in building relationships with our customers. We get to know your business and your needs so that we can serve you better – we are an extension of your HR department. Additionally, we treat the associates the right way and make it very easy to get started.

Contact us today and let’s discuss a lower markup for payrolling services and let Accurate Staffing help with the burden of employee onboarding and ongoing employee payroll and benefits management.

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Call Center Staffing

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starmanCall Center Staffing 

Accurate Staffing, Inc. has been providing call center staffing solutions since the beginning of our company. Our leadership and sales teams have extensive experience in working in call centers and have a sales mentality. This experience provides us with a keen insight into what to look for in an individual to fill a call center position, what it takes to be successful, and how to recruit for it as well.

A call center can be a very exciting environment with a lot of opportunity for success, but it can also be very tough. Many individuals get into the field thinking they can handle it, but quickly learn it’s not for them. In order to help identify potential candidates who have “the right stuff”, Accurate Staffing has developed a role playing system which allows us to evaluate individuals on their fit for working in a call center. In this role playing process, we give candidates all types of call center situations. For example, dealing with the elderly; huge manufacturers of consumer products; or massive call centers to name a few. We gauge each candidate’s effectiveness and patience and based on our background and experience we can determine if they are a good fit for the role.

Additionally, with our in-depth interview process we can further target the types of personalities we feel would excel in a call center environment. In many cases, a candidate may be applying for a completely different position, but through our interviewing and recruiting process we identify that the candidate may be a great fit to fill one of our call center staffing positions. By being able to identify top talent that through our experience and processes we feel will flourish in a call center environment, we can place qualified candidates in our customer’s open positions. And just as important, we are able to identify those candidates for whom a call center is not a great fit, helping both the candidate and our customers avoid a failed attempt filling a position. We never try and turn the wrong people into call center staffers.

In this very challenging field, Accurate Staffing thrives in providing call center staffing solutions in the Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Northeast Ohio areas.

About Accurate Staffing

Accurate Staffing has a long and successful history of providing critical staffing solutions for a wide variety of industries and businesses, including:

We are centrally located in Northeast Ohio with offices in Akron (330.630.0700) and Canton (330.494.9675). With our national network and a database of more than 60,000 candidates, Accurate Staffing rapidly delivers talented, reliable workers.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help with your staffing needs.

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Medical Staffing

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starmanStaffing Services For The Medical Industry 

In the challenging and very competitive medical staffing field, Accurate Staffing stands apart from our competition in our ability to consistently provide qualified and reliable medical staffing for our customers. We have many years of experience in the healthcare staffing field, and our recruiters have extensive experience in finding candidates. Accurate Staffing is one of the few staffing agencies in Northeast Ohio that handles all levels of healthcare staffing requirements, from medical assistants to doctors and surgeons.

Accurate Staffing excels in the medical staffing industry due to the long nurtured personal relationships we have with medical institutions and medical training centers, as well as major hospital networks. Additionally, we use or extensive overseas network to assist with recruiting candidates who are willing to relocate to the Northeast Ohio area. We accept the challenge that comes with working in the healthcare staffing field and take great pride in our ability to find candidates with good qualifications and experience.

In our approach to fulfilling our customers’ requirements for their medical staffing needs, we provide a basic healthcare/medical assessment per position, unique to the degree and area of expertise of the candidate. Furthermore, we provide a national background check, personal references, drug testing, and multiple interviews to assemble into a package and connect the candidate directly with our customer.

In a field with such low staffing availability, Accurate Staffing thrives in providing medical staffing in the Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Northeast Ohio areas.

About Accurate Staffing

Accurate Staffing has a long and successful history of providing critical staffing solutions for a wide variety of industries and businesses, including:

We are centrally located in Northeast Ohio with offices in Akron (330.630.0700) and Canton (330.494.9675). With our national network and a database of more than 60,000 candidates, Accurate Staffing rapidly delivers talented, reliable workers.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help with your staffing needs.

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Winning The War For Talent

starmanMeeting The Staffing Challenges Of Our Customers 

With the labor market so tight and qualified and available workers in short supply, businesses are relying more and more on a qualified staffing agency to help manage their labor challenges. Accurate Staffing, Northeast Ohio’s Premiere Staffing Agency is meeting the challenges our customers are facing through a vast array of workplace staffing approaches and techniques.

Through our excessive regional networking which includes attending networking events, being an ambassador to local universities, and staying abreast with international candidates who are relocating to Northeast Ohio, we currently have a growing database of over 60,000 candidates with many skill sets.

Additionally, Accurate Staffing continues to invest in ourselves to find reliable workers for our customers. We recently launched a dynamic and modern new website where available jobs are posted and for which candidates can apply easily and quickly. We attend many job fairs on a regular basis and maintain close relationships with trade schools throughout Northeast Ohio. And we continue to pursue advertising with traditional media such as newspapers, radio, and yellow page listings.

When we are reviewing job candidates for placement, Accurate Staffing ensures we are providing qualified workers to our clients through a multifaceted approach that includes highly skilled software to assess a candidate’s core skill and behavioral strengths and opportunities. Additionally, we provide drug and background checks, conduct phone screenings, and an in-depth meeting to ensure the candidate is qualified. Finally, we maintain an open dialog with all our customers on candidates who we select that may have some of the skill sets required, and for whom we feel additional training may be an option to provide a good hire.

We don’t just send out bodies to fill job openings. Our main objective is to supply quality job candidates to our clients to build them a core work force through our temp-to-hire placements.

About Accurate Staffing

Accurate Staffing has a long and successful history of providing critical staffing solutions for a wide variety of industries and businesses, including:

We are centrally located in Northeast Ohio with offices in Akron (330.630.0700) and Canton (330.494.9675). With our national network and a database of more than 60,000 candidates, Accurate Staffing rapidly delivers talented, reliable workers.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help with your staffing needs.

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Tips For Having A Successful Interview

Tips For A Successful Interview

starmanTips for Having A Successful Interview 

You have put together a great resume and now you received that call for an interview! Make the most of your opportunity with the following tips for a successful interview:

Be on Time

First impressions are very important when trying to land a job and being late for an interview shows a lack of respect for the interviewer, the company, and even yourself! Plan your time to arrive ten to fifteen minutes early to give yourself a little extra cushion in case something unforeseen comes up on the way. This also allows you a few minutes to use the restroom if necessary, review your notes and mentally compose yourself for the interview. Avoid arriving very early, stay in your car until the appropriate time. 

Dress Appropriately

Again, first impressions. When you interview for a job, you want to look and feel your best. What you wear may vary based on the position and company for which you are applying, but in all cases it’s important to look professional and confident.

No Drinks

Avoid bringing a coffee, water or other drinks into the interview. During the interview you want to be focused on the questions and developing a rapport with the interviewer, not sipping on your drink.

Put Your Phone Away

You want to give your interviewer 100% of your attention, so silence your phone and stow it in your bag or pocket. Glancing at the time or who is messaging you could send a message to your potential employer that you are unable to focus and are easily distracted, or that you simply don’t care enough about the opportunity to give your full attention.

Body Language

Meeting with people goes beyond verbal communication. Your nonverbal gestures and movements can communicate a great deal to your interviewer. It’s important to maintain good eye contact with your interviewer while listening and speaking. Avoid crossing your arms and legs, as this signifies resistance to ideas or a defensive attitude. Sit with good posture, avoid fidgeting, and be confident.

Preparation is Key

Learn as much as you can about the company and position for which you are interviewing. Visit the company’s website and educate yourself on their business. Preparing thoroughly for your interview not only shows your interest for the company and opportunity, but also may help calm your nerves, help you feel more confident, and allow you to ask relevant questions about the company.

Avoid Badmouthing Past Employers

Regardless of how you really feel about past or present employers, it’s important to avoid badmouthing them in your interview. Doing so will suggest you may have a bad attitude, and your interviewer will wonder how you will talk about the them and their company if you’re are hired. Be professional and polite, you want to give the impression that you can work well with other people and handle conflicts effectively.

Follow Up

Following up after an interview shows your interest in the company and opportunity. Send a short thank-you email within 48 hours expressing your interest. You should make notes immediately after an interview so that you can cite specifics from the conversation.

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