Perwell

Problem Statement  

How might we help recruiters keep candidates engaged throughout the hiring process using information candidates will find informative and useful, increasing the likelihood of a quality hire?

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Problem Background  

An employer brand is a combination of different elements, which include the company culture, employee experience, reputation, leadership, employee engagement, and social and online presence. Companies actively investing in employer brand can reduce turnover by as much as 28% and reduce the cost per hire by as much as 50%. Even with all the benefits of an employer brand, we discover through user research that candidates, in some cases, are having a difficult time finding information that makes up an employer brand that they perceive as accurate or,  in other cases, they are having trouble finding any information at all.

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Research Insights

To validate the problem space, I conducted 10 recruiter user interviews and distributed a survey to the same user base that received 9 responses, Additionally, because my product has multiple users, I conducted research among 18 job seekers via a user survey. 

Recruiter Pain Points

• “Sharing employee experience from the website or having it there for candidates to reference is critical, but it's not always accessible. Candidates have shared thats what helped them make their decision, and they were referencing and post I made years ago.”
• “I need to be able to share tidbits of information with candidates about the company and the opportunity as they progress through the process.0”
• “I need to be able to connect candidates to the hiring team or leadership, but time can be a limiting factor.”

Job Seeker Pain Points

• “It’s hard to gather consensus. It seems that most people to feel compelled to write about their experiences are doing so to share something negative. The positive is rare.. that makes me skeptical.”
• “Sometimes people don't reply on LinkedIn, your interviewee will likely only say good things.”
• “Can't always find experiences.”
• “Transparency”

Supporting Data from User Surveys

• Nearly 80% of recruiter respondents believe being able to address questions about the employee experience is necessary to be an effective recruiter, 70% of those respondents felt that their employers have not equipped them with the tools or resources to address those types of questions. 
• Over 33% of recruiter respondents felt hiring teams or internal employees don’t have the time to talk to candidates.
• 91% of candidate respondents feel that uncovering information about and related to the employee experience is difficult to find because the sources, such as recruiters, interviewers, and anonymous contributors on Blind and Glassdoor, are perceived as compromised or the information is not accessible online or people that have it that are not personal contacts are not easily accessible.
• 50% of candidate respondents mentioned using online research via a google search or 3rd party sites to find information. 
• 50% of candidate respondents mentioned having peer-to-peer chats with a past or current employees they know or via cold outreach.

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Landing on the Solution

Perwell is a platform that will build or enhance a company's employer brand by giving them and their recruiters the ability to showcase their culture, employee experiences, employee engagement, and leadership through employee video narratives. We will do this through the following: 

1. Enabling recruiters to send video narrative requests composed of single or multiple prompts to individuals or groups of people within the company. 
2. Alerting employees to the recruiters’ requests and prompting the activation of the camera on their device.
3. Enabling employees to submit an unprompted request using predefined video categories. 
4. Enabling the recruiter to approve content ready to be publish to the central job-seeker-facing platform and later to an integration on the company website.
5. Enabling job-seekers to search through the library of video narratives to discover and research companies

Using this solution, we believe recruiters and companies will gain candidate trust because they have enabled employees to share their insight, and candidates will access for more data than they previously had, which will increase the likelihood of a company-candidate fit, ultimately reduce attrition. 

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Future Steps

As for the next steps, I look forward to building an MVP and getting the platform in front of recruiters and candidates alike to help inform future versions of the product, which may allow the uploading of videos from a file, and the creation of company and candidate profiles to name a few.

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