Learn why people are at the heart of our Talent Acquisition Team

Expertise Acquisition (TA), in its easiest phrases, is the title given to the function of attracting and hiring new staff. But, it includes much more than being an interview accomplice.

In our TA staff, we deal with a individuals first hiring method. This implies we take into account not solely the talents that somebody has, but additionally them as an individual that has a singular story, traits and wishes. This performs a component into why our staff love their roles – listed below are some insights:

Having the ability to meet individuals from all around the world, from completely different walks of life and to hearken to their tales could be very inspiring. I really like having the ability to join with individuals and to make the method of getting their dream job pleasurable, stress free and interesting.

Shona

For me, Expertise Acquisition is rather a lot about establishing relationships. It’s about attending to know candidates as an individual and actually making a match that may in the end profit each their profession and the corporate’s growth. One in all my favourite components in TA is getting to speak with a wide range of individuals each day, and studying about their background and their pursuits. I additionally actually get pleasure from talking with them one-two-three months into the job, and discovering out they’re nonetheless actually having fun with it. It’s actually rewarding to see that they love their new profession path. I believe TA made me extra understanding of individuals and their conditions.

Dora

“It’s nice to get to know individuals from all around the world, and I find yourself studying one thing new from each candidate, which is fascinating. TA is not only in regards to the firm, but additionally in regards to the individuals – what strikes them, how they’ll contribute and develop themselves. It’s very fulfilling to see that somebody you employed is doing effectively at their function and having fun with working at Runtastic, it reveals that it was the appropriate match.

Felipe

Our love for individuals and serving to others is what retains us going, even on busy days. We see an individual behind every utility, even once we obtained round 2500 functions and held over 300 interviews final 12 months! 

We try for excellent candidate expertise

The variety of functions could also be excessive, however so is our want to offer an awesome candidate expertise!

It’s outlined as the sensation of the candidate when transferring by way of the hiring technique of an organization. It begins in the mean time they arrive throughout the job advert and extends to their final step within the course of, be it a rejection message or a suggestion to affix the staff.

Between these two factors there are lots of variables that may affect the candidate expertise: how the interviews are arrange, how the communication is dealt with and the way the touchpoints with the professionals are, simply to call just a few.

In a method, these are the “enterprise card” of the corporate and so they give a primary impression about how the group runs and what it’s prefer to work there.

At Runtastic, we attempt to offer an excellent candidate expertise that displays our values and we’re consistently contemplating new practices on the best way to be even higher.

Permitting time to get to know candidates on a private stage within the interviews, use of inclusive language, well timed communication – we attempt to get again to candidates inside every week – and clear suggestions are a few of the measures we’ve in place to realize that.

We all the time present personalised and particular suggestions when somebody doesn’t make it additional within the course of, whatever the stage they’re in. All of us have appeared for a task in some unspecified time in the future, and we all know how irritating it’s not to get a solution after investing a lot effort and time within the utility or in an interview.

By reasoning our determination, we give candidates our perspective on which factors they may have completed higher and, subsequently, the prospect to work on these for the following utility – be it at Runtastic or wherever else!

As talked about, we meet lots of completely different individuals, who’ve completely different gender identities, completely different (skilled) experiences, completely different sexual orientations, are completely different ages, the checklist goes on! Everyone seems to be completely different and it’s these variations that make us distinctive and invaluable.

This is the reason DEI (Variety, Fairness and Inclusion) practices are essential in our daily work; we would like everybody to convey their true self to interviews and really feel comfy in doing so. On high of this, we need to guarantee each candidate is handled equally and pretty, with minimized bias in our processes.

At Runtastic, we observe a holistic DEI method, which entails that TA is a predominant pillar of our DEI technique, so this matter is given lots of significance in our decision-making course of.

An instance of what we’ve applied are structured interview assessments to make sure an goal analysis of every (inner or exterior) candidate, creation of a guidebook for our Hiring Managers so all concerned in interviews are skilled and effectively ready for an inclusive interview in addition to upping our information sport to make sure we’re reaching our TA DEI objectives, corresponding to an elevated range of our candidate pool. In all of this, we’re additionally intently collaborating with our Inclusion Brokers, staff members with no background in TA that herald a unique perspective and assist us drive the subject ahead.

In hiring, it’s naturally necessary that the candidate is a match for the corporate when it comes to values alignment and technical abilities. Nonetheless, it’s additionally very important that the corporate is a match for the candidate. If these expectations are mismatched, it’s possible that the individual received’t be capable to carry out to their full potential and that their stint received’t be too lengthy.

We try to make sure match for either side throughout the course of, giving candidates the chance to ask questions at any time throughout the interviews or asynchronously through e-mail. And, over the last spherical of chats we give candidates the choice to come back to Austria to satisfy the staff, or have a digital chat with them. This manner, the candidate can know who they’d be working with, get genuine insights into what it’s prefer to be a Runtastic, and resolve if that matches their expectations.

“The most effective a part of the method was attending to know my new colleagues in an extended name. I loved assembly the entire staff and chatting with them”, stated Jacqueline, who was employed in 2022 as a Social Media Advertising Strategist.

“What I actually appreciated is that you simply get to speak about your private aspect, not solely about your skilled aspect. It was good, since you get a greater feeling for the opposite individual”, she added.

“Future steps within the hiring course of have been very effectively communicated, and deadlines have been clear. There was no ready for this one electronic mail, it was all the time on time and also you all the time bought a solution and suggestions.”

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