How Lower Dauphin School District Extends Candidate Resumes With Spark Hire Video Interviews

Ultimately we wanted to save time. We did not want to be five minutes into a 30+ minute interview already knowing that the candidate wasn't the right fit. We wanted to feel like we were meeting the "best of the best" candidates for each position. Using Spark Hire has helped us have more quality applicants in every interview process.

Spark Hire ultimately eliminated our phone interview/screen. We did not use video interviewing consistently before, but rather only in special circumstances. Now that we use Spark Hire, however, we begin with video interviews with almost every job opening because it is that helpful.

Our main goal was simple: find a tool that would be easy to use by all parties - hiring managers, candidates, and HR alike.

The platform's simple design and the continual work put into enhancing it. We really enjoyed knowing that if the tool did not have exactly what we needed, we could ask and the Spark Hire team could explore the option to further advance the tool. We have continued to work with Spark Hire because our representatives have always been willing to help us better utilize the tool and improve our functionality with it.

Seamless! We partnered with our representative and walked through a demonstration and then a real-life position together. The ability to partner and communicate with one another through the whole process was great!

We have 80% of our applicants complete the video interview through Spark Hire. It assists us by eliminating candidates who self-select not to move forward in our process once they see the type of questions we ask. Spark Hire also helps advance quality candidates for the next step within the interview process. Our hiring managers previously had challenges in candidate selection because we would present such variable candidates. Since we introduced Spark Hire, the hiring managers choose candidates much quicker because only the best of the best meet our video interviewing standards.

We began by reviewing paper applications and selecting candidates to be phone interviewed/screened or we moved directly into a full in-person interview process.

This was relatively easy to do - we showed them the demonstration provided by Spark Hire and they were hooked. Spark Hire also let us "sample" the tool for a position before purchasing because they stand behind their product so much.

When we can have multiple people reviewing candidates at the same time, reviewing candidates' uploaded resumes, and provide feedback through the tool to summarize where we are all at in review of EACH candidate. Specifically looking at our high volume candidates (think Elementary Teacher) we are able to truly see the best of the best during in-person interviews and lesson demonstrations because of how thorough our review with Spark Hire was.

When doing a cost benefit analysis based on the quality candidates that we review, it is clearly one of the best investments we have made. We have reduced the amount of time in "wasted" interviews - which is precious time for school administration. We have also been able to use Spark Hire as the first true extension of a candidate's resume - and hear them speak about their experiences.

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