Here you are, in a market of talent getting snapped up before you can even shake their hand, but you’ve managed to bag multiple incredibly talented creative candidates. You’re now in the tough situation of moving quickly, choosing, and making sure you make the right decision. No one is pretending this is easy.

We have put together a few questions/thoughts to consider when choosing.


1. What do they add to your workplace culture?
   

It’s really important to make sure that a candidate fits in with your workplace culture, your culture is essential to your brand. When it comes to a new member of the team, you need to make sure that they can add value to your culture as well. Only hiring those that FIT into your culture runs the risk of lack of diversity, lack of new ideas. You need to hire based on candidates that can contribute and add to your culture. 



2. What do their soft skills look like?
   

Soft skills are significant and often overlooked. Don’t overlook them. One of the candidates could bring something that adds to your workplace culture and completely aligns with your brand values, something that isn’t on their resume or reflected in their folio. It could be creative flair, communication, collaboration, or even empathy.

3. Ask what skills are critical to business success?
   

You’ve gotten to the point where you have found that talent, you’ve found the skills, you’re ready to rock and roll. The only trouble is, you’ve found it times two! Chances are they’re both ideal candidates, so now it's time to assess what it is YOU really need. Which skills are more important and which are most critical to your business needs. As no two people are the same, so there will be certain skills from one you require more.

4. Are you thinking ahead?
   

What’s the big goal? Where is the business going to be in a few years time? These are the questions you should ask yourself when trying to decide between multiple candidates. You may not just need skills for the here and now. A candidate may bring skills that are essential to the growth of your business, or one candidate may have the drive to learn more than the other. This means that one candidate would be better thinking ahead.

5. Ask someone else, get that second opinion.

Have you overthought it? Is this one of those things that you just can't decide? Ask someone else. Get a fresh perspective and get unbiased, unfiltered opinions on resumes and in interviews. This can even go as far as getting them in to meet the team they will be working with. The current team will tell you immediately what they think…



Don't forget!

You definitely should not take too long to choose between candidates, talent is getting snapped up quicker than you could even write up a job brief. You’ll find that the best candidates out there are currently interviewing for multiple roles. Don’t leave them hanging, if you have the opportunity to be deciding between multiple candidates, consider the above and get back to them as quick as you can. Offer the best compensation, benefits and working conditions that you can to the successful candidate and provide detailed, reassuring feedback to those that are unsuccessful. Keep in touch, as you don’t want to burn a bridge that you may want to cross down the line.

How can Artisan help?

If you want a smoother experience and want to hand over your recruitment to the experts, give us a call on (03) 9514 1000 or email us, and we can help get those multiple references, interviewed and experienced candidates in-front of you. We specialise in creative and digital recruitment, freelance and permanent, on-site, hybrid and work from home. You name it, we can help you out.