How does Datapeople map my recruiting stages?
Recruiting stages can vary across companies and even departments. Datapeople maps your recruiting stages to five main stages, allowing for easy benchmarking and high-level process analysis.
When Datapeople first integrates with your Applicant Tracking System, we work with your Account Admins to ensure your stages are correctly mapped. Every company is different but here are some typical mappings:
| Application | This is the first stage for every applicant. |
| Screening | We define this as the first time your organization has a direct interaction with a candidate. Typically this is a phone screen with a recruiter (often after an application review stage). This can also include hiring manager phone screens or recruiter Skype interviews, as well as assessments or quizzes used as part of your screening processes. |
| Assessment | We define this as the first time your organization has an in-depth interaction with a candidate. These can include in-depth interviews (on-site or virtual), panel interviews, interview loops, as well as take-home assignments or other forms of job assessment. |
| Offer | The candidate receives a formal offer. |
| Hired | The candidate accepts the offer. |
With the above context in mind, we use a "first past the post" approach, where we consider any stage after the first direct interaction with a candidate a Screening stage until your first in-depth interaction with a candidate, which would be the first Interview stage.
Like in the second example above, if there is some form of assessment between phone screens (in this case an interview, but it can be a test) then the Hiring Manager phone screen is no longer considered a Screen, but an Assessment stage, because it comes after the first Interview.
If you think your stages have been mapped incorrectly or something looks off, please contact your Datapeople Account Rep.