Opening Doors: Timely & Constructive Feedback in Recruitment
Opening Doors: Timely & Constructive Feedback in Recruitment
Practical guidance to help employers provide timely, constructive feedback and create a more inclusive candidate experience.
Clear, useful feedback helps candidates understand recruitment decisions and improve future applications. But with growing application volumes, providing individual feedback to every applicant can be challenging.
This guide from Business in the Community (BITC) helps employers implement a new action in the refreshed Opening Doors Framework: providing constructive feedback at key recruitment stages, including to candidates who are not shortlisted. It explains how to use relevant, standardised feedback early on and more personalised feedback after interview or assessment.
About this guide
Designed for HR, recruitment, hiring managers, early careers and EDI teams, the guide includes:
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