Calendly

The Great Resignation is real. Hard to believe? Look around. Each week, a new e-farewell card is being signed. Whether it is a promising new starter giving notice or a long-time colleague parting ways with their team—people are leaving their jobs in droves. In fact, 2021 was a record-shattering year with approximately 47.4 million people voluntarily quitting according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover report released December.

For recruiters and HR professionals, the Great Resignation, along with the retirement of baby boomers and the gaining prevalence of distributed work has led them into a bout of turmoil as they struggle to retain and attract qualified candidates. To compete and thrive in today’s remote and hybrid work pivots, HR leaders are undergoing a digital transformation as they critically assess their tech stacks to arm their recruiters with the ultimate integrated software and tools.

Enter Calendly—the silver bullet for the herculean recruitment scheduling process—an efficient and seamless way to schedule, prepare, and follow up on external meetings, all while providing an exceptional candidate experience in the process.

Calendly Supports Scheduling Across The Candidate Journey, Ensuring You’re Getting Your Candidate In Front Of The Right People Internally In The Most Timely Manner Possible.

Calendly Founder and CEO Tope Awotona created the platform nearly a decade ago with the user experience at the forefront to be the most simple, efficient way to schedule external meetings. Today, the company’s viral, product-led growth speaks volumes about the value of the product. As a global leader in scheduling automation, Calendly is bringing more knowledge workers and organizations together to be more productive and collaborative across industries. Recruiters have taken note and it’s shaping their funnel strategy.

“Our goal is to build features that will help knowledge workers be more productive, which in HR’s case means increasing the number of meetings recruiters are having with candidates, converting qualified applicants to employees, and most importantly, creating a delightful candidate experience throughout the process,” says Alka Tandon, Head of Product, Enterprise, Ecosystem at Calendly.

The company’s vision is clear. With more than 10 million users spanning nearly 120 countries, ranging from individuals, teams, and enterprises made up of recruiters, sales representatives, customer success managers, and teachers, Calendly is challenging one of the most broken parts of meetings, scheduling. Users trust the company for its simple, sophisticated, meaningful, and intuitive features designed explicitly for meeting collaboration needs.

Delivering the Imperative Need for Streamlined Recruitment Scheduling

Speed is essential for both parties across today’s competitive hiring landscape. With Calendly, recruiters can automate the scheduling of phone screenings, intro calls, reference checks, follow-up panel interviews, and onboarding meetings. They can connect up to six calendars like Gmail and Outlook, customize their hours of availability, and then send a personalized link to candidates through email or text.

Moreover, users have more control over their schedules as Calendly allows them to set daily meeting limits to manage the number of meetings accepted. The solution also has provisions for ensuring interviewers are never double-booked.

Candidates, on the other hand, enjoy the benefits of choosing available times through the scheduling link, whereupon meeting information is automatically added to all parties’ calendars. With Calendly Workflows, they also receive automatic meeting reminders via email or SMS to help reduce no-shows. By letting qualified candidates schedule asynchronously via Calendly, recruiters are giving candidates flexibility to book at their convenience while providing a more streamlined experience and accelerating their hiring pipeline.

Purpose-built Functionalities to Support Complex Scheduling

Calendly is simple to use and can seamlessly support both individual and complex team scheduling scenarios.

“Scheduling is already a time-intensive and manual process when you’re coordinating between just two people, like a hiring manager and a candidate. When you add in the complexities of multi-person interviews, the number of back-and-forths increase exponentially,” says Tandon. “Calendly supports scheduling across the candidate journey, ensuring you’re getting your candidate in front of the right people internally in the most timely manner possible.”

Integrations with the Applications Recruiters and Candidates Love

When time is of the essence, meeting recruiters and candidates where they’re already working is a massive benefit. It’s also one of Calendly’s strongest differentiators. Calendly integrates with the applications recruiters rely on, such as LinkedIn, Greenhouse, Lever, JazzHR, iCIMS, and more.

As of this month, the company now offers Calendly for Chrome and Calendly for Firefox browser extensions within LinkedIn Messaging and LinkedIn Recruiter to help candidates and recruiters efficiently and seamlessly schedule meetings directly through the professional network. The move makes sense too— 650k+ companies use LinkedIn Talent Solutions to find, source, and hire talent according to LinkedIn’s February Workforce Report. More broadly, Calendly’s browser extensions save users a click. They can access meeting event templates and times directly from their web browser or embed times in an email, making it even easier for the recipient to book.

Its ‘integration-prowess’ doesn’t end there. The company integrates with over 100 platforms, including Salesforce, Zoom, Slack, PayPal, and Stripe, to name a few, eliminating the hassle of switching between multiple applications. Recruiters can easily route essential meeting details, attachments, and correspondence to their candidate management database after the meeting.

One of many testaments to Calendly’s value proposition is the success story of Stanley Steemer, a 75 years old residential and commercial cleaning company. The company sought to fillupwards of 2000 technician vacancies across the country. Their team of recruiters and individual branch managers found themselves challenged with coordinating schedules for candidates due to multiple time zones and locations nationwide.

Using Calendly, Stanley Steemer enabled technician candidates to apply for a job and schedule their own interviews at local branch offices. As a result, the client scheduled 58,000 interviews in five months, a significant increase from the previous monthly average of 500 interviews.