If you dread hearing the words “we need to hire for an open position”, you’re not alone! Creating a hiring process that’s a positive experience for everyone involved can be tough! That’s why I was intrigued when I heard Sophia O’Rourke talking about how she turned her company’s convoluted hiring process into one that she deemed “Plug and Play”. 

Sophia loves to build people initiatives and processes that allow her to create something from the ground up. And that’s exactly what she has done in her current role as Director of People & Culture at Newstory. Sophia set out to build a hiring process that was a positive experience for everyone involved - her People Ops team, hiring managers, and the candidates themselves - and joined us to share her journey. 

Learn from her experience in this episode and then check out the incredible templates she has shared with us!

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Where to begin when overhauling your hiring process.
• How to sort issues into four categories: Automate, Templatize, Delegate, Eliminate.
• Where in your hiring process you can create templates to do 90% of repetitive tasks. 

MENTIONED RESOURCES/LINKS

• We gathered Sophia’s templates into a single document to share with the Want To Work There community, including one for a hiring process framework, creating job descriptions, candidate communications, and more!

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• Connect with her on LinkedIn
• Her employer, New Story Homes, is hiring!

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