{"id":54973,"date":"2018-11-27T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=54973"},"modified":"2022-05-01T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T08:28:49","slug":"the-big-date-a-talk-suggested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/the-big-date-ein-gespraech-genuegt\/","title":{"rendered":"The big date: one conversation is enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than one in two employers in Germany has already lost a preferred applicant due to the long waiting time before a personnel decision is made. This is the alarming result of a labor market study among HR managers.<\/p>\n<p>This is primarily due to the increasing shortage of skilled workers: Those who can choose from several attractive job offers do not have to wait in a nerve-wracking manner for feedback from a single employer. SAP provider and user companies in particular will therefore no longer be able to avoid significantly streamlining their recruiting processes in the future.<\/p><div id=\"great-378039758\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en great-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZGXMPyM-nU\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"banner_26-04_29_1200x150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Of the 55,000 vacant IT positions currently deplored by the IT industry association Bitkom, a high percentage are in the SAP area. If the competition snatches a top candidate away from an SAP partner at the last minute, this can have a lasting impact on the company's own growth and competitiveness.<\/p>\n<h3>No grueling waiting time<\/h3>\n<p>There is a proven way to noticeably shorten the hiring process. Instead of letting several weeks or even months pass between the initial contact with a candidate and the final personnel decision, employers should focus on a single interview for each interesting applicant.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of several grueling rounds of interviews on different days, a total of four hours should be scheduled once, during which the candidate is interviewed for one hour each by four different interviewees: first by the HR manager, then by the department head and future colleagues, and finally by the managing director.<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The big date: one conversation is enough\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54974\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner.jpg\" alt=\"Frank-Rechsteiner\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner.jpg 800w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-720x720.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Rechsteiner-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Decision in retreat<\/h3>\n<p>Immediately after this round of interviews, the interview partners should go into seclusion and together make a definitive decision for or against the interviewed candidate. If they are convinced of him and want to work with him, there is no need for interviews with further candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Equally crucial to creating a positive application experience, the so-called candidate experience, is not keeping candidates in the dark about the personnel decision for long.<\/p>\n<p>In concrete terms, this means that if an applicant is successful, he or she should receive his or her employment contract the very next day - first by e-mail, then in parallel by mail. All other candidates should be rejected immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n<h3>Appreciation for candidates<\/h3>\n<p>Numerous experiences prove that companies can noticeably increase their completion rates with a single interview. This is because the much sought-after SAP professionals in particular feel valued by short and transparent hiring processes and also conclude from this the quality of the employer and the corporate culture.<\/p>\n<p>If, on the other hand, the feeling arises right at the start that one's own career is being held back by a lengthy decision-making process, many specialists and executives will drop out while the application process is still underway. This has serious consequences for companies:<\/p>\n<p>Too few new hires stop projects and lower the quality of their services.<\/p>\n<h3>The first date must spark<\/h3>\n<p>In the private sphere, \"the big date\" refers to a meeting where two partners hit it off right away. As practice shows, this term can easily be applied to SAP recruiting as well: One meeting is enough to find out whether applicants and the company harmonize.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, SAP employers in particular should integrate \"The big date\" as a standard process in their recruiting and actively persuade all company representatives involved to do so, for example within the framework of workshops - starting with HR managers through the specialist departments to the management.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of scaring off coveted SAP candidates with lengthy hiring processes, employers should focus on a single interview per candidate - and make the hiring decision immediately 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