Don’t let resumes pile up until the closing date on a job post (or another date in the future, like the end of the week). Work your recruiting desk in real time. We have a shared recruiting desk, which means a team of centralized representatives is notified when a candidate applies with us and a representative reaches out for a phone screen as quickly as possible. (Don’t fret, our local branch office teams still conduct in-office, face-to-face interviews—the next step in our hiring process!) By reducing our post-application outreach to under two hours, we increased in-office interview show rates by 21% early last year. And we’re racing against the clock again this year by further reducing our outreach time to mere minutes. Working a job post in real time increases the number of candidates who will complete an interview, which can reduce the time-to-fill rate—and who doesn’t want to do that?