what3words ///straight.to.interview
Here at Bamboo, we love tech. We love its ability to transform, simplify, and streamline everyday tasks.
We’re on a constant digital transformation journey, analysing every facet of our candidate and client journeys to see how we can effect transformational and incremental change.
The last 15 months have seen a marked shift to online interviews. This has given us some time to cast a critical eye over the candidate experience, and find ways to improve it for when we return to the ‘new normal’.
We surveyed 300 candidates who attended interviews via Bamboo. One of the key stress points that emerged was finding the office.
Candidates said the nature of interviewing for jobs (while employed) means you have to cut as much as you can out of your diary, so there’s ample time to wander up and down roads looking for the office.
This problem was particularly an issue for our London-based candidates. London’s streets are a marvel of ad-hoc construction, having grown with the times rather than to any grand plan.
While this creates a warren of intrigue, it’s a challenge to find a specific address.
Precision exactitude is required. With this in mind, we had a chat with Keith Leddington, Senior Partnerships Lead at What3Words HQ.
If you’re not familiar with the company, they’ve broken the entire planet into a grid of 57 x 1012,3 meter x 3-meter squares - each with a unique 3-word reference. 3 meters x 3 meters gets you straight to the door, for example, ///Luxury.Thigh.Pilots will land you on Bamboo’s doorstep.
We’ve now incorporated this tech into our interview confirmation process, and moving forward, every candidate will receive an email containing a What3Words reference and a picture of the office door. This means you can spend your journey to the interview running through examples, safe in the knowledge that you’ll be guided straight to the door.
We’re always keen to speak with companies whose tech might make our candidates’ and clients’ lives easier.
If you have a solution that might help, get in touch. Equally, if you’ve experienced a solution that made life easier while searching for a job or carrying out a recruitment process, we’d love to hear your thoughts.