Mike Andes says the flood of job applications after 2020 led to sloppy hiring in lawn care and home service. He uses video screening to filter candidates: either Spark Hire, a dedicated platform, or a DIY method linking Google Forms to Indeed applications so applicants submit short video answers on their phone.
this didn't work back in 2020 and 2021 because we were all just like, if someone could just have a heartbeat, we'd hire them. Now you're going to be overwhelmed with so many applicants that you actually make bad hiring decisions because you're overwhelmed with the number of applications. And so you actually need to create more filters in the hiring process. And I would implement video. We use Spark Hire, but like we get it for all our owners for free, so they don't pay $500 a month. I would not use Spark Hire if you're just doing that many employees. It's pretty expensive, but you could very easily have like a Google form They, and again, that link to the Google Form could just be sent automatically from Indeed as soon as they apply. So they apply on Indeed, automation triggers out, sends them a text message, here's a link to a Google Form, please answer these 2 or 3 questions, uh, and submit the videos right from your phone. Google Forms isn't so bad, it's not like the perfect user interface, but it's good enough for them to open it up, make a video of themselves, attach it, and submit it back to you.
