Multiple Openings Requisition

How does your company handle posting a requisition which has multiple openings? Do you post the position once and hire multiple people against the requisition behind the scenes or do you post a requisition for each opening and candidates apply for all. (ex. 25 customer service reps are needed at the same location)

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Permalink Reply by Brian Christopher on November 7, 2011 at 3:01pm

We post each job opening....25 times if we need too...

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Permalink Reply by Josh Peek on November 8, 2011 at 11:44am

It might depend on how the customer measures headcount. Some have the ability to ability to hire multiples on one specific req and others need to open a separate req for each position. In either case, this sounds like a perfect time to mention an "employee referral program."

This is also a good time to leverage those runner-up candidates or silver medalists.

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Permalink Reply by Valentino Martinez on November 12, 2011 at 5:05pm

A master requisition is posted. As each hire is confirmed a single requisition is assigned a sequential number (or number and dash number) e.g., 7342712-1, -2, -3, etc., until all jobs are filled. It is done this way because HR (Benefits) & Payroll require an official job requisition number to assign to each new hire to accommodate their pay, sick pay, pension, benefits--as well as for accounting/tracking purposes.