Improving assessment completion rates doesn’t require overhauling your entire hiring process, but it does benefit from thoughtful, layered improvements over time.

We’ve found that the most effective hiring teams boost completion rates by focusing on two key areas:

🧩 What You Can Do Within Spark Hire Meet

These are the tools and settings you can control directly in the platform. Even small tweaks here can make a big difference — from humanizing the experience to removing friction that causes candidates to drop off.

Here’s what you can do:

• Brand the Experience
• Send SMS Invites to Increase Visibility
• Set Realistic Deadlines for Candidates
• Enable Deadline Extensions
• Optimize Your Assessment Settings
• Use Videos to Build Trust and Connection

Each feature can be adopted incrementally. No need to do everything at once.

👉 Article:  Explore what you can do within Spark Hire Meet

🧠 What You Can Do Outside the Platform

Some of the biggest factors that impact completion happen before candidates ever get to Spark Hire Meet. That’s where strategic communication and hiring process design come into play.

Here’s what helps:

• Communicate Where the Assessment Fits
• Be Transparent About the Job and Company
• Move Quickly Between Hiring Stages
• Be Intentional About Assessment Placement
• Understand (and Accept) Natural Drop-Off

These strategies help set expectations, reduce confusion, and keep the right candidates engaged from the start.

👉 Article:  Explore what you can do outside Spark Hire Meet

💡 Final Thought

You don’t have to implement every change at once. Focus on one or two improvements, evaluate the impact, and build from there. Completion rates are the outcome of a well-designed candidate experience and Spark Hire Meet gives you the flexibility to shape that experience over time.