The recruitment process can be very time-consuming and expensive. From headhunting eligible candidates to interviewing a select few can be extremely tedious. Recruitment agencies are continuously looking for tips and tricks to enhance their hiring process.
Creating your own recruitment process is advisable. Every organization has its own need. Following the stereotype process cannot work for every organization.
How to recruit some of the best available talents in your organization? Is there any easy way to follow?
We have tracked down 3 effective steps that can help you leverage your resources for hiring top talent.
Improve Your Recruitment Process In These 3 Easy Steps
1) Detailed Job Posting
Generate a clear vacancy ad: An effective and to-the-point job ad is essential for attracting fine talents. First things first, construct your job posting as clear as possible. This is the only way potential candidates can come to know how serious your job openings are.
Bogus and clickbait titles like: ‘Best opportunity for college graduates’ can be misleading and can attract not-so-efficient candidates.
- Mention job requirements: Rather than focusing on the design, focus on the written content of the ad. Mention clearly what is required by the candidate for the said job opening.
- Generalize ‘must-have’ and ‘nice-to-have qualities’ so the candidates can understand whether to apply or not. This efficiently narrows down the talent pool and the interviewing process becomes easy. The time-consumption lessens which in turn maximizes the hiring efficiency.
- Highlight your company culture: One strong reason when a candidate applies for a job posting is, the company profile of the employer. Specify the achievements of your company and elegantly mention the uniqueness your company offers. This shall give worthy candidates compelling reasons to apply.
2) Build a Talent Pipeline
Creating talent pipelines are all about securing the candidates long before their talents are needed. This buys recruitment agencies time to properly analyze the candidates and providing them with better opportunities. How can you build such pipelines to galvanize your hiring process?
- Firstly, Plan beforehand. Jot down the entire process before rushing into one. Prior to posting a specific job ad, define your career page. This helps candidates navigate all opportunities they can gain with you. The posted job might not interest them, but the career page will make them come for more.
- Attracting them is one thing and keeping them is different. Build your profile in such a way that the candidates become hungry for more. Secure an area for client reviews. They can be in interactive forms like videos and testimonials. This gives candidates a clear-cut idea of your company workings.
- Secondly, Once you have attracted the candidates what next is making them stay. Let’s face it, the recruitment market is very dynamic. If at all the process from application to the interview selection is delayed, the candidates will go on the look-out for other options.
- To avoid this, keep your hired talents in a loop. Keep them updated on the ongoing process. Be honest with them about further opportunities and stay in touch with them. Small conversations can run a long way. After this, leave it up to them about how they want to keep in touch.
3) Leverage your Candidate Sourcing
You cannot sit and expect candidates to knock at your door, and you can also not put foot-in-mouth by asking candidates to apply. In such a case, you have to leverage all your possible resources to bifurcate and bring out the best of the best.
- Optimize your Social Media: Being active on social media can change the recruitment game for you. Start posting on the internet because it the cheapest way of attracting talented candidates.
- Create Referrals: Creating referral programs can incentivize candidate recommendations. Offer monetary application like, if the recommended person is hired and exceeds 3 months probation, a monetary incentive will be offered.
- Attend events: Attend community and corporate events where you know the professionals come.
The hiring process is not one day thing. it is a continuous process of giving and taking back. Expand your resources and further your headhunting process. You might not know where your best-talented candidates are hidden.
