Recruiting is never easy, but when done right, it can be extremely rewarding, successful, and profitable.
By taking a creative, intentional approach, you can connect with quality candidates, drive enthusiasm about your open position and your company, and sharpen your competitive edge in the talent marketplace.
Your specific objectives might include more applicants, shorter hiring times, reduced hiring costs, or better matches overall, building both performance and retention. Whatever your end goals, here are some proven tools to help you achieve them:
Offering Flexibility
Whether it’s the right work/life balance or tailored benefits package, flexibility is key to your hiring success. The days of one size fitting all in terms of schedules or compensation are long, long gone.
- Be openminded about your remote or hybrid work policy. If your business is not conducive to people working from home, allow for schedule flexibility to accommodate various individual needs.
- The same holds true for benefits. Treat each potential hire separately and uniquely. What matters most for one may differ greatly during the next recruitment campaign.
Compelling Job Postings
Your job posting is one of the first impressions a candidate has of your company and employer brand, so make every one count. Clarity while being concise, as well as painting an attractive picture of a role and life within your organization, are key considerations.
Employee Referrals
Often, attracting the best talent requires you to look no further than under your own roof. Turn to your current employees – your top brand ambassadors – as valuable referral sources. Implement a robust employee referral program to encourage current team members to reach out to like-minded professionals. Their credibility among their peers can’t be beat.
Social Media
Use not only LinkedIn and Facebook, but whatever blend of social platforms make the most sense, to appeal to the job seekers you’re looking to attract to your open job. This often means niche as well as more general platforms. As with all your hiring tools, be creative and step outside the box to make your brand stand out in a positive way.
- Weave social recruiting into your employee referral efforts, too. Encourage and assist your current workforce in sharing your job openings, as well behind-the-scenes content about your organization, on their own social media pages.
The Candidate Experience
From point of first contact through effective, efficient hiring and thorough onboarding, strive to maximize every aspect of your candidate experience. Treat each potential and new hire like the invaluable customer they are.
- A word on onboarding: Don’t skimp or cut corners. You have too much at stake: Research has shown that almost 40 percent of people who have been with their company for less than six months plan to leave and find another job. Not a statistic you want to be part of: you have, simply, invested too much.
Are you looking for a recruitment partner who can help you meet your ongoing temporary, temp-to-hire and permanent staffing needs? If so, reach out to PrideStaff Modesto today.
