An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. Gary Hamel
Does your business need some fresh talent? Here's how you find the best staff in a talent-short market.
1. Look Internally First
Do you have anyone in the business who can train in the role?
Is there anyone in the business who wants extra days?
Are your internal employees aware of the open role, and can they share it with their network or refer someone suitable?
2. Create a Great Culture
Great candidates want to work for an organisation with a great culture. An organisation with a strong identity will attract better talent.
A great culture will not be enough; there also needs to be a great recruiting and onboarding process; it has to be slick.
3. Benefits, Benefits, Benefits
Broadly speaking, you can attract talent with more generous benefits and workplace perks.
As with culture, it's a matter of finding the mix of benefits that reflect your company's ethos and that will attract staff who match.
Once you've found the right mix of benefits and culture, you need to shout about it – if you show off why your company is such a wonderful place to work, you'll do a better job of attracting staff.
4. Nail Your Job Ads
Ensure you give an accurate and detailed job description.
Have a clear role title and include relevant keywords to boost SEO.
Write the job ad clearly and leave out buzzwords or internal speak.
Outline your company's goals and plans so they know what they are getting into.
Clearly outline the salary and benefits, so potential candidates know whether or not to apply.
Ensure that you sell the role and business to potential applicants - why would they want to work for your organisation?
Be careful not to list your expectations and requirements without outlining what's in it for them.
5. Post in the Right Places
A perfectly crafted ad is excellent, but you must ensure you post in the right places. That means understanding where your perfect candidate hangs out.
A careers page on your website is a good start - outlining your open vacancies.
Posting on the leading job boards can be good, but there are also job boards, and industry pages you can post on that may have the audience you want to attract.
Social and business platforms often provide an excellent opportunity to attract passive candidates to your brand.
Additional features provided by all of the ways listed above enable you to pay more to reach more of an audience than traditional methods.
6. Forge Great Relationships
It could help to forge relationships with universities, other educational institutions, and industry bodies/networking groups to build your network with a greater chance of great talent contacting you directly or being referred to great team members.
7. Look Outside of the Box
Your next superstar employee might not tick every box, and their resume may not be extensive, but that doesn't mean they're not worth hiring. Personality traits, skills, and talents make a candidate worth hiring – rather than what's written on their resume or the jobs they've done in the past.
Hold on to resumes and candidate details as you hire for various positions in your business. A candidate may have yet to be suitable in the past, but they could be the perfect fit in the future.
8. Ask the Right Questions
Interviews are a vital part of the hiring process, and you've got to ask the best questions possible if you want to make sure that you make the right decision about new staff members.
9. Go to the Professionals
Finding and hiring staff is difficult, especially if you work in a business where your staff don't have much experience in that area.
Our team have assisted thousands of organisations in finding the right talent for their business - saving them time and money in the long run; contact us if you need any help or advice.
10, Getting the job done
Finding and hiring your next top talent can be expensive, confusing, and time-consuming – but it doesn't have to be.
If you apply these top tips, you can better find the best people for your business – and keep them for the long term. And when your people are vital to business success, there's nothing more important.
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