Five Tips to Find Winning Candidates
HR Magazine recently reported on the increasing challenge of finding good candidates. It’s a problem facing every type of organisation, from the global giants all the way through to small family-run businesses.
Success through traditional classified advertising and recruitment agencies depends on potential candidates actively looking for a new role. Here are a few tips to help any recruiter seek out those elusive passive candidates.
- Spread your recruitment resources. There’s no one perfect channel to recruit through.
- Incentivise your employees to recruit for you! Employee referral schemes can be a rich vein of great quality candidates.
- Ask your employees to be brand ambassadors through their social media channels. This will help to find those passive candidates who might just be tempted to jump ship your way!
- Create a solid profile of your ideal candidate. Use this with targeted pay-per-click advertising.
- Finally, hiring managers need to be better at assessing candidates. They can’t do a good job if they lack the necessary interview skills and assessment information. Get your candidates assessed and your interviewers trained to use those assessments for best results.
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