There needs to be a way to make recruitment easy!!
For any recruiter, hiring the right candidate could get extremely tedious. Screening through numerous resumes and cover letters to fish out the right one takes a lot of time. Moreover, with the freelance world booming, finding someone who wants a full-time job gets even more difficult. Even if a candidate surpasses all rounds, there is no guarantee that he/she will accept the job.
Well, we cannot be certain if a candidate will eventually turn into an employee. However, there are ways to make the hiring process simpler. AI is one way of doing so. Instead of manually screening through the resumes, what if you could use a software that does that for you? An Applicant tracking system is an AI-powered software that reduces manual work.
While automating the resume screening process is one benefit of ATS. There are many others. You can learn more about the benefits of using ATS from Recruitee.com and then decide for yourself if you want to use one.
While using software will gear up the recruitment strategy, there are many other shoulds that you need to consider at the time of hiring.
This article will leave you with ten such tips to help you make the right decision.
10 Hiring process tips that will foster a good work environment
No company wants to hire a generalist today. Everyone wants to hire an expert. It is a fair ask but it also requires you to strategize better.
Let’s not forget that the journey from being a candidate to an employee could get exhausting for the applicant too. So with the following tips, we want to make it easy for both.
Use employee engagement software
As per Gallup, across the globe, around 71% of employees are not yet fully engaged. Achieving productivity without employee engagement is a far-fetched dream. If an employee feels valued at a firm, it leads to employee satisfaction and eventually to more productivity.
Software to engage employees does everything from giving employees a casual space to express themselves to acknowledging their efforts at the right time. This software makes employees feel connected to each other and with the employer.
Each employee can voice their concerns or feedback to the employer. This makes them feel heard. If an employee feels heard and respected, he/she is bound to perform better. After all, the end goal for any company is a happy team environment, right?
Provide employee benefits package
Choosing the right employee benefits providers is crucial to attracting top talent and retaining the old ones. But before that, let’s briefly understand what employee benefits are.
As seen in the pyramid above, employee benefits can range from bonuses to free food and drink. You can provide material benefits to your employees and also feel-good incentives like vacations and free food. Employee benefits packages include:
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Providing employees reflects that you value employee satisfaction as an organization. This will make more candidates want to join you. In order to provide the material benefits, you need to choose an employee benefits provider that is suitable for you.
Tailor a clear JD for each job role
Nailing at writing a job description makes half the hunting job easy as it is the first step to recruiting. You need to make sure to tailor different JDs for different job roles. However, before tailoring one, you need to do a thorough analysis of the job profile.
Here is how you can make it more particular to find the right candidate:
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After reading a JD, the reader (candidate) must get a clear idea of whether he/she is the right fit for the job.
Look within the team
It is possible that you may already have a member within your team perfectly suitable for the job. So consider checking in with your current employees before posting the job description. If any of them is the right fit, you can consider promoting that employee instead of hiring a new one.
This will save you a lot of time in going through candidates and also would be a cost-effective solution.
Showcase work culture
Work culture includes everything from how transparent your employees are with upper management, internal communication to the feedback systems. You can achieve a healthy work environment if all the team members are ready to put in the effort.
If you can tick off the items from the following list, it means you have a good work culture.
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If your company promotes a positive work culture, candidates are likely to want to work with you. This way, they come to you instead of you having to go to them.
Introduce referral programs
A good internal and external brand image is the prerequisite for creating referral programs. You need to have a good reputation among the team members. The reason is simple–if an employee thinks highly of you as a company then they are likely to refer quality candidates.
You need to make sure that these programs should be designed in a way that is rewarding for the employee who refers to a candidate and gets you the desired candidate too.
Pre-screen candidates
Pre-screening is simply having a conversation with the potential employee before he/she actually makes it to the interview. In this talk, you can be clear on the basics of what both parties expect out of the job. Doing so will ensure that both parties remain on the same page as and when things move ahead.
Things that you can discuss while pre-screening interview could be:
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You can get as creative as you want so as to know if the candidate is actually right for you.
Pre Screening saves your and the applicant’s time. It makes clear to both if you are not the right fit for each other.
Promote wellness
A happy employee is also a healthy employee and vice versa.
As an employer, you want to keep your employees happy. You can do so by showing them that you care for their well-being. You can arrange various health programs or take them to meditation camps from time to time to remind them of taking care of their health. You can do the following things to promote wellness:
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If your employee feels taken care of, he/she is likely to reciprocate the same sentiment towards you by performing better.
Encourage diversity
The new generations (Millenials and Gen Z) today do not identify themselves by caste, creed, or religion. If your company has people from varying backgrounds, religions, and locations, it shows you value diversity and fosters equality.
Moreover, onboarding employees from different cultures improves creativity. How else do you broaden your thinking if not by gaining different perspectives from diverse people? This improves brand perception among people as it shows you do not give value to the person’s background but to the employee.
Run a background check
You want to create a safe and secure environment in the workplace. This is possible if you can make sure that the candidate isn’t lying about their past. While you can ask him/her to submit some supporting documents for the claims made about qualifications or work ex listed in the resume, you should even run a background check.
A background check can reveal underlying lies in the resume or criminal history of the person. You want to avoid hiring the wrong person at all costs. Background checks give you that certainty.
It is needless to say that you need to have a policy in place to run a background check efficiently.
Wrapping up hiring tips to create the perfect work environment
Following these tips will ensure you hire or attract only the right candidates. However, making a hiring decision still remains. It’s eventually up to you to decide if you want to hire an applicant or not. These tips will simply help you reach that decision faster.
Not to forget–hiring is a two-way street. You also need to show what you can provide to the candidates and give them enough reasons to choose you.
Happy hiring!
WRITTEN BY
Sophie H.