The Importance of an Efficient Hiring Process
Recruitment and onboarding processes are essential to not only obtaining the best candidates but retaining them too, reducing your re-hiring costs and allowing talent to contribute to your business more quickly and successfully. Glassdoor’s 2018 study demonstrated this, with positive onboarding processes leading to a whopping 91% of employees feeling more connected to a company following a positive onboarding experience. Definitely worth the effort in our opinion!
Recruitment and onboarding processes are essential to not only obtaining the best candidates but retaining them too, reducing your re-hiring costs and allowing talent to contribute to your business more quickly and successfully. Glassdoor’s 2018 study demonstrated this, with positive onboarding processes leading to a whopping 91% of employees feeling more connected to a company following a positive onboarding experience. Definitely worth the effort in our opinion!
If these statistics have you considering your own practices, it’s time to get the upper hand on your competition by ensuring a polished recruitment process and secure top talent with these simple steps.
Communicate
It’s an old cliché but communication really is key, especially in recruitment. Can’t get back to a candidate for a couple of days? Don’t say you’ll be in touch soon, give them a realistic timeline. Not only is it stressful to leave a potential employee hanging, but the lack of interaction may encourage them to look elsewhere or even accept a counteroffer form a company that have kept them in the loop, and, just like that, you’ve missed out on a great candidate.
Invest
You don’t need to part with your annual recruitment budget just for one vacancy, investment can also come in the form of time. No matter the size of your company, it is always worth spending some time considering exactly what you are looking for in your new hire and compose job descriptions that capture this. Without this crucial step, you will spend most of your time reading CVs or interviewing candidates that just don’t have that WOW factor you’re after!
Plan
Have a realistic timeline, not only for yourself, but also for your candidates. Communicate this timeline to them, as previously mentioned, and stick to it! Recruitment experts can help you to diarise and organise your interviews, and cut down the time you spend attracting and assessing candidates, meaning you can get on with your other responsibilities.
Partner Up!
Recruitment agencies are here to help. We are experts in talent acquisition and employee retention, and candidate experience is what we do best! We are efficient, whilst remaining personable and friendly, getting to know our candidates and clients to promote strong professional relationships that ensure a positive onboarding process.
