Bringing top-tier talent into your company is truly an art form. Dealing with people is often messy, unpredictable, and nuanced. Those on the outside looking in can usually underestimate how much effort is injected into the recruitment process.
For those in the know, certain challenges will continue to arise and be a major factor when hiring.
Hiring Time
Vacant positions cost time and therefore, money. They delay daily operations, so hiring fast is often a top priority for companies.
A slow process can be the unhealthy byproduct of a poorly executed recruitment process, overly diluted shortlisting, or internal teams struggling to reach a consensus. The cause matters little, however, as the results are all too often the same; the best candidates finding jobs elsewhere.
Relevant Hires
Searching for the dream employee can often feel like trying to find a needle in a haystack. An unfocused recruitment process can result in the hiring manager sieving through seemingly endless waves of irrelevant CVs.
Tailoring the application process to the ideal candidate to create a qualified pipeline, however, is a burden much easier said than done.
Local Market Knowledge
Lack of knowledge about your local market will mean you’ll be less apt at communicating with talent and knowing how to speak the language that will get their attention. Constant exposure to the local market where your business resides is essential for the candidate negotiation and networking element of recruitment.
The good news is that these challenges have the same solution; specialised and multi-skilled consultants who not only have the specific communication, negotiation, and sales skills but the time available to reliably dedicate to the tricky task of recruitment.
This is not too dissimilar to many scenarios in business… Want to effectively manage your financial processes? Hire an Accountant. Want to build a stunning website? Employ a web developer. Looking for talented and hard-working personnel to fill your vacant positions, enhance your team, or assist with a project for a dedicated timeframe? Contact Simple Recruitment.
