Struggling to recruit the top talent into your business? Here’s how to build a great recruitment strategy.
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If you’ve written a job advert and posted it all over your company channels/multiple job sites, but received only a handful of applicants (and even they’re not right for the job), here’s what you can do to attract the BEST candidates…
1. Use Recruitment Technology
- Finding the perfect candidate is like finding a needle in a haystack; so it helps if you use technology to sift through the hay.
- Recruitment technology can aggregate job seeker’s information from multiple sources such as LinkedIn, Indeed and Google.
- It can also pick out buzzwords that you would look for in candidate’s applications (helpful if you’re on a tight schedule and drowning in CVs).
2. Evaluate Your Recruitment Process For Bias
Bias (whether unconscious or not), can play a huge factor in who gets hired:
- A 2019 study by The University of Oxford, found that 24% of applicants of white British origin received a positive response from employers, compared to just 15% of minority ethnic applicants1.
- Gender bias also still occurs in candidate processing, and is especially prevalent in industries such as STEM which were traditionally thought of as ‘masculine’ careers.
Methods to reduce recruitment bias include:
- Blind recruitment – removing the candidate’s name and any other identifying factors/protected characteristics from applications.
- Diverse recruitment panel – a panel with a range of different people from your organisation allows for a variety of inputs and viewpoints and is beneficial to both the candidate and the company.
- Language decoder – word choices in job adverts can have a huge effect on who will apply for the job. Masculine sounding words like “competitive” can lead to less women applying and vice versa.
No recruitment process is perfect, but regularly reviewing your process – from writing the job advert to final interviews – can significantly reduce any biases that may be occurring.
3. Advertise What Makes Your Company A Great Place to Work
According to researchers, 46% of job seekers said that workplace culture is an important deciding factor when looking for a new job3; and in TopCV’s survey of 1,056 job seekers, the three key things people wished their employers would implement were:
- A 4-day working week
- Higher commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
- Increased support for their mental well-being 2
If it’s feasible for your company to offer some of these employee benefits, then introduce them ASAP!
Investing in your staff and making your business a great place to work will make it more appealing to your new and existing team members.
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If you don’t have the skills or time in-house to enhance your recruitment strategy, technology, interview process or workplace culture, outsourcing to HR professionals can really help.
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References
- nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/news/new-csi-report-on-ethnic-minority-job-discrimination/
- hrreview.co.uk/hr-news/what-do-uk-employees-want-most-when-it-comes-to-job-roles/129490
- teamstage.io/company-culture-statistics/#:~:text=2.-,Company%20culture%20is%20an%20important%20factor%20for%2046%25%20of%20job,it%20at%20least%20relatively%20important
- peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1754516/businesses-regret-half-new-hires-amid-skills-shortage-poll-finds?bulletin=pm-daily&utm_source=mc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=PM_Daily_29042022.https%3a%2f%2fwww.peoplemanagement.co.uk%2farticle%2f1754516%2fbusinesses-regret-half-new-hires-amid-skills-shortage-poll-finds%3fbulletin%3dpm-daily&utm_campaign=7295441&utm_term=8490534
