In the competitive job market, recruiters are utilizing effective recruitment practices to quickly hire top talent. Best hiring practices not only expedite candidate acquisition but also facilitate smooth recruitment workflow management and enhance the candidate experience for recruiters and managers.
The tumultuous times have influenced recruitment practices, introduced new trends posing challenges to traditional recruitment methods. For example one of the key requirements now around Remote work enhances productivity, reduces time spent commuting, and improves work-life balance while it also creates other challenges for organizations to continuously address.
Recruitment best practices involve nurturing employer branding, creating engaging visual content, leveraging social media, investing in appropriate tools, targeting passive candidates, and updating talent pool to attract and hire excellent candidates at short notice. With lot of new trends emerging, all organizations must consider it a chance to attempt new initiatives, restructure hiring practices to incorporate best practices and achieve organizational goals. Some of the best practices are -
· Look beyond the resume
Resumes don’t tell the complete story when evaluating a candidate. Consider using a job skills test to properly validate the candidates.
· Revamp your brand
Focus on creating a more lively employer brand with enormous importance shared to the culture. Explore creating recruitment-specific social media channels to interact with potential candidates along with creating a recruitment video to highlight reasons a potential candidate would want to join your company.
· Reduce friction by humanizing your recruitment process
Make it easy for candidates interested in your organization to apply for openings. A tedious and overly formal application process only serves to frustrate a potential candidate. Ensure the application process is seamless, confirms that they successfully submitted their application, and provides a way to contact someone with questions.
· Make your company culture a key reason to join
Showing potential candidates why they should join your company extends beyond your employer brand. Highlight your corporate culture by using employee testimonials on your website.
Do ensure and reflect during the hiring timeline that everything your company does that are towards employee wellness, promote inclusive and equitable workplace ensuring career growth for all
· Recognize the importance of data-driven recruiting
Leverage data in your recruiting process - By using a data-driven approach to recruiting, for example, you can help lower talent acquisition costs, focus on the best channels for hiring, and better determine ROI for advertising spend.
· Use an advanced applicant tracking system (ATS)
An ATS can help streamline the recruiting process for faster, more efficient resume screening. For example, the system can quickly automate the initial screening process while facilitating collaboration during hiring by allowing those involved in the hiring decision to share relevant updates throughout the recruitment process.
Mohamed Shabeer
Management Trainee @ Vilwaa