8 Important Tips in Recruitment :
Do you think you put all your efforts in sourcing the right fit but could not able to get your hands on hiring and on boarding? Do you struggle yourself multitasking like sourcing, screening, emailing, short listing, telephoning, interviewing, negotiating all at once? Couldn’t you figure out what is holding you back from going the extra mile? Do you wish to improve your Hiring effectiveness? Here are 8 awesome tips that help you get best at your recruitment productivity.
Tip 1: Be Clear About End Results – Asking questions gets
you clear about your wants and end results. Whether you work for a corporate or
consulting firm, asking these questions yourself and answering them will
increase your recruitment productivity to multifolds.
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How many positions you got to close?
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What is the target date for each position?
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Do you already hold a job
description or should you have to
write one?
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Are you clear about the job profile of each vacant position?
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What should be the sourcing strategy for each position?
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Are you going to hire through consultants, internal references,
job boards
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What are the screening and short listing criteria for each
position?
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What is the interview process? How many rounds of interviews
will be conducted?
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Who will be responsible for conducting each round of interview?
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How are you going to engage your potential candidates throughout
Interview process?
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Who will be negotiating the salary, employment terms and DOJ?
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What is your Induction (On-boarding) plan?
Tip 2: Get Started – ‘’A journey of a
thousand miles begins with a single step’’ Should I say more? When you have your functional graph ready, just
get started without second thoughts. Taking the first step is the most hard but
crucial thing in successfully accomplishing even difficult recruiting projects.
Tip 3: Prioritize your task – You have to be sure that
you are not just active but productive. Getting great at recruitment comes with
understanding and identifying the most important 20% tasks. Always go ahead
completing 20% hard tasks first which will make the other 80% of your job easy.
Hard working will yield results for sure but it takes time, you have to be a
smart worker to achieve desired results within shorter time span. Task
prioritization is an art; do develop it to become a productive recruiter.
Tip 4: Write To-Do List For The Day – When it comes to note keeping, I love
diaries and organizers. During start of the day, write your entire day’s work
plan in a diary, organizer, sticky notes, excel sheet, g mail task manager, or
any other online to do list keeper which you feel comfortable. Make sure to
write attainable to-do list, stick to your to-do list and commit yourself to
complete all the written actions within end of the day. Remember this saying:
“Failing to plan is planning to fail”. So plan your day well in advance to become
great at recruitment productivity.
Tip 5: Multi-tasking Trap – Actually there is no such thing as Multi
tasking. Research confirms that our intrinsic human minds could
not do more than 2 functions at the same time. People are hardly good at
multitasking but they will be good at switching tasks because multi tasking
does not exist for humans. Avoid overloading yourself. Do only one task at a
time and do it in the best possible way.
Tip 6: Set Target Time & Date – when you work without target date and time,
you tend to drag/postpone that task unless you are committed and self
motivated. Whenever you start working on a recruiting project, set target date
to complete that particular assignment because goals pressurizes you, helps you
stay connected to the job in hand, inspires you to complete it with desired
results. Have a working plan for the entire hiring project, allocate fixed time
frame for each and every recruitment activity depending on the magnitude of the
project. If you wish to increase your recruitment productivity, set yourself
realistic target and drive towards it.
Tip 7: Pat your back & Gift Yourself – Have you accomplished the task? Have you
achieved an extra mile? Have you received “Effective Recruiter” award at workplace?
Great, it’s time to party! It doesn’t require such great achievements to pat
your back and gift yourself. It might be a simple job you might have done in a
unique way or you might have received appreciation from your immediate boss or
a potential candidate, pat you back for each and every simple triumph of yours.
Cherish that moment and cheerfully gift yourself because gradually it improves
your productivity and pushes you to do great things.
Tip 8: Practice & Stay Focused – What is the point in reading oodles of
productivity improvement techniques and forgetting them next moment? We live in
the age of information overload. We see results when we put something in to
regular practice. If you wholeheartedly wish to improve your recruitment
productivity follow these tips, keep practicing, stay focused and motivated to
increase your recruitment productivity to multi folds.
