Recruitment process – An Insight

“Recruitment” the word that connects candidates and employees. Whether it’s an IT, Science or any other field, recruitment remains a constant and important process at all times. There has been a continuous change in the strategies implemented for recruitment, especially with a bloom in social networking. But the changes have either not been very useful or has not been used well.

Recruitment is an industry where the strategies needs to be updated on regular basis to get a qualified candidate. There are many issues faced by recruiters starting from reviewing tons of unqualified resumes to presenting an offer to a qualified candidate. The most common being urgent requirement leading to expedited hiring process.

However, challenges can be overcome with some research and establishing communication.

Recruitment Tools

Every recruitment agency starts off with a clear and attractive website which becomes their first tool towards attracting companies and candidates. However, a database of companies and candidates also becomes important in order to successfully manage and reach out to the specifics. Hence recruiters need to examine their recruitment tools, especially their software and employee databases.

Ensuring all of the needed information is already documented and easily accessible can save recruiters some steps and cut down on their recruitment time.

Not every department can boost its recruitment budget, but recruitment professionals are able to examine where the best hires are searching for their jobs. Social media can be a great and affordable platform for recruiters, companies and candidates alike, where they can use their profiles to send out information about open positions or their job requirements on the social sites. This has been a successful strategy in most developed countries and hence countries and recruiters who are yet to explore this aspect are recommended to do so to get the most out of social networking.

It is also recommended for recruiters to start using newly launched free sources/job portals where the probability of reaching candidates is broadened and can also save a lot of time for recruiters which can be invested in other recruitment process.

Communication

Nothing can be more assuring than speaking to one another. Be it about understanding the requirement from a company or a candidate or working towards the requirement, recruiters need to spend additional time in communicating in order to derive to a focused approach. Once again the use of social networking can be an effective tool in this area.

Apart from recruiting for the requirement, recruiters can also be benefited by being open to train and develop qualified candidates to make them potential for being suitable for a variety of opportunities.

The job description provided for candidates is also a major tool for communication. Recruiters should ensure they describe the company culture as best as they can in job descriptions. Displaying the company's mission and aspects of its internal environment can help job seekers understand the organization better, which can ensure that the most suitable candidates make an application. This also will portray the knowledge of the recruiters about companies which in turn will help in building trust.

Knowledge and Trust Building

With the use of recruitment tools and good communication, companies and candidates will trust a recruiter or recruitment agency when they display confidence in their knowledge of the industry, the process and the people.

Recruiting Agencies and recruiters has to make every attempt to research about their industry (IT or Science etc.) and the various challenges which will become a strong base to build their profile. With this confidence of industry knowledge, recruiters have a better chance to succeed when communicating with companies and candidates.

But all this is not a one-time job. Only constant practice of research and communication will help in trust building and encourage companies and candidates alike to approach for services for their requirements. The stronger the base and trust, the more companies and candidates will approach for even their most challenging requirements.

Constant Revamping

As mentioned earlier, recruitment is a constant and important process for any industry. Hence the recruiters are in greater need of being up-to-date. Constant industry research and identifying the changes in each company is vital in building a good inter-personal relationship.

Knowledge sharing is also important within the recruitment agency. Regular meetings and trainings will be helpful in understanding the needs and status of the industry so that changes to the processes can be made and implemented quickly.

5 tips for getting it right

• Knowledge and use of all available social media.
• Communication and building relationship with companies and candidates.
• Keep it current – be it a company product or the thoughts of a candidate.
• Use easily available recruitment tools
• Keep it simple – It has always been effective.

Conclusion

Recruitment is also a kind of social networking. But in professional terms.

By being like a hawk, recruiters can succeed in developing themselves in their choice of industry.

When recruiters have successfully built a trust relationship with companies and candidates, things cannot become any simpler.