Recruitment is tough, now more than ever.
Busy recruiters never seem to have enough time or qualified candidates at their disposal.
So what are successful recruiters doing differently?
Here are 5 things that can make you more productive.
- Productive recruiters use data
Industrious recruiters work smarter, not harder.
They use data to make better and more informed judgments, which improves their productivity and success.
They track every step of their recruiting process and measure the most important recruiting metrics. They analyze these metrics in order to evaluate the results and efficiency of their recruiting efforts. That way they can identify which recruiting strategies are the more successful, and which have room for improvement. They can find bottlenecks in their recruiting process and make necessary modifications and amendments.
For example, if they track the source of their applicants, they can discover which job board, social media platform, or referral program brings them most qualified applicants.
Based on that insight, they can focus on the sources that bring them best results and plan their future recruiting strategies accordingly.
- Productive recruiters think about candidates (a lot)
Productive recruiters function within a candidate-centric paradigm, putting candidates first.
They take time to investigate candidates’ wants and needs. They want to understand their candidates’ drivers. They try to find out what makes their candidates feel happy and appreciated at work.
They want to provide the best possible candidate experience. They endeavour to provide timely communication with their candidates and to respect their time and effort.
They do all that in order to find the right person for their open positions. Their target is not just to fill the position, but to find the most fitting candidate to the position and the company.
Because of that, candidates trust them. This confidence is the basis for the long-term relationship between candidates and recruiters.
Productive recruiters invest a lot of time and effort into candidate engagement, even when there are no immediate positions to be filled. That way, when the position opens, they already have a pool of top talent at their disposal.
- Productive recruiters use the right tools
Productive recruiters use technology to simplify and quicken their recruiting process.
Recruiting software executes a variety of crucial tasks quickly and easily, sometimes even automatically, saving hours of work.
These tools also offer features which help recruiters tackle some of the most pressing recruiting challenges. With current recruiting tools, recruiters can easily find high-quality candidates and execute employer branding approaches in order to attract candidates and turn them into applicants.
In order to choose the right recruiting tool, productive recruiters first identify their recruiting objectives and barriers.
- Productive recruiters think like marketers
Productive recruiters know that the current job market is candidate driven, which means that top talent has many potential employers to choose from. Candidates = customers.
Productive recruiters are well aware of this. By using recruitment marketing strategies, productive recruiters are able to distinguish from competitors and entice candidates.
- Productive recruiters are employee-referral lovers
Employee referrals are organised programs that companies use to find talented people by asking their existing employees to recommend candidates from their existing networks.
In return, companies offer their employees different types of employee referral rewards.
Productive recruiters love referrals.
This is because referred employees are the best employees in many different ways: they take shortest to hire, they are more affordable to hire, and they stay longest with companies.
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