When the economy becomes such a challenge it become ever more important to think intelligently and not get emotional about sourcing job candidates during this environment. If you invest wisely you can actually jump far ahead of your competition by intelligent marketing and planning whether that is your co-worker or a peer in another company.
One of the smartest things you can do if you are a manager is to institute a 80/20 rule by making sure that the top 20% of your recruiters are kept and they are also given renewed contracts. There is nothing more attractive then getting a guarantee from a company during a difficult time period. You will obviously have to cut your bottom 10% to deal with the difficult economy and trim down the fat.
The middle 70% you need to be very careful with because each situation is going to have to be taken care of on an individual basis to find out exactly what works and will not during this recession. Often effort can go unnoticed so it becomes important to carefully view what each person does with their time during and outside of work.
Even if you are not a manager these same rules apply and you have to be smart with analyzing how to spend your time and focus on the 20% that is going to pay off the most. Find areas that suck your time and don't create productivity in finding ideal candidates.
Look to train and make improvements daily in your strategies and look for ways to do so after hours when you are not working. It is best to be smart with your efforts and implement methods and test them during the day and re-evaluate daily what is working well and what isn't. You can be amazed what you can change with a few tweaks here and there.
What is going to be smart is to start planning your hiring needs by the quarter for all of your major positions that you are looking to fill. Get your line managers to also update their quarterly plans and have them preform quarterly tracking to find out exactly when you need to turn on your sourcing efforts even further.
Make sure to find out what social media avenues work well during this time frame and implement them such as Entice Labs and Jobs2Web. These are great ways to find new markets of potential candidates that can lead to a solid nuturing pool.
These are going to be wise avenues for you to create a lot of money during this time that will save cost per hire and improve your time per hire. All of this can lead to a huge boom when we come out of this economic downfall. - 16463
One of the smartest things you can do if you are a manager is to institute a 80/20 rule by making sure that the top 20% of your recruiters are kept and they are also given renewed contracts. There is nothing more attractive then getting a guarantee from a company during a difficult time period. You will obviously have to cut your bottom 10% to deal with the difficult economy and trim down the fat.
The middle 70% you need to be very careful with because each situation is going to have to be taken care of on an individual basis to find out exactly what works and will not during this recession. Often effort can go unnoticed so it becomes important to carefully view what each person does with their time during and outside of work.
Even if you are not a manager these same rules apply and you have to be smart with analyzing how to spend your time and focus on the 20% that is going to pay off the most. Find areas that suck your time and don't create productivity in finding ideal candidates.
Look to train and make improvements daily in your strategies and look for ways to do so after hours when you are not working. It is best to be smart with your efforts and implement methods and test them during the day and re-evaluate daily what is working well and what isn't. You can be amazed what you can change with a few tweaks here and there.
What is going to be smart is to start planning your hiring needs by the quarter for all of your major positions that you are looking to fill. Get your line managers to also update their quarterly plans and have them preform quarterly tracking to find out exactly when you need to turn on your sourcing efforts even further.
Make sure to find out what social media avenues work well during this time frame and implement them such as Entice Labs and Jobs2Web. These are great ways to find new markets of potential candidates that can lead to a solid nuturing pool.
These are going to be wise avenues for you to create a lot of money during this time that will save cost per hire and improve your time per hire. All of this can lead to a huge boom when we come out of this economic downfall. - 16463
About the Author:
Cade Krueger works with recruiters as the Director of Sales for Entice Labs and assists recruiters with sourcing job candidates for quality hires. He also promotes a product, called TalentSeekr, for human resource recruitment that reaches five times the candidates at a tenth of the cost of job boards. This assists to save recruiters time and money.
