If you’ve decided to keep the hiring process in-house rather than employing a costly recruitment agency to do it for you, you’ll need to understand how to navigate the process and have an idea of the tools that are available to you.
This will ensure that you and your hiring team don’t miss any important steps, while also keeping the time they spend on the process to a minimum. This then allows them to get on with their own job roles while the perfect candidate is being found to join your team.
In order to attract the right candidate for the job, you’re going to have to write a compelling job offer. This should include the job title, the necessary qualifications and experience required, and a brief description of the tasks to be undertaken.
You should also introduce your business and provide details of any additional perks and reward schemes that your business offers its employees. There should also be a mention of salary and holiday entitlement for the successful applicant.
You’ll need to ensure that your vacancy advert is widely available in order to reach the right audience, so extending it past the normal job boards and recruitment websites and including social media could be a good move. It’s also a good idea to include a deadline for applicants so you don’t continue to be inundated with applications long after the position has been filled.
Although you can take advantage of recruitment software such as occy.com to provide your employees with the relief of not having to wade through all the CVs in order to build a shortlist, you’ll still have to select a hiring team from your workforce.
Recruitment software can take control (as long as parameters are set) of rejecting candidates who aren’t suitable and inviting those who are for interviews. However, your hiring team will still have to interview and make the final decision of who gets hired.
To give all candidates the same crack at the whip regardless of when they’re interviewed, your hiring team will have to come up with a list of set questions, and if the role demands it, a few tasks. By having the candidates all answer the same questions or complete the same tasks, your team will stand the chance of making the right decision when they come together to go over their results.
This can then rule out any favouritism towards certain applicants that have nothing to do with capability or being able to fit in the culture of the business and any current team members.
In order to reach the right candidate for your vacancy, you’ll need to successfully navigate the hiring process. You can do this by completing some vital steps ahead of time while obtaining help by using the correct recruitment tools available to you.
Ensuring that you select the right hiring team out of your workforce to provide your candidates with relevant questions and tasks for their interviews is only part of the job, as they will ultimately have to select the best candidate for the job and present you with their findings.
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