The right employees are absolutely crucial to the success and smooth running of your company, so filling vacant roles quickly and efficiently should be high on your priority list as a business owner, but how can you find the right candidates- and ensure they’re a good fit for the role without it taking a lot of time? Here are some ideas to consider.
Utilize your current workforce
This doesn’t need to mean reshuffling roles so that your current team has to take on more work for the same pay. As tempting as this might be, overworking your team can lead to increased stress and an overall poorer performance long term. However, you can look into inside hires and promote from within.
There are plenty of benefits to hiring from within your existing workforce- it provides a structure to your company whereby candidates have a career ladder and roles they can work towards (rather than feeling like they’re in a ‘dead end’ role). This can provide motivation and better job satisfaction which will result in better productivity. But you know your employees already, you’ve seen first hand what their strengths are, how they get on with the rest of the team and what they can offer. You already have much more of an understanding of them than you can gain from interviewing a brand new candidate for thirty minutes.
Staffing and recruiting expert and CEO of AkkenCloud, Giridhar Akkineni, states that” allowing your employees to see and apply to jobs before formally starting to recruit shows that you value them, but can save you both time and money. An automated referral management platform like AkkenCloud’s Inbound Talent Management (ITM) can help you turn your employees into referral generating engines.”
Invest in a social media recruiting strategy
Utilizing the right sourcing tools will give you quick access to available candidates, and social media can be an effective way to connect you with those who are right for your role. Social media recruiting, simply put, is using social media platforms as talent databases, or for advertising openings and positions. It’s the practice of identifying, attracting, engaging and hiring both active and passive candidates using social networking.
Social media recruiting gives you the benefit of being able to check out potential candidates to find out who they are and what they’re looking for and allows you to narrow your search to only those who are suitable. If you use a platform like Linkedin, you have access to lots of great information about them from previous job roles to their education background, skills and more. This means it’s easy to work out who you should contact or invite to interview without a lot of back and forth emailing and questions.
Streamline your interview process
Interviewing can be tedious and time consuming. And where there is time spent, cost is also incurred. Streamlining your interviewing process is a smart idea for all businesses, especially if you want to improve your time to hire.
Consider tailoring your interview depending on the candidate, as it means you’re only asking the information you need to know. You won’t end up going through the motions and having to trawl through all of the information you collected. Taking a look at your candidates skills, experience and education and familiarizing yourself before the interview will save you time and ensure you know what questions to ask, rather than going through a set list for everyone.