Improving talent recruitment4 min read

In a more and more competitive business world, it has become difficult for some companies to attract talents. But it is essential to find talents in order to stand out of the competition and to keep on growing, because recruiting new talents has more benefits than drawbacks for your company. Even if the recruitment of talents can take you a lot of time but also to cost you a lot of money, increase in productivity, in knowledge and of course in turnover will definitely showing you that it is important to invest money in qualitative hiring. In this article, we will explain you what is a good talent acquisition strategy and what it can bring to your company. We will then give you some tips to improve your recruitments.

Build a “planned talent acquisition strategy”

The world is uncertain, we’ve seen this last year with Brexit or the election of Donald Trump which nobody saw coming. But one thing is sure, we, humans, are constantly evolving. External factors like new technologies change us, and therefore it changes all our habits and certainties. And as the workplace is also evolving with its humans, it has to adapt to its needs and aspirations, while responding to its own needs to grow, to improve its productivity in order to stay one step ahead of its competitors. Recruitment is a sector that will be always challenged, you have first to make sure that you can respond to these challenges.

Building a strong strategy of talent acquisition is the key to successful recruitment and hiring. But you first you have to make sure that your company can respond to the current challenges of recruitment, and to be sure that there is a need for talents. Talents have to be motivated constantly, and if you can’t make sure that it will be the case in your company, don’t waste time and money if you can’t guarantee them to be stimulated at the workplace. Also, show them that you have a strong company culture and values that will match those of the talents on the job market. Don’t hesitate to ask for help or to be assisted in the process by talent acquisition agencies and other various experts in recruitment.

Tips to improve recruitment

A very interesting article found on CIPRH gives 5 interesting ways to improve “the quality of hire”.

Here are the 5 pieces of advice, in a nutshell:

1. Publish a good job advert:
   Use the right words and don’t use unnecessary words so as not to confuse the readers and therefore potential talents. Promote your culture, values and the role. Make sure you put key information with simple words.
2. Know where the talents are connected:
   Know more about the latest applications where job talents gather and look for a job. Now it is less and less Facebook and Twitter but more Instagram, Pinterest of even Snapchat. Learn more about these platforms, how they work (with hashtags or lives) and when they are the most visited in your country, so as to make sure that you’re visible. And don’t forget to be mobile!
3. Show what you offer:
   It is important for new generations to make sure that they work for a company that will care about them, that will be friendly and secure. Show what makes you better than the competition. Use good communication and storytelling for example.
4. Promote your company with your people:
   Let the people already working for you make an advocacy of your company to future employees. “Current employees are your most powerful source of marketing and have a key role in attracting talents”.
5. Make people feel welcome:
   Show them that they have an important part in your business and that contribution will be needed on the long term. Make sure that they will feel welcome and that other people will be glad to work with them. Invest in company branding and goodies for example, so that people can proudly show their affiliations to their company.

Don’t forget that Jobboard Finder is also here to help you find the best talents!

For both employers and job seekers, Jobboard Finder is the first decision-making tool for recruitment campaigns and job searches. By gathering tools and services that recruiters can use to search and compare employment websites from all over the world to find the best job search sites, it really is the best solution for recruitment needs. Today recruiters can also purchase job advertisements for the media they have selected and manage their postings directly from our unique platform. Then they can rate and review the job boards they have used in the past for our community of professionals to see.
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Author: Anne-Marie