Remote work has brought numerous changes/effects in our daily life. Around the world, many people are working from home each day rather than going to the office and sitting in cubicles. This means that the new pool of workforce is changing quickly into a new and divergent place. If you work as a recruiter or in any position in the HR department, you will come to know how much change the past two years have brought to the Organisational culture.
Recruitment and Selection Strategies for the Modern Workforce
In the last two years recruitment and selection have changed drastically. There’s an excess of empty positions out there that need to be filled and it’s all too common to find that you can not get the quality aspirants that you need to fill them.
These strategies will help you to get connected with the right people and get them hired successfully, despite the stiff competition in numerous industries that you might be hiring for.
1) The HR process Must Feel Personalized
No one wants to be just a number. The days when people were just grateful to get a job offer have nearly evaporated. With the rise of remote work, people can choose where and who they work for. This means you need to step up your game if you want to hire the right people for the positions you have open.
Part of ensuring you can hire and recruit successfully is offering a personalized HR experience. HR contacts for onboarding benefit package discussions and PTO negotiations should never feel like it is not personal andis done with real attention to detail for each employee.
Possible hires can negotiate for almost anything they want at this point, and in certain industries, like the life sciences industry, there are far more jobs than qualified applicants. This means that the HR department has to attend to each person with care and dignity.
2) Selection is handled by the talent acquisition team more often
Because you aren’t likely to have a huge batch of aspirants to choose from each time you open up a job, you’ll need to be open to limited selection processes that are grounded more on particular contact than hard and fast rules.
The selection and recruiting committee knows who they like for a job before they share the information with the HR department, and their word should be trusted more frequently than it has been in the past. The hiring committee working on hiring for you is an expert in what your job needs and they also are the persons who do have the most face-to-face contact with prospective hires.
Trusting the evaluation of the recruite can help you to save time in the selection process and allow you to remove the most difficult steps that you followed in the past to pick and choose between possible new workers.
3) Ask Interesting Interview Questions
That era is gone by when the interview is based on boring and repetitive questionnaires. Replace the “What are your goals for your company?” discussion about how the candidate might improve the company if given the chance. Ask questions that judge personality and temperament instead of worrying about worry less about skills.
Skills training can be handled easily. Finding candidates that are a good fit for existing teams and Organization culture, the atmosphere is far more important. Another benefit of asking interesting interview questions is that your company will stand out in the minds of the candidates that you interviewed, making them have a positive feeling about the position.
In a world where you need to attract the attention of skilled workers and convince them to choose to work for you, having a positive and exciting interview process can be a great help toward getting new hires to accept your offers and join your Organization with full zeal and enthu.
4) Benefits : Front and Center
None of the employees will be impressed by just a take-home salary. However, you’ll presumably lose the most educated and skilled aspirants for your jobs, If you can’t offer up a full slate of competitive benefits. Healthcare, flexible work schedules, and other benefits/perks are necessary additions to an introductory benefits package if you want to hire the right candidate for your team.
Also, consider being willing to accept custom requests from your new hires. For numerous jobs, small shifts in the hours worked on certain days, or other similar requests, won’t cause any hindrance in the daily work assigned and sometimes it is required to give some flexibility to the new entrants. Be mindful that many adults have to provide support to their child for school right now, as well as attend to all the usual ups and downs of busy daily life. Being flexible will help secure your position as a top job for many of your applicants.
Hiring the right people with a snap is only possible when you make sure to offer great benefits, a smooth and flawless HR process, and a substantiated outreach strategy. Treat your implicit new workers like friends you’re inviting into your family, and you’ll be amazed at how much easier it becomes to connect with and retain the right people.
